Blog 2

Said by: Frank Mccourt
Page:15
Paragraph: 2
Quote, "and I'd start cring to myself on the deck chair with the gorgeous Atlantic all around me. New York ahead, city of my dreams where I'd have the golden tan, the dazzling white teeth . I'd wonder what in gods name was wrong with me that I should be missing Limerick already, city of gray miseries the place where I dreamed of escape to New York. I'd hear my mothers warning, The devil you now is better then the devil you don't know."

Question: Why have the characters in your book come to America?

Significance:
He has come to America because he wants to escape limerick. And also he'll have a better life in new york because there are more opertunities in America then in limerick. As he says in the qoute he's wondering why he's not missing limerick for some reson. And I Guess he wants a tan and white teeth becuase in America most of the people there have tans and wight teeth. And he says in chapter 1 that the only thing he had in limerick was misery. Like I said he left to escape and the opertunities.

Conecttion
I guess I cam conect to the qout because If I go some where I usaly don't miss San Diego. Like one time I went to cancun and I wanted to stay there and I didn't miss San Diego not one bit. I guess I didn't miss San Diego because it was so nice there in cancun.

Question for group: if you where to live in your dream home/city would you stay there or come back to America?and why?

Question: What challenges do the characters face upon their arrival.

Said by: frank Mccourt
Page: 67
Paragraph: 1
Quote 2 : " I'm twenty years of age and I never took a girl to a dance or a film or even a cup of tea and now I have to learn how to do it. I don't even now how to talk to girls because we never had one in the house except my mother. I don't now anything after growing up in limerick and listening to priests on Sundays thundering against dancing and walking out the road with girls."

Significance:
One of his challenges faces is bacily what it says in the qoute. Which is that he dosent even now how to talk to girls. Which is very bad becaues his first job in America is to be a cleaner in the front for a hotel. That job in voles talking which means talking to girls or them talking to him to pick some thing up. And espacily that most of the people that Re in the front of the hotel are the colleage students and all of the colleage girls are his age so that gets him nevise which efects his job In a negitive way. I guess that's one of the challenges he has right now.

Connection:
I don't really now how I could possably connect to this qoute because I don't get that nervise when I talk to girls or I don't even get nervise at all. But I understant why he feels like that because he never even walked and talked to girl in limerick.(which is sad if you ask me) but it seems as if the priest where hard on him. And I get that if you tell some one that you can't do some thing most of the time than they don't do it.

Question: If you where in his pasision what would you do.


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Romek
1. Describe your reactions to hearing David Faber speak.

my reaction was sad because all of the things that he went though and he still able to talk about that time in life he went though.I wouldn't
be ale to talk about all of that stoff ,and especially when he talked about

he's brother being torched.

2. Describe in 3-5 sentences David's experiences with the Russian Partisans, and explain why you think Romek was so proud of him.

that was a very crazy experience and i think that if i was in that

position i would be super scardeto do those things.
3. Why do you think the Gestapo would spare David's life and return him to the ghetto after torturing his brother to death? (3-5 sentences)
i think that they left him there because they probliy thought he
would die out there in the ghetto.

Author: Ann Cameron

Total Pages This Week:?

Date: week of 5/13/08

3.5

Pages:?

1. I felt bad for Rosa when the Author wrote this:
(Women and children glanced at us and looked away).
I felt bad for Rosa because her life is kind of messed
up,and to see some body do that isn't very cool. and
at the same time there was some man that was study
her uncle and her if he's was really blind or not.

2.

Name:Christian Buenrostro

Project Reflection: Post on your Blog

Name:Christian Buenrostro - Google Docs

Project Title: Aztecs mural project

Class: A.B Dates:

*You may type directly in this document and copy and paste into blog, or simply address each of the following in a post. It should be approx. 2 pages worth of writing.

PURPOSE: In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do.

Sentence Starters

• The purpose of this project was to learn about…

• In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc…

The purpose of this project was to learn about how the Aztecs live. An other purpose

is how the Aztecs work and the different jobs they had to perform. The ranks are: the

emperor,Nobility,Priests,warriors,merchants,commoners,peasants,and slaves. those are

all different ranks. they can not be able to chose their on ranks because there born with

that rank.the only way you can move up to a higher rank is if when your born you get lucky

and move up.

WHAT I LEARNED

In this section, tell what information or skills you learned or improved.

Sentence Starters

• I learned about…

• I explored the concepts/topics of …

• In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)Name:Christian Buenrostro - Google Docs

I learned about Aztecs life style and there different ranks and how they lived.

the Aztecs life style is very simple they do the same thing over and over again

except the emperor and the warriors they do thing that involve the empire.The

ranks are: the emperor,Nobility,Priests,warriors,merchants,commoners,peasants,

and slaves. those are all different ranks.they all have a specific job to do.

REFLECTION

In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?

Sentence Starters

• I enjoyed this project because…

• I feel like I could have done better on this project because…

• Next time, I would…

The thing I would do differently next time in this project is that i would not
goof of so much any more.i would try to work more and stay focused on may work.
but i had learned more about the Aztecs ranks like so the emperor,Nobility,Priests,
warriors,merchants,commoners,peasants,and slaves. (those are all different ranks.)
i would probably try to paint more and help with the technical things like typing,pictures,
reserch.

Author: Ann Cameron

Total Pages This Week: 30

Date: week of 4/4/08

3.5

Pages 1-30

#2.What does this book make you wonder about

this book makes me wonder like what happend to her parents and is the guy that he clames to be her uncle is relley her uncle.the thing that stands out the most is that how dose a peson get blind out of no were and get dumb and death. I think that he was just fakeing it to get some money out of it. because after a time rose said that she once seen a girl and her father walking but the father was blind. Right after she said that her uncle seed that man dosent get the full valu of it.so then it got me thinking that he was fakeing it.b

Title: SOLDIER X
Author: Don Wulffson
Total Pages This Week: 51
Date: week of 3/5/08
4 Hours
Pages 1-51

I have now started to read a book cald soldier X.in this book theres a kid that enters the army at the age 10 because now hes sixteen and hes still in the army.he is now in a war and already some of his comrads have already died.His frenid hasent died yet. but hes gotten engerd but its a miner ingery.the mine character ceeps menchning hitler alot. i dont now wy

blood lines 2

In blood lines 2 its going to be talkiing about a bunch of blood lines like the skywakers blood lines the boba fetts blood lines just as the first book.But this time its blood lines and the jedia force and bontey huters force.In the first pergphe it talks about joba fetts new life and then it tranfers to lukes life.