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.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Should Parents Be Allowed To Hit Their Children?
Killing and hurting others intentionally is considered a crime. If a parent hits a child and hurts them isn’t that considered a crime? I believe parents shouldn’t be able to hit their children. Parents shouldn’t be able to hit their children because it could be fatal, and it causes physical & emontional damage, and it doesn’t improve the child.
Fatal means death. If you hit a child in a certain or particular place with a certain amount of force it could kill them. Children aren’t all the way developed so a beating could mean death. Although the purpose wouldn’t be to kill the child just to discipline them, you can never tell. So parents shouldn’t be able to hit their children.
A dramatic experience in your childhood could shape your adult life& your everyday life. Plus it can leave life lasting bruises. Getting hit as a child by your parent can leave you emontionally damaged as well. Some children will feel as if everyone is out to get them. The children may also grow up to despise their parents. Physical damage can be left because a bruise might not heal or an injury may never go away. The emontional damage and physical damage is why parents shouldn’t be able to hit their children.
Hitting a child continuously will not stop them from making mistakes or doing bad things. It will make them share but they will continue to mess up if they know that will be their only punishment. That is why hitting a child is not effective and shouldn’t be used.
To sum up my essay, parents hitting their children shouldn’t be allowed because it could be fatal, cause physical & emotional damage, and it doesn’t work.
Fatal means death. If you hit a child in a certain or particular place with a certain amount of force it could kill them. Children aren’t all the way developed so a beating could mean death. Although the purpose wouldn’t be to kill the child just to discipline them, you can never tell. So parents shouldn’t be able to hit their children.
A dramatic experience in your childhood could shape your adult life& your everyday life. Plus it can leave life lasting bruises. Getting hit as a child by your parent can leave you emontionally damaged as well. Some children will feel as if everyone is out to get them. The children may also grow up to despise their parents. Physical damage can be left because a bruise might not heal or an injury may never go away. The emontional damage and physical damage is why parents shouldn’t be able to hit their children.
Hitting a child continuously will not stop them from making mistakes or doing bad things. It will make them share but they will continue to mess up if they know that will be their only punishment. That is why hitting a child is not effective and shouldn’t be used.
To sum up my essay, parents hitting their children shouldn’t be allowed because it could be fatal, cause physical & emotional damage, and it doesn’t work.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Huck Finn : Should It Be Taught?
Known as one of the greatest novels of all time, Huck Finn is still being debated as whether or not it should be taught in high school. Many think it shouldn’t be taught in schools. Some think it should be taught in schools. Some think its should. The ones against it may not understand its complexity & need to be known. Of course it has racist words, but doesn’t textbooks too. Huck Finn is just telling a story, and I believe it should be taught in schools. It shows conflict in the South (whites v. blacks), struggles of runaway slaves, and its historical.
Does, Huck Finn depicted the conflict in the South9 whites v. blacks)? How whites, didn’t respect blacks in that time period. This directly shows the hatred toward one or another. Ms. Watson didn’t respect Jim as a person because she says, “ She couldn’t git eight hund’d dollars for me, on it ‘ uz such a big stack o ‘ money she couldn’t resist. Whites considered blacks as property not a person. They felt as if blacks were inferior to them.
Secondly, Huck Finn should be taught in school because it shows how runaway slaves had to struggle just to escape to freedom. Jim had to duck & hides just not to be seen. For example, “ I got hurt a little, en couldn’t swim fas’ so I wuz a considerable ways behind you towards de las: Just to get to the North many became injured & hurt.
Lastly, Huck Finn is very historical & should be taught. It’s historical because it explains family life during that time, slavery, history, charity etc. It shows how the courts weren’t that good. How they weren’t let someone else have Huck only his dad who was drunk. The judge & the widow went to law to get the court to take me away.
In conclusion Huck Finn should be taught because it shows the lack of respect
(whites. Blacks), struggle of runway slaves, and its historical importance. These factors are all important to the knowledge of history that helps students understand.
Does, Huck Finn depicted the conflict in the South9 whites v. blacks)? How whites, didn’t respect blacks in that time period. This directly shows the hatred toward one or another. Ms. Watson didn’t respect Jim as a person because she says, “ She couldn’t git eight hund’d dollars for me, on it ‘ uz such a big stack o ‘ money she couldn’t resist. Whites considered blacks as property not a person. They felt as if blacks were inferior to them.
Secondly, Huck Finn should be taught in school because it shows how runaway slaves had to struggle just to escape to freedom. Jim had to duck & hides just not to be seen. For example, “ I got hurt a little, en couldn’t swim fas’ so I wuz a considerable ways behind you towards de las: Just to get to the North many became injured & hurt.
Lastly, Huck Finn is very historical & should be taught. It’s historical because it explains family life during that time, slavery, history, charity etc. It shows how the courts weren’t that good. How they weren’t let someone else have Huck only his dad who was drunk. The judge & the widow went to law to get the court to take me away.
In conclusion Huck Finn should be taught because it shows the lack of respect
(whites. Blacks), struggle of runway slaves, and its historical importance. These factors are all important to the knowledge of history that helps students understand.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Jewish musmuen
the trip to to the jewish musmneum was very cultural. It showed how imgrants have a hard time fitting in and adating. The english languange isn't a very easy one either. Many imigrants come to america for freedom but feel homesick. This opened my eyes to see that imigrants need help to adapt in and we should be more helpful.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The event at the NCC
the event at the NCC was very interesting. A girl got in trouble for just making a myspace. Even throgh she put a disclaimer. This shows how the rights of teenagers are not always regonzied. This event gave us examples of how we are vioalted and how what rights we have. Many people are interested in handling cases with teens. This was fun and I liked it
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