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By: Kavita Thornton

Trends: Question: What can you make between this selection and your own if, school events, or community events?

Answer: I was in Florida and I was in a water slide, like anybody I slid down. When I came from the slide in to the pool I drowned, not by a whirlpool or “Wool Pooh,” but I just couldn’t swim so the life guard jumped in and saved my life; just like Byron saved Kenny. I can relate to Kenny.

Across the disciplines: Question: How does this selection connect to something you’ve read or experienced?

Answer: In “Role of Thunder Hear My Cry,” there were colored bathrooms and people made fun of African Americans because of the color of their skin. People treated them badly.

Rules: Question: Connect any “Rules” that the characters must follow with “Rules” you have observed in other texts, the world, or your personal life.

Answer: A person in this year started a mass shooting.

Ethics: Question: What biases, stereotypes, or prejudices were revealed in this section. Have you observed these in a real world setting. Answer: A guy bombed a church and In Iran people bombed everything.

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Question: what connections can you make between this selection and your own life, school events, or community events.

Connections I can make was when I went to Louisiana there confederate flags, that represents the kkk.

Across the disciplines

Question: How does this selection relate to something from another subject(science, social studies, history, art).

In history the kkk did not like black people so they bombed the church.

Rules

Question: compare and contrast the cultural norms presented in this selection with current cultural norms.

White people did bad thing, the black people protested.

Ethics

Question: what biases, stereotypes, or prejudices were revealed in the selection? Have you observed these in other text or real world experiences.

I saw it in real world experiences when I watched roots they were slaves for the white men.

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What Connections can you make with this chapter and your own life?

Every weekend I know it’s Sunday when I can here my dad getting ready for church, just like how Kenny knew it was Sunday because he heard Joey getting ready for Sunday school. Pg 180.

Across Disciplines
How does this chapter relate to something you have read or experienced?

In other books ( such as What was books ) are centered around the civil rights movement and back when some people hated African Americans, just like in this chapter of Watson’s Go to Birmingham, when there is a bombing at Joey’s church.

Rules
Connect any rules in this chapter that relate to your personal life.

At Grandma Sands house the Watsons are not allowed to slam the screen door. At my house we are not allowed to keep the front or back door open because flys will buzz their way inside.

Ethics
What stereotypes, biases, etc, where revealed in the chapter? Have you experienced in real life?

In this chapter of Watsons Go to Birmingham someone bombs Joey’s church. One time with my cousins, a man gave us the evil eye. I have no idea why.

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1. The connections I had between my own life, school events, or community events is when, My dad told me that my uncle was near the towers in 9/11 and I thought he died, just like when Kenny thought that Joey died when someone dropped the bomb on Joey’s church.

2. I can relate to Joey because I used to go to a class where we talked about god and church just like Joey’s church and the Watsons.

3. It reminded me of a text to world, because someone dropped a bomb on Joey’s church and it reminded me of 9/11 and there were bombs.

4. The Watsons value Joey, because they were worried that she died in the bombing.

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How does this selection connect to something you have experienced

Something that I can connect with would be hw Kenner was worried about Joey well I have been scared when I lost my sisters on a walking with my dog .

What connections can you make between your life , school events.

When Kenny lost her sister he zoned in and focused like when I got locked out of my house I was focused in finding the spare key because thy was the only way to .

Compare and contrast the cultural norms in n the selection .

Some of the contrast parts are know more separate bathrooms, schools, and water fountains . Also how African American and cocasion are getting along .

Some of the compare things are well hoe Joey goes to Sunday school and i go to church .

Nobody likes when there is a booming on any building .

How do the values of atheism characters compare to yours

Well how Kenny’s values is joeys ,mine is my family .

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What connections can you make between this selection and your own life, school events, or in community events? 1) like Kenny, when I’m focused, I ignore everything.

How dose this selection connect to something that you have read or experienced? 2) When I do my homework I repeat the words I’m writing in my head, witch means I can’t hear anything.

Compare and contrast the culture norms presented in this selection in this selection with current curtail cultural norms. 3) This is not a norm or anything, but the church got boomed because of civil rights, and in our world today, people still get treated terribly because of there cultural backgrounds!

