Harriet Tubman

      The first attribute that makes Harriet Tubman courageous is facing suffering with dignity and faith. In the text it says, "Harriet Tubman was whipped and beat during work as a slave." This quote means that Harriet Tubman got abused by her slave owner. Harriet was abused when she was a slave, she got whipped and beat up for reasons I do not know. Tubman is very brave because she found something to depend on while she was being abused. She had something to hold on that made her not want to do stuff to herself. Freedom is what Harriet had to hold onto and she got it.

   
       Second attribute that makes Harriet Tubman courageous is she stands up for what is right.

For instance, in the the text it says, "In 1850, Harriet Tubman helps her first slaves escape to the North." This quote shows that Harriet Tubman is courageous because she stands up for what is right, which is to end slavery. She helps slaves escape from the abuse and brutal work assigned to them by their owner. She helped them become free which was a big risk because if you helped them you would be against the law. She is brave and courageous. 

Amelia Earhart

      Amelia Earhart is courageous because she had the courage to stay on course. ( Never give up)

For example, in the text you can see it says, " with her parents help, Amelia took piloting lessons and saved money to buy an airplane. Before long, the young woman was flying air shows herself. In this quote, we see that Amelia Earhart has courage because she didn't just say "Mom can you buy me an airplane, so I can fly." No, Amelia Earhart did have some help from her parents, but she saved her own money and bought her own plane. Also she went out and got to take some piloting lessons, so she knows what she is doing. Amelia Earhart was courageous because she never gave up on her dream to fly.

      Also Amelia Earhart is courageous because she had the courage to take a hit.

For instance, the text says," Only one pilot, a man, had ever flown around the world, several years before. But he had not followed the equator, the longest and most difficult route. This was the route Amelia would fly." This quote shows that Amelia Earhart is willing to sacrifice everything in order to show people that women can do what men can do, so she can be the first woman to fly around the world. Amelia is courageous because she is brave enough to fly around the world taking the longest and most difficult route. The equator. Amelia Earhart is courageous because she does the unthinkable.

      " Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart

      " The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart

      " Woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune." - Amelia Earhart.

A sport is not LIFE !

" Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the

grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. "

      The quote is saying that life is not just something you can ignore because if you just ignore than what's the point of living life to the fullest. This quote speaks to me because it makes me not want to miss out on anything because if I do than I missed an important part of life. Once you have missed one part of life than you have lost a million more pieces to it. I can relate to what this quote is saying because I don't believe that life is just a show or game that we just watch, life is time when we can travel the world and try new things and we can't do that if we are just watching it as if we watching a basketball game or some kind of reality TV show like Looney Tunes. I agree with what this quote says because it speaks the truth life in not a spectator sport, it's so much more.

Fault in Our Stars by: John Green

       The main characters in the book The Fault in Our Stars by: John Green are Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, Isaac, and Peter Van Houten. Hazel is a 16 year old girl who was diagnosed with IV thyroid cancer when she 13 years old. Hazel meets Augustus and Isaac at a cancer support group, where they become great friends. Hazel and Augustus read a book called An Imperial Affliction by: Peter Van Houten, so Augustus gets plane tickets for him and Hazel to go visit Peter Van Houten in Amsterdam. Augustus and Hazel soon fall in love with each other while in Amsterdam. After the trip to Amsterdam something bad happens. If you want to find out what bad thing happened than read the book.
      While reading this book I found the moral of it very interesting because the moral is " There are some situations we cannot escape. We have no power over the situation itself, but we do have the power to decide how we respond to it." I really like this Moral because it shows how the author thinks and what the author wants us to learn from the book he has written.

Plot Diagram ( independent Reading Book )

      I am in the exposition part of book because right now the book is introducing and talking about the main and supportive characters. In my book it is telling me about the setting, and how Bella one of the main characters feels about her move to Forks where she is now living with her dad Charlie. The main characters in my book are Bella, Edward, and Jacob. The supporting characters are Rosalie, Esme, Emmet, Jasper, Alice, and Carlisle. So far in the book Bella has been introduced to Edward, but they didn't really get off at a good start. They didn't get off at a good start because when she walked into the classroom he moved away from her making her feel that she did something wrong, but what she doesn't know yet is that Edward is actually a vampire. I can't wait to see what happens!

Conflict

      One type of conflict I see is Man vs Self because in the book one of the main characters named Angela who always questions herself all the time about her friends and how they might be splitting apart since they are their second year of high school. For example, in one scene in my book Angela in heard thinks about how Maddie and Zoe are in the same homeroom as each other, but she's not, so now Angela thinks they are going to split up.
     Another type of conflict I see in my book is Man vs Man because in one scene in the book Maddie and Zoe have huge argument about how Maddie is spending to much time with this really mean girl Jana who doesn't like Zoe or Angela. Also in another scene in the book Maddie gets in a huge fight with Jana because Maddie made a joke and Jana got mad, so she made Maddie go to this party, which made her late to her lans with Zoe and Angela, so they got really mad and started to fight with Maddie.

Fearless 1 by: Francine Pascal

           My main character's name is Gaia. Gaia is seventeen she lives with her father's friend George Niven and his wife Ella in Greenwich village. She is blonde not yellow blonde but blonde enough to be in the blonde category. Gaia is a black belt in Kung Fu and is trained in Karate, judo, jujitsu, and muay thai which is basically kick boxing. She is not afraid of anything she is fearless. She can break codes in 4 different languages, climb mountains, and wrestle, also she can throw a 175-pound man over her shoulders.
        I predict that during the climax my character Gaia won't be fearless anymore because so far from what I have read she doesn't want to be fearless and the person that she is. I think this because since she isn't fearless that maybe it will turn and she will finally be scared of something. Gaia isn't afraid of anything because she is fast, strong, and knows a lot, so I think that during the climax that all of that might be taken away from her and she might be scared, weak, and might not know much.