English 1A PacketBook Title: THE PACT

Directions: Please complete the following graphic organizer either typed or handwritten. If you
need more room & you are handwriting, please use the back of this page.

Ch. or Page Numbers: Chapter 3-7

Dialectic Journal: Choose at least TWO quotations that you think are important or you have a
question about and write about why it is. These quotations may later be utilized in your essays.
Follow MLA for in-text citations.

Quotation (Evidence from the text)

Interpretation (Analysis/Synthesis)
This illustrates . . ., I wonder . . ., This
connects to . . .

1. Your Honor, just take me, She cried out.

1. I wonder this part showed Sam had chance

Hes young boy. He didnt know what he

to regret his life and he would change his

was doing. Please, take me! I was

life.

disgusted with my self. (Davis, Jenkins,

Hunt 97)
2. We began to plan our future together.
(Davis, Jenkins, Hunt 104)

2. This quotation connects to Sam, George

and Rameck s friendship. They had many
situations in their life, but now they are
going college as friends and becoming
somebody. They have a long path ahead of
them, however they have each other. They
will go far in life, and stick with the pact
the have forms. They are little different,
but they will enjoy and help each others.

Discussion Question: Write three or more questions that you think are important to think
about. Consider the themes of the course as you create your questions. Use your Critical
Thinking/Blooms Taxonomy hand-out to help you develop a variety of questions.

1. How Sam, Rameck and George helped and motivated each other?
2. How Sam, Rameck and George were getting closer?
3. How they were starting to think about go to medical school?

Locate one outside reference that helps

you understand the text better. (You may
copy and paste here or attach to the
back.) CRITICAL: You must include
evidence from the reference PLUS citation
PLUS connection to the text.

Give a brief plot summary here where you note 2 to 4

sentences per assigned chapter or entry. OR Follow a
character throughout the text and take notes here about plot,
interaction with others, personality, appearance, etc.

Back

Chapter 3 to 7 talked about Sam, George and Rameck

started hanging out and they had chance to think about
themselves and they could start new life begin.

Personal/Social/Professional Connection to the text OR Connection to what I have

learned before: Another way to think about it: is there something in the text that reminds me
of something?
(Comments to be no less than 3 sentences)

Through Chapter 3 to 7, I learned about how important to hang out with right people. Because it could be
change the life. If I start hang out with bad people, my life will be bad, but if I hang out with good people, it
will be really help to improve and motivate my life.

Oprah Winfrey was born Orpah Gail Winfrey in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Vernita Lee, a
former maid, and Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner, barber, and city councilman.
While Winfrey has been cited as the richest African American of the 20th century, she does
not come from a rich, or even middle class, family. She was born in an economically
troubled neighborhood and raised by a single-teenaged mother in the city of Milwaukee.
Orpah, named after a biblical character, had a name no one could pronounce, so her family
and friends starting calling her Oprah. Shortly after Oprah's birth, Vernita Lee left her
daughter and traveled north. Her grandmother, Hatti Mae Lee, then raised Oprah. Oprah
while being raised by her grandmother lived in terrible conditions. Oprah's only friends were
farm animals; however even at that age Oprah had a very imaginative mind. Oprah would
frequently give the animals dramatic parts and included them in games. This was perhaps
where she had gotten the craze for acting, and would soon be seen in legendary
masterpieces such as The Color Purple. Oprah because of her grandmother's values, had
religion and God instilled in herself at a very young age. Oprah because of her grandmother
knew how to read, and write before the age of three. Oprah during church would recite
poems, and verses from the bible. Soon the church, and the entire neighborhood knew she
had a gift and was nicknamed, The Little Speaker". This would soon prompt her to become
a woman with a strong perspective, which millions across the world would want to have
insight on. This prepared her for The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Sean, Peter. "Oprah Winfrey Biography." Web.

I think Oprah Winfreys biography has some similar with Sam, Rameck and George story. When she was young,
she had hard time too but she overcome and became Americas number one celebrity.

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