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About Claude
What I like to do best is walk 4 miles early every morning, six days a week. Traveling is one of my hobbies. I have recently been to Kentucky and am planning a trip to Washington DC to a family reunion. I have a pet snapping turtle named "Turtle". I like shopping for snappy clothes. One of my favorite suits is this purple one in the picture below.
Mr. Williams
Favorite Book
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
Exerpts from A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
by Claude Williams
A Lesson Before Dying
"I was not there, I did not go to the trial because I knew all the time what it would be. Either I sat behind my aunt and his godmother or I sat beside them. Both are large women. She is of average height, five four or five five, but weighs nearly two hundred pounds. Once she and my aunt had found their places not by the defense attorney not by my aunt (Oh, yes did hear one word, one word, for sure: "hog".) It was my aunt whose eyes followed the prose ? pounding his fist into the palm of his hand, pounding the table from the rest of the courtroom. Jefferson told him his nannan was all right. Old Grope nodded his head. The old man continued to call: "Boy, Boy, Boy" Jefferson became frightened. The old man was still alive. He had seen him. He would tell on him. Now he started babbling. "It wasn't me. It wasn't Mr. Grope." But he was talking to a dead man. Still he did not run. He didn't know what to do. He didn't believe that this had happened. Again he couldn't remember how he had gotten there. He didn't know whether he had come there with Brother and Bear, or whether he had walked in and seen all this after it happened. He looked from one dead body to the other. He didn't know whether he should call someone on the telephone or run. He had never dialed a telephone in his life, but just as Miss Emma had given so much of herself to that family."
Over the years, my eyes look up to the books, all books.
Love, Claude Williams
Claude's book review of TALKIN' ABOUT BESSIE; THE STORY OF AVIATOR ELIZABETH COLEMAN by Nikki Grimes
Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, of parents who were poor farmers. Growing up, Bessie always wanted to be someone important.
Bessie went to a trade school, but had to drop out because she didn’t have money to continue. Her brother, Walter Coleman, asked her to come to Chicago where she got a job at a barbershop.
At twenty-seven, she decided she wanted to be the first black woman in the world to be an airplane pilot. She went to Paris to attend the Caudron School of Aviation. Bessie became a stunt flyer giving exhibitions all over the world.
I liked the story of Bessie Coleman because she stuck to her dream and never gave up. Even getting hurt in a plane crash didn’t stop her. I agree with Bessie, “You have never lived until you have flown.”
Claude's Pet "TURTLE"
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