Sample chapter
I just graduated High School. Life so far been hard. My moms and paps died 8 years ago. My life has been ruin. I've shot somebody, because he was goin ta shot me first. I was in a gang. I been shot 3 times. So far my life has been fuc*** up. But now im makin it better. Im gettin a education. Im gettin my diplomas. I had a job for 2 years. I got my own apartment.
As soon as i threw my hat up in the air, i felt happiness. I felt a sign of relief. I feel like i completed something which nobody in my family really did. I felt glad. My life became better.Over the summer i been chillin tryin not ta get in any trouble.
Now im in colleage. My roomate is a girl. Shes fine. We both got the same classes. Shes Black and hispanic too. I actually got her pregnant 5 months into the semester. Yo its not my falt,she was to fine. She overwhelmed me. Matter of fact let me bring it back. Her name was Jennifer Martinez. I told about my life and she told me bout hers. I actually made her a song. I was a rapper too. I knew all of drakes songs. I used my mind and made raps that were sick. They called me D jeff.
My teachers would be buggin, talkin bout im fail, i be tryin to fight them. They tried ta get me kicked off Campus. I be sellin drugs and guns on campus. They had no proof so they got fired. 2 months into me and Jennifers shomphore year, she was givin birth to my baby son. Clarence Jefferson or C.J. My new professier is a ex- convict. Hes been ta jail for robbin a pregant woman with twins but she beat the sh** out of him with her stomach. Than he punch her in the face and knock her out. He was serving 5-10 in Sing Sing. He teaches me Chemistry. He told me about his life and it was worser than mines. My girl Jennifer was takin the same class. My other class and hers was Music. We actually made our own cds and recored with real rappers. But let me stop before i ruin the rest of the story for you. I got Hw,Test,Studies,a girl friend,a baby, and a job with 2 more years of collage. Im screwed.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Novel Project
Research
Source 1- google
A- Black IQ is 85
B- Hispanic IQ is 90
C- Blacks graduate at a higher percent tile counting on the colleage
D- Blacks who graduate from Harvard is 90%
E- 51% of Hispanics graduate with a bacherlor Degrees in colleage
Source 2- google
A- 51% of Latino graduate with 4 year degrees.
B- 13% of latinos graduate with 4 year degrees in 2000
C- 15% of blacks graduated with 4 year degrees in 2000
D- 45% of blacks and latinos drop out of school.
E- less than 50% of blacks drop out of school.
Source 1- google
A- Black IQ is 85
B- Hispanic IQ is 90
C- Blacks graduate at a higher percent tile counting on the colleage
D- Blacks who graduate from Harvard is 90%
E- 51% of Hispanics graduate with a bacherlor Degrees in colleage
Source 2- google
A- 51% of Latino graduate with 4 year degrees.
B- 13% of latinos graduate with 4 year degrees in 2000
C- 15% of blacks graduated with 4 year degrees in 2000
D- 45% of blacks and latinos drop out of school.
E- less than 50% of blacks drop out of school.
Novel Project
Plot
I. Introduction
A. it takes place in harlem which is in New York City and takes place in around fall
B. The main character is just Devon
II. Rising action
A. Devon wants to graduate from colleage because he wants to graduate and he cares about graduating and makin his parents proud.
III. Climax
A. The turing point is when he graduates from colleage.
IV. Falling action
A. Their suprised and he graduates
V. Resolution
A. How to survive and how important education is.
B. They'll get a job.
Novel Project
life
Life so far has been hard. Wass up to the people out their who live is still on track and always have been. My name is Devon Jefferson. Im 13 years old livin in harlem. My moms and paps died when i was 10, they were driving to my Elmentary Graduation. They were in a car accident. A drunk driver slamed into my moms and paps car, They were dead 20 mintues after they arrived at the hospital. They were so exicited to see me graduate because that means i might go to middle school, than high school, than colleage.
Nobody in my family has graduated from colleage. The professers actually told my moms and paps they might graduate because percentages show that about 63 percent of Hispanics/Latinos and Blacks will graduate or fail. My paps was Hispanic and my moms was Black. They both met in high school. So now 5 years later im in colleage tryin to beat thoose percentages and make my mom and paps happy.
Before i arrived at colleage my life was almost gone. I was in a gang and when i got out, one of the people in a gang that we used to fight pulled out a gun on me. I ranned but he shot me in the leg, than when i was on the ground bleeding i was shot again in the chest and in my right arm. Somebody who heard the gun shots called the cops and the ambulance. I also shot somebody once. He was a cashier at a store i was stealing from. I shot him when he pulled a gun out on me. I knew my moms and paps cryin cause of what i did but smilin cause of how i improved and now goin to colleage fulfillin their dream.
