Home learning Task B

My stronger areas according to the test are: Logical, followed by Naturalistic and a tie between musical and linguistic. Since there isn't a logical component, i shall be do the tasks on Naturalistic and Musical.

Naturalist:

a. Do a research on the natural habitat of mockingbird. In your research, include the kind of flora and fauna you think exist in Maycomb and explain why the mockingbirds live in Maycomb.

A mockingbird is a songbird which has small heads, a long thin bill with a downward curve, and long legs. Their wings are short, rounded, and broad, making the tail seem much longer in flight.

Mockingbirds are overall gray-brown, with two white wingbars on each wing. The white outer tail feathers are also obvious in flight. The Mockingbird enjoys making its presence known. It usually sitting on high vegetation, fences, telephone wires. Found alone or in pairs throughout the year, mockingbirds aggressively chase off intruders on their territory.

As or its habitat, all year-round the Mockingbird is found in areas with open ground and with shrubby vegetation like hedges and fruiting bushes. It also likes grassy areas, rather than bare spots. Common places to find Mockingbirds include parkland, cultivated land, suburban areas and in second growth habitat at low elevations, which can be backyards as well.

A picture of a mockingbird.

Mockingbirds usually like to be in hedges.

Mockingbirds also enjoy being in parkland.

Mockingbirds are also found in cultivated land.

Mockingbirds usually live in suburban areas.

Here is a picture of a mockingbird in someone's backyard.
I think that there are quite a lot of trees and forested area in Maycomb compared to high buildings or big building structures. There s probably a lot of green in Maycomb. Maycomb is also possibly a suburban area where people have backyards with trees, hedges and maybe even fruiting bushes. This are reasons why there are mockingbirds in Maycomb and even in people's backyards.

Since there

Source:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Mockingbird/lifehistory
http://www.peilandscaping.ca/editor_images/privet-hedges-01.jpg
http://www.wentworthcastle.org/files/eastparklandpopup(3).jpg
http://surguja.gov.in/images/Field-3.jpg
http://www.vienna.cc/wienpix/vorstadt2.jpg
http://images.new-jersey-birds.com/uploaded_images/Northern-Mocking-bird-734541.jpg
http://www.thegarden.org/images/backyard.jpg

Musical :

b. Write a poem on the Tom Robinson Trial / life in Maycomb/ any other incident.

I swear to tell the truth vowed the Ewells,
But this was not so as the evidence tells,
Tom Robinson was accused,
For something he did not abuse.

Tom Robinson was just being kind,
But ended up being stabbed from behind,
He was innocent, but he was black,
Which is why the jury attacked.

Prejudism was the word to describe the jury,
Making the hearts of others build up with fury,
Atticus was being courageous,
But Whites thus felt outrageous.

Tom robinson was charged with rape,
And tried to escape,
He ended up being shot,
And the Ewells were not caught.

The Whites in Maycomb then were so unfair,
Everyone was surely aware,
But things in America would not stay that way,
As the people would soon show that being treated that way was not okay.

END