Summer was finally over, and the first day of school awaits. Knowing that I was going to be in the first grade excited me. Except for the fact my brother Jem didn't want me to talk to him during school. I got to school and the first thing I notice is a lady around twenty, twenty one years old standing in front of the class room. I look around and quickly sit down, waiting for the teacher to say something. She starts to introduce her self, "Hi I my name is Miss Caroline Fisher, and I'm from north Alabama." I thought she seemed nice. A couple of minutes later we started reading a book, she called on me to start reading aloud; of course I had no problem with reading I knew how to.
When I was done reading Miss Caroline didn't look to happy; she told me to tell my father to stop teaching me how to read. I was very confused when she told me this because first of all my father didn't teach me how to read I just knew how too; but I knew Miss Caroline didn't believe me. Either way I don't think a teacher should get mad if one of her students knew how to read. It didn't make sense at all, I excepted more of a "Wow, great job Scout." I decided to just get over it and get the rest of the day over with, and hope things would get better. After reading it was time to go to lunch, Miss Caroline took count of all the students that had brought lunch and was about to dismiss them; but she noticed that Walter didn't have lunch. She reached into her purse and took out a quarter. I was looking attentively waiting to see what see was going to do next.
She looks at a Walter and smiles, "You can pay me back tomorrow." She looked as if she knew nothing about Walter Cunningham when she handed him the money. Walter Cunningham's family owned a farm and never took money they couldn't pay back. Of course they don't pay back with money, but with firewood and bushel of potatoes. When I started explaining all of this to Miss Caroline, she just looked at me in more disappointment as if I had given her enough trouble this morning. All I did is try to help her out knowing that shes new to the school; but how do I get repaid? I get whipped. When that day was finally over I was relieved; I got home and Atticus knew something was wrong.
We sat down and talked about how my dad had went. I thought to myself I already went through I don't feel like talking about it. At the end he ended up convincing me stay in school and try my best to stay out of trouble; even though I didn't do anything wrong. I just hope school tomorrow will turn out a whole lot better.
Post 7 - Chapters 26-28 - Jem
16 years ago
5 comments:
I like how yours was detailed in many parts and that you used the first person perspective very well. Like in the part when your talking about Miss Caroline and said a quote from it. I also think the part you did well on the first person perspective is when you used it with feeling and said it like what she would say.
I liked how you really took your time to compress all 3 chapters into a version that is easy to understand and follow along. If i hadn't read the book, I would be able to get the idea of what went on the first day of school for Scout and how confussed she must've felt with her teacher tellingher to stop reading and writing. I would've been confussed too. The only advise I might suggest to you might be to try and make the sentences flow together more.. Other than that, Beyra, you did a great job and love it alot ! (:
Great work (:
-katie
Taking on the task of conpressing 3 chapters together is now easy but you did great! (: I like how you told us how difficult her first day of school was, just with her brother not wanting to have any sort of relationship with her and her teacher not wanting her to read or write. If I were Scout, I would be pretty confussed as well. I loved the part where you said "but how do i get repaid? I get whipped!" I thought that part was great because Scout thought the teacher would understand but she didn't because she was new. I loved it! Great job Beyra! (:
-Katie
i liked how you put "I was exited for the first but but i was sad because i couldn't talk to Jem. i thought you did very well on this blog post and you really got into scout.
Beyra, I really loved how you took the time to make this post flow really well. I was reading a lot of other posts, and while i was reading them, I felt as though I was getting rushed out of one subject to another too quickly. With youres, I didn't have that feeling. Although Scouts perspective is difficult to write in just because the whole book is being narrated by her, you added your own part of what Scout was thinking and made this post your own. GREAT JOB! (:
-katie
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