- Character Backstory
Life so far has been hard. Wass up to the people out their who live is still on track and always have been. My name is Devon Jefferson. Im 13 years old livin in harlem. My moms and paps died when i was 10, they were driving to my Elmentary Graduation. They were in a car accident. A drunk driver slamed into my moms and paps car, They were dead 20 mintues after they arrived at the hospital. They were so exicited to see me graduate because that means i might go to middle school, than high school, than colleage.
Nobody in my family has graduated from colleage. The professers actually told my moms and paps they might graduate because percentages show that about 63 percent of Hispanics/Latinos and Blacks will graduate or fail. My paps was Hispanic and my moms was Black. They both met in high school. So now 5 years later im in colleage tryin to beat thoose percentages and make my mom and paps happy.
Before i arrived at colleage my life was almost gone. I was in a gang and when i got out, one of the people in a gang that we used to fight pulled out a gun on me. I ranned but he shot me in the leg, than when i was on the ground bleeding i was shot again in the chest and in my right arm. Somebody who heard the gun shots called the cops and the ambulance. I also shot somebody once. He was a cashier at a store i was stealing from. I shot him when he pulled a gun out on me. I knew my moms and paps cryin cause of what i did but smilin cause of how i improved and now goin to colleage fulfillin their dream.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Goree Island/ poem essay
Goree Island and the poem Liberty and Slavery both have something in common. Its that they express the feelings of a slave. They both tell you what a slave had to go through.They both bring the past and make it the future. In other words they want you know your past and the suffuring that slaves had to go through and how they were treated. This essay is going to explain to you what the poem and the article have in common.
" How long have I in bondage lain, And longed to be free! Alas! And must I still complain- Deprived of liberty. " This stanzad from the poem "Liberty and Slavery " applies to the article on Goree Island. It applies to the article because in the article it tells you how they would collect groups of 12. Six men and Six woman. They would bond them together with neck iron,chains, and heavy weights.
In the poem, George Moses Horton is telling us that they are bond together. That they been in slavery for so long they dont even know how long. They want to be free and has been for so long. They were deprived of their rights and of their liberty.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Last Orangutans
4# When the author mentions that she was inspired by a paleontologist named Louis Leakey so she motivated herself to spend time at his camp for helping primates survive such as orangutans.
3# Because they wanted to explain the life of the orangutans before Gladikas introduced herself into their lifes of the orangutans.
5# It illustrates that sometimes a animal would seek revenge aganist somebody who harms them. My dog Juinor in the year of 2004 bit my uncles nuts off because he had hit my dog in the nose or ear so the cops came and put my dog to sleep or shot him. I was in first grade and my father came to pick me up and told me that my dog was dead. ( but my dog was evil anyway,he bit me the most,he bit me 2 times in my arm and my hand on the same arm he bit.
3# Because they wanted to explain the life of the orangutans before Gladikas introduced herself into their lifes of the orangutans.
5# It illustrates that sometimes a animal would seek revenge aganist somebody who harms them. My dog Juinor in the year of 2004 bit my uncles nuts off because he had hit my dog in the nose or ear so the cops came and put my dog to sleep or shot him. I was in first grade and my father came to pick me up and told me that my dog was dead. ( but my dog was evil anyway,he bit me the most,he bit me 2 times in my arm and my hand on the same arm he bit.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
journal entrys 1,2,3,4 and 5:kenny
September 14,1963
Today it was so hot I tried to find somewhere thats cold and refreshing. Somewhere thats not so humid. So I went to go relax under the magnolia tree. It was so refreshing cause the shade of the tree provided me some cool,relaxing air. Then Byron and Joetta started running over saying "Move over !" "Im hot too" than I was angry cause they this comein over here, taking all the fresh,cool, and relaxing air away. Than i just kinda fell asleep and started sleep walkin.
September 13,1963
Today it was still hot, so went to the lake. Than grandma sands said "If y'all are going to the water, you stay away from Collier's Landing. A couple of years ago, Miss Thomas's little boy Jimmy got caught up in some kinda whirlpool there and they didn't find that poor soul's body for three days." I saw 2 signs with 2 arrows. One said " Public Swimming" and the other sign said " WARING ! NO TRESPASSING ! NO SWIMMING ! PUBLIC ENTREE ! signed Joe Collier". I said " oh man ! colliers landing" Lets go" I knew Joey was gonna snitch
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