Tuesday, April 15, 2008
SERVICE LEARNING
Last friday at the service learning meeting we covered a lot of ground. We made a list of what we needed and got papers to get sponsers. We also went over who was going to do what.
Monday, March 3, 2008
service learning
For service learning I had these 5 ideas..
-Helping in my neighborhood
-Going to my old school and helping my old English teacher
-Help at a local hospital
-Raise money for cancer or something by doing a walk
-Calling Human Resources and asking if they know anything I can do
For the school wide service learning I would say..
-Raising money for cancer or other foundations
-Doing the public annocuement thing
-Do a walk-a-thon as a school around a park and donate money
-Each week or day have a different group volunteer at different places
The idea I picked to do for service learning is helping in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is having a play and they needed help they said to just show up on the next practice. I showed up on March 10th to see what they wanted me to do. They had a lot for me to do. They need help painting props, making props, taking pictures, and other stuff. They practice 2 times a week Mondays and Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:30.
Over spring break I still had service learning. I was helping the little kids learn their lines. Also, I helped the people running the play think of things that were needed to have the play, there is still a lot of things to do. 1 thing is to make and paint props they aren't that far and are still working on that. Also, getting costumes for each character. That is what they are working on next week.
-Helping in my neighborhood
-Going to my old school and helping my old English teacher
-Help at a local hospital
-Raise money for cancer or something by doing a walk
-Calling Human Resources and asking if they know anything I can do
For the school wide service learning I would say..
-Raising money for cancer or other foundations
-Doing the public annocuement thing
-Do a walk-a-thon as a school around a park and donate money
-Each week or day have a different group volunteer at different places
The idea I picked to do for service learning is helping in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is having a play and they needed help they said to just show up on the next practice. I showed up on March 10th to see what they wanted me to do. They had a lot for me to do. They need help painting props, making props, taking pictures, and other stuff. They practice 2 times a week Mondays and Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:30.
Over spring break I still had service learning. I was helping the little kids learn their lines. Also, I helped the people running the play think of things that were needed to have the play, there is still a lot of things to do. 1 thing is to make and paint props they aren't that far and are still working on that. Also, getting costumes for each character. That is what they are working on next week.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
NHD Reflections
NHD was a challenging project. We needed 30 annotated sources, primary and secondary. The amount of work you did depended on the type of project you did. I did a paper, 1,500 words or more. You needed to include a lot of information to help the reader understand but have a voice at the same time. But the most challenging part for me was looking up information. It wasnt that there wasnt enough, but too much. Every issue has 2 sides and that was the problem. If I went on a website it only gave 1 side of the story, so it was hard to get both sides it. My success was that I got both sides of the story. I found information that some people didnt even know about. Also that I finished the paper and in the right amount of words. I learned more about MOVE and what they were like. At first I only had 1 side of the story, but as I went on I learned what they were like. That they just seemed a little misunderstood in the beginning but as the city made them into something else they became in that. I also learned how to manage my time and how to write a bibliography.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Alice Walker
Alice Walker is a great author. In her life she has had some problems. But, she also had success in writing. She wrote many books including The Color Purple.
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. When she was younger she lost sight in on eye. She went to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1961 for 2 years. Then she went to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and completed her bachelor’s degree in 1965. She worked for New York City Welfare. Two years later she married Melvyn Roseman Leventhal. They moved to Jackson, Mississippi and Alice worked as a writer at Jackson State College from 1968-69. Then Tougaloo College from 1970-71.
Alice Walker wrote many books. Her first book was poems, Once in 1968. The poems were about a man she fell in love with in Africa. One year later she wrote a short story called The Hell With Dying. In 1972, she wrote more poems Five Poems. Then in 1973, she wrote Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Also, short stories In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. This earned her an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter Award. Plus a novel The 3rd life of Grange Copeland. In 1976, she wrote the novel Meridian. In 1981 she wrote her second collection of stories You Cant Keep a Good Women Down. An essay collection in 1981 In Search of our Mothers Gardens: Womenist Prose. In 1983 she wrote her most controversial book The Color Purple. Other novels she wrote are The Temple of Familiar in 1989. Possessing the Secret of Joy in 1992, and By the Light of my Fathers Smile in 1998.
Alice Walker has done many great things, and won many awards. She talked for women movements, the anti-apartheid movement and the antinuclear movement. She won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple. The Lillian Smith award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She won The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Also, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Merill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Alice Walker won the Front Page Award for the best magazine criticism from the Newswomen Cub of New York, the Townsend Prize and a Lyndhurst Prize.
As you can see, Alice Walker was very successful. She wrote many books and won many awards. Her life wasn’t easy, but she over came it. Alice Walker may have changed many lives just through the books she writes.
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. When she was younger she lost sight in on eye. She went to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1961 for 2 years. Then she went to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and completed her bachelor’s degree in 1965. She worked for New York City Welfare. Two years later she married Melvyn Roseman Leventhal. They moved to Jackson, Mississippi and Alice worked as a writer at Jackson State College from 1968-69. Then Tougaloo College from 1970-71.
Alice Walker wrote many books. Her first book was poems, Once in 1968. The poems were about a man she fell in love with in Africa. One year later she wrote a short story called The Hell With Dying. In 1972, she wrote more poems Five Poems. Then in 1973, she wrote Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Also, short stories In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. This earned her an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter Award. Plus a novel The 3rd life of Grange Copeland. In 1976, she wrote the novel Meridian. In 1981 she wrote her second collection of stories You Cant Keep a Good Women Down. An essay collection in 1981 In Search of our Mothers Gardens: Womenist Prose. In 1983 she wrote her most controversial book The Color Purple. Other novels she wrote are The Temple of Familiar in 1989. Possessing the Secret of Joy in 1992, and By the Light of my Fathers Smile in 1998.
