My Boo Radley.

I believe someone can have many Boo Radley's in their life, but you may not notice them or think about them in that way. To someone, their Boo could be a person they were afraid of, or were intimidated by. It could also be an animal, or maybe something we can't actually see or touch. To me, I think somemthing in my life most like a Boo Radley to me would be my cat, Wagstaff. I know a cat might me a weird thing to compare to Boo, but I think it fits.
We got my cat when I was maybe six or seven years old. I remember coming home and there she was, sitting on the counter. She is a tabby cat, and wasn't the friendliest. At first I was really excited. I used to have three cats but then we thought I was allergic so we gave them away. Turns out I wasn't! So my parents went to PetSmart and choose Wagstaff. When we got her she was too old to learn a name, so she only goes by cat or kittty. That's what they would call her at the pet store.
Not too long after we got Wagstaff, I was terrified of her. She would always try to claw my feet, and would bite you when you pet her. I didn't understand it because my old cats were so friendly and would always lick me and purr when I pet them. I kept asking to get a new cat, but my parents didn't want too. Also when we got her, we had to give away our pet rats because they were too scared to come out of their cage. This didn't make me like her anymore than I already did.
This is kind of how Scout was afraid of Boo. She also didn't understand why he acted the way he did, like I did with my cat. We both compared them to similar things, and they both acted very different than anything else like them. Boo wouldn't ever come outside or visit, like all of her other neighbors would. Scout was also afraid to walk by Boo's house without running, like how I was afriad to walk by my cat without her swatting at me.
I think I learned some stuff from my cat, like Scout with Boo. I learned that she was scared of being in a new place, and so acted out in protection. From this, I learned not all cats are really friendly and they act different for different reasons. Like so, Scout learned that Boo didn't want to be included in all of the danger and drama of Maycomb, even though this seems weird to most people. In the end, both my cat and Boo were really nice, and we just judged them right away so in our minds they were something they aren't. Also, since we both learned this as younger children, it helped us not to judge as much as we grow and become older.

Introduction

Hi, my name is Sidney Burton. My favorite thing to do in English is read. I love reading books that I can understand easily and can "get into the book." I will enlighten the on-line world with my input and opinions to the literature studied in class. If you're following my blog, you should expect to see what I think about the books we read in the best way I can. I usually have a lot of opinions on books, so you will see those on my blog.
Excelling in English will help someone personally in many ways. One is by opening their mind to other ideas they hadn't originally thought of. It can then open their mind to help them think of other ideas on their own. It can also help them be more comfortable speaking in front of people from doing discussions. Doing this will prepare them for a succesful social life.
Excelling in English will help someone academically too. You will improve more and more throughout the year, and then you will be prepared for the higher English classes. It will make someone more knowledgeable in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading, writing, etc. This will help them with everything and anything for the rest of their lives. Excelling in English academically will make them succesful in the rest of highschool and college.
If any student is expecting to go to college, they need to take English every year in highschool. First, college's like it. They want someone who knows how to talk grammatically correct, and someone who keeps up on reading. They also want people who know how to write, so in any classes they can write up a paper and be easily understood. You don't want to forget anything you learned in English before you go to college.
The meaning of English can be interpreted in more than one way. I believe it is being able to interpret and explain books and other writings, and being able to communicate with other people. It could also be being able to express yourself in writing, and writing about other things easily and correctlyCommunicating is not just talking, it is having a shared understanding. The meaing of English is a hard thing to put your finger on. These are a few meanings it could be, but I believe the meaning of English is however you interpret it yourself.
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