4 trial questions for gramdmother

Question #1: How do you feel about having been beaten on pages 244-259?

Answer #1: I was beaten and humiliated. They made me kneel down and face the wall and insulted me many times for because my granddaughter did not tell them where she had hid the letter (even though what was written on he letter was true) and because of my husband being a landlord. My husband was no longer even alive. Why did they want to beat me for the past, and it wasn't even me, it was my husband. Then thin face slapped me with all his strength on pages 253 and 254.

Question #2: Explain what you had to do with the dowry and why did you have to do this? Pages 94-97.

Answer #2: With the beautiful dowry chests themselves I had to die them black with the help of my family. Then with all the beautiful items in the dowry's which were things like glowing silk, satins and sparkling pearls I had to cut apart and make different dull things out of them like covers and things like that. I had to do this because otherwise the red guards would have accused us of rightists because these were called 'four olds'. Pages 94-97.

Question #3: How does it feel to always be afraid and never feel safe? Pages 118-121.

Answer #3: It feel horrible to never be able to feel safe and warm and every time I hear the sound of drums and gongs I would always feel like the red guards would come and beat me for no reason at all just because they felt like it and then they would make up some reason such as me being a rightist because they found some pictures of me wearing a fur coat. We could not have anything in our house anymore, the red guards were turning China into a horrible place. Pages 118-121.

Question #4: What were you forced to do during the last chapter(page 260-263) and was there any good reason for this?

Answer #4: In the last chapter on top of the red guards destroying our lives and leaving us with basically nothing at all they made me sweep outside all day every day. The only reason they did this was because they accused me of being a 'rightist' for having the 'four olds'. They had already done enough harm to our family and now they made me sweep all day every day. Last chapter(page 260-263).

The Red Scarf Girl

1. Who are the members of Ji-Li’s family? Describe her family home. What class status does her family belong to? What is the occupation of her father? Mother?
Answer:
Ji-Li's family members: Ji-Li's father, Song-Po-Po(nanny/housekeeper:P.14), Ji-Li's mother, Ji-Yong(younger brother), Ji-yun (younger sister), Ji-Li's grandmother (went to modern university, teacher, help found Ji-Li's primary school:P.14), Little white(cat)
Ji-Li's home: bright and warm and welcoming, appartement in Shanghai, had a french window, mahogany table, high ceilings, burgandy curtains, pots on steps.(P.7) 10 times bigger room than classmates, 100 times brighter, full-sized bathroom.(P.15~16)
Family status/class: Middle class who are doing well. Not super-rich, but well-off.
Family occupation: Both parents are an actor/actress. But the now the mother retired and works in a sports equipment store.(P.13)

2. What is Ji-Li’s life at school like? What special honor is Ji-Li picked for at school? Describe Ji-Li’s parents’ reaction. What does Ji-Li do instead of entering the audition?
Answer:
Ji-Li's school life: She's the student chairman of the whole school and also was an outstanding student (P. 9). She was happy and was always respected, loved, able to excel and expected to succeed (P.1). Ji-Li math test was display as exemplary work (P.3). She was known for being good at martial arts since 2nd grade (P.5). She had a da-dui-zhang badge for student chairman of the whole school (P.9). She was correcting her little sister about her piano practice (P.29).
Special honor: She was picked to do an audition for the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy (P.6)
Parents' reaction: Her dad told her not to do the audition and he was serious about it(P.8). She also saw a pain in her dad's eyes that she had never seen before (P.9). Her dad was worried about the political background investigation (P.9). They send a note principal Long (P.10)
Instead of entering the audition: Ji-Li tried hard not to cry about not going to the audition after talking to teacher Gu and An Yi, she dogged behind a tree so Principal Long and the 2 boys wouldnt see her because she didnt want to talk to anyone right then (P.12)

3. What are the "Four Olds"? Provide some examples of each and why they need to be destroyed. What does "prosperity" mean? Why is this considered an old thought?

The four olds are old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits (p 21). Respecting teachers and saying things such as good morning or good afternoon is a four old (p 35). Destroying old signs was part of the four olds (p 21). Another four old was wearing pants wide enough so a beer bottle could fit through them (p 32). Being named after something is an old habit (p 1). 

Prosperity means to be wealthy and to be successful in life. It is considered a thought because Mao says that only rightists are very wealthy and make lots of money.

