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This sub unit was very short but had a couple good poems and an interesting story. In the poem “St. George” there was this girl who had a pet dragon and was walking one day. Then along came a man in armor who thought it was his duty to save this woman from the dragon. However once he killed the dragon the girl started to cry and the guy got confused. It’s his role as a man to save the woman, in most stories the woman is getting attacked by the dragon. This poem definitely fits into the sub unit because in most stories the woman needs to be saved. In the poem “Paper Matches” it shows how some women feel, like they are being used by men. Women are stereotyped to clean and make food and men can do whatever they want. However these days that doesn’t fly.

In the story “Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown” it shows some more stereotyped roles from the Chinese culture. Women in the Chinese culture should date and marry Chinese men. The girl in the story likes a Caucasian boy and the two were caught kissing which was a catastrophe to her mom. Another thing the girl had to do was go to Chinatown regularly with her grandmother. In the Chinese culture it was the children’s responsibility to take care of the elders, so the young girl had to take care of her grandmother. This story fits into the sub unit because it shows the young Chinese girl’s responsibilities and roles in her culture.

This link is an article of womens role in society.

This video shows womens role in ww2.

This is a comment i left on Daniel’s blog
 

A story that I really enjoy is “The Goalie”. I love hockey and I enjoy playing it so I can relate to the goalie in the story from being a goalie in floor hockey. I can see his frustration; I like how the author describes the guy in the story. I think it is interesting how the story is told through the father’s perspective and not as the actually goalie’s. This story obviously fits into this sub unit.

Another good story that fits into this sub unit is called “The Broken Globe”. We see two different perspectives, the father’s and the son’s. The father believes what the nuns told him when he was growing up, that the earth is flat and everything revolves around it. However the son knows the earth is round and that we are in rotation with other planets.

A movie we watched was “The Emperor’s Club” it was a pretty good movie. I have a link that goes to an article that describes the movie.

The video is of some really cool hockey goalie saves. I put this on here cause it goes with the story the goalie and it makes you wonder if these goalies felt the same way the guy in the story did.

There really isn’t alot to say about this sub unit since it was all about the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”. The novel fits into the sub unit because it is interesting to see how different cultures are treated back when the novel was written.  In the novel Atticus tried to make it so he could teach people how wrong African Americans were treated, just like it would be wrong if a caucasian was charged for a crime that s/he that s/he didn’t commit.

The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” I thought it was pretty good. I think the most interesting character in the novel is Boo Radley. He lives in his house and never leaves. All of the children think he is a monster and made up some nasty rumours about him. Near the end Jem comes to a realization, “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house the whole time…its because he wants to stay inside” (Lee). It kinda makes you wonder why he would stay in his house the whole time, and what he could have missed and what he has seen through his window.

This Link is an article about how characters in the book taught Scout a lesson.

This video of Atticus telling us its a sin to kill a mockingbird.

This unit was pretty fun. I thought it was interesting to do the choral reading and then watch the younger kids do it. Obviously the kids had more fun with it, but it was cool to see what the author wrote could be translated or read that way. I can see how it all fits into the sub unit. The unit was basically about imagination and getting creative. We looked at fairy tales and we also did a play for the younger kids.

When i read the article, “Who’s afraid of the wicked witch” I found it was interesting how they deconstructed fairy tales. It was cool to see and list all the fairy tales that have witches in them. For example “Wizard of Oz”, “Snow White’, “Hansel and Gretel”, and “Thumbelina”. Men and women are definately sterotyped  in fairy tales. Men are usually handsome, strong and the hero. Women are pretty, thin, and the damsel in distress. These sterotypes can be found in “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and “Beauty and the Beast”.

I found an article about other versions of Cinderella which is pretty cool.

 Below is a video from the Cinderella Movie which shows an example of sterotypes.

This is the comment i left on Jorden’s Blog

For this sub unit we looked at some peoms and essays and wrote an essay of our own.  We looked at a song called “My Hometown” by Bruce Springsteen. In this song Springsteen says in the song that he came from a home town that was slowly dieing down. This song fits into the the sub unit because he talks about his home town. An essay we read was “Back to Wolf Willow” the essay was kinda boring. We learned about what it takes to make an essay a reflective for example, “I’ve grown to understand…” is a statment you would find in a reflective essay. This essay fits into the sub unit because the guy in the story reflects on what he left behind.

I found this sub unit kinda boring but an interesting story in it would be, “Remember Mum when I Mocked You”. It was kinda interesting because it shows that the girl in this story was not very respectful of her mom and later in life she regretted it.  A poem we read was “(I remember) Back Home)”. The poem was both positive and negative. It wasn’t too bad of a poem.

A Link I have embedded is an article about an author remembering what happened in her childhood.

I also have a video about a guy remembering some childhood memories about the big slide!

I left a comment on Dan’s blog lol

To me it feels like home when I go home and supper is ready and Mike has a good movie ready to play.  In the one movie clip Ms. Waldner showed us with Luke Wilson in it, he had moved away from his old home and then was diagnosed with a terminal illness. When he came back to his home he realized it has changed but to him it was the same as the house has always been. Even after you move away from your childhood home and other people move in, some people still think it is their home. Even though I have moved a lot, I still would call my grandpa’s old farm my home. It was a place where all the family would go. I lived there with my mom, brother, grandpa, my great uncle, and sometimes my uncle. Home is where people feel most comfortable usually, sometimes it can be a place where no one wants to be.

There is a lot of differences between a house and a home. “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” (anonymous)  A house is just a building, a home is where people live their lives, families are made, dreams are created and put to use. It takes a lot of work to make a house your home, its not physical work but it is the love you put into your house and how you treat it. “It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home” (Author Unknown). This is another quote and further proves my point.

The best part about going home is that no one cares if I am just sitting around in my sweats. I think that when I am sick, my home is the only place where I can really get better. In my opinion it doesn’t matter whether or not I have the biggest flat screen TV or the most comfortable couch, it is my comfort in my own home that actually matters.

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