Alice Walker has done many great things, and won many awards. She talked for women movements, the anti-apartheid movement and the antinuclear movement. She won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple. The Lillian Smith award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She won The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Also, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Merill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Alice Walker won the Front Page Award for the best magazine criticism from the Newswomen Cub of New York, the Townsend Prize and a Lyndhurst Prize.
As you can see, Alice Walker was very successful. She wrote many books and won many awards. Her life wasn’t easy, but she over came it. Alice Walker may have changed many lives just through the books she writes.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Should Huck Finn be taught in CHS?
The book Huck Finn is about a boy who lives in Mississippi. The author Mark Twain has many controversial issues in the book. But I think it shouldn't be taught in school. But I have one reason why it should be. One reason Huck Fin shouldn’t be taught in school is the language Mark Twain uses, the second is because of the stuff Huck does. The reason why it should be taught in school is because it teaches you a lot through out the book.
One reason why Huck Finn shouldn’t be taught in school is the language it uses. Huck does not care what people think, so in the book Mark Twain makes him use some words that shouldn’t be said. In the first and second chapter he use the "N" word a lot. This isn’t the 1800’s; you can’t use that kind of language. A lot of people might get offended if they read the book and seen how many times it was used.
The second reason it shouldn’t be taught in school is because of the stuff Huck does. He runs away, curses, smokes, and sneaks out. When people read this book they don’t want their kids thinking that they can smoke or curse. Not all kids are like this but some are. When them kind of kids read the book they will think that they can get away with that. Also he lies all the time. Kids might think if they lie they can get away with stuff.
Finally the reason I think it should be taught is because you could learn a lot from it. The book is different because of the way it was written. He wrote it the way he speaks. It is really hard to follow. It could teach them how to read in different ways.
As you can see Huck Finn is very controversial. The way he talks, and the things he does. But it is also a god learning too. It could teach kids how to read better
One reason why Huck Finn shouldn’t be taught in school is the language it uses. Huck does not care what people think, so in the book Mark Twain makes him use some words that shouldn’t be said. In the first and second chapter he use the "N" word a lot. This isn’t the 1800’s; you can’t use that kind of language. A lot of people might get offended if they read the book and seen how many times it was used.
The second reason it shouldn’t be taught in school is because of the stuff Huck does. He runs away, curses, smokes, and sneaks out. When people read this book they don’t want their kids thinking that they can smoke or curse. Not all kids are like this but some are. When them kind of kids read the book they will think that they can get away with that. Also he lies all the time. Kids might think if they lie they can get away with stuff.
Finally the reason I think it should be taught is because you could learn a lot from it. The book is different because of the way it was written. He wrote it the way he speaks. It is really hard to follow. It could teach them how to read in different ways.
As you can see Huck Finn is very controversial. The way he talks, and the things he does. But it is also a god learning too. It could teach kids how to read better
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Should parents be allowed to hit their kids??
In the book “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Huck Finns dad hits him. But, parents shouldn’t be allowed to hit their kids. This book is a good why they shouldn’t. One is if there parents are alcoholics, and hitting for the wrong reasons. But, there are some reasons why they should be allowed to hit their kids.
In chapter five we meet Huck Finns dad. He is an alcoholic. He beats Huck Finn because he goes to school. I think it because all he does is drink. If he didn’t drink all the time and spent his money good he wouldn’t be so mad all the time. Also, I think he beats Huck because he’s mad. If parents beat their kids they might do the same thing.
Some parents, like Hucks dad take it to far. They kick their kids, and beat them with sticks and stuff. They shouldn’t be allowed too. Hucks dad kidnapped him so he could get the money from Huck. His dad wanted the money he found. That isn’t fair because now he cant finished school and stuff like that.
Although there are many con’s to being allowed to hit your kids I think there are some pro’s also. If the kid deseveres to be hit maybe he should be. Some kids are really bad and have bad mouths, like Huck. If a kid curses at their parents their parents might hit them because it’s disrespectful.
As you can see there are many reasons why you should and shouldn’t be allowed to hit your kids. One reason is if they drink too much. Another reason is they might take it to far. Then there are pros like if the child is being disrespectful.
In chapter five we meet Huck Finns dad. He is an alcoholic. He beats Huck Finn because he goes to school. I think it because all he does is drink. If he didn’t drink all the time and spent his money good he wouldn’t be so mad all the time. Also, I think he beats Huck because he’s mad. If parents beat their kids they might do the same thing.
Some parents, like Hucks dad take it to far. They kick their kids, and beat them with sticks and stuff. They shouldn’t be allowed too. Hucks dad kidnapped him so he could get the money from Huck. His dad wanted the money he found. That isn’t fair because now he cant finished school and stuff like that.
Although there are many con’s to being allowed to hit your kids I think there are some pro’s also. If the kid deseveres to be hit maybe he should be. Some kids are really bad and have bad mouths, like Huck. If a kid curses at their parents their parents might hit them because it’s disrespectful.
As you can see there are many reasons why you should and shouldn’t be allowed to hit your kids. One reason is if they drink too much. Another reason is they might take it to far. Then there are pros like if the child is being disrespectful.
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