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Adrianna Green Mr. Rease AP English Literature and Composition June 15, 2019            I have a few strengths and mutiple weaknesses as me being a reader. My strengths are making connectionsto what the author is trying to say when he/she is not implying it in text and knowing the tone being used in readings. My weaknesses are when authors uses words to confuse readers, reading at at a slow pace when being timed on, and searching for rhetorical devices in diffrent text. Poetry is much easier for me to understand than any any other kind reading because when reading poetry I use context clues to figure out how the text relates to the title. The purpose reading serves to me is that if I read more it will boost my reading and vocabulary skills and it will also help when I'm heading to college. I really dont have any passions about reading but i use to have big passions about reading when i was in the 5th grade all i use to do was read and I stopped when i was in the 7th grade b
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Day 9- chapter 11 When Grant went to go see Jefferson, Grant handed Jefferson some food and he started acting like a hog because that's what the white people calls him so he starts to act like which is a sign of not being a man 
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Day 8 - chapter 10 Every time Grant and Miss Emma goes to Jefferson its the same as the first time they went. On the fourth day when him and Miss Emma was going to visit Jefferson, his aunt Taunte Lou tells him that Miss Emma was sick but he believe that they were just making it up so that Grant can go alone 
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Day 7- chapter 9 Grant was finally able to meet Jefferson in Bayonne jail and he brought Miss Emma with him. Miss Emma brought food for Jefferson and he declined it and every time Miss Emma asked him a question nothing barely came out his mouth except for nothing matters and when was his execution
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Day 6 - chapter 8 When Grants class were doing wood work it reminded him of his elementary school teacher, Mr. Antoine who hated teacher and Mr. Antoine was mulato which is a mixed race and that made him think he was superior over the blacks
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Day 5 - chapter 7 Grants class was getting observed by the superintendent Dr. Morgan and Grant thinks that the superintendent inspections are like slave master inspections  Grant complains about getting hand- me- down books from the white schools and the superintendent tells him to put his students in the field which makes me think that he's white 
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Day 4 - chapter 6 Henry Pichot bet that Grant can't make Jefferson into a man and embarasing him by letting him wait I don't believe that no one feel sad about Jefferson getting executed and for his family. They just make it seem like they are sad After all the time Grant waited at Henry Pichot house, he told him that he can see Jefferson in a few weeks 
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