4 What is an xenophile? Why was it bad to be a xenophile in the Revolutionary China?

A xenophile is someone who loves anything foreign (p 285). It is bad to be a xenophile because it was considered to be part of the four olds to follow foreign influences.

5. What are da-zi-bao? What are being done with them? Who is Jiang Xi-wen? Why does Ji-Li hang a da-zi-bao on her house? 

Da-zi-bao are a form of propaganda in the shape of a large handwritten poster presenting and important issue (p 276).  They were used to humiliate people like Ji-Li's Aunt (Jiang Xi-wen). Jiany Xi-wen had to put the da-zi-bao on her door because she was putting on make-up, and chairman Mao said that it was wrong to put make-up (p 44).

6. Why does Ji-Li stop going to school for a while?

Ji-Li stopped going to school for a while because someone wrote a da-zi-bao about her. She was what feeling uncomfortable and she also had a fever (p 52).

7.What is a rightist? Use your own words to breifly explain the process of remolding one's ideology.

A rightist is someone in the conservative party that disagrees with the communist party. 

Remold one's ideology means to change ones belief. The process of remolding one's ideology is to forget the past and make a new idea sink into your brain.

8. What did Ji-Li's grandfather do for a living? How does this affect Ji-Li's life?

Ji-Li's grandfather was a landlord. He owned lands and received money from the farmers. This affected Ji-Li because having you or even a member of the family be a landlord was very bad and it made you a rightist.

October 12, 2008 Flex day
Garment Factory Questions

1. Name one idea you have after this visit that connects to the idea of using resources!
2. Name one idea you have after this visit that relates to the word 'population'.
3. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the top score, how would you rate the quality of the work environment you saw here, and why?
4. What does the word 'export' have to do with today's visit?
5. What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?
6. How old do you think the workers here are, on average?
7. What is one question you still have about the garment industry here in Bangladesh?
8. What types of issues does this factory cause or help solve in terms of resources here in Bangladesh?
9. What might you say about economic issues based on today's visit?

Do you think the products being manufactured here help or hurt
Bangladesh?

Question: On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the top score, how would you rate the quality of the work environment you saw here, and why?

Answer: I think i would rate the work environment a 7. This is because they had good lighting and equipment. They also had a lot of room between themselves so that they did not get all squished up and get hurt. Even if something did happen they seemed experienced and protected. 

  One observation i made is that most of them were not wearing shoes, i think they should to protect their feet.  Another observation i made was that they were all very kind and smiling. They must not get too many visitors like us. Someone told me that many garment factories have fire hazards alike very small exits.  The factory we visited seemed to have a big enough exit.

  A question that I still have is do most of the garment factories in Bangladesh get to sell the products to other countries and to such big companies like this one?

Elliot's Expose

When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.

"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)


Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)

Answer: I think that the main message that he is trying to get across is that when you are bullied, you should not keep it to yourself.  You should speak out and tell people about it.  That way the bullies might think twice about doing mean things to people.  Another message is that not all victims are weird, most of them are just normal kids but the bullies make them feel weird so in the end they end up thinking that they are weird. He warns people that there is not much difference between being in the weird group and being in the normal group.  He's also trying to say that the bystanders are the ones with the most power. He's encouraging the bystanders to stand up and help because maybe some day it could even happen to them and then they would need help. So why not just help out now and get rid of it.

Role Reversal

Blog response instructions: 
• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers. 
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner. 

Blog Question: After the Bully Lab was renamed, the Revealers, and the stories of the three Darkland students were released and well received by the student body, Elliot wanted to publish Russell’s narrative about Richie punching Russell in the face. 
1) Why was Russell so opposed to the idea (pg. 110)? Explain. (4 pts)
2) What is happening to the relationship between Russell and Richie. (3 pts)
3) Two Peer Comments (4 pts each)

1) I think Russell was opposed to the idea because he was afraid and it was almost the same as the question he asked before when Richie punched him in the face on page 44.

2) The relation between Russell and Richie is not so great because Russell asked some stupid questions to Richie. But i think it will be okay in the end.

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Introduction Blog

Hello my name is Emmanuel. I live in Bangladesh. But i am form France and Canada. I like to play play sports, i like all sports but i like football the most (not American football).