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1. Nightjohn
Basically to summarize night john.... Sarny finds a penny and has to hide it because the slaves aren't allowed to have money. The slaves are also not allowed to learn anything educational. Nightjohn is brought by Waller, he is in bad condition. He asks the people for tobacco, Sarny gives him tobacco in exchange for reading and writing lessons. He taught Sarny a few letters, and a few numbers. Mammy catches Sarny writing in the dirt, she smacks her in the head, and tells her she is not allowed to do it anymore. She tells nightjohn not to teach her, or at least not get caught teaching her. Alice is made into a breeder, and is whipped horribly. The next day Alice runs away, she does not make it far, and hides under some Brussels. The dogs get to here and chew her up good, but she does not die. Mammy sews her up to her best abilities. Nightjohn tells Sarny and Mammy how he ran escaped from slavery and made it to the North and was free, but he came back to slavery so he could teach other slaves how to read and write.

2. Mascot
To summarize Mascot....
Malcolm's older brother Philbert is a great boxer. Malcom wanted to be a great boxer just like Philbert, so he gets a fight. His whole family watches and he gets destroyed by Bill Peterson. He is humiliated. He trains for a long time and gets a rematch with Bill, and losses just as badly. Malcolm doesn't box again. Malcolm is expelled from his school, and he is sent to boarding school. He works hard at the boarding school, and all the people there like him very much. Malcolm really likes it at the school. He eventually leaves the school and attends Mason Junior High School. He was popular at his school, and he liked the teachers and students there. In 7th grade, he was elected class president, his family and all his friends were extremely proud of him, and he was very proud of himself. His grades were among the highest in his class. His sister Ella comes home, and she takes Malcolm and all of the "littles" to Kalamazoo to see their mother. Their mother was very surprised to see them all, but she was also very happy. Malcolm spends the summer of 1940 in boston with Ella. He saw things he had never seen before in Boston, like black and white couples, and churches for black people. Back at home in school Malcolm told R. Ostrowski that he wanted to be a lawyer, and the teacher told him to be realistic, and he couldnt be a lawyer because he was black.

3. The Great Debaters
To compare and contrast great debaters and nightjohn and mascot....
Well first of all nightjohn comes long before mascot and great debaters. But great debaters and mascot are right around the same time, its when black people had, had their freedom for a long time, but were still descriminated against. But in great debaters they are discriminated against more than they are in mascot, because they are in the south. For example in mascot black people weren't treated equal, but they weren't discriminated as badly as in great debaters. Like in great debaters, you see a black person who was burned and hung. And also the main character is sent to jail, even though he didn't do anything wrong. And then in Nightjohn the African American people did not even have freedom yet. And it didnt exactly say a time period, but it appeared to be before the civil war, so black people would not gain freedom for a long time. Which makes it take place much before mascot and great debaters. To compare great debaters and mascot, the biggest comparison is that Malcolm wanted to be a lawyer, and the main girl character in great debaters ended up becoming a lawyer. To contrast great debaters and mascot with nightjohn further... In nightjohn none of the black people even knew how to read, but in mascot and great debaters, they could read,write, and attended school and college, and learned so much more. This is how i compare and contrast Nightjohn with mascot, with The Great Debaters.

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blog #11

Well i almost forgot to do this weeks blog, but thankfully i remembered. Right now im not in the best mood, because im losing weight for wrestling, so i havent eaten anything but a little bit of vegetables in a while. And im just really hungry, and tired from trying to lose the weight. But luckily after i weigh in on tuesday, i wont have to lose any more weight until december. But im also pretty happy because my teams won this weekend, so its all good. Well last week was a pretty good week in english class. We started the new subject, and the 2 short stories we read were pretty good. And so far the movie great debaters is pretty good. I like it because its actually like a real movie insted of a lot of the movies i watch in school. But i have something to look forward to eighth period i guess tomorrow. Im excited for a two day week, but unfortunately i procrastinate way to much and i have 3 projects due tuesday that i haven't worked on much. I have a project in history on world war 1, and a project in math to do that im so confused on because i am absolutely horrid at math and i hate it. And i also have the wellness goal in health, which probably a lot of the sophomores have to do that too. And back to english class, it will be a easy week in that class, since were just watching the movie i think. So thanks to mr. potter for the easy week in english, and thats one less class i have to think about tomorrow when im doing all those projects. And its been fifteen minutes, so this blog is over.

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blog #10

Well im in a good mood now because my team Syracuse won today in basketball, and yesterday they beat Rutgers in football. Also i went to the buckeyes game, and it was a great game, excluding the first half. And lastly my NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars had an epic victory over the Texans. So all my teams won this past weekend, and oh ya my least favorite team the Steelers are currently losing to the Patriots. YAY! So back to english class, the 12 angry men test was pretty easy. There were maybe a couple questions i wasn't all that sure about but for the most part i think i knew everything. So hopefully we can see our grades on those tests soon. And i also heard a lot of bad things from friends who had previously read 1 angry men, but i thought it was a pretty descent book. Although the movie was a snoozer. It was actually kind of fun to read some lines in the play 12 angry men too. Like i said in my last blog i enjoyed being juror number 5. So its almost been a5 minutes, and im not really sure what else there is to type about. I guess i hope we do something fun this week in english. I would suppose we start something new. Im ok with any new subject in english just as long as we dont do another research paper any time soon. Oh and also, i thought the To kill a Mockingbird play we got to see ws very good. The cast and crew did a really good job  with that, and i greatly enjoyed it over going to class.

blog response 8 i think maybe 9?

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blog #9

I almost forgot to do this weeks blog, that was a close one. Mr potter never reminds us to do them anymore, so i always forget. But i had a good weekend, and got all my homework done already, so im gonna watch the new family guy once im done with this magnificent writing. So we have been reading 12 angry men in class, and its a descent book. I have been the 5th guy on the jury for the past couple of classes, and i like being him because he has enough lines to not get me bored, but he doesn't have too many lines. Like kristens character #8, has so many lines and i would hate to have that many. And i personally think hes guilty now. After listening to Mr. Potters reasoning i believe that the kid is guilty. Because as much as the people twist the facts, and make it sound believable that he is innocent, you cant bend the facts that much. Unfortunately a friend who has finished the book spoiled the ending for me so i know what happens. I wont say it on here just so i don't spoil it for anyone else. But i think we only have like 3 or 4 more pages in it left. Im pretty happy that it was so short, i like reading short books because then i never really get bored of them like i do with longer books. And i think Mr potter said we get to watch the play or movie, or whatever it is. But hopefully its good, and it will be a good break from reading. And it has been exactly fifteen minutes, and this blog is over.

8th response

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