Friday, February 29, 2008

Scary Story

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

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?

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Cinderella-2008 essay

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

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.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Underground Railroad

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)
w

Meaning

Sentence
1.
slaver
a person who is property of another.


I had become her slave, doing all the housework.
2.
dangerous



3.
successful



4.
yoke



5.
actually



6.
treasure



7.
extremely



8.
industrious



9.
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 ___________________
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?

















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)
w

Meaning

Sentence
1.
slaver



2.
dangerous



3.
successful



4.
yoke



5.
actually



6.
treasure



7.
extremely



8.
industrious



9.
runaway



10.
former



11.
various



12.
bondage



13.
trickle