Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Slavery Stays the Same

The novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman has taught me that after the civil war things didn't get better for the slaves, but in fact it got worse. The slaves after the civil war had to find jobs and were being hunted down by the confederates. Many slaves had to keep working on plantations the only difference was they were getting paid a little. People all over the north and south were still very racist and didn't think that the black people deserved anything. As time passed racism slowly died down, but for a long time racism stood.

Monday, February 27, 2012

In class we have been reading the novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and in this book there is a lot of stereotypical things coming from both the white and black people. For example Jane thinks that all the southern white people are out to get them, and that the only person who was nice to here lives up north so everyone there must be nice. Jane thinks about this every time she sees a white man. In this book there is an old white man that is nice to Jane, and he shows her on a map where to go. He tells exactly where to go and some things to avoid, and even if he tries do discourage her to get her to turn around and go back he was still nice to her, and he even feeds them.

Monday, February 13, 2012


"Full circle" is my favorite of the short stories that I have read. I enjoyed this book because it had suspense and kept me guessing. A girl crashes on the side of the highway. A man in a blue pickup truck looked like he was trying to help but then ran away. Kinsey, the main character, tried investigating. She visited the place that the girl worked at. The man that owned the store said that the girl was always harassed by a man in a green van. Kinsey finally visits the girl’s roommate at her house, but no one is home. She goes around back and in a garage she sees the blue pickup truck but it is stripped of paint. In the truck she finds a gun. She now knows who killed the girl and as she is pulling out of the driveway she sees him in his van. She chases him in her car until he crashes on the side of the highway. This story is ironic because the man died on the same spot on the highway that the girl he killed did. I liked the character of Kinsey because she is smart and persistent. When she didn’t find the criminal the first or second time she kept trying to find him or her.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

My favorite book as a kid was Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I liked this book because it teaches kids good life lessons. First it teaches them to try new things in the book because Sam offers green eggs and ham to the other character multiple times and he keeps saying no. Finally he tries them and really likes them. Second i'm not sure if anyone else got this out of the book, but I got be persistent. Sam offers the other character time after time and keeps getting rejected, but finally he says yes. Those are the reasons I liked the book Green Eggs and ham as a child hope you liked it too.
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/green-eggs-and-ham
http://storytimeforme.com/topics/green-eggs-and-ham/

Monday, December 5, 2011

Are You a Leader or a Follower

An important lesson shone in the book Animal Farm is you can't always be a blind follower, sometimes you have to stand up and be a leader. In Animal Farm the animals are always following Napoleon which isn't a good thing because he makes them work hard with almost no food. The ruling is unfair and no one is willing do do something about it. If someone had stood up to Napoleon maybe others would have joined in. They could have started another rebellion, and could have been free from his harsh dictatorship, but no one would stand up.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Carer Day

On Carer day my favorite class was computer science. In computer science he talked about how he gets to try to break stuff for his job. He knows a lot about computers and he gets to take them apart and put them back together for a living. Yet he still makes a lot of money.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Spiritual Emphasis Week

During Spiritual emphasis week at my school i figured out that God can speak through anything and everything. He speaks though the process of refining and even through apple trees. This week Brent told us that even the process of refining gold and silver. Step one is to dig it out of the ground this stands for how you know about Christ. No matter how far down you are, or how many rocks are in the way God can get to you. The next step is to clean the rock of all of the rocks standing out. Next pour the liquid metal into a mold and scrape off the stuff of the top. Last put led into it and it pulls the smallest of rocks out of the liquid metal and floats to the top so you can scrape it off.