3 paragraphs

1) Night john

       Night john is a book about a slave named Night John who ran away to the north and then came back to the south. When slaves ran away they would send dogs after them. A man on the plantation Night john was going to ran away his name was Jim. He heard the dogs coming and climbed a tree, but he didnt climb high enough and the dogs bit him to shreads and he died. The master never took him down off the tree, this could also be known as lynching. There was a girl named Sarny living on the plantation and she meet Night John and had a deal with him. He would teach her how to read and she would have to give him tobacco. Now, Sarny knew the punishment if her masters caught her reading and writing, but she wanted to learn anyway. one night Night John was teaching Sarny and her mother caught them. She wasnt happy about it because of the punsihments of being caught, but Night John told her he ran away to the north and came back to teach slaves how to read and write. He also said "They have to read and write, we all have to read and write so we can write about this- what there doing to us. It has to be written."

2) Mascot

      Mascot is about Malcom X's life. Malcom got kicked out of school for putting a tack in his teachers chair and he had to go to a  reform school but before that he had to live in a detetion home. There he lived with the swerlins. The swerlins liked him so they delayed the date for when malcom had to go to reform school. The Swerlins never really thought of malcom as a human being more of a pet. Malcom said "Although i was with them they never really saw me." He went to school there and was a basketball player. He was really popular and was even class presdient. He also wanted to be a lawyer. When his sister Ella came down to visit him she told him about Boston and how he should go there. He did and he loved it, becasue the blacks were treated differently. When he went back home he wasnt happy anymore and one day him and his teacher was alone in his classroom. The teacher asked him what he wanted to be and he told him a lawyer. The teacher was like be realstic. That conversation changed Malcom forever.

3) Compare & Contrast

     The great debators, Night John and Mascot are alike and different in many ways. There are alike becasue, in Night John there was a slave who climbed a tree and dogs killed him on the tree and the master never took him down so it was like a lynching. In Great Debators they saw a lyncing and the black man was left in the tree. Also, Night John ran to the North and came back to teach people how to read. In great debators Tolson would run to a sercet meeting to get tenement farmers to come together. These two things are alike becasue it is helping people out for the better. The simlitarty between Mascot and Great Debators is Malcom wanted to be a lawyer and so did Samatha. The difference is Malcom never became a lawyer and she did. Also, Malcom went to boston to visit his sister Ella, and in Great Debators the final debate against havard was held in Boston. Now, the difference between Night John and Great Debators is Night John was about slavery. It had more to do with slavery and slaves running away and teaching Sarny how to read and write. The difference between Mascot and Great Debators is that Mascot is about the life of Malcom X and what his childhood and teenage years were like; Great Debators is more talking about a Black debating team and how they beat out the best debating colleges. The two books, Night John and Mascot are alike and different to Great Debators in many ways.


~Jada~