Blog 3- Birmingham 1963

The book I am in the middle of is called Birmingham 1963. The conflict in the book is a lot of students getting together and making a protest for civil rights. In Chapter 5 the students had this rule that was for the march to be Non Violence, but some of the marchers disobeyed him and there was violence. The police was attacking the marchers and the marchers weren't giving up. People were getting beat, people were going to jail, people were fighting each other, the students and the parents didn't like it. But they didn't give up.
A A-Ha moment happen in the book where the police threatens the Marchers but they didn't care or stop marching. So once they realized they used weapons on the young marchers. Some of the students went to jail but had nothing to loose so they didn't stop until they got what they wanted. In the book it says "The principal of Birmingham's Parker High School even locked the front gates to prevent students from leaving." This shows that the principal of that school, didn't not want the students to take part in the march.

Blog 1- Birmingham 1963

The book I am reading is on MyOn and is called, "Birmingham 1963."  This books takes place in the town of Birmingham, Mississippi where many events like segregation occurred.  In chapter 1, these students of Birmingham got together and made this march even though they knew they were going to get arrested. They just did it to prove their point. It wasn't really a march; it was a protest. They called the protest: "The Children Crusade." As the protest took place, the weather was really hot which made it difficult to function or stay energized.  The students were singing freedom songs as the police and their dogs stand in front of them. The day before everything took place the police had arrested hundreds of students  and parents for trying to march into the neighborhood of where white people lived. The police let the dogs run wild and bit the blacks.

In the first chapter it says, "The water they used could knock a person down. As full strength,  it could strip a bark off a tree and tear a brick from a building." This quote stands out the most to me because they used weapons to try to kill the students just for protesting against their rights. I think most of the students protest because if they go to jail, they wouldn't have anything to lose.  For example, if some of the parents protest they would have probably lost their jobs or worse.

New Goals

          This year my academic goal is to get good grades. Im going to work and try to achieve this goal by making sure everyday when I get home Im doing my homework and not forgetting anything. I think if I get I achieve these goal it will tell me in the future that anything is possible if you put your mind and really want to do something.         A different kind of goal I have is I want to be more nicer to people. I want to be more nicer to people because most of the time I’m not mean but Im not nice. Im going to try to achieve this goal by when I meet someone new be nice and calm. If I can achieve this goal it will make me a better person in general. 

Number Of The Stars- Assignment 5

     The genre of the story is mostly Historical Fiction. I think its Historical Fiction because The Nazis are real and what happens to the Jews are real to. Some events in the story may be made up but the whole point in the story is how bad the Jews were getting treated. I like this genre because most of the story is true and some are not. The Arthur tries to inform the reading about how the Jews were getting treated from a kids point of view. 
   In chapter in chapter 10 the family fake a fake death to give the Nazis a reason why everyone was coming over. When the nazis came they had a casket to make it more realist but really there was no body in the casket. They were planning something secretive for the Jews. The nazis did come and try to intimidate them and make cough up what was going on. Ellen also saw her parents.  

Number Of The Stars - Climax

   
   A summary of the book we finished " Number Of The Stars" is the conflicts are leading up. One of the main conflicts is making sure the Nazis don't find out anything there planning. One thing they planned was to fake like Ellen ( Annemarie friend which who is Jewish) was there real daughter while her mom and dad go on a "trip" but one night the Guards came in and was questioning the family trying to make them break and say that she wasn't there real child. But the dad finds a way to solve that problem! 
      The book we just finished in Lit Studies is called " Number Of The Stars". In chapter 9 " Why Are You Lying " the rising action happened when Annemarie found out Uncle Henrik and mama was lying her. As she walked out side she saw Uncle Henrik working on something so she went up to him. " You are lying to me.  You and mama both." Uncle Henrik knew Annemarie knew something about what him and mama were planning. " Its much easier to be brave if you don't know everything." Uncle Henrik replied. They were planning a fake death so they could have a reason to tell the Nazis why there were having so many people over but really they were planning something. Annemarie still didn't find out what it was until the day of the funeral came. After the rising action,
Annemarie found out what they were planning and it made her want to be more brave and be a upstander just like Uncle Henrik and Mama. 
  
    

Memory Moment- Number Of The Stars

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         A summary of the book we are reading in Lit Studies the main characters Annemarie, Ellen ( Annemarie friend ), Kiristi ( Annemarie little sister). Ellen's family is Jewish , they live in Copenhagen Denmark. In World War II, Denmark lost the war against the German so the Nazis came and took over the city. Since they took over everything is so different from the way it was before. Annemarie and her family want to save all the Jews especially her friend Ellen's family. Threw out the book they find ways to help the Jews from the Nazis.  
        In the book " Number Of The Stars " one of the characters (mom) Mrs. Johansen had a Memory Moment when they were on the trains and they pasted by where she use to live with her mom. She remembers how perfect it was when she was growing up and she remembers all the times she had. She said in the book "It stills looks perfect just as she left it." This made her remember all the times she had with her mom. 

Upstanders and Bystanders The Holocaust

I think some people stood by and watched the holocaust because most people probably thought of it as if they stand up than the nazis are going to come after them. Something that inspires the upstanders to stand up to the nazis because they saw how they were being treated and the jews were being victimize. I would have probably not stood up because what if they try to come after me. We have learned about camps when the jews were being catched they were put in camps and being killed. I don't like how they were being treated just because of there region. If I was a jew I would want someone to stand up for me but I would understand why they wouldn't.