Friday, November 21, 2008

Character: Du Hai's Mother & Cairman Jin
Student Name: Arnavi R

Du Hai's Mother
1. Question:
What was your role in your neighborhood?
Answer: I was my neighborhoods former party secretary(page #144-145)

Chairman Jin
2. Question:
Why was Ji-Li not allowed to participate in the exhibition?
Answer: Ji-Li was not allowed to participate in the exhibition because she had hesitated when being asked if she wanted to break relationship with her black family, so she still remained a black whelp. A black whelp was a child of a person who was either a rightist or a landlord relative and landlords and rightists were classified as people who went against chairman mao, the cultural revouloution and/or chairman mao's other campaigns. (page #228)

3. Question: did you like Ji-Li,s speech ?
Answer:yes i did like Ji-Li's exhibition speech it was very emotional and described the meanness of landlords before the cultural revolution very well.but i also thought she should have made it better by including one of chairman Mao's quotes or sayings in the end so that the speech would end on an inspiring note. (page #221-222)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Flex day

2. Name one idea you have after this visit that relates to the word 'population'.

A. about two million of the Bangladeshi population work in garment factories. Garment factories are the main industry in Bangladesh .

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Flex Day

it was really interesting to see how many people it takes to make a garment

Monday, September 29, 2008

Elliots Expose

When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the Kid Net, 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? (6Pt's)
I think that Elliot is trying to tell his classmates that when they see someone getting bullied they should not just stand there and watch like its a television show.Elliot is also trying to place his classmates in the place of the prey so that thy might be able to try to imagine how it feels. I think Elliot is also trying to tell people that anyone could get bullied anytime so you shouldn't laugh at someone else while they are getting bullied because the next moment it could be you that is getting bullied.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Role Reversal

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)
A:I think Russel was so opposed to the idea because he did not want the whole school/7th grade knowing that Richie had punched and harassed him .I also think that Russel did not know how Richie would react to everybody knowing what happened, and so was scared of Richie's reaction.
2) What is happening to the relationship between Russell and Richie. (3 pts)
A:Richie and Russel are becoming friendly towards each other.Like when Richie helped Russel to stand up to the jock rots on pg 97, and Richie does not punch Russel every time he meets him.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Me

Hi !
My name is Arnavi. I live in Bangladesh .I am eleven years old .For security reasons i cannot tell you more