Jonah Dupree ELA Period 6
"Akeelah" - "Transformation
March 26, 2021
In the movie, "Akeelah and the Bee", the protagonist, Akeelah, is an excellent speller. She
has a coach, Dr. Larabee who has high expectations of her. He shows her a quote from W. E.B
DuBois, "Transformation", and asks her to read it. Akeelah does and has to recite (say) its
meaning.

The first sene: alice was performing a magic trick with a wand and a small spell book that her grandfather had given her. while she was practicing she saw matt who was one of the other contestants, while she was practicing matt bumped in to her and made her say the spell wrong. all of a sudden a swoosh of sparkling purple wind picked them up and put them back on the floor. when they looked at each other alice saw herself and that’s when she realized that they had switched bodies.

It’s a phras

His writing and speech is quite different than today’s. students struggle understanding because of unfamiliar words.