Calpurnia

Introduction

Calpurnia was a black woman who works as the Finch family’s cook and housekeeper. She is one of the many motherly figures in Scout’s and Jem’s life. She had been with Jem since Jem was born.  Atticus trusted Calpurnia, relies on her for support raising his children, and considers her as part of the family. She is treated by the Finchs as if she were a Finch as they see her as a member of their family. Calpurnia care for the Finch children in two different ways; as their housekeeper and as a member of the family.

Description

Calpurnia .is a friendly person whom is helpful and caring to the entire Finch family. Her skin is black and she comes from a black family and background. She was all angles and bones and she was near sighted and she sainted.Her hand was as wide as bed slat and  twice as hard.

What the character says/ does?

Calpurnia has spent all her days working for the Finchs and she does her work in a happy yet serious way. She is happy to care for and teach the Finchs. Calpurnia also taught scout how to write script on rainy days.

What other characters say about her?

Scout described her family’s black cook, Caipurnia, as strict and tyrannical. She is  very clever and well educated, a thing that most black people of that time were not. Calpurnia is also seen to be quite strict and firm with the children. Scout and Jem will also often consult Calpurnia on their ideas and questions as she listens carefully and offers useful suggestions to them. This is seen by the way Scout and Jem both treat Calpurnia as an equal, just like their father Atticus does. Atticus will everytime support for her.She is a very dominant character as she thinks that she is right at all the time.She is seen as Mr Atticus as ‘indispensable’as he mentioned to Scott that they can’t operate a single day without her.

What does it tells you about the character?

It appears to me that Calpurnia almost lives a double life; a white family member whilst working and a black woman at her home.She is very kind,caring,concerned  & helpful person who goes out of her way to inform the operator that Tim, a mad dog is on the loose.In return, she wanted the operator to in from others about this dog.She even took the trouble to go to the Radly’s house to inform about the mad dog. She acted like a ‘teacher’ when she set out a writing task for Scott to do.

how to use these in photo journal? ( words and captions to be included)

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What do you think about today’s presentation?

What can we do to improve our project?

What problems do we have and how to solve it?

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Clues to remember when you are presenting 1)Do not read; tell us more about the topics

2)Do not be nervous, Being nervous give us no confidence to present

3)Always be confident to present3)Make the effort to give the class an detailed explanation what you are about to say 

We are supposed to presente our powerpoint and the mind-map next Monday.

What can we do to improve our presentation?

What problems do we have? How to solve them?

What errors do we have?

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Propaganda handbill

British oppression is caricatured in this anti-British propaganda handbill printed by the Indian Independence League in East Asia. The Japanese worked hard at cultivating the nationalistic sentiments of the Indians in Singapore to assist them in their planned conquest of Singapore.

Propaganda leaflet

This pamphlet illustrates how an allied solider would receive food, cigarettes and medical aid if he would simply raise his hands in surrender. Ironically, allied propagandists made identical promises to Japanese soldiers.

Propaganda leaflet

Time and again, illustrations of food were used on propaganda leaflets to tempt allied soldiers. Here, a tempting plate of salad is illustrated and the word “surrender” has been tactfully substituted with the euphanism, “a change of heart”.

Japanese solider on a boat

A Japanese soldier is shown all alone on a boat. Futilely awaiting reinforcements that will never arrive.

Today Ken’s group made a speech.

Actually, it was not successfull. Why?

What can we learn form his group?

What can we improve our speech later?

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What should we do for next weak’s trip to Fore Siloso?

What can we prepare for that? Such as what should we bring?

How will we separate our job?

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After we discuss in the PW period, we came out a new conclusion that we need to redo the story board. In this new story board, we are going to add British propaganda in to the story board. We will delete the part that shows a person got killed by the Japanese soldier as he/she is unwilling to study/learn propaganda because we thought that was useless for the “use of the propaganda”.

The source from the mind map shows that the propaganda used by the Japanese were all written in their language and were published in daily newspaper. To add on, children in school were forced to learn Japanese language by books of propaganda although they were unwilling to. As a result, most of the Singaporeans will know their way of life and their language.
Furthermore, the propaganda was also used to point about the pre-eminence of the Japanese spirited values and the ills of western materialism. Thus, the main purpose of propaganda is to helps them to conquer much more of Singapore by winning the respect and support of Singapore citizen who have read the propaganda.

Discussed by: All Group Members
Written by: Wendy
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Bruce (ZiLu): Japanese wanted to educate Singapore children and teached the japanese. The purposee is to point out about the
pre-eminence of the japanese way of life , their spiritual values and the ills western materialism. Actually the fact is,
japanese did not bring happiness to Singapore, they killed people and rob properties.

Wendy: Japanese use propaganda by media communication(eg;radio,newspaper,money) to tell Singaporean their way of life. NOt
only, they also use propaganda to teach children their languages in school. As a result, this help them to conquer much
more of Singapore by winning the support of Singapore citizen. Thus, many people were killed by them during the attack
of Singapore as they were unwilling to follow the japanese values.

JiaHuan: Japanese use their language to write propaganda as the method of teaching their spiritual values and the ills of western
materialism.

PhanChong: I think propaganda are images that are use during the occupation of Singapore at the time. The japanese uses the
wrong information to teach the people that at that time japanese did not do cruel thing to singaporeans but it is not
true in the fact.

Bala: Japanese use propaganda to make singapore respect them. I think that they are books that tells “Japanese is the greatest
people in the World”. It is to make Singapore their Slaves.

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