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Another April

2008-04-11T08:11:00.000-07:00

What is the terrpin going as Grandpa leaves?

Grandpa calls the terrapin his "old friend." What do you think he and the terrapin have in common?

Has the boy's attitude toward his grandfather changed? Support your opinion with examples.

Converse

2008-04-01T07:42:00.000-07:00

Converse you are so comfortable,
I can stand for long time without getting tired
beside me you stand,
beside me you walk,
you're one of my best shoes,
by choice we became friends.
I feel really bad when its time to leave you.

To have you as a company I feel lovely and appreciated. With you I found my first love and my first kiss you were there with me.

Apples

2008-04-01T06:57:00.000-07:00

Apples

Everybody in the world eat Apples,
Some of the people like them a lot,
but I love apples so much.
I eat my first apple when I was three years old,
it was so big for me and red with a sweet flavor irresistible not to eat it.

Green apples are sour and sweet at the same time,
they have something that makes me happy ,
when I eat them. I feel something inside my body
like a tickling, its just amazing the first bit.

Beauty- By: John Masefield

2008-03-27T08:24:00.000-07:00

BEAUTY
John Masefield

1 Have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills
2 Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain:
3 I have seen the lady April bringing in the daffodils,
4 Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

5 I have heard the song of the blossoms and the old chant of the sea,
6 And seen strange lands from under the arched white sails of ships;
7 But the loveliest things of beauty God ever has showed to me
8 Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips.

Alliteration: line #6 sails of ships;

Speaker: A man

Imagery:
line# 3 I have seen the lady April bringing in the daffodils,
line# 5 I have heard the song of the blossoms and the old chant of the sea,

Repetition:
lines#2, 7 beauty

Rhyme:
line# 7 But the loveliest things of beauty God ever has showed to me
line# 8 Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips.

Roberto Clemente

2008-03-18T07:29:00.001-07:00

WHAT STEPS DOES ROBERTO TAKE TO BECOME A GREAT BASEBALL PLAYER?

The steps that Roberto take to become a great baseball player was work hard to make his dream come true and in school joined the baseball team.

WHAT SETS ROBERTO ABOVE THE REST OF THE PLAYERS?

The sets that Roberto above the rest of the players was that he record 6.4 seconds fire fasting balls at the catcher so fast and becoming terrifying discovery.

WHAT ARE ROBERTO'S ACHIEVEMENTS AS A PLAYER?
Roberto's achievements as a player are that he became a Puerto Rican fan as a hero. Also had his 3000th career hit. At the time, only ten men had achieved this goal.

WHICH OF ROBERTO CLEMENTE'S GOALS WAS REACHED AFTER HIS DEATH?
The goals that was reached after Clemente's goals was that visitors were greeted with a twelve foot statue of Roberto Clemente sports City.

BECOMING A BASEBALL HALL OF FAME MEMBER SHOWS THAT ROBERTO WAS AN OUTSTANDING PLAYER. FIND EVIDENCE FROM THE SELECTION THAT SHOWS HIM AS AN OUTSTANDING HUMAN BEING.

The evidence that shows that Roberto was an outstanding human being is that he continued to play no matter how tired he was because he wanted his fans to enjoy watching him.

LOOK OVER THE DETAILS ABOUT ROBERTO'S DISAPPEARANCE. USE THE INFORMATION TO MAKE A TIME LINE OF THE EVENTS.

He born in the island of Puerto Rico.

Sign for a contract to get money to their family.

Help people in his country and the young people to learn the values of hard work through sports.

Hall of fame, one honor that he was given.

vocabulary

2008-03-18T07:08:00.000-07:00

1. Determined: I made a determined decision between Diego and me.
2. Prospects:
3. Prejudice: There is a lot of prejudice surronding gay marriage.
4. Potential: My best friend has a great potential as a student.

Cesar Chavez

2008-03-14T07:21:00.000-07:00

Vocabulary definitions and sentences:

Nonviolent: not violent; free of violence.
Union: organized group of workers.
Motto: sentence that expresses the group's goals.
Fasts: periods of time without food.
Tactics: methods used to get results.

