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Understanding The Author

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28Th, 1926 in Monroeville,Alabama .Harper Lee was a tomboy who loved to read.She was the youngest of the four children.Her father,Cunningham Finch Lee, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature.

Lee was only five years old in when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began with regard to the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men.

Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a twelve-year-old boy, to death.

The young Truman Capote, Lee's schoolmate and neighbor, provides the basis of the character of Dill in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Her father,Cunningham Finch Lee,was her inspiration inthe character of 'Atticus Finch'.

The Author; Harper Lee

•http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/4655.php

•http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-lee-harper.asp

•http://www.answers.com/topic/harper-lee

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Links on To Kill A Mocking Bird

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/


• http://www.studyworld.com/studyworld_studynotes/complete/studynotes/Titles/killmockingbird/summ1-6.html


• http://www.novelguide.com/tokillamockingbird/toptenquotes.html
  

Quotes :

Chapter 1

Quotation - "In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. "

Meaning

It give us a feeling that Maycomb is old and messy as the word sagged was use to described the courthouse.

Quotation - "Somehow it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summers day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."

Meaning
It gives us a overview look of how Maycomb and the people look like. We also can see that the ladies in Maycomb have ensure that they do things in sequence. We can actually visualise how Maycomb look like instead of telling.

Quotation- "The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity."

Meaning

The place where Radley lives seem to be quite deserted. It shows that the place was avoided by the people of Maycomb. The people of Maycomb thinks that Boo Radley was weird therefore they were afraid to pass by the Radley's house.

Chapter 2

Quotation -"'Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.''

Meaning
Scout's teacher makes her thinks that her father has been teaching her wrong things all these while.

HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT

Holiday Assignment 2E: To Kill A Mockingbird
IMPORTANT: Holiday Assignment will be COUNTED as part of your CA1 for Term 3 (20%)
Instructions:
a) You will be doing this in your project group. Each group will be assigned one topic to focus on.
b) Every member’s contribution will be IMPORTANT, just like your project work and MARKS will be assigned based on EVERYONE’S work and contribution.
c) Assign the following roles for each person in group:
Questioner: To come up with interesting DISCUSSION QUESTIONS for the chapters in the book, especially questions like "What does this tell us about……." or "Why do you think….."
Vocab Wizard: To pick out IMPORTANT or DIFFICULT WORDS in the chapter and explain what it means to the group. This SHOULD NOT BE just copied from dictionary BUT MUST be EXPLAINED in relation to the TEXT! You can be creative in your explanation and use PHOTOS or DRAWINGS or CLIP ART to explain the meanings clearly.
Plot Mapper: To mindmap or storyboard IMPT PARTS of the story BY USING THE elements of a NARRATIVE like: Trigger Event, Sequence of IMPORTANT EVENTS/ACTIONS ( this must be linked in terms of CAUSE and EFFECT throughout the chapters), PROBLEM/CONFLICT
Quote Picker: To pick out IMPT QUOTES from chapters and start a discussion about the meaning and significance of the quote to the story like development of plot, character, or theme
Character Tracker: To identify important characters in each chapter and track the development of the character though the chapters through what character says or does and what other character says about this him/her. You must explain what it tells YOU about the character like the personality. The most IMPT CHARACTERS to FOCUS ON will be :Scout, Atticus, Jem, Bill, Calpurnia, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell, and Boo Radley
Discussion Leader: To check and read through other members work and come up with interesting ideas to discuss based on what other members post or based on your own reading. Focus on THEMES in the story: COURAGE, INTEGRITY, PREJUDICE, RACISM etc
d) All work must be done ONLINE in the languagearts blog and every post MUST BE CLEARLY TAGGED with the name of the person who posted it. The TAGS box is just below the TEXT box where you type.
e) You are given BONUS MARKS for using online tools like Toondoo, Comic Life, online mindmapping and Voicethread etc
f) The work above MUST BE DONE BASED ON Chapters 1 - 10
g) Like your PROJECT WORK, you need to post regularly and comment /discuss regularly if you want to SCORE. You know how important the marks are to you BY NOW, so do work hard. Anyone with NO INTERNET ACCESS, you CAN use the SCHOOL LIBRARY COMPUTERS, so I won’t accept any excuses.

[[Shahfiyana`s]] Reflection

Before we when there, our group members have done all lot of research and preparation. We even find the side map of Fort Siloso. Our groups were confident on the task that we are given. We even do our storyboard. At there, we saw POW chambers which is cool. We learned all lot of thing at the Fort Siloso. We learned different types of gun that used during the war. We also learned there are in different sizes, the purpose and what is it used for. My groups were very comfortable there because we were well prepared before hand.After the field trip,we felt relaxing because this projects had ended and satisfied with our work that we have done so far.

ŴĭĺŚŏʼn's Reflection

Before going
We done allot of research and we even find the side map of it and i felt confident on the project we do ...

At there
I felt it very comfortable while taking video as it seem to me that i have came here before but it is thought the Internet and every of our plan goes well with our planing before hand.

After the Trip
We felt fun and it is relaxing to us as we planned it very carefully hence i felt that planing is very important.

Reflection ( Caiyi )

We were all prepared for the trip. The storyboard, interview questions, script we have done were all done and ready. Zhimin and Shaowei each bring along a camera as they are the photographer. Wilson, in the other hand was the one in charge of handing the video camera. When we reached there, we followed the tour guide. She brought us to different places and told us the history behind it. We found out that there were not enough pictures and information regarding Elizabeth Choy but still we worked together as a team and help one another out. Then, when the tour guide told us that we can go any places where we need to take pictures for our research, we split up. However, we did not go too far from one another so that we would not lose each other. Atiqah and I took pictures that were required for our research. Zhimin and Wilson handled the video camera. Zhimin asked the tour guide a lot of questions regarding Elizabeth Choy while Wilson took video of it. Murshid acted as the interviewee. He had a hard time memorising the script. But he put in a lot of effort to memorise the script in the nick of time. It was an enjoyable trip as I learned a lot more about history and knowledge and information that are not taught in the history textbook and what I enjoyed the most is the way we cooperated with one another. We really worked as a team well.

Reflection and summary on fort siloso,shao wei

Before the trip, we went to several website to gather information on Elizabeth choy, her life, her birth, her death and her accomplishment and why was she honoured as a brave heroine. At fort siloso we interviewed the tour guide and ask for her opinion on Elizabeth choy. Elizabeth choy was born in Sabah in 1910, but moved to Singapore in 1929 to further her studies. She
became a teacher to support her siblings when her mother passed away. During the postwar period she was also a politician, teacher and founder of a school for the blind. She provided the troops with daily necessities. She was then captured as a POW(Prisoner Of War) and suffered in a harsh environment. We experienced it as we entered the hot and stuffy POW station at fort siloso. wilson and zhimin both took good pictures and videos(interview) regarding to the war and Elizabeth at fort siloso, even though not everything went well we still mange to produce quality work.

Overall, Elizabeth choy is a loyal, kind and definitely a person who can endure hardship. For that, she is worthy of our respect, we should strive to be attain her never say die attitude.