Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Blog #5

Shoot To Kill
Yes, i think they have every right to do what ever they want to that school, county, or staff. I can not imagine loosing my kid to something of this effect and to something this violent. If my kid died in something to this extent i would feel so distraught and so crushed. If they want to try and sue the county for not having enough protection or not suspecting  when it when those kids were dressing weird and doing weird things.

Blog #4

1) It was his first public school because before he was home schooled and now he gets to go to school with other kids.
2) The integration that he is thinking of is the school because it separated blacks from whites. The bad ways i can see is they had to stay on different sides of the school and use the different stuff.
3) That friendship was special to Ellison because he finally wasnt' an out cast type of person. He felt like he just fit in with everybody and no one just saw the color of his skin for once.
4) I believe it was a joke to their family because Ellison just came right out and said " What white folks? I don't have any white folks, I'm a Negro"!
5) This quote to me means that if you learn to discriminate once you are going to want to discriminate over and over again like a snow ball effect.

Blog #3

My narrative essay will be about the most impactfull thing thats happened in my life which is my grandpa's funeral. His passing has changed the way i look at life and the way i live life.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Blog #2

As i was reading chapters 3 and 4 a couple comments and questions crossed my mind. I think the section titled "essay structure" really helped me build on my writing. At first i did not understand the "Transition Chart" but after studying it and looking over it i finally realized what it was talking about. The part in chapter 4 that i learned most about was the difference of paraphrase and summery. Growing up i usually though that those two were the same thing but in the book paraphrase is "restating ideas in a reading in your own words, and summary is "giving the main points of a reading in your own words".

Monday, September 5, 2011

Blog #1

When i think about reading and writing, i honestly do not get scared at all. I am fine about writing because its a time where i can just express everything i feel onto a piece of paper and i don't mind that at all! I actually enjoy writing about interesting subjects and prompts. The only thing that i don't like too much about writing is that sometimes it can be very time consuming and sometimes its just hard to sit down for an hour and write a paper. But all in all i enjoy writing and expressing myself through a pen and paper.