I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Dear America)

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Summary: I Thought My soul Will Rise and Fly
Review: How would you feel if you were a slave, doing always orders that you can't chose to say if you want to do it or not? In this story called I Thought My Soul Will Fly and Rise written by the author Joyce Hansen that was Patsy's case. She could+n't say, 'Yes I'll do this or no I don't want to do that.' She had to do it if she wanted to or not. The genre of this book is historical fiction. That means this story could have happened in the past and all of the things the little girl passed through happened to a lot of people her age a long time ago.
Patsy and all the slaves didn't get a lot of opportunities we now have and that some of us don't care about. For example they didn't get to go to school, learn how to read or write. Today we go to school and learn how to read and write. A lot of us don't care about school but I know if the slaves had the same opportunities as we do they wouldn't waste them. Thanks to this book I learned not to waste all my opportunities that I have now because a lot of people 100 years ago didn't have them but I know they would have loved to have them. Now whenever I have an opportunity I'm going to take the chance and never let it go because probably this opportunity will come once in a lifetime, we never know.

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Summary: A very educational and intertaining book!
Review: I really thought this was a great book. I liked the way that it portrayed the life of Patsy in a diary type way. The story is about a slave girl named Patsy who knows how to read. She learned by listening to the children in the house during thier lessons. When the slaves where freed, they were promised that a teacher would come to the plantation to teach the children as well as the adults to read and write. When there was trouble with getting a teacher, Patsy decided to teach the childern and who ever else wanted to be taught their abc's and how to write them. She discovered that she was a good teacher and when she finally left the plantation she went to school and became a teacher herself. I think this is a very good book to have children read so they can get a feel of what it was like in the times of slavery and right after they were freed.

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Summary: I Thought My soul Will Rise and Fly
Review: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly is a book by Joyce Hansen. It is a diary of a young girl named Patsy who became free from slavery. It takes place in the South of the Untied States after the Civil War ended. I think that it is a good book because it helps you understand how difficult it was for blacks when the were first freed.
This book helps you understand what it was like for the blacks when they were first freed because it gives examples on how hard it was. The blacks lived on a plantation and when they were freed they signed a contract that was followed by only one side. The owners of the plantation did not fallow the contract and treated them like they were still salves. The contract said that they would get land and and be taught by teachers but they weren't.
They said a teacher was going to be sent on a certain day so the plantation set up a school room where the teacher would teach and until they got a teacher Pasty would teach them how to write their A,B,C 's. The day that the teacher was suppose to arrive would come an there wouldn't be any teacher. They had finally found a white teacher and she didn't had any where to live. If she were to live with a white family and teach the blacks that white family would burn down the house. They had a hard time finding an educated black to teach them.
After this people started to leave the plantation and went to the shore because the government said they were selling land. They were warned that the government would take the land away from them but they left the plantation anyway. They had been there for a few years and the government decided to change it back around and give the land back to the plantations. Mistress would not sell them land either. Eventually Patsy changed her name and went to school and when she got older she came back to the plantation an tough the young kids more than they know more.
I that this book was very educational because it taught what it was like to live when the slaves were freed. Some of the plantation owners treated their workers like they were still slaves after they were free. It seamed hard for Patsy when people's father or mother were coming to find the rest of their family and no one came for Patsy. Altho Patsy seamed happy with her live because she taught herself how to read and write and then tough people on the plantation.

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Summary: A true page-turner
Review: In the book,I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, a slave girl named Patsy is free, but she doesn't feel like it. She still has to work on the plantation, but she gets payed for her work. A Yankee soldier came down from the north and promised Mistress Davis that the slaves are getting a teacher by July. This is one of the better books I've ever read. I give it a 10. The reason I love this book is because it takes place during the Civil War times and I'm interested in that kind of thing. I think girls might like it better than boys because it is written in a diary format. This book gets 2 thumbs up from me.

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Summary: A peek into the life of a just-freed girl.
Review: Now that the Civil War is over, twelve-year-old Patsy, a slave girl, is finally free. But her life has changed little. She still lives and works on her former owners' plantation in South Carolina. She is still considered inferior to white people. And she still hasn't gotten a chance to see the world beyond where she grew up. But Patsy has one thing that nearly all former slaves don't have: the ability to read and write. And so she writes in her diary, which makes up this book, of her experiences in the months following the end of the war as she teaches others and struggles with the injustices the former slaves must face. An excellant addition to the Dear America series, and a good companion to one of the other books in the series, A Picture of Freedom, which is about a slave girl right before the Civil War. You can compare the two to see what changed in six years.

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Summary: Fly on over and READ this Book
Review: One of the best books of the series. Truly makes you think about the imporance of being literate.

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Summary: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a
Review: Pasty is a young slave to Miss Davis and her family, Pasty has no idea who her true family is and she is Twelve-years old.She can read, which as you may know was aganist the law in the 1800's,I found Pasty's diary excellent and wonderful, it expressed how a 12 year old might have felt when she was in slavery and learned and opened her eyes to the wolrd and found her freedom and her life.So read this diary, and I guarantee you will LOVE it, it is truley my favorite diary from the Dear America Series.

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Summary: sha'nique's review
Review: The book that I read was "I thought my soul would rise and fly""The diary of Patsy, a freed girl". This book is about an African American girl. Her name is Patsy, she has no last name because she is a slave. She lives on a plantation called Davis hall. She has lived on this plantation her whole life, along with some other people such as cook, ruth, luke, ma'am, master, and james. Although Patsy has the ability to read and write she has the disabilities of stuttering, severe shyness, and a limp which results from having been born with one leg shorter than the other. This disability of Patsy's makes people think that she is slow, mute, and dim-witted. When patsy finally gets the courage to tell someone that she has taught herself how to read and write, she life finally begins to be the most wonderful life for a slave. This book teaches you how the character develops, it gives you accurate historical details, and interesting points about southern life in that era. I really enjoyed this book because it teaches me the good and bad points about slavery. Most people today take reading and writing for granted but in this book you will learn how important it is for slaves who want to be set free, learn how to read, and write.

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Summary: WOW
Review: The moment I started reading that book, I couldn't put it down! It was AMAZING! It's about a girl named Patsy living in the Reconstrustion era. As many of the other slaves leave, who are now freed, she wonders about her life and if she should leave her plantation life. She learns a lot about herself and life in general. But I won't give away the ending... :-X I recommend it to all!!!!!!

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Summary: REALLY GOOD
Review: This was a wonderful book! It took a long time to read but it was definitely worth it. It was interesting, and had a likeable main character. Her name is Patsy, and she is smarter then people think. It has some funny parts, and gave a clear picture of a slave's life.