Thursday, December 18, 2008

Junior 0.5

Well i am going to have to say that this book is like half of my junior year. It is not going well and it is a really good book. This book is about a girl who moves to a new school is Pheonix where she had to go and live with her father and it was just like me when i had to move from Sulphur Rock to Batesville and i thought that i would not have any friends but i still had one of my best friends with me and i was so excited to move. I was also scared too.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Crucible

a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.The play was written in the early 1950s as a response to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was to be questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for failing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The reviews of the first production, which Miller felt was stylized and too cold, were largely hostile, although the New York Times noted "a powerful play [in a] driving performance". Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 "Best Play" Tony Award. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Today it is studied in high schools and universities, because of its status as a revolutionary work of theater and for its allegorical relationship to testimony given before the House Committee On Un-American Activities during the 1950s. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

3 cups of tea

Well this book was not as good as the other ones that i have read, and the words were too small for me to see. I thought it would have been interesting if i had read it but i didn't read it because i was stuck in another book called the cirque de freak and those are really good books if you read them. I read to the fourth book and i stopped because you told us to read the books that we was supposed to read, so i turned that book back into the library and tried to read the book you gave us but it was too hard to read with all of the small words. Please post me a comment!!!!!