Carly (13&14) On page 132, "The War Between The States" is an allusion to the Civil War. During the war, it was commonly referred to as the War Between the States, but is now more commonly known as the Civil War. The civil war was a 4 year war between the union states (North) and the confederate states (south). It started when the seven confederate states seceded (decided to withdraw from the Union.)
"We leaped over the driveway wall, cut through Miss Rachel's side yard and went to Dill's window. Jem whistled bob-white."
A bobwhite is a quail that is native to the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is a brown bird with white and black speckles that weighs around 1/3 of a pound. It usually comes out in the US during spring time and I makes a squeaky high pitched chirp that sounds like bob-White! I think Jem whistled like a bobwhite so as not to be suspicious and alert anyone in the house they where leaving.
A snipe hint is when an older or more experienced person sends a younger person out on an impossible task like telling someone to go find a 200 foot alligator and they can be friends with you. It is called a snipe hunt because a snipe is an imaginary bird so hunting for something that doesn't exist. The only other place I have seen the use of a snipe is in the movie Up. The little boy says he say a snipe which makes the old man think he's silky but then he finds one. I think he says he sent them on a snipe hunt to make Atticus not feel as vulnerable.
"Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree." Sherlock Holmes is a detective who first appeared in the book "A Study In Scarlet". The author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlockalso appeared in "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Sign of the Four", "The Blanched Soldier", "The Lion's Mane", and other various stories. He was first written about in 1887 and continued to be in four novels and 56 short stories. Sherlock Holmes is a very cunning, decisive detective and nothing gets past him, so when Harper Lee compares Jem to Holmes, I think she is saying that Scout has no idea what Jem has figured out but it must be important and hard to notice.
Nick chapters 20-22 “Every one of ‘em oughta be ridin' broomsticks. Aunt Rachel already does.” (Pg.220) This is a reference to witches. When Dill said he wanted to be a clown and then at the end he said this quote. We know that most witches ride brooms. And saying that aunt Rachel already rides one is saying she's a witch. And the thing about brooms and witches went back all the way to the Middle Ages and this is their use of transportation so to say.
Ryan (28-29) "Andrew Jackson appointed him to a position of authority, and Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars." (Pg. 261) The Creek Indian Wars started on August 30, 1813. The creek Indians were unhappy that many white settlers were going to Alabama. A certain group of Creek Indians, called the Red Sticks, part of the Red Eagle, killed almost 250 Alabama settlers. In the end, the Creek nation was destroyed partially due to the efforts of Andrew Jack
Camille (Chapters 28-29) "I must have heard her in my sleep, or the band playing Dixie woke me, but it was when Mrs. Merriweather triumphantly mounted the stage with the state flag that I chose to make my entrance." (Page 262) Dixie was a popular song in the early 1860s that was known to be the unofficial national anthem of the Confederacy.
Carly (13&14)
ReplyDeleteOn page 132, "The War Between The States" is an allusion to the Civil War. During the war, it was commonly referred to as the War Between the States, but is now more commonly known as the Civil War. The civil war was a 4 year war between the union states (North) and the confederate states (south). It started when the seven confederate states seceded (decided to withdraw from the Union.)
Jordy (chapter 15)
ReplyDelete"We leaped over the driveway wall, cut through Miss Rachel's side yard and went to Dill's window. Jem whistled bob-white."
A bobwhite is a quail that is native to the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is a brown bird with white and black speckles that weighs around 1/3 of a pound. It usually comes out in the US during spring time and I makes a squeaky high pitched chirp that sounds like bob-White! I think Jem whistled like a bobwhite so as not to be suspicious and alert anyone in the house they where leaving.
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DeleteZach propp chapters 15
ReplyDelete“Called ‘em off on a snipe hunt,”
A snipe hint is when an older or more experienced person sends a younger person out on an impossible task like telling someone to go find a 200 foot alligator and they can be friends with you. It is called a snipe hunt because a snipe is an imaginary bird so hunting for something that doesn't exist. The only other place I have seen the use of a snipe is in the movie Up. The little boy says he say a snipe which makes the old man think he's silky but then he finds one. I think he says he sent them on a snipe hunt to make Atticus not feel as vulnerable.
Emery
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"Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree."
Sherlock Holmes is a detective who first appeared in the book "A Study In Scarlet". The author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlockalso appeared in "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Sign of the Four", "The Blanched Soldier", "The Lion's Mane", and other various stories. He was first written about in 1887 and continued to be in four novels and 56 short stories. Sherlock Holmes is a very cunning, decisive detective and nothing gets past him, so when Harper Lee compares Jem to Holmes, I think she is saying that Scout has no idea what Jem has figured out but it must be important and hard to notice.
Nick chapters 20-22
ReplyDelete“Every one of ‘em oughta be ridin' broomsticks. Aunt Rachel already does.” (Pg.220) This is a reference to witches. When Dill said he wanted to be a clown and then at the end he said this quote. We know that most witches ride brooms. And saying that aunt Rachel already rides one is saying she's a witch. And the thing about brooms and witches went back all the way to the Middle Ages and this is their use of transportation so to say.
Ryan (28-29)
ReplyDelete"Andrew Jackson appointed him to a position of authority, and Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars." (Pg. 261)
The Creek Indian Wars started on August 30, 1813. The creek Indians were unhappy that many white settlers were going to Alabama. A certain group of Creek Indians, called the Red Sticks, part of the Red Eagle, killed almost 250 Alabama settlers. In the end, the Creek nation was destroyed partially due to the efforts of Andrew Jack
*Andrew Jackson.
DeleteCamille (Chapters 28-29)
ReplyDelete"I must have heard her in my sleep, or the band playing Dixie woke me, but it was when Mrs. Merriweather triumphantly mounted the stage with the state flag that I chose to make my entrance." (Page 262)
Dixie was a popular song in the early 1860s that was known to be the unofficial national anthem of the Confederacy.