The Forbidden Daughter
One of my favorite assignments in humanities class is the book critique. Reading is one of the things I love and in this assignment I got to read a book that was educational and write about what I learned. I was caught by the facts that were included in this fictional story. I read The Forbidden Daughter as my first critique book.The forbidden daughter is a book about the most common problem in India. I have always been interested in knowing about women's positions in different cultures. In India having a daughter is a disgrace to the family. This is a cultural problem that has left most of the people in India thinking that girls don't deserve to live or gain respect. Due to the cultural problem more than 10 million female fetuses get aborted every year.
All summer in a day- Formulating Questions
Formulating question is an assignment given to help us understand articles better. We have to come up with five open-ended questions, five vocabulary words and write a reflection based on what we learned. Formulating question also helps us understand the article better making the seminars more interesting. I chose all summer in a day to represent formulating questions because I read the story in seventh grade but I had a different meaning and reading it again I have a different opinion. I always had the understanding that Margot didn't fit in because she was from earth causing the other kids to pick on her. Reading it again I realized that even though the other students were envious of her chance to see the sun Margot's character also had a role in their actions. The story was relatable to me because in sixth grade I was like Margot. I was new to America, shy and cautious about everything I do because I felt like I was going to be judged.
Saturday Matinee
One saturday every month we come to do the saturday matinee. We watched three different science fiction movies. We watched the science fiction movies The Chronicles of Riddick, Signs, and The Blade Runner. While watching the movies we had to answer questions were about the movie. The movies we watched were meant to help us with our stories. We were focused on identifying what makes the movie unique and what makes it good. I learned a lot from this assignment because it helped me write my story and figure out how to make my story unique.