“Grandmother’s Victory” AACC Abstract:Maya Angelou was born Marguerita Johnson in 1928, she spent most of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, where her family happened to own a general store. Later in her life she became active in civil rights movement and used her life experiences to help her be more effective. She and her family were raised that being dirty was a very serious sin against God. Growing up she hated the powhitetrash children and from listening to her Momma’s teachings and watching her actions she got over it and was able to learn from her experiences. Contextual:Everyone at one point in time watched someone they admire do something in response to something that completely awed them. Though I can’t personally think of any stories that involve me, there is however one that comes to mind. It’s about a man, who happens to be an LDS bishop, who was driving home with his family around Christmas time when they were hit by a drunk driver, who happened to be a teen driver. The accident killed his wife and I can’t remember if all his kids were killed or if one survived. What taught me was that he immediately forgave the teen who had hit and killed his family. He showed me that forgiveness should be first and always come, it not only helps the offender but it also helps the victim as well. Thinking on it though I don’t know if I could forgive someone who killed my family let alone doing it immediately without pausing. Questions for Discussion Content:A)The story can be interpreted in many ways it can be about racism and it could be about bad behaved kids or even simply about whom the author respects the most and what time they came to respect them even more. E)She uses the visual of the girl doing a handstand and showing her privates off.Also she described them as dirty, sassy, and unruly showing how harsh she felt about them. Suggestions for Sustained Writing:A)My family and I moved from Sandy almost four years ago to Draper. We met our neighbors some were nice other were too wrapped up with themselves to be nice. Some of them we would see driving by and we would wave and they just so happened to look the other way immediately. It’s been almost four years from those days of being so called ignored by a great number of the people in the neighborhood, the only lucky thing is how we never had bad luck with the people in our circle. This however isn’t the story; the story starts around seven months ago.Mother had a few friends in our neighborhood; she was not used to not knowing her neighbors. The usual way for parents to get to know people are through their kids hanging out, so after my brother went on his mission and I was the only one home. I never have been too social so my mom could use me to get to know people so she started to feel shunned from the neighborhood. Especially at church, where she was a Sunday school teacher and all she did was teaching teenagers. When after hoping to get to know people she got the surprise of receiving the calling of second counselor of the relief society. This in the LDS is a huge responsibility especially when our particular ward has over four hundred active members. Since then she has been a happier person and has got to know people who she had previously seen every now and then but they had never thought to wave and know that she has to be the bigger person and make sure everyone is welcomed she has discovered traits that had been previously unknown and has been a lot more pleasant person.
Abstract: Maya Angelou was born Marguerita Johnson in 1928, she spent most of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, where her family happened to own a general store. Later in her life she became active in civil rights movement and used her life experiences to help her be more effective. She and her family were raised that being dirty was a very serious sin against God. Growing up she hated the powhitetrash children and from listening to her Momma’s teachings and watching her actions she got over it and was able to learn from her experiences.
Contextual: Everyone at one point in time watched someone they admire do something in response to something that completely awed them. Though I can’t personally think of any stories that involve me, there is however one that comes to mind. It’s about a man, who happens to be an LDS bishop, who was driving home with his family around Christmas time when they were hit by a drunk driver, who happened to be a teen driver. The accident killed his wife and I can’t remember if all his kids were killed or if one survived. What taught me was that he immediately forgave the teen who had hit and killed his family. He showed me that forgiveness should be first and always come, it not only helps the offender but it also helps the victim as well. Thinking on it though I don’t know if I could forgive someone who killed my family let alone doing it immediately without pausing.
Questions for Discussion
Content: A) The story can be interpreted in many ways it can be about racism and it could be about bad behaved kids or even simply about whom the author respects the most and what time they came to respect them even more.
E) She uses the visual of the girl doing a handstand and showing her privates off. Also she described them as dirty, sassy, and unruly showing how harsh she felt about them.
Suggestions for Sustained Writing: A) My family and I moved from Sandy almost four years ago to Draper. We met our neighbors some were nice other were too wrapped up with themselves to be nice. Some of them we would see driving by and we would wave and they just so happened to look the other way immediately. It’s been almost four years from those days of being so called ignored by a great number of the people in the neighborhood, the only lucky thing is how we never had bad luck with the people in our circle. This however isn’t the story; the story starts around seven months ago. Mother had a few friends in our neighborhood; she was not used to not knowing her neighbors. The usual way for parents to get to know people are through their kids hanging out, so after my brother went on his mission and I was the only one home. I never have been too social so my mom could use me to get to know people so she started to feel shunned from the neighborhood. Especially at church, where she was a Sunday school teacher and all she did was teaching teenagers. When after hoping to get to know people she got the surprise of receiving the calling of second counselor of the relief society. This in the LDS is a huge responsibility especially when our particular ward has over four hundred active members. Since then she has been a happier person and has got to know people who she had previously seen every now and then but they had never thought to wave and know that she has to be the bigger person and make sure everyone is welcomed she has discovered traits that had been previously unknown and has been a lot more pleasant person.