Must... Finish... Homework... *struggling*

HOMEWORK
MATH - DONE
SCIENCE - DONE

• In a short bond paper, each member should submit a one paragraph paraphrased research material related to your investigatory projects from the following types of sources: book, scientific journal, internet site. You are allowed to have 3-5 pages of research material per group member

ENGLISH - DONE
LANGUAGE - DONE

• Research about the historical background of the book, to kill a mockingbird. Compare and contrast events in history with the events that are portrayed in the story by using Venn Diagram

LITERTURE - DONE

1. Describe her childhood

*youngest of four children

• Who are her parents?
• Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee
• When and where was she born?
• small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville on April 28, 1926
• What was she like as a child?
• a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.

1. Describe her life in college.
   

• Where did she enroll?
• all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944-45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-49) Though she did not complete the requirements for a law degree, she pursued studies for summer in Oxford, England for a year as an exchange student
• What did she do while in school?
• she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, Rammer-Jammer.
• How did she become writer?
• In 1949, six months before finishing her studies, she quit school and went to New York to pursue a literary career. She worked during the 1950s as an airline reservations clerk with Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways. In 1959, she accompanied her close friend, Truman Capote, to Holcombe, Kansas, as a research assistant for his classic nonfiction “novel,” In Cold Blood (1966)

1. Describe how she came to write her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

• What particular event was experienced by Lee that became the basis for the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird?
• Lee was only five years old when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began surrounding the purported rapes of two white women by nine young black men. The defendants, who were nearly lynched before being brought to court, were not provided with the services of a lawyer until the first day of trial. Despite medical testimony that the women had not been raped, the all-white jury found the men guilty of the crime and sentenced all but the youngest, a thirteen-year-old, to death. Six years of subsequent trials saw most of these convictions repealed, and all but one of the men freed or paroled. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression on the young Lee, who would use it later as the rough basis for the events in To Kill a Mockingbird.
• What kind of success did To Kill A Mockingbird attain?
• she completed To Kill a Mockingbird in the summer of 1959. Published July 11, 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller and won her great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller today, with over 30 million copies in print, and has earned a secure place in the canon of American literature. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll conducted by the Library Journal.

*add sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm
http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-042804-lee.html

SOCIAL STUDIES -DONE
Answer worksheets on the following topics: (Green Folder)
1. Pre-Colonial Settlements
2. Colonial America - Colonial Societies Take Shape
& paper

LIFE SKILLS -DONE
Read the chapter on family life of the Changes and Choices book (starts at page 186). On a sheet of size 1, please answer each question below in complete sentences.

My Family Set-up:
1.What is the structure of my family?
2. In what stage/s in the family cycle is my famile at?
3. Among the 4 major functions of the family, which of these do I clearlyeperience/s? How?
4. What do I appreciate most about my family?

IT - size 1
1. How do you start Frontpage application?
2.What are the different parts of Frontpage?
3.What are the different toolbars present?
4.List down the items in the view panel?
5.Give at least 5 shortcut kets you can use in the application.