Thank you for posting your predictions for the your new novel. Your next assignment over the holiday weekend is to write a brief description of one of the main characters from your novel.
1.) Include details of the character's physical appearance and character traits that you were able to learn from reading the novel. If your novel does not give a description or you cannot infer the description of the character from what you read, write about what you think the character looks like.
2.) Include 1 connection that you are able to make with this character. The connection should be at least 3 quality sentences. (text-text, text-self, or text-world)
Julilly- Julilly got her name because Mammy Sally liked lilies and she was born on June. Julilly is an African slave that was brought to America. Also Julilly has been sold to different owners and takin away from her Mammy Sally " that's just plain mean." Julilly is thinking to escape to Canada for freedom. Last of all Julilly has been takin by a fat man in a wagon with other slaves.
ReplyDeleteJulilly - 1)Julilly is a "black person" who is a salve and is just a little girl.I would suspect that by now she would be quite strong since she has been working as a slave working endless and tireless hours doing anything the person who "owns her"wants her to do.
ReplyDelete2)I have made a text-text connection with this particular character. I connect with her because i have read many books and articles about slaves.Though have read many other articles and stories about slavery I think this one is the most strongly worded.
@Grizzly bear fang, I think to slightly improve your description you should use more pronouns.
ReplyDelete1.) Julilly is a black girl who was taken into slavery. She is very tall for her age. She is also one of the strongest women out there working in the cotton fields in Virginia. She would probably work 17 excruciating hours a day and gets 1 meal, 2 snaks, and three measuring cups a day.
ReplyDelete2.) TEXT-WORLD
In the Middle East men and women are buying kids to make products sucj as carpets, towels, shoes, clothing ect. But their parents get paid about $12 a week. Their kids dont even get to go to school which really sickens me
@jim- i like how you use a lot of great descriptions to make your passage more graphic. GREAT WORK :)
ReplyDelete@Harold- hello Harold, I liked the detail you added into your description of Julilly.
ReplyDelete@ JIM - Good suggestion and observation! Using prounouns is a good way to make your writing sound less repetetive!
ReplyDelete@ HAROLD - Try to use more transitions in your writing to make it flow smoother.
@ EVERYONE - When referring to Canadians of different cultural backgrounds, we often refer to them as Chinese-Canadian, or Indo-Canadian. Try to avoid using words that refer to people by their skin colour. :)
I chose to do my description on Julilly. Julilly is a dark skinned child. She was born into slavery, and has known no freedom so far in her life. Julilly wears dirty clothing because shes a slave. Julilly is 12 and very tall for her age.
ReplyDeleteConnection: (T-T) I connect this book to another book called "The Freedom Train" because there both about slavery and how the black slaves dreamed about making it to Canada and becoming free.
@Harold
ReplyDeleteNice desciprtion! But you should try refering to the colour of her skin in a diffrent way. Other than just great job, I really like your connection.
Julilly is a young african american girl that was born into slavery. She is tall and much stronger than the other slaves working in the cotton feilds. Her and the other slaves work long hours and are treated poorly.
ReplyDeletet-t I can connect to julilly being such a hard worker and wanting to escape to freedom. I can connecet because i read a book about a young african american girl that was just like her. The book i read that had this character was freedom train and the characters name was harriet.