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Rough Patch_ From Alexa to Alex memoir.docx

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I finished STEP and Wight Foundation! I am now graduating with A's

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Innocence of even a child can turn sour with a situation such as this! Ultimately experience can result in morals, erratic behavior and also curiosity. One moral we were introduced to is in you cannot Kill What cannot hurt you; Jem knew this all too well and prevented Scout from killing an innocent insect because of such reason. Because of the Tom Robinson trial, Jem and Scout have grown deeper into the situation.

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All together, Jem expresses often vehement behaviors towards certain things said about his father and the trial. One prime example was in which Jem smashed Ms. Dubose’s Flowers because she said something about the case and his father that Jem could not stand to hear. In HL’s “TKMB” through the eyes of Scout as told, Ms. Dubose said, “But Mrs. Dubose held us: “Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for niggers!”Jem stiffened. Mrs. Dubose’s shot had gone home and she knew it: “Yes indeed, what has this world come to when a Finch goes against his raising? I’ll tell you!” She put her hand to her mouth. When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves. He bent my baton against his knee, snapped it in two and threw it down.” Jem could not contain his anger and decided to beat Ms. Dubose’s Flowers in payment for her words, Jem has also threatened Scout for even mentioning the courthouse after Tom’s death and amongst many other situations in which he felt distant because of the trial.

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Scout’s end of the stick however, she focuses more on finding the truth and her curiously. Atticus does not sugarcoat things for his children, he prefers to tell them the hard truth or simply avoid question all together, specifically about what is going on. As she asks Atticus in the beginning of the Tom Robinson trial, “Atticus, do you defend niggers?” Also, “What is rape?,” As these burning questions seep through Atticus’s mind as he tries to find a way to answer it without digging into Scout’s innocence too deeply and or too early; he simply just avoided the question and or answered it a different way waiting for Scout to see the answer to her curious questions herself, impeding into her innocence as only a six year old. In Harper Lee’s “TKMB” 40, Scout asks Atticus the question and he responded with, “Do you defend niggers, Atticus?” I asked him that evening.“Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout. That’s common.” ‘It’s what everybody at school says.” As shown here, Atticus avoids the question completely as Scout innocently asked a simple question.

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Firstly, since the aftermath of the Tom Robinson trial, Jem seems to be the most affected out of Atticus, Scout and Calpurnia. In this one scene of Harper Lee’s classic coming of age novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Jem sees Scout trying to kill a rolly polly and with gained prior experience from Tom Robinson’s trial, he embodies the true value of life and how something small and helpless like a rolly Polly can not be killed for no reason. With this known, most likely before, Jem would not even care if Scout had killed the insect. This is a moral Jem learns from how Tom Robinson was falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit, hence being just as helpless as the rolly polly. In Harper Lee’s “TKMB” 127 a conversation between Jem and Scout occurs contemplating killing the creature, “My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke. Jem was scowling. It was probably a part of the stage he was going through, and I wished he would hurry up and get through it.’Why couldn’t I mash him?’ I asked. ‘Because they don’t bother you,’ Jem answered in the darkness. He had turned out his reading light.” This is significant to his growth towards experience, knowing not to kill something because it has not done anything which is a sign of his innocence being compromised.

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Pricked from their innocence through the dystopian time for African Americans of the mid mid nineteen thirties of fictional town of Maycomb Alabama; children, Scout and Jem Finch try to understand the world of death, racism, rape, class discrimination, inequality, and they are ultimately stuck in between a trial from Atticus’s decisions. Scout and Jem with their little friend Dill embark upon a life-changing journey to experience from innocence to early into childhood. Learning life lessons and Jem’s erratic behavior towards Scout’s observations about the court house. Looking at many scenarios in which Scout and Jem experience, three of in which have impeded on their innocence the most.

