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Final reading journal In the play Macbeth does not listen to Banquo when Banquo advices him do not trust the witches because it is the evil. Macbeth still believes the predictions of the witches because he wants to be powerful. To illustrate in the play, Banquo talks to Macbeth "If we trust their predictions all the way, it might in the future arouse your desire to be king. What has happened is strange, but the forces of evil often tell us truths in order to tempt us. they win our confidence in small matters in order to betray us in the most serious ones." (Shakespeare, 41). In my life, i have a story about my best friend that is similar to the relationship between Macbeth and Banquo. It happens when we went to a food store on sidewalk in my country. My best friend said that he wants to eat grilled chicken legs. I adviced him that is very dangerous to his health because the grilled chiken legs in my country is very disgusting. It was imported from china and they had stored it for few days and still sold it to the custumer. He did not listen to me and as a result, he got the illness and he had to go to the hospital. Similar to the play, Macbeth does not listen to Banquo and he did many evil things. he murdered the king, Banquo and Macduff's family. And in the end of the play, Macbeth had been punished by death.

Reading journal 14 Topic: Empathy and fear/hate Why people always hateful with other people ? Maybe it is just because they can not empathize with other people. there is nobody wants to be bad, they always have their own reason for being that. For example in my life, when i was studying in secondary school, i sit in the same table with a friend named H. I thought he is very lazy at school because he never completes his homework and always comes to class and copy my work. After many times, i was very angry and i said to him that he is very stupid and lazy student. i did not know that he does not have time to do his homework because he has to help his parents in the farm after school. i could not empathize with him

Reading journal 13 Trung Trac and Trung Nhi are always a brave hero in my heart because they simultaneously helped our country to expel colonial invasion. When that country was invaded, she promptly stood up urging people to defend the country against invaders. Analogously, Mrs. Dubose, a old and sick woman in the story "To kill a mockingbird" by Lee Harper, is also a courageous hero but in a different way. To illustrate, "when Atticus talks to Jem, he says that Mrs. Dubose is the bravest person he ever knew because when she knows she is licked before she begins but she begins anyway and she won. She died beholden to nothing and nobody." (Lee Harper, 149). Mrs. Dubose and my hero are also courage people in my oppinion but they are different. My hero is brave because they helped people to gain their freedom back. Mrs. Dubose is also brave because she decided to against her disease even though she knows that she would die finally and she broke of it. Jem would be obliged to Mrs. Dubose because she has tought him what is the real courage in a person. In conclusion, the courage in a person attributes to do something that they know they will lose before but they try to do it anyway.

Reading journal 12 CHAPTER 8/10: - The quote: "Before i went to sleep Atticus put more coal on the fire in my room. ... Minutes later, it seemed, i was awakened by someone shaking me. Atticus's overcoat was spread across me." (pg.91). Attcus is a great father, he always cares for his children. When the weather is very cold, he comes to his children's room and put more coal on the fire for warm. - The quote: " I reckon if he'd wanted us to know it, he'da told us. If he was proud of it, he'da todl us." (pg.130). Atticus is really a modest person. He does not brag about that as a young man, he was a best shot in the county and called "One-shot Finch". CHAPTER 9/11: I thing their evil (or hate) comes from their thought and the way they look at something. When people look at something or someone in a negative way, they will properly feel evil and hate that. Sometimes, this darkness is in me too.

Reading journal 11 1b) In the story "To kill a Mockingbird" by Lee Harper, Boo Radley is a cryptic person. He is always in his room and in the past he did some mistakes that why people think not good about him. It is also the reason why his father did not allow him to go out. So that Boo does not have childhood, no friends, no games... therefore, he stabbed his father because his father has taken his childhood away. he just had some mistakes in the past and his father punished him by putting him in his room and did not allow him to leave the room. If i were him i could not live like this. it is the most terrible thing of people: no teenagers. i would find any ways to measure out the room, going out with friends and made a lot of beautiful things of childhood. It is too malignant to take the childhood of a person away. 2) the evil come from the lack of empathy. For example of pure evil in the world today: In a family in my country, a boy killed his father just because his father did not give him money to play video game with his friends. It really is a terrible thing i have known. The boy did not empathize for his father. His father does not have money for him to play video game everyday. And partly he just wants him to stop playing games everyday and study in stead. The lack of empathy made the boy become evil.

