https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq Baldarama notes en-us 2023-02-09 18:18:39 UTC 2023-04-06 17:13:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f338.png alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2475464549 A major theme of this Shirley Jackson story is community responsibility in preventing violence. Before the “showdown”, young Billy's Saturdays were quiet and uneventful. When Tom Harper's death breaks the pattern, a mystical power puts Billy (and possibly other townspeople) into a time loop.]]> 2023-02-09 18:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2475464549 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2475473264 It follows an unnamed narrator whose psychological state is extremely precarious, though he insists that he is sane. This narrator has murdered an old man who he describes as having a 'vulture eye'. This was not a crime of passion, but was carefully planned by the narrator in advance of him carrying out the act.]]> 2023-02-09 18:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2475473264 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476781558 The story follows Mary Maloney, a housewife who kills her husband using a frozen leg of lamb. Mary then sets up a crime scene and tricks the investigating officers into eating the now-cooked lamb, disposing of the evidence.]]> 2023-02-10 18:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476781558 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476782582 The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.]]> 2023-02-10 18:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476782582 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476783754 Robert Cormier's short story, The Moustache, is about a young man who wants to look older, even if it literally costs him money. The author uses the moustache as a symbol to mirror the stage in human development called adolescence, or the period between childhood and adulthood.]]> 2023-02-10 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476783754 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476784907 It is about the silence of German intellectuals and certain clergy including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group.]]> 2023-02-10 18:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476784907 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476787870 Roald Dahl's 'The Landlady' is a dark and terrifying look at 17-year-old Billy Weaver's first and last stay at a bed and breakfast. After asking the porter for a recommendation, he opts for the boarding house, where the landlady looks good on the surface but has a dark secret tied to her taxidermy skills.]]> 2023-02-10 18:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476787870 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476789220 Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany's Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933.]]> 2023-02-10 18:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476789220 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476791933 Writer Jesús Colón reflects on an incident on a subway ride in New York City. As writer Jesús Colón discovered on a subway ride in New York City in the 1950s, perceptions about one's own identity and the identities of others can affect the decisions people make about one another.]]> 2023-02-10 18:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2476791933 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2492966479 2023-02-23 18:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2492966479 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2494227377 2023-02-24 18:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2494227377 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2494227699 2023-02-24 18:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2494227699 alara982 https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2496859581 In this short story, a man sets a trap for a suspected thief at his summer vacation home. Purpose for Reading: To understand how different points of view between characters create tension.]]> 2023-02-27 18:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alara982/rp62ln58ovrozwsq/wish/2496859581