Thoughts on Holocaust

The Holocaust brings many bad images into my mind of thousands of people being murdered. The majority of people who were murdered were Jews.

Hitler believed that blond haired blue eyed people were the dominate race. He thought that the Germans were the best race and his ideas were like those of Charles Darwin’s about only the strong could survive. He and his soldiers murdered thousands of people and started a war. Hitler kept Jews in concentration camps to do work until he eventually killed them using various techniques such as burning alive or shooting them in the head. Hitler was ruthless and had no second thoughts about killing others.

Hitler’s actions caused a war. I do not like that this event had to take place and wish we could have done more about it.

Thoughts on EOL Exam

The end of level literacy exam was not as hard as others made it seem. Teachers stressed for nothing because this exam proved to be easy.

Reading responses wrote and answered quick and easily. Everything that they wanted you to write about came strait out of the reading. I found it was easier to make four boxes and answer it that way. That way made the responses go a lot faster.

Multiple choice for the reading ask you things strait from the reading which made them easy to answer. There were very few multiple choices, and I got done with them well within the time limit.

The writing multiple choice and open responses were the hardest thing on the test, but the multiple choice was not very time consuming. The open response made for a challenge because they took a while and you only had a certain time limit to do it in.

Overall, this end of level test was not very hard. I did my best on everything and will not have to have remediation because I have confidence that I did well.

Great Gatsby review

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby entertained me with its unique story. The novel tells of love, materialistic people, and consequence. More people should read this novel because it teaches many life lessons like sometimes you just have to accept that people move on and that bad actions lead to consequences. The author's style is different from most because it uses words that some might not understand completely. Fitzgerald writes very well and educated. His voice is unusual compared to other novels I have read by other people because his writing is very descriptive and not to easy to read.

The novel reads as though the characters are real people. F. Scott Fitzgerald makes the characters have different but distinct personalities, and no character is like another. Gatsby tries to impress others and tries to make others like him by having nice things. Nick is a person that is the main character and through which the story is told. He is different from Gatsby because he is not very materialistic and does not live among the rich in East Egg where Gatsby lives.

The Great Gatsby takes place in West Egg and East Egg, New York and after the war. This setting is not at all like the world I know. This all took place before I was born and no one had computers or modern telephones.

My novels plot consists of some love affairs. Before the war, Gatsby and a woman named Daisy were together and she promised to wait on him. When Gatsby returned, she was with another man. Nick soon moved to West Egg from the Midwest. At this time, Gatsby was still in love with Daisy even though she had moved on. Gatsby soon meet Nick and asked him to try to get Daisy in the same room with him. Gatsby and Daisy then talked and reestablished their love for one another. Then bad things start to happen and you will just have to read the novel to find out what happens.

I liked this novel and approve it to anyone looking for a good read. It is not the easiest book to read in one's spare time, but teaches life lessons that many do not know that should know. The Great Gatsby reads great and is an all around good book.