Reading journal 10 In chapter three of the story "To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Scout who is the main character in the story had a conversation with her father. She told her father that she does not want to go to school any more because of her trouble. she had her trouble with her teacher at school. Her teacher said her father had touch her how to read at home and it is not good for her. One time in my life, i had a trouble like Scout. It happened when i was in grade 10, my home room teacher misunderstood me. she thought i had leaned that lesson **deliberately** before even though i did not, i just try to solve by my self. i told my parents my trouble at school and i said i do not want to go to school any more. She yelled at me and made me feel so embarrassed like a **mortification**. She **reckoned** that my work is **illicit** and i am not allowed to do it again. That is the most terrible thing at school i have ever had.

Reading journal 9 Chapter 1: In the story "To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, we can see that Boo Radley, a recluse person in Radley's family in Maycomb, is very similar to the man in Tom Waits' What's he building down there? '. Firstly, the man in the song has no friends. It is very similar to Boo Radley because no one has seen him. he is just in his house and goes out at night. Furthermore, the man in the song spent a little time in jail that is the same with Boo Radley even though he had been in the basement of the court. Overall, i found Boo Radley is very similar to the man in the song of Tom Waits. //Dill's fascination with Boo Radley because he is very curious about Boo. He really wants to see Boo because he heard the story from people which attracted him. People said that Boo looks like a phantom. Although he knew existed but almost no one saw him. he just in his house and is recluse person.// //Chapter 2:// //When i was in my high school in my country, i had a big trouble with my math teacher. In the math lesson that day, my teacher gave to my class a function to introduce the new lesson. She came to my seat and saw i solved it. In the end of the lesson, she told me that i had learned that lesson from some one at home and it is not good for me to solve the function in the way i did. i had not learned that lesson before, i just based on my knowledge and try to solve it. My parents think it is not my fault because they knew i did not learn it from some one at home, i just try my best to solve it. In my opinion, i think my situation is very similar to Scout's experience. I think Scout got in worst trouble than me because she is a little girl and i was in high school. In addition, Scout was fined by clapping her hand but i was not. Finally, my experience was because of misunderstanding like Scout.//

Reading journal 8 Two root words inside the word "infinitesmal" are infinite and smal. It means somethings is very small, extremely small. Suffix of "likeness" is "ness". three other words: illness, kindness, blindness. Likeness means something is very similar to something else. 2 synonyms of the word "void" are space and blank Unfastened means somthings is going not fast, slowly. My poem: I have something which i think it is just an infinitesmal It has some likenesses with some normal things i have But when it was flowing unfastened from my arm It is as a void in me...

Reading journal 7 In my opinion, i think my role is very interesting. I like my job and working in a group as well. Through this project i have just relized that i can be an actor in action movies. Although my group decided to present a newspaper, i learned a lot about what an action movie is. I like to be an actor in story about murder mistery. Some lessons i learned about this project firstly, i can know how to turn the story into a film. Furthermore, i understood how working in a group is. Last, i leared about how to role in the story. These things are very helpful for me when i have something like this with macbeth.

Reading journal 6 media type="youtube" key="fxCElagfoVA" height="345" width="420" I am an actor in an action movie. From this video, i can learn how to act in action movie. First of all, i can understand clearly what an action movie is. secondly, this video help me know what does an actor need to do in an action movie. Finally, i can learn from this movie what does an actor need to prepare for an action movie. These things can help me a lot with my group work.

Reading journal 5 My Group picked this story: "A bomb has been planted in your room and you have five minutes left to deactivate it. The only thing with you is a paperclip". This story is for high school student because it is an action story. I am presenting newspaper. My role is actor and here is three things important conventions: 1. Mission waiting to be completed 2. Fights 3. Weapons

Reading journal 4 In my opinion, i think we should be reading stories about murder in school. These stories can help students add a rich imagination and logical thinking. "Twins shows me that we need to be mindful before we make a final comment. As an evidence in the story, at first we think the husband had killed his wife but in the end the killer really is the wife so we need to be thinking carefully.

Reading journal 2 I don't understand this short story clearly. I think the killer is the wife because in the end of story "Twins" show that the wife had thrown the gun that had killed her husband and she had removed the ammunition. I still confuse that at the beginning of the story, "Twins" said that the husband had killed his wife but in the and the killer is the wife. I don't like "Twins" because it is a mystery story so that is very confusing I think this story is for advance student because firstly, it is very complicated and hard to understand. Secondly, the language of story is very hard there are many hard words. Finally, "Twins" is like a detective story so it so difficutl for children to understand the story.

5 hard words: reel: cylinder, roller sanctity: holiness, sacredness shrug: such a movement shaft: long handle of an axe thug: violent criminal