To kill a mockingbird

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Study session

Linking words.- 

Conjunctions: conjunctions join two statements and express relationships like time, addition, reason, condition and purpose. Examples include: 

Although, As soon as, for, so, while, and, but, in case, until, yet, as long as,  because and since. 

When we use "yet" (or and yet) as a conjunction, it means "but"

"For" can be used as a conjunction replacing "because" 

 Linking prepositions: are often followed by a verb +ing: 

Instead of reading the book... 

Since, before, and after can be both conjunctions and prepositions:

We were very worried BEFORE/AFTER we had taken the exam (conjunction) 

We were very worried BEFORE/AFTER the exam (preposition).....

 

Option 2

So, Miss Harper Lee, we where talking about your book ''To kill a Mockingbird''. So far i've only read 3 chapters, and I already have some doubts, not related to the book story, but related to the production of it. I mean the places, all the characteristics of the town, the characters... Like, for example, Maycomb, Does this town represent something special? You can tell by the description that's something on it.. you describe it like '' Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square''... ''People moved slowly then''...  ''A day was 24 hours long but it seemed longer''.

Actually, this city or town does represent something. Its actually a representation of the place where I was born, Monroeville, Alabama was very similar to what Maycomb is. In what ways? A ''boring place'', some place where you feel time passes more slowly, where you don't have nothing to do, nowhere to go at, nothing to buy, nothing really interesting to do, at least at that times. And the colours I gave to Maycomb where the same that Monroeville used to have.

What does Scout Finch represents? Or who's representation is?
Scout Finch represents me, when I was a little girl in Monroeville. And all his characteristics in some way are mine too.

Does the story has something to do with your life?
Yes, actually all the characters represent someone, for example ''Jem'' represents my older brother, ''Dill', aboy who used to come on vacations in summer to Monroeville. And not only the characters, the story too. For example, The Radleys Place was created to represent a house in my town where the same that happens in the book happened. A family lived there, as in the book, the son was locked in for 22 years... And the context of the story too, The Great Depression in the 30's, the racism.. But my story is not a autobiography at all, it just has some factors of my childhood

Last question... What does the title means?
You just have to read the whole book to understand that, but it has something to do with the relation between hunting a mockingbird down as a common animal and one of the main characters.

Writing task 4

How does society affect gendered identity?

The gendered identity is affected by the society because society is what we are about, our enculturation and we are a part of it, as is our identity. So our identity is directly related to the society and so is the gendered identity, because the society "controls" the identity

How is language affected by gendered identity. 

The gendered identity defines who you are, so affects or modifies your language related to your gender

Writing task 3 2014

1. Do we change our identity when we wear different clothes, for example, when we are not wearing our school uniform.
I think we do change our identity at least when we are not using the uniform, because when your are wearing the uniform you are like in a more formal space and you have to keep up the school's like reputation and all of that. But when you are wearing street clothes, you can wear what you want, maybe to express what you think through them and you are in a more informal space.

2. Do we change our way of speaking?
Related to the first question and answer I think that we do change our language because of the formal/informal space related to the clothes. When you are wearing a uniform for example, you cant go walking on the streets talking like if you were a rapper, the uniform symbolizes something, something formal.

3. How do our clothes represent our identity?
Our clothes represent us in many ways:
1) depending on the brand it represents or shows your social class
2) The kind of clothes you use too and how you wear them too, for example the colors, like people thats only wear black clothes are classified a "emos", big clothes out of size most to "flaites" etc.
But this is too related to the last two questions, represents our identity in the same ways already given

Writing task. Formal letter

Monday 14th April. 2014
Av. Libertad 6665 dpt. 4343

Dear Editor.
Mr Smith, im writing you this letter because i wanted you to know what is Animal Farm really about. The story is not only about some animal's revolution, no, it involves something enormous, a real implicit story about any totalitarian order or dictatorship. It commences all when the humans leave the farm, in that moment, the pigs commence getting stronger and more intelligent than the other animals. First, they create THE "animals rules" that were supposed to be applied to all the animals, but as the time passes, the pigs commence like finding exceptions for them to break the rules in their benefit. And most likely when Snowball leaved the farm, Napoleon and the other pig proceed to live in the house, rule the animals and adopt al human actions or way of living. In a way this represents in a normal revolution when the leaders defeat the goberment and they took power, commence acting as them, becoming the same than the last goberment, the ambition of power consumes them, and they forget about their begginings. That's what happens in the movie, the animals defeat the human's dictatorship, and then the most intelligents ones (pigs) take control and commence acting and doing the same things that humans did and why'd they started the revolution against. You can compare the animals revolution with any other real revolution, for example when Napoleon make the animals build a huge monuments on his honor like it happens in the communist Russia with Stalin.
Sicerely.
Martin Ljubetic Vacarezza

Animal farm

1)  the animals revolution its technicaly impossible, but if you compare it with a normal revolution, it's the same than any other revolution, They wasn't agree with the rules and conditions they were living so they had to do something, I'm agree with it.
2)  yes, because the animals where fighting for something they really need, and for real rights, and all people would want the same
3)  Old nature gives the idea of the revolution, all animals accept it and they take the farm by strength . They reveal human characteristics as the pigs that started getting all the power, using clothes, drinking. First, the humans where considered as the enemy for being mean with them and later the pigs "adopt" all these human characteristics.
4) Pigs earn the rights to the cows milk by using the power of words, using TV and like for being the leaders of the revolution and most intelligent ones. This part shows that pigs went stronger than other animals and the rest like the followers.
5) Snowball should never been kicked out the farm, he was sort of the "good guy" that would've make the farm work better and would take the farm to a "new era" of happiness.
6) 1.- Creating rules that doesnt affect or get applied to him
     2.- making the animals believe that he was the "good guy" and someone that would help them
     3.- As pigs were the most intelligent animals, he make the other animals think that his opossition (snowball) is bad, that the only way of "winning" is taking him as a leader.
The decition taking changes a lot, first more like a common decition and with napoleon's dictatorship, a monarchy, only one chooses.
7) The animals get executed because they were against Napoleon's rules and thoughts. This is a message to the animals saying like: "if you are not agree with me, you will die"
8) It is fair, as they are more intelligent they can make better decitions.
In my family the my parents make the decitions but they ask us first if it concern us. And in a nation aspect is simmilar, president and ministers.
9) The power makes people change, they forget where they startend, why they started the revolution and "who they really are"
10) The pigs were way more intelligent than the other animals, they noticed that this "crowd of animals" was in need of a leader, they had their chance and they took it. Qualities of conviction allowed them to rule the animals.
Example:  They say that if they are not the leaders, the farmer will come back to the farm.