Re-read and think it through questions:

1. How was Cesar like the other children of migrant workers? How was he different?
- He was like the other children when they migrant and it was hard for them to study. Lot of children go to school when they could. He was different in ways, like he finished eight grade which was high education for most migrant children. And he love to read.

Find two events that led to changes in Cesar's life.
- The events that led to change in Cesar's life is that he work full time for the Community Service Organization and he held meetings to talk with workers which make more workers joined the CSO.

Do you think this is a good motto? Explain.
- I think yes, the motto express more workers to joined.

Why do you think the farmworkers followed Cesar?
- I think the farmworkers followed Cesar, because he proved that farmworkers had power. Together they could bargain with farmers for better wages and working conditions.

Why do you think Cesar tried a boycott?
- I think Cesar tried a boycott, because the knew the public supported the farmworkers. So, he tried a boycott which meant that no one would buy grapes unless farmers met some of the workers' demands.

Essay

2008-03-04T08:11:00.000-08:00

There are many shows that people get inspire and many young adults try to be better to compete there by showing their talents. Like wwe, ecw, raw. Many people do anything to be there and figth with the best figters in the world and its an amazing feel because you can explain with words what is being there and fight. Kids and adults have their favorites wrestling.

By many years young people are being inspired by TV shows that give them the opportunity to compet with the professionals and by the time they start showing them that they can it better too. However sometimes they got fustrated because in that kind of show there are a lot of people competing for the same reason.

Also this TV shows are for people that can't afford to paid their records and paid their manangers.

The no-guitar blues

2008-03-04T07:53:00.000-08:00

How does Fausto get a guitar?
By asking his grandfather .

Do you think Fausto was right to give the money to the church? why or why not?
Yes, because he wasn't going to do nothing with the money any ways he was going to get a guitar.

How do you think Fausto is feeling when he offers to wash the disher forever? Explain.
I thing he feel that doing that his mother was going to gave him th guitar that he wants.

Scary Story

2008-02-29T07:09:00.000-08:00

One day i went to my uncle house to pick up my things from there, the room where i used to sleep was dark and i couldn't see anything and i walk in side the room and i saw something white walking around the bed it was so freaking scary because i was alone and i could event said any word.

the tell tale heart

2008-02-29T06:52:00.000-08:00

What does the narrator want to do? why?

Try to picture this scene in your mind. why couldn't the narrator kill the oldman?

What happends on the eighth night? how is it different from the first seven nights?

The narrator hears something. how does this sound affect what he does?

How is the sound of the clock like the sound of the old man's heart?

What causes the narrator to carry out his deed?

What does the narrator do? how does he feel about it?

How does the narrator react when the police arrive? How do you explain this reaction?

Where has the narrator used these words before?

Cinderella-2008 essay

2008-02-26T08:00:00.001-08:00

Once upon a time it was a girl named Lorena, she used to lived in a suit in Manhattan with her two stepsisters Sarah and Lili and her stepmother Olivia they make her work all day long and ask her to pay the rent because it was her father apartment and it was the only thing that he leave her, when he die she love her apartment.

One day she heard the radio station 105.1 the they were giving free tickets to go see Cris Brown. She call the radio station one hour later because she didn't have a phone so she when to her outside but they didn't pick up thephone one hour later they did however its was to late they didn't have and more tickets, and they told her that. she was really sad because she really wants to meet him.

The next day she was cleaning a house and she found two tickets out side the house she went running with the tickets on her hands and her stepsister asked why are you so happy loser, and she saw the tickets and took then fom her hands stole the tickets. and she saw the ticked

Cinder Edna

2008-02-26T07:55:00.001-08:00

Vocabulary Homework - find definitions and use the following words in sentences:

1. to scrub: clean with hard rubbing
She scrubbed his back

2. wicked:
The criminals should be punished for their wicked driving.

3. cinder: Those are the cinder of my grandparent.

4. spunky:

5. to trim: decorate, as with ornaments
"Trim the christmas tree"

6. occasion: a particular time
"They met on three occasions'

7. orphan: a child who has lost both parents
My cousin is a orphan.

8. casserole:
Every time I made a salad I made in a casserole.

