In my group, we do recycling. It's been okay so far, slow progress, not quite sure what our goal if for the rest of the year, but either way we made some type of group progress.
All of us were assigned a different topic and mine was aluminum. I had to do research on aluminum; how it's recycled, what becomes of it and so far. We also did a walking tour around the city to pick up trash.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Service Learning
My service learning group was about recycling. We discussed:
*recycling around the city
*recycling in school and in classrooms
* Use of green products
*how to clean the city and our communities up.
We thought about putting recycling bins in classrooms and all around the school. We also decided to clean up our neighborhoods, and try to use 'green' products in the school, like recycled paper for our printers.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
NHD Relections
When i worked on NHD, i found it to be very hard. I had never done a project this big before and i didn't know at first that it would be so hard to put together. For my NHD i did a group performance on The Philadelphia Women's Anti-Slavery Society. We had thought that doing a group performance would be eaiser then doing a documentary, which was our first choice, but we found out that it wasn't. For our performance, we had to write a script. First we reasearched our topic, using both primary and secondary sources. Then, we brought all of that information together and created a script revolving around one particular event, the burning pf Pennsylvania Hall. We had to write the script a couple different times to make sure it was historically accurate, and then we practiced our lines.
NHD was a very stressful project, and my group and I fought alot. But even though we fought all the time and hd many disagreements, theis project also brought us closer as friends, because through the fighiting and stress, we stll remained friends.
NHD was a very stressful project, and my group and I fought alot. But even though we fought all the time and hd many disagreements, theis project also brought us closer as friends, because through the fighiting and stress, we stll remained friends.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Maya Angelou(almost finished)
Maya Angelou was born on April 24, 1928, and is still living to this day. During her life, she wrote many great works, but her most famous was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which
tells about her life as a child and her hardships . She won awards such as, The National Book Award, A Yale Universtiy fellowship, A Pulitzer Prize nomination, to name a few.
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tells about her life as a child and her hardships . She won awards such as, The National Book Award, A Yale Universtiy fellowship, A Pulitzer Prize nomination, to name a few.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Should the abuse of children be okay?
No. Child abuse is a very common thing in our country and it shouldn't be that way.
Abuse of children hurts them mentally. It can lead to problems later in life, such as depression, anger issues, and self injury. Many teens who have been abused are depressed, and don't seek help for it. It's not just physical abuse that affects children, there is also sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and verbal abuse. A lot of people concider emotional abuse and verbal abuse to not be abuse, but 'tough love'. That isn't true. It is almost like you are a monster in the eyes of your child. Would you really want them ot think of you that way?
Abuse of children hurts them mentally. It can lead to problems later in life, such as depression, anger issues, and self injury. Many teens who have been abused are depressed, and don't seek help for it. It's not just physical abuse that affects children, there is also sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and verbal abuse. A lot of people concider emotional abuse and verbal abuse to not be abuse, but 'tough love'. That isn't true. It is almost like you are a monster in the eyes of your child. Would you really want them ot think of you that way?
Should Huck Finn be taught at CHS?
I think that Huckleberry Finn should be taught in our school, for three reasons.
For one reason, i think it is a good adventure book. Secondly, it details all of the aspects of history during that time period very well, and third, it does have some good morals.
In Huck Finn, the use of the 'N' word is very rapid and repeated throughout the story. Of course the use of racial overtones would make a story seem offensive, but first you have to look at the surroundings in the book and the timeframe it took place during, which was the late 1800's. Also, there is abuse, kidnapping, and drinking in this book. Most people who are very consevative would concider this book as a bad influence on kids, but i say its not, only because it is something you can't really hide from; it's life. Those things happen, and shielding your children from something they are going to end up experencing, or hearing about is pointless, and can cause problems with adjustment later in life.
For one reason, i think it is a good adventure book. Secondly, it details all of the aspects of history during that time period very well, and third, it does have some good morals.
In Huck Finn, the use of the 'N' word is very rapid and repeated throughout the story. Of course the use of racial overtones would make a story seem offensive, but first you have to look at the surroundings in the book and the timeframe it took place during, which was the late 1800's. Also, there is abuse, kidnapping, and drinking in this book. Most people who are very consevative would concider this book as a bad influence on kids, but i say its not, only because it is something you can't really hide from; it's life. Those things happen, and shielding your children from something they are going to end up experencing, or hearing about is pointless, and can cause problems with adjustment later in life.
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