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Drawing
Writing
English
Fashion
Visiting schools

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http://hendersonal.edublogs.org/

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Dear my trimester one self,

Well, hello; fancy hearing from you, I know you might think of me as a current failure right now that is currently kicked out of the Wight Foundation. Well; how dare you say that or even think such a thing about me! I hope you understand that you have made many mistakes in the past Fall component, but ultimately the big mean director of scary old STEP, teachers and family has even more faith than you have for yourself! I apologize for quibbling so early on, let me calm down a tad bit. Girl, I know you take your education seriously and you are exhausted all the time; but you can do it and it is definitely worth it in the end. You really need to acknowledge your growth; you went from this weak person literally shutting herself from interaction from others, to an outgoing cool person to be around in the program and out. Straying away from the Wight Foundation which is currently consuming your eighth grade life; but it’s a temporary commitment let’s move onto what you have experienced here in Lady Liberty.

Oh I forgot one more thing about that topic; Remember the time Mr. Calixte told you that you are one of the first Wight Foundation students to ever be in STEP at Lady Liberty? It did come as a surprise for you since you always underestimate your abilities. As now a trimester two student, it still occurs almost every day! It is something that we both share, which a absolutely hate. My goodness is this a struggle! Only if the seventh grade students applying for the program, know what I have been through so far. I remember you thought eighth grade was a “piece of cake”, well no. Eighth grade forces you to be harder on yourself than you ever been before, being told countless times by both teachers and STEP staff otherwise. This program is very salient towards your success as a Newark colored girl, being in an environment in which you are safe. “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” – Carol Moseley-Braun

Stop underestimating yourself and believe you can do it. I know I am you in the near future but believe you can be auspicious enough to go to your dream university; Brown university that is. You make mistakes every single day but let that be a learning experience instead of a hindrance to what you can achieve. Our friends Naz Asia, Esther, Mary, Makini, Peculiar and Diamond have been so supportive including Nuweira, Jadisha, Joyce, Lindsay, Aaron, Marley, Leslie, Margaret, Megan May and Jada from STEP. You have so many people wanting you to be successful and I promise I won’t think otherwise. You are already done and set in stone, it’s up to me to draw out the rest of the year. You discredit yourself making English shared inquiry abominable since you do not think before you speak.

Let me assert this to you through a megaphone “YOU ARE CAPABLE OF SUCCESS DO NOT GIVE UP OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!” I know this from experience, quitting at participating in class that affected my grade ultimately for the worst. I find it even more ironic that I am telling you this now, even though I endured years of self criticism. I have learned effective ways to deal with emotions despite crying almost everyday. Life can be as sweet as a grape but can be sour like one too but it happens to be like a bean boozled, you pick one out something can either go right or wrong.

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My experience with the Wight Foundation so far.

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My experience with the Wight Foundation so far.

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One word : No.

Favorite books

Scarlet Letter
TKMB
All We Left Behind
A Solitary Blue
Speak
Behind
Desert God
Harrison Bergeron
A Strange Story
The 5th Wave
The Odyssey
Haddix
Double Identity
Souls Binded
Hide

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A pieces, search me up and find my personality

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Creatively artistic

I love sleep but don't get enough of it.

Check my email every ten seconds.

I am a very boring and socially awkward human bean.

I think towards the future in a negative way

I have an irrational hatred towards myself

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Walking around abominable landmines as Atticus would describe the situation, just waiting to explode from his seemingly horrific actions. His low values and backwards thinking turn off the people of Maycomb, Alabama as Atticus gets deeper into his case the more he sees life through the hurt convicted eyes of an oppressed African American man, Tom Robinson. As Jem and Scout fall into the abyss of their father’s decisions, naturally as children they would become curious and express different ways to respond to the situation. As Jem expresses irrational behavior, and Scout learns more about the situation both expressed it in the form of her dialogue and of those around her. Using three examples of the three characters of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Atticus, Jem and Scout, I will determine how the setting influences each characters’ individually through dialogue, motives and perspectives. At this point of “TKMB,” Atticus is influencing himself in indulging with Tom Robinson, Jem uses his motives and Scout in dialogue.

