poerty response B.M

Open Mike
Attendance
by: Tyrone Bittings

The character in the poem feels like theres no hope for him, and thinks he has no future and is lucky enough to live to age twenty-one. I've learned that I shouldn't put myself down, because if i have something good going for me i should continue working on it until it gets better.
What inferences can you make about this poem? In the poem it tells about how the area where they live in is, and it tells about how people don't think about death and how his father was killed from all the violence in the street. Tyrone tries to fight from admitting he has a future but wants to stay in the hood. The word that can describe Tyrone's feelings is fearless because in the poem he says is too late to worry about innocence.
I can connect with this poem because of the way he describes where he lives, and it's similar to how people act now in the street. Sometimes kids feel like they don't have a future but then we realize there is hope for us even though theres so much discrimination and violence.

Richmond Leake, 53 Newstand Dealer

This poem is about a man that no one listened to, his teachers and wife didn't have time to listen because they were always too busy with they're own lives. I can infer that he was a black man because he worked for a white man and the white man was rich so he made sure Richmond didn't steal anything. Richmond must feel like he's isolated from people because no one listens to him and even though people think that hes crazy for talking to himself, but he thinks thats just fine. I think this poem means that it's o.k to ask you're self questions and find the answer you're self.

"We Thought"

He lived with nothing,
now has everything.
We thought it was unreal, it made no sense to hear.
A dream became reality, with many things to do.
We thought world's problem was to hard to fix,
but Obama rose and pledged "yes we can".
It can be done, we thought the possibilities,
now we accept
we know he can.

Test Prep Action Plan

My goal for test prep is to get a good score, I will do this by doing reading practice test to understand passage questions. To make sure I get a 3 on the test I'll use schema when I read and I'll also reread until I understand what I'm reading to answer the question. The type of questions on the ELA Exam are, main ideas, inference, vocabulary, passage questions. The hardest thing on the test for me is the essay, I think it's hard because it's hard to write a good long essay in a short amount of time.

To My Parent

Dear Parent,

My biggest accomplishment in ELA so far this year is how well I read, also I've learned to understand big words by reading the surrounding text. The unit so far that has been my best is the Freda Kahlo essay, it made me learn a lot about her life because I like doing research on famous people that effect another persons life. We've used technology this year in many ways, we use it to write essays and classwork assignments, we also use Blogging and Ning after reading a book or passage. Technology helps me learn and improve my reading and writing in away of doing research and knowing grammar. My goals this year are having a good average and learning more on understanding what i read, reading and writing is important to my future so i can have a good job, and also helps me in daily everyday life.

Character Unit Intro

Do people ever really change?

Some people change because they think it's for the better. For example, if a person is always around bad influence that might want to get out of that habit for their own good and change. Usually people change at one point, some don't have a reason and others do. People in general have their own personal reasons why they change their actions towards anything.

Election Reflection

The 2008 Election was won by Barack Obama. It came down to 349 electoral votes and McCain with 164, in the history of the United States Obama is the first African American to become president. The "racial barrier" fell on Nov. 4th meaning the race of being a white president only of the United States has changed because in the history of the United States Obama was elected the first black president. "Yes we can" he says, for we Americans can do anything we set our mind to. He encouraged people all around the world and proved that color and race does not matter.