Friday

Journal Entry 9

Pages 261-291

5 comments
  • Miriam still regrets having a baby because she could be going to school in america instead of taking care of a baby.
  • Miriam lies in order to evade a bad confrontation with miss jones if she tells her that she was pregnant thats why she wasnt in school.
  • Miriam dearly wants to go to school in america that she doesnt care if she has to start back at first grade.
  • Miriam continues to regret the fact that she is a mother and she has to scrafice her education for her son.
  • She keeps making these promises to go back to school, even though she knows the odds are against her favors of returning back to school now when she has a son to take care of.

4 Questions

  • Is there such thing as adoption so that miriam can give her baby up?
  • is it taboo to give a child up for adoption?
  • Whey did they develope a Kentucky Fried Chicken in africa?
  • Why doesnt gertrude think about herself when it comes to her happiness and the wellbeing of her son?

3 Vocabulary Words

  • Prams ( 261)- A baby carriage.
  • subdued(263)-quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled
  • curtailed (264)-To cut short or reduce

2 Literacy Techniques

  • Personification (Pg 261) " The sky is threatening rain"
  • Metaphor (Pg. 264)- 'fuel my determination to matriculate"

1 Sentence Summary

  • Miriam accepts her responcibilies as a mother and then clears doubts about school so that she can do wha shat she always wanted to be and thats a nurse.

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