show me some mercy

The art project

2010-03-17T08:12:00.000-07:00

We have been doing some researches in class to collect enough information about our topic global warming, and how our activities effect the environment. Each one of our group members had to choose one question to answer and we gather the answers and put them in one piece and type it as our project proposal.

Ghost bike

2010-03-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we took a trip to watch a piece of art that were located between Union ave and Ten Eyck street. this art was about a person who died of a truck. the painted a bike with white and they covered most of it with flower and roses. they had a picture of the guy i forgot his name taped to a pole above the bike and some candles. the bike was kind of scary and i felt so bad for the people who have been victims for cars and trucks. the ghost art installation is very emotional and have a strong massage to the people to be careful and watch where they go and slowing down can save many lives

We also have to make our own art. I have not thought of the art I am going to do. I just want to agree with my group about the topic they want to write or make the art about. my top three choices are drug and alcohol abuse, the Palestinian/ Israeli crisis and homelessness.

My overall thought about the project: I feel confident about this project and i think it's going to be fun because i like art and it's a group project so i won't be there alone standing in the street talking to people about my art.

Reviving my beautiful blog

2010-03-03T08:20:00.000-08:00

It has been long time since that last time I shared with you some of the wonderful thing we have been doing in school. tomorrow we are going to present our creative project. My project is about six poem about the part of me being yemeni and how much I missed my beautiful country. It is the least thing I can do. there was so many options to choose from like painting, cooking, singing, dancing, designing and other creative things that you can come up with. I wanted to do designing but I didn't have materials. I always love designing. one time I made a dress for barbie doll when I was young. I wanted to make real designing. I hope one day I make the perfect dress that I always dream of. I am going to purchase a sewing machine and start with easy stuff till I get the hand of it. so I am not so excited about presenting my project to anyone. Why can't we do it the way we wanted to do it why do we have to present?

Antigone = Antege

2010-01-13T08:38:00.000-08:00

We are done with the play Antigone. Now we are starting our new project based on this play. We have to modernize it, choose a different period of time and different place. Mine is going to be in the year 2003, when the war in Iraq started it. Antigone will be Antege, Creon will be the military commander carlos. Antigone's brother will be one of the soldiers and chorus will be charlie. The soldiers will gather a several suspected civilians and the commander will order the soldiers to shoot the civilains. Then that soldier wh plays Antigone's brother will refuse to take his gone and shoot Instead he aimed at the commander ordering him to stop. then another soldier come from behind him and shoot him. So then Antigone refuses to leave with the other soldiers she stayed next to him and she want to the commander asking him to send his body to his family but he refuses, so she starts to break the roles and disrespect the commander so he puts her in prison.

Decision and consequences

2010-01-06T08:24:00.000-08:00

"Tough decisions usually have big consequences"

I agree with this statement tough decision have big consequences. Every step you make in your life has either a positive or negative consequences behind it. For example the play were reading in class Antigone. It's about that girl who decided to bury her brother and breaking the king's law that say anyone who bury this traitor will die. So she decide to break that law and accept the consequences for what she did. she chose to do that because she didn't want to leave her brother unburied for the bird and dogs to flesh him. she was brave, strong and fearless even when they caught her burying him she confessed right away.

For my life I had not made so many decisions that I regret. this when happen in almost every culminating unit project. when I finish doing the writing part I don't revise it. I feel mad tired and bored to do that last step. the consequence is that I never got a 4 for spelling and grammar and that's affect my grade for being lazy to do that last step and I feel mad bad.

I finished the book

2009-12-09T08:26:00.000-08:00

Today we finished the book me and my partner were reading (Drown). We think the book was confusing because I used to get lost while reading the book. Sometimes the author got flash backs and sometimes I lose who is speaking. I read in ELA class, at lunch and a little bit at home

Tomorrow we are going to start working on the essay and start brain storming thesis statements that we are going to use when writing our essay.

If I was going to to write a sequel o my book, the first scene will be Yunior, the main character of the book sitting with his family all together before they got separated, or when his dad left them and moved to the United States. Or may be a scene of him and his dad playing together cut to shot of him saying bye to his dady in the airport.

Where I am so far in the book Drown

2009-12-02T08:30:00.000-08:00

The word that describe the book I'm reading is confusing. the reason is that the main character or the author of the book have some flashback about his life in DR. when he in the U.S and that's confuse me and sometimes i got lost. but when me and my partner have a meeting or a discussing about the book i understand much better and beside that she's been helping with with the Spanish words in the book.

I read when I'm bored. I read in class and during lunch. i don't read at home, because I have other stuff to keep me busy. I am where i suppose to be in the book which mean I am not behind even though my partner is a head of me in the reading. My favorite seen so far is when Yunior and Rafa imaging how their dad would look like when he comes back from the united states. and the way he would greet each one of them Yunior, Rafa, Grandpa, and their mom. The Activities we been doing in class is reading and take notes, and ask questions, basically analyzing the book.

drown

2009-11-25T08:28:00.000-08:00

We were on our way to the colmado for an errand, a beer for my tio , when Rafa stood still and titled his head, as if listening to a massage I couldn't hear, something beamed in from afar.

this book is called Drown, bye Junot Dias. it is a collection of short stories about the same character yunior. i have read the first chapter ysreal. this book is about a dominican boy.

