Dear Mr. Romero,
I believe I deserve an A+ or a 100 because I have worked hard for the second semester. I completed all 36 questions, read the whole Huckberry Finn book, and I posted and blogged all my required essays & stories.
The task of writing 2 questions for each level for conflict, characters, and setting was a creuling one. It was more thinking about what you learned then just looking in the book. It was necessary to read the book. I deserve an A+
because I completed this large task and turned it in on Friday, Jan. 3.
The Adventures of Huckberry Finn was a required reading for this marking period. I believe it was about 27 chapters. Though I lost touch, and focus as I read on it grasped my attention until the end. The setting & time was back in the day and nowadays children really don’t like to read that stuff. I read beginning to end not missing a page and connected it to my 36 questions.
Blogger, COM, and Storywrite.com were an online publishing for the 9th grade. Each essay on blogger. Com is completed, and my narrative on storywrite.com is published &* I wrote many comments. I have met all the deadlines too.
To conclude my letter I believe I deserve an A+ or a 100 because I have done everything required & more. Such as the 36 questions, reading Huckberry Finn, and published 7 blogged all essays & stories.
Sincerly, Khalia thompson
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
African American Biography
Khalia Thompson
English 1
Biography
Phillis Wheatley was a famous African American slave born in Africa most likely in Senegal in the early 1750s. Phillis was kidnapped at age five or six and taken to Boston in a salve ship. In 1761 Phillis was sold to John Wheatley who was a merchant. Philis was a favorite out of the slaves and was allowed to learn to read & write in 1761 is when she began writing.
Phillis is famously known for her poem” On the Death of their Reverend Mr. George Whitefield was published in 1770. Granted her freedom in 1773 the Wheatlys sent Phillis to London to recieve medical care. There she met Benjamin Franklin & other notable figures. In London she began known as “ Sable Muse”. While in London she published “ Poems on various subjects, and Religious and Mural”. She returned to Boston in 1773. During the pre-Revolutionary period she wrote poems and supporting the American cause her famous poem to George Washington not her invite to visit him at the Continental army Camp. In 1778 she married a free black. Her luck began to incline. One of her jobs was cleaning a lodging house. Two of her three children died. She died later that year. She is also famously known for her poem “One being brought from Africa to America.”
Did Phillis Wheatly really write for the whites or was it the black struggle in converted form? This is a topic many have touched upon. Phillis thought was treated good was still a slave. Many whites beloved her to be a faithful & good servant. Though don’t you see her pain & disbeleaf of being a slave in her poems? Its impact today is now historians can see the feelings of a slave and try to analyze why she felt that way. Even through many whites didn’t understanding they were blind to the truth. Phillis made a good life on the outside but a bad emotional life inside. Her heartbreak & pain caused her to die at a young age.
English 1
Biography
Phillis Wheatley was a famous African American slave born in Africa most likely in Senegal in the early 1750s. Phillis was kidnapped at age five or six and taken to Boston in a salve ship. In 1761 Phillis was sold to John Wheatley who was a merchant. Philis was a favorite out of the slaves and was allowed to learn to read & write in 1761 is when she began writing.
Phillis is famously known for her poem” On the Death of their Reverend Mr. George Whitefield was published in 1770. Granted her freedom in 1773 the Wheatlys sent Phillis to London to recieve medical care. There she met Benjamin Franklin & other notable figures. In London she began known as “ Sable Muse”. While in London she published “ Poems on various subjects, and Religious and Mural”. She returned to Boston in 1773. During the pre-Revolutionary period she wrote poems and supporting the American cause her famous poem to George Washington not her invite to visit him at the Continental army Camp. In 1778 she married a free black. Her luck began to incline. One of her jobs was cleaning a lodging house. Two of her three children died. She died later that year. She is also famously known for her poem “One being brought from Africa to America.”
Did Phillis Wheatly really write for the whites or was it the black struggle in converted form? This is a topic many have touched upon. Phillis thought was treated good was still a slave. Many whites beloved her to be a faithful & good servant. Though don’t you see her pain & disbeleaf of being a slave in her poems? Its impact today is now historians can see the feelings of a slave and try to analyze why she felt that way. Even through many whites didn’t understanding they were blind to the truth. Phillis made a good life on the outside but a bad emotional life inside. Her heartbreak & pain caused her to die at a young age.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
NHD history Day Links
1. This website has primary and secondary sources. It is perfect for anyone doing the constitutional convention.
2. This site a webxite that has primary sources from James Madison notes on the Convention.
3.This site a website with primary sources from James Madison's notes.
4.Teaching American History
This is a site in which has all of America's history. This is secondary sources.
5.This is a website about slaves and the effect of the three fifths compromise.
2. This site a webxite that has primary sources from James Madison notes on the Convention.
3.This site a website with primary sources from James Madison's notes.
4.Teaching American History
This is a site in which has all of America's history. This is secondary sources.
5.This is a website about slaves and the effect of the three fifths compromise.
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