What biases, stereotypes, or prejudices were revealed in the selection? Have you observed these in other text or in real-world experiences? 4) In a book, “The Hate You Give” is about this girl who had a best friend and a police shot him for no reason. Later in the book, the girl’s friend was very racist and said he got shot because he was black.

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Trend 1 Question what connections can you make between  selection and  church your own lifeSchool events or community event? Martin Luther King Junior was fighting for rights now we celebrate a day to respect what he did to give black people rights.

Across discipline.2 The bomb hit the church it was sad and it’s in someone history books about Alabama history I think schools in Birmingham talk about what happened in history

Rules 3 Joey had s Sunday school and I used to have a Sunday school to make me better at Punjabi at the gurdawara cause my mom said it’s a normal thing to make me better at are langue cause California doesn’t have a lot of Punjabi speakers

Ethics 4 Kenny is usually up and energized but he was just feeling lazy on school days I get Energized but on the weekend I wake up and just want to go back to sleep but I can’t when I walk I just walk into something cause I’m so tired then I go to the kitchen and eat something then I turn on the tv and watch whatever is on then I usually wake up fully.

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A current event or trend in this story is that many people went to church like today.

I can connect this book to something I have read outside this book, for example I have read a book that had a lot of racism.

Next, a rule that is shown throughout the story is that people treat black people like garbage.

The prejudices, stereotypes, and biases I observed were white people bombing a church to kill man black kids and adults.

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In chapter 14, Joetta goes to Sunday school just like how some kids today go to Sunday school as a community event.

Chapter 14 can relate to history like when we learned about the tragedy of 9/11 and how the planes hit the twin towers. Chapter 14 is similar to this because someone dropped a bomb on joeys church.

A cultural norm with someone religious is to go to church or Sunday school but if you are not religious then you probably wouldn’t go to church or Sunday school.

The Weird Watsons family value joetta just like m6 family values me and I value them. They were all worried about joetta just like I would be if it were someone from my family.

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I have a connection stereotypes one of my family members said all Asians are bad drivers but not all Asians are bad drivers they are adjusting to the cars we make.

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Trends: Connect something from this reading selection to a current event or trend.

This is not exactly current but at this time period whites for some reason hated blacks. Why you ask but sadly there is no reason, some whites still hate blacks today.

Across disciplines: How does this selection connect to something that you have read or experienced?

I have read hidden figures, black people standing up for themselves like this book.

Rules: Compare and contrast the cultural norms presented in this selection with current cultural norms.

People who believe in god go to Sunday school and or church like Joey who attends Sunday school when whites bomb here church.

Ethics: What value do the characters in the selection have? How do they compare to your values?

Joey has the value of curiosity, like when she asked so many questions to Kenny “Where’s momma? Why did you change your clothes? Who’s shoe is that?” Like Joey I love asking questions.

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A current event at the time when the book takes place is was segregation in certain city’s. For Across the disciplines I put for something I experienced was on Monday I was walking to the car with my mom there was a black car who turned of there car lights and slowly rooked toward us and so that is something scary I experienced just like In the selection. Some of the cultural norms in 1963 were a lot of people treated black people different then white and threatened black black people to. Something that happens in the book and in real life was a actual bomb went of in a church during 1963.

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My connection between the selection and my life is imagining someone doing bad things when bad things happen, like Kenny who imagines the Wool Pooh. I stopped imagining this person when I was five, and I only imagined it because of a movie I watched.

My connection between the selection and a book is a book about Martin Luther King Jr. It includes the fact that his house was blown up, and that very same thing happened to Joey's church.

My connection between the selection and cultural norms is that many people take three-week vacations like the Watsons when they went and stayed in Birmingham for about that amount of time.

My connection between the selection's prejudices and our present-day prejudices is the policeman shooting a colored person. The policeman thought he was holding a gun, and also the colored man was in his own backyard! I think I can relate that to the bombing of Joey's church in the selection because I really think that the policeman would not have shot the young man if he was white.

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This connects to the my own life because the Watsons go to church on Sundays just like my family and I do. This selection relates to a subject like social studies because it is talking about someone bombing the church in Birmingham, 1963. When we compare and contrast the past and the present, like in 1963 when black and white people didn’t get along. In the present, black and white people get along sometimes. The prejudice that was revealed was the white people bombing the church because they didn’t like the blacks. That’s why Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I have a Dream” speech.