Blog#2

American Icons

Rosa parks


1. Rosa Parks represent freedom, justice, inspiration, and determination; because she stood up for something that was injustice was when no else would. She inspired many African American people to see what change was all about and through that change a movement was made.

2. The freedom of minority's was important to Rosa Parks, because she feels African Americans should be treated fairly and given the same rights as others.

3. Rosa Parks is important because she inspired the Birmingham Bus Boycott which lead to integrated buses in one of the most segregated cities in America.

4. Rosa Parks is important to me, because she helped change the past so I and all people of color can be treated fairly and have a better life.

5. Rosa Parks inspired many people to stand up for what they believe in or what isn't right. She show people to be the change you want to see in the world, inspired us to all stand up and fight for to make thing right.

6. Does this Icon remind you of anyone you know? if some who?


Pocahontas

1. Pocahontas represents caring and help, because when British came to settle in Virgina when winter came it was so cold they couldn't hunter, so they were starving. Pocahontas then convinced her father to help them out.

2. Peace was important to Pocahontas, because so didn't want to shed blood and did what war. She felt that the English were just as important as her people.

3. Pocahontas was one of the first women to play an important role in what became the United States. Her friendship with the English settlers helped ensure the success of Jamestown, which became the first permanent English settlement in America.

4. Pocahontas is important to me because I grow up watching her.

5. Pocahontas inspired peace between all.

6. Why did Pocahontas convince her dad to not kill the English, but she didn't stop he from concurring small Indian tribes?

Blog#1

Part 1. This up coming school year I am looking forward to creating the scene of our theater play, but not so excited about preforming. I really hope this year we won't have a lot of homework and we can be successful with the work we produce in class. I am excited to do some creative writing were I feel to ink against the paper flows the most and there can never be a grade for something that comes from your heart. However, to be honest there isn't a lot of thing I am excited for, I just want good grades for college. I know teachers always say grades don't matter, it's what you learn, but colleges don't look at what you learn they look at your grades. Nevertheless, I am still persist to learn and take what ever knowledge I gained to the next grade.

Part 2:

Chicken noodle soup

I sat down next to her and asked her, have you ever read a book that had an impact on your life? My mom had a puzzle look upon her face and she repeated the question I had just asked her, “ yes, but why are you asking me this random question,” she said with a big smile on her face. Well what book is it? Chicken noodle soup she said, which is a book with a lot of different passages about events people face in their lives and immediately I knew what book she was talking about. I’ve read the book in the past because she had introduced it to me and now it is one of me favorite books. My mother told me the book had a real toll in her life, she feel like when she was reading the book it really connected to her and what she when though in school. It not only connected with her it also taught her a lot about life and what people go through. I asked if she can tell me a specifically event that connected with the book.

In high school there was a lot of drama with the girls always wanting to fight her for no reason and she was going to let any of the girls think that she was afraid of them, because she wasn’t. There was only one thing to do fight with or let them bully you until you graduate and even though she was a Mexican mixed girl with long curly hair who was nice to people until proven other wise, she still could fight. However, “I wasn’t a trouble maker or liked fighting, I was taught to never start a fight, but to finish it. A lot of passages were similar to what I when through and by reading them it gave me a better perspective about what the girls who ever trying to fight me might be facing in there life’s,” she said.

After reading the book I haven’t read in years I sat down with my mother again and discussed the book with her. I told her how enlightening it was to re-read chicken noodle soup, how it gave me understanding and although some of the stories where sad I still got the message the story was trying to deliver. What stood out to me was how every story had a empowering look on life and it taught that people going through thing and we might not know and that could be the reason why they act the way they do, so we should take the time out and talk to people.

Genome

I was introduced to Genome by Siarah Loyd, who read it in 11^th grade. I then popped the question on her, “why do you value this book and how has it impacted your life?” Her answers were all positive. She said, “ I like Genome, because I it gives you a different look on life and our bodies and how we function. It gives a deeper, more meaningful answer to the question we ask about how we got here or what we came from.” I thought it was real interesting how she felt about the book; because my first impression was I did not want to read the book cause it looks boring. I have never read this book before and to be honest I wasn’t excited to peruse it.

While reading the book it was exactly how I predicted at times, so boring it was hard to read, and other time it was engaging and giving me useful incite about the human body. However, there were thing I have all rightly learned, but it was a good brush-up. I think it was mind fluttering how our genes can determent our very future and what sickness may occurred in life. Throughout the book I learn a lot about Huntington disease and how it creates holes in your brain like Swiss cheese, which cause memory lost. This book was somewhat interesting, but in the future I wouldn't read this book again.

- Jazmine Miller