I think it is interesting book and it not so long and that's was one of the reasons why i chose to read this book for tis unit.

2009-11-04T08:17:00.000-08:00

1. I have been reading all about self perception starting with the reader and
Sherman Alexie book, The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. I really enjoy the

book because it was my first time to learn about Indians. Every thing in the book was
interesting. The book had some sense of humor. While reading the book we had to take few post- it notes that we used for class discussion. Then we did an essay about self perception. I'm doing great in this class and it is my first time to love ela class.

2. This class is indeed connect to we do in media literacy class with Mr. Justice. For Example in ELA class we did an essay about self perception and in media literacy we had to do a slide show of self perception and we are going to use part of the essay to read as the narration for our slide show. SO they are pretty much connected.

persepolis

2009-10-28T08:33:00.000-07:00

Today I started reading a new book called "Persepolis" it is a comic book. It is a good book. My favorite part so far is when they had to wear the hijab or the veil

where some of them were with good with it and others who think it is against their freedom.

and also when the man character wanted to be the new prophet. We also where discussing some sonnet poems and now we have to come up with our own sonnet poems that present on of the

problems we faced in our life. I got to say it I am not good with poem so this next unit is

going to be a little bit challenging.

An activity we did in class this week

2009-10-23T10:22:00.000-07:00

We had a little discussion in class about the book" The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" and as group we came up with these.

What is it about this book that is funny?

-The way that he writes

-He has no limitation to the things he jokes about [Masturbation]

-He can turn sad moments into funny ones [When his grandma died]

Made you think.

-When his father’s friend died. Why do people drink and kill

-When he was talking about him being poor and how bad life is on the res.

-How drunk driving is such a problem

What deeper issues and themes are dealt with in the book?

-Poverty

-Drugs/alcohol

-Violence

-Racism

What about the book you're reading now

2009-10-15T10:43:00.000-07:00

This book is getting more and more interesting. I'm up to when junior left the reservation and went to white people high school (Readan). To the moment where that big fat boy named Roger walked up to him in a way of insulting or fighting and definitely not to be a friend with Junior. My favorite scene so far is when he was talking about Mr P, when he said"let me repeat that: MR. P SOMETIMES FORGET TO COME TO SCHOOL!.'' I only have been reading at school. Mostly in ElA class and Media Litercy class

I'm to lazy to read at home. I will finish this book by this monday.

Hey we have a new book

2009-10-07T08:37:00.000-07:00

The new book is rock. It is so interesting and has a lot of humor in it. Mr. O assigned us to read 10 pages a day, but I may do 3o pages a day or more. the saddest moment I read so far is when Junior's dad shot the dog because they didn't have the money to take Oscar to the Doctor. At was reading the book " Girl from foreign country" It was somehow interesting and I can relate to it. By now I am so excited to read " The Absolutely True Dairy of a Part- Time Indian", the first two chapter were good. The funny part was when junior was describing how many teeth he has."First of all, I end up having forty-two teeth. The typical human has thirty-two, right? But I had forty- two.

Ten more than usual.

Ten more than normal.

Ten teeth past human.

life at TGS!

2009-09-30T08:12:00.000-07:00

I'm still reading the book Arabian nights. It is an unexpurgated book. the book is too long so stopped reading it and I went back to my old book that called,"The Girl From Foreign" which is about a girl who is looking for the history of her ancestors. Her mom was a Muslim and her dad was a Christian. later she found that her grandma whom she loved was a Jews. So she went to India to study there and at the same time to learn more about her grandma.

The school is going good so far and a month had passed without feeling it. I hope this year goes really fast and easy and we be close from graduation. My life in school is so sweet. I like the people in this school. The work is so easy and the teachers are so nice. They make the work enjoyable.

We had been doing the same work for MR. O's class and MR. Justice, and for Mr. K as well because he was talking yesterday about self perception as well. How do you see yourself?, how does the word sees you?and why does it matter?. This unit was cool.

2009-09-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

This weekend I read a book called the Arabian Nights it is all fairy tales from the past. I love fairy tales and that's why I chose to read this book. My favorite scene is when the three shiehk asked the jinee to give him a story of what had happened to them to save their friend of the jinee who wants to kill that man because he killed his son without knowing or seeing the jinee's son. So the first shiehk went to the jinee and told him if I tell you my story and if you like it you give me third of that man's blood so the jinee agreed and so did the other two men.

Race, school and family have some effect on self perception. people always want you to be the way they want you to be. Many people judge you the look so they see different, but after they get to know they start to change their mind about you. I really don't care about that as long as I know myself well. I always like to prove people wrong and make them have a little reflection upon themselves.

first day of posting

2009-09-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

Today is my first day to post in my blog, i hope I can do my best to come up with interesting topic that make the reading enjoyable.

2009-09-16T12:29:00.000-07:00