Thursday, March 13, 2008

My walking trip with Ms.Thompson

On our trip we went to Washington square we discussed geometry and shapes thats there, we also talked about service learning and some possibilities of what we can do in the park. Then afterwards we went to the Curtis Center to just see the mural. But while we was there we looked up certain things we can do for service learning and we talked to people about helping out there. We checked out the daycare they have in there, the fitness center and many other things. This trip was a great experience!

Friday, March 7, 2008

This year service learning

For service learning this year i want to do tutoring again because i liked it last year and i like helping the students last year was fun for me. They really looked up to us and looked forward to us coming like every week, and was even happier when we got there.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

question(bloom taxonomy)

Application
What questions would you ask Bigger Thomas, if you had the chance to meet him? If i had to meet Bigger Thomas i would ask him: why did u try to rape Mary Dalton?, and what caused you to kill a woman who was kind to you?

Analysis
What are some problems between bigger and his mother?
some problems between bigger and his mother are bigger's mom wants him to get a job when he doesn't want to. Also Bigger's mom treats him worse then his brother and sister.


Synthesis
Why dont you devise your own way to deal with what happened in mary room, right before bigger killed her?
To deal with what had happened in mary's room i would've just told somewhat the truth, the way i would've told somewhat the truth is when mrs.dalton came into the room i would've said ma'am, Miss.Dalton is drunk and she wasn't able to come up the stairs on her own so i helped her to her room and i would've dealt with the repercussions. In conclusion in dealing with what happened in Mary's room before i killed her bigger and i differ.


Evaluation
How would you feel if you were in Bigger's position, a young poor black man killing a young rich white woman?
If i was in bigger position i would've just quit my job lied and said that the whole investigation was to much for me then i would've skipped far away from town and never came back and found work somewhere else.


Knowledge
Describe what happened at the pool house between Bigger and Gus the second time.
Bigger and Gus got into a fight. Bigger threatened Gus by putting a knife to his kneck. They faught because Bigger was afraid of robbing Old Blum.

Monday, March 3, 2008

news paper article for english

A tragedy happened as they found Mr. Dalton daughter Mary Dalton in their home furnace, but before they found her she has been missing for 3 days. In the begining of this investigation they only had one leading suspect who was  their chauffer Bigger Thomas  who was at the time her designated driver police had believed that he had something to do with it because he was the last person to see her the night she went missing their first thought were he couldve took advantage of her because she was drunk. But bigger was soon let off the hook because as the investigation went on they found another suspect which is Jan Erlone who was believed to have been in a relationship with her. They found her body 3 days after she went missing burning inside a furnace. The cops then put Jan Erlone in jail. But then the abductors demanded 10,000 dollars in a ransom note. The question is would he still pay the ransom even though they already found her body in their own furnace with her head cut off or maybe Mr. Dalton havent found out about that yet in this point of the investigation. The Dalton family immediately demanded for the release of Jan Erlone. Further into their investigation they have noticed Bigger Thomas their negro chauffer  has disappered and the police and now that they have found Mary body they think it has something to do with him killing her and them finding her bones. This investigation just got deeper check into my column next week to find out the final acts of this very long investigation.

English chapter analysis

Chapter 1 pg.3-8
   This chapter is about bigger trying to kill a rat and when he finally kills the rat he teases his sister and she fainted. He then got into an argument with his mother.
Analysis- i think he wrote this chapter because it shows how favoritism between a mother and her child and how it can affect a child.

Chapter 2 pg.9-12
   This chapter is about bigger having a conflict with his mother about him taking a job and about his mother always thinking down on him.
Analysis- I think he wrote this chapter because it signifies how hard his mother is on him to find a job so they can survive and he can do something with himself.

Reflection on last year service learning

Last year in service learning I learned how to be more of a people person and actually see first hand how much some of the students were really struggling and everything they needed help with were mainly basic. It was like the students needed more attention then they were getting from their actual teachers at school. But it was fun actually working with the students, helping them and having them look up to you and making new friends.

NHD reflection

This year for NHD I chose to do the conspiracies of 9/11. I learned so many things that i never knew about, this topic really help me expand my knowledge on the topic and on other topics as well. My success with this topic  was actually everything i learned during this process and actually doing this because this topic is a hard thing to cover. My failures were not actually adding everything we found out into our document and covering certain things we were supposed to cover and didn't that could've really made our topic stronger than it was and if we would've hit all the right spots in our topics we could've had a great chance in winning.