Jem is an erratic child, having seen experiences first hand with his father and knowing what responsibilities and consequences Atticus has for the Tom Robinson case, so gracefully placed on his shoulders. Jem does not like disagreement and egregious talk about his father’s work from others. On prime example takes place with the elderly cranky neighbor of theirs, Ms. Dubose. Also noticing his emergence into a young man, his attitude towards things seem to get worse, often threatening Scout and not wanting to play with her. As Jem walks by, Ms. Dubose yells to him, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, through the eyes of old woman Mrs. Dubose,“Atticus defends nig*ers!” loud enough for all of Maycomb to hear. As Jem takes this in, he takes his anger out on her prized Azaleas, squashing them to a pulp. He takes his punishment in reading to her.

As we delve deeper into the book, as Scout observes closely; Atticus invests emotionally into the job, however, She is not shy and very comfortably expresses what she observes through dialogue. One night, Scout was sitting on her father’s lap, the words she asked curiously, “Atticus, Do you defend niggers?”. Shocked, Atticus immediately asks her to stop and she confessed to learning the word in overhearing school conversations. Author, Harper Lee use Scout's innocence through her dialogue and how she is influenced by others actions and words. In the ninteen thirties the word nigg*r was used commonly among white citizens in the south in which the Finch family resides. Jem and Scout’s father seems to be the cause, as he sees things from an adult’s perspective.

Atticus is a man of perception; stepping into the shoes of husband, African American, worker, Tom Robinson. As he is tried for allegedly raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell, Atticus feels his actions is advantageous for Tom, as if he did not do it, nobody else would. As he finds himself at a very imperative point in his career he describes this case as one in every man’s life that will change him forever. To him as he is doing something as disgraceful as this, out of the “norm” for his race. He feels incredibly terrible for Tom Robinson and even tells his six year old daughter to not call him by the name she was influenced to say being in the nineteen thirties. As Mr. Bob Ewell envy's Atticus’s amiability and auspiciousness, he grows aloof towards him. As Atticus tries to substantiate the innocent man, hence seeing through the eyes of his oppression for his race.

Tangled in the hot mess in which Atticus falls in taking this case through the eyes of others; Tom Robinson was being defended by him. Other caucasian men and women find disgust in his actions, therefore affecting his children, Jem, Scout and himself through setting, which is the place and time. Scout through her dialogue, Jem through his actions and motives, and finally Atticus and his perception on African Americans: refusing to let Scout call him a nigg*r when others find it fine. When everything was normal before, Atticus approaches his career epiphany for himself as well.  During his experience with working in this case, how will this affect the rest of his life, reputation wise?

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"Life will not proceed in the hands of man himself"

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Walking around abominable landmines as Atticus would describe the situation, just waiting to explode from his seemingly horrific actions. His low values and backwards thinking turn off the people of Maycomb, Alabama as Atticus gets deeper into his case the more he sees life through the hurt convicted eyes of an oppressed African American man, Tom Robinson. As Jem and Scout fall into the abyss of their father’s decisions, naturally as children they would become curious and express different ways to respond to the situation. As Jem expresses irrational behavior, and Scout learns more about the situation both expressed it in the form of her dialogue and of those around her. Using three examples of the three characters of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Atticus, Jem and Scout, I will determine how the setting influences each characters’ individually through dialogue, motives and perspectives. At this point of “TKMB,” Atticus is influencing himself in indulging with Tom Robinson, Jem uses his motives and Scout in dialogue.

