https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii Ellen Foster-Nigel Harris, Coach Craig, Eng. 11, April 12, 2017, Period: 7 en-us 2017-04-12 17:08:53 UTC 2024-01-11 20:01:32 UTC hello@padlet.com http://idolosol.com/images/sadness-4.jpg 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166131407 I put this at my six word as the title because it explains the mood of the story, and how Ellen's past environment brought her pain. ]]> 2017-04-12 17:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166131407 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166132524 2017-04-12 17:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166132524 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166132989 This background symbolizes that good, nice things can from bad places, and that is what Ellen is. Ellen is a very nice, caring girl that came from a abusive, poor, and inadequate home. This background also represents the setting because in the story they say that there is so much dirt that poor black families cook the dirt and eat it.]]> 2017-04-12 17:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166132989 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166134933 Symbolism is when an object, person, or event represents an abstract idea different from the literal meaning. An action, place, object, person, event, or color can all have symbolic meaning.]]> 2017-04-12 17:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166134933 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166289107  "And I will lay here with my mama until I see her chest rise up and down regular. Deep and regular and far way from the in the truck." "7".]]> 2017-04-13 16:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166289107 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166290079 Compares two similar phrases or words using a verb, for an example "to be"]]> 2017-04-13 17:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166290079 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166291150 "Some wild ride broke an the one in charge strolled off and let us spin and shake and fly off the rail." "9".]]> 2017-04-13 17:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166291150 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292108 Placing two phrases or words beside each other for comparison or contrast]]> 2017-04-13 17:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292108 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292383 "I keep my elbows off the table like a lady. Nobody barks, farts, or feeds the dog under the table here." "4".]]> 2017-04-13 17:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292383 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292458 Recurring object or idea. Smaller idea than a theme. Shows up over and over again throughout a literary word. Can help develop the theme.]]> 2017-04-13 17:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292458 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292764  " There is plenty to eat here and if we run out of something we just go to the store and get some more. I had me a egg sandwich for breakfast, mayonnaise on both sides. And I may fix me another one for lunch." "2".]]> 2017-04-13 17:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/166292764 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/168943411 2017-04-28 17:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/168943411 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169213814 Untrammeled mean to not be deprived of freedom of action or expression. A quote that explains this is "When I get home I wrapped the present and wondered if I ought to wrap something laying around the house for my daddy." "28". Ellen is untrammeled because she refuses to let her her circumstances of a bad environment deprive her of the child hood she wants, so she wraps up a gift and gives it to herself for Christmas.]]> 2017-05-01 16:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169213814 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169215875 I put this at my six word as the title because it explains how she feels about her dad and her new mama, she does not like her father and when she leaves hi she is relieved and excited. Her new mama treats her 10x better than how her father treated her.]]> 2017-05-01 16:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169215875 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169218331 2017-05-01 16:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169218331 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169228683 Grateful means to feel or show an appreciation of kindness; or to be thankful. A quote that explains this is "There is plenty of eat here and if we run out we just go get some more." "2". This quote shows that Ellen is grateful because food at her old home food was scarce, but now at her new home she can basically get all the food she needs and some more if she wants some. Due to the fact that she comes from such humble beginnings she is grateful and appreciates it more.]]> 2017-05-01 17:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169228683 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169480821 Mature means to have have reached an advanced stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult. A quote that explains this is "I am too grown to play with most of Starletta's toys but if they are new i can make do." "31". Ellen is mature because she has gone through so much in her life that she had to mature and cannot enjoy being a child and doing child things like play with toys.]]> 2017-05-02 16:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169480821 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169728320 "When he heard me he stopped still like a bird dog when you blow the silent whistle." "64". The simile is comparing Ellen's father reaction to a dog hearing a whistle.]]> 2017-05-03 16:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/169728320 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170001681 a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid]]> 2017-05-04 17:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170001681 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170231028 "I stayed at the art teacher's house until it got warm and green outside." "46". I used this setting because this symbolizes how Ellen felt about living with her teacher, and the art teacher shows her a little bit of the affection.]]> 2017-05-05 17:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170231028 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170233674 "I thought while I chopped from one field to the next how I could pass for colored." "66". I used this quote because during this period  Ellen learns black people are not as bad as everyone says they are and she slowly gets rid of her racist mindset, and she meets Mavis who tells Ellen about her momma.]]> 2017-05-05 17:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170233674 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170238168 "I live in clean brick house and mostly I am left to myself." "2". This shows how with her blood parents how she is left to fend for herself while her mother is sick and her father drinks all the time.]]> 2017-05-05 17:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/170238168 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172647046 " I fan those curtains that are heavy like a oil picture." "79". This simile is describing the weight of the curtains to an oil picture.]]> 2017-05-18 17:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172647046 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172853921 a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.]]> 2017-05-19 17:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172853921 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172854167 "When the beans were grown ready to eat she would help pick. weed do not bear fruit. She would give me an example of a bean that is grown good to hold in one hand while i pick the other." 49". This flashback is significant because the relationship between the black people she worked with, and she wishes everything was still the same. ]]> 2017-05-19 17:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172854167 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172859447 the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.]]> 2017-05-19 17:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172859447 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172859786 "When they come in the house I'm all in a state of shock and just don't know how to act with what two colored boys heaving my dead daddy onto a roller a roller cot." "1" ]]> 2017-05-19 17:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/172859786 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/173201462  "Yes chile! I was rasied up beside her on this farm. I knowed her good as i know my own self. I never knowed anybody sweet lie your mama." "65"]]> 2017-05-22 17:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/173201462 1069243 https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/173867221 2017-05-25 17:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1069243/yiuhdx2619ii/wish/173867221