Last Blog of the Year

The blogs I did not hate at all. I liked them actually a bit. The blogs I liked were anything I could find a fun picture for. Any blog that had to be somewhat personal and talking about myself I really enjoyed. The ones I did not enjoy were about poems. I have such a hard time understanding poems, I just get really annoyed of them. I put a lot of effort into the topics that I enjoyed and that I could really relate to and reflect upon them. I didn't put much effort into the ones that I had hard time understanding. I learned that it's actually fun doing blogs on things I enjoy. I may just start a daily journal because of the blogs. 

Advice for Miss Wolff

First I'll what I like about the class. I really enjoy the graffiti board, that must be continued. I really really like how my class is really chill, I enjoy reading stories and then we discuss the story with the graffiti board. The part of our class being chill may just be our class, we aren't extremely noisy and rebellious and disrespectful as the regular classes I have passed by and noticed. My advice would be if the honours classes aren't to noisy to try and keep it chill, because it makes the students happier and more willing to share ideas of the stories. Now the regular classes may have some very rude students, but make sure the students don't break you and stand your ground. That's all I can think of right now. Best of luck to Miss Wolff!

The Great Gatsby Playlist

1) "I Wanna Be Loved By You" by Helen Kane. Gatsby just wanted to be loved by Daisy.

2) " Nobody Lied When They Said that I Cried Over You" by Marion Harris. Gatsby became very upset when he found out Daisy had married Tom.

3)  "High Society" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band this song would of fit the luxury theme of East Egg.

4) "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Johnny Marvin and The Leonard Joy Orchestra.  This song describes how when Gatsby felt when he had gotten Dasiy back.

Mark Twain's Wit

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
-----Mark Twain

I really like this quote. It's really funny. It means we learn a lot from trying stupid things. And the then we understand why it's so stupid. If someone carried a cat by it's tail they would remember that for life and it will always remind them that cats don't like to bed picked up by their tail. We learn things from past experiences that we would learn from nothing else. So people should try new things and experience that feeling that they couldn't get from  anything else such as sky diving.

What's Good?

I really like the Pokemon tv series. The Newer ones may seem kind of cheesy, but I still find them enjoyable. I really like Pokemon cause it's like an adventure when I play the games. Playing and watching Pokemon keeps my inner child alive. It keeps my imagination active, cause I imagine battles to myself as if they were real. And I find it fun to imagine all of this. Some will say playing the early Pokemon games was a great experience. Even though they were video games it was a journey in a box. When one started a Pokemon game they were to choose one starter Pokemon that would travel with them and fight battles alongside them. Every person that I've talked to that played Pokemon said they grew attatched to that Pokemon even though it was a game and that they would never go anywhere in the game without their friend. I have to admit this also actually. I really believe that doing something that keeps one's inner child personality alive is essential for a great life and Pokemon is what keeps it alive in me.
 

Stories of the Quest for Civil Rights

http://oralhistoryeducation.com/aparthied-stories

These just show stories of people protesting just like Bessie did for the Black Rights. This is not about Civil Rights in America, but what went on in South Africa. It's about Apartheid which is a the social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by a white minority government in South Africa. I did not know Civil Rights movements was all places South Africa. People who lived in their own country still had to fight for their rights from the British who just came in and took control. 

Harlem Exploration.

I found Mr. Garvey in the second website. Mr. Garvey was in protests for black rights and this is like how Bessie was involved in protests for black rights. Mr. Garvey and Bessie were different that Mr. Garvey was born in Jamaica and Bessie was born here. I learned that Mr. Garvey wanted to take Africa out of European control and and build a free United Black Africa.