Jem is an erratic child, having seen experiences first hand with his father and knowing what responsibilities and consequences Atticus has for the Tom Robinson case, so gracefully placed on his shoulders. Jem does not like disagreement and egregious talk about his father’s work from others. On prime example takes place with the elderly cranky neighbor of theirs, Ms. Dubose. Also noticing his emergence into a young man, his attitude towards things seem to get worse, often threatening Scout and not wanting to play with her. As Jem walks by, Ms. Dubose yells to him, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, through the eyes of old woman Mrs. Dubose,“Atticus defends nig*ers!” loud enough for all of Maycomb to hear. As Jem takes this in, he takes his anger out on her prized Azaleas, squashing them to a pulp. He takes his punishment in reading to her.

As we delve deeper into the book, as Scout observes closely; Atticus invests emotionally into the job, however, She is not shy and very comfortably expresses what she observes through dialogue. One night, Scout was sitting on her father’s lap, the words she asked curiously, “Atticus, Do you defend niggers?”. Shocked, Atticus immediately asks her to stop and she confessed to learning the word in overhearing school conversations. Author, Harper Lee use Scout's innocence through her dialogue and how she is influenced by others actions and words. In the ninteen thirties the word nigg*r was used commonly among white citizens in the south in which the Finch family resides. Jem and Scout’s father seems to be the cause, as he sees things from an adult’s perspective.

Atticus is a man of perception; stepping into the shoes of husband, African American, worker, Tom Robinson. As he is tried for allegedly raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell, Atticus feels his actions is advantageous for Tom, as if he did not do it, nobody else would. As he finds himself at a very imperative point in his career he describes this case as one in every man’s life that will change him forever. To him as he is doing something as disgraceful as this, out of the “norm” for his race. He feels incredibly terrible for Tom Robinson and even tells his six year old daughter to not call him by the name she was influenced to say being in the nineteen thirties. As Mr. Bob Ewell envy's Atticus’s amiability and auspiciousness, he grows aloof towards him. As Atticus tries to substantiate the innocent man, hence seeing through the eyes of his oppression for his race.

Tangled in the hot mess in which Atticus falls in taking this case through the eyes of others; Tom Robinson was being defended by him. Other caucasian men and women find disgust in his actions, therefore affecting his children, Jem, Scout and himself through setting, which is the place and time. Scout through her dialogue, Jem through his actions and motives, and finally Atticus and his perception on African Americans: refusing to let Scout call him a nigg*r when others find it fine. When everything was normal before, Atticus approaches his career epiphany for himself as well.  During his experience with working in this case, how will this affect the rest of his life, reputation wise?

Before:

Walking around large landmines as Atticus would describe the situation, just waiting to explode from his seemingly horrific actions. As father,  Atticus Finch, father of Scout and Jem and a lawyer, hesitantly takes the case of Tom Robinson; if he did not do so no one will. His perspective on African American culture in the south will change the more he works on the case. As Scout, the daughter of Atticus and little sister of older brother Jem, expresses her views on the subject verbally; being only six years old; she is influenced by others in regards to her words, in the sleepy old town of Maycomb, Alabama. How others speak of the situation, “Do you defend niggers?” She stated one night to Atticus, having confessed to hearing the word in school, she doesn’t seem to understand the history and the full usage of the word. Jem however, tends to act upon the situation as old lady Ms. Dubose made a comment to him he decided to destroy what she owns. As Jem does the opposite.

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Rude people, failure, crying, sleep deprived, depression, hot dogs, stupidity, bananas, mushrooms, Mc Donalds, Tiredness, help

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Books, education, boarding school, pizza, music, sleep, Wight Foundation

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Ethel Walker School
St. Timothy's School
Canterbury School
Saint Vincent (Not a choice anymore cause I can’t take the coop.)
Perkiomen School
West Nottingham Academy (Two signers of the Declaration of Independence went there)
Oakwood Friends
Solebury
Darrow
Dublin
Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall

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Lady Liberty Academy Charter School

Where Education is Freedom and COUGAR PRIDE is Honored!

Class of 2018

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hendersona22@llacs.org (Its getting a little quiet in my inbox)

School Number:
(973) 623-9005

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Hi guys, this is my place to reveal my extremely slow climb to eighth grade success!