9. to stumble:
I always stumble when i said some words

10. profile:
My myspace profile is all about me.

Underground Railroad

2008-02-14T07:02:00.000-08:00

Name: Alexandra Ortiz

Date: 2/14/08

Underground Railroad

1.	The Underground Railroad was a highly organized system. False

2.	Many of those involved in the Underground Railroad were, Slaves Runaway slaves

3.	Why would the escape of a small percentage of slaves cause so much trouble?

4.	Harriet Tubman was not important to the Underground Railroad. False

5.	How did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affect escaped slaves? It made people angry with the law so they joined the anti-slavery cause. It stopped slaves from escaping It ignited more protest It had no effect

6.	The first Canadian African American newspaper was produced by, Josiah Henson

7.	What might have happened if the Underground Railroad hadn't existed?

8.	Why did so many escaped slaves move to Canada? The Underground Railroad didn't stop until it reached the border.

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Underground Railroad
You are a member of the Underground Railroad. A small group of runaway slaves has come to your home to be hidden. All goes well until a neighbor who is not sympathetic to the cause becomes suspicious. What do you do?

I think, should tell my people to go to another part because maybe that suspicious neightbor can tell our ouners that we are ther and then they can take us back to work and being a sleve again and i think that would be the worsth thing that could happen to a slave.

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Underground Railroad
If you were a slave who was planning to runaway, what kind of plans would you make? How would you know when the time was right to leave?

If i were a slave who were planning to runaway, i would try to scape in the morning because is mor easy to pretend that a was goint to work in the farms or some thing but at night every body knows that the slave want to runaway from they owners and that is more difficult to see were to go and were to stay until i cold go in the moning to the wood.

Name ________________________

___________
(Key 1 - Answer ID # 0725050)

Meaning

Sentence

slaver

a person who is property of another.

I had become her slave, doing all the housework.

dangerous

successful

yoke

actually

treasure

extremely

industrious

runaway

10.

former

11.

various

12.

bondage

13.

trickle

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Underground Railroad

1.	The Underground Railroad was a highly organized system. False True

2.	Many of those involved in the Underground Railroad were, Slaves Free blacks Whites Runaway slaves

3.	Why would the escape of a small percentage of slaves cause so much trouble?

4.	Harriet Tubman was not important to the Underground Railroad. False True

5.	How did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affect escaped slaves? It made people angry with the law so they joined the anti-slavery cause. It stopped slaves from escaping It ignited more protest It had no effect

6.	The first Canadian African American newspaper was produced by, William Lloyd Garrison Austin Steward Josiah Henson Frederick Douglass

7.	What might have happened if the Underground Railroad hadn't existed?

8.	Why did so many escaped slaves move to Canada? They liked the climate better The Underground Railroad didn't stop until it reached the border. Because of the 13th Amendment The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Underground Railroad
If you were a slave who was planning to runaway, what kind of plans would you make? How would you know when the time was right to leave?

Name _____________________________

___________
(Key 1 - Answer ID # 0725050)

Meaning

Sentence

slaver

dangerous

successful

yoke

actually

treasure

extremely

industrious

runaway

10.

former

11.

various

12.

bondage

13.

trickle

Argumentative essay

2008-02-08T07:18:00.000-08:00

Write an essay about how people are influenced by their environment. Discuss how both the formal education and the everyday acquisition of life skills affect the person. Make sure your essay is well organized and of sufficient length.

The formal education and the everyday acquisition of the life skills effect the person by changing the humans personality and by making them more sucessful. A formal education is the process of training and developing people in knowledge, skills. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the culture from generation to generation. And the life skills help how you should treat people.

The education indoor benefit your main and is really important to improve our education. Many people play mental games and go to school because they want to became educated and like to enjoy it. However most of the people just like to enjoy being with their families and sharing memories that make them happy.

The primary function of the family is to reproduce society, biologically or both. Thus experience of family shifts over time. From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation. The family serves to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their lifes. From the point of view of the parents, the goal of which is to produce and culturate and socialize children.

in conclution, i think that both interior and exterior education is really important because your main grow more and more. Like indoors and out doors environment. the indoor are the educated people and the outdoor is only everyday actisitionof life .