5 Ideas for service learning

1) School tutoring (again)
2)visit elderly people
3)school wide recycling
4)volunteer at Hospitals
5)raise money for people with diseases

Blooms Taxonomy (Application)

3. What questions would you ask of Bigger Thomas, if you had the chance to meet him?
If I had the to meet Bigger Thomas I would ask him: Why did you try to rape Mary Dalton? & What caused you so much pain to kill a women who was kind to you?

Blooms Taxonomy (Analysis)

4. What are some problems between Bigger and his mother?
Some problems between Bigger and his mother are Bigger's mom wants him to get a job, when he doesn't want to. Also Bigger's mom treats him worse then his brother or sister.

Blooms Taxonomy (Synthesis)

5. Why don't you devise your own way to deal with want happened in Mary's room, right before Bigger killed her?
To deal with what happened in Mary's room I would have told somewhat of the truth.
A way I would have told somewhat of the truth is, when Mrs. Dalton came into the room I would have said "Ma'am, Miss Dalton is drunk and she wasn't able to came up the stairs on her own so I helped her to her room," and I would have dealt with the repercussions.
In conclusion in dealing with what happened in Mary's room, before I killed her, Bigger and I differ.

Blooms Taxonomy (evaluation)

6. How would you feel if you were in Bigger's position, a young poor black boy killing a young rich white women?
If I was in Bigger's position, a young poor black boy having just killed a young rich white women, I would have panicked and turned myself in.
I would have panicked because killing a person would have just landed me in jail but killing a RICH, WHITE women could get me killed, especially in the 1930's.
Also I would have, mostly likely, turned myself in because if I had as much fear as Bigger had I wouldn't have framed someone but cried until I couldn't move and then BEG for forgiveness from Mr. and Mrs. Dalton and accept any punishment.

Blooms Taxonomy (Knowledge)

1. Describe what happened at the pool house between Bigger and Gus the second time.
Bigger and Gus got into a fight. Bigger threatened Gus by putting a knife to his neck. They fought because Bigger was afraid of robbing Old Blum.

Blooms Taxonomy (Comprehension)

2. Who was the key character in the plan Bigger made after killing Mary?
The key character in Bigger's plan was Jan. Bigger was planning to frame Jan for Mary's murder.

Native son (chapter three)

Begins on page 14 and ends on page 41 after the first paragraph is finished.
During this chapter Bigger convinces Jake, G.H. and Gus to go and rob a white man named Old Blum. While waiting for the time of the robbery Bigger and Jake go to the movies and they see Bigger- maybe- employer’s daughter and Bigger rethinks backing out of the job offer. So when it is time to rob Old Blum Bigger and Gus get into a fight and they don’t do the robbery. At the end of Chapter 3 Gus and Bigger have stopped fighting and Bigger slices Doc’s pool table.

Analysis-
I think Richard Wright puts this chapter in the book because it shows that you will do crazy things and lie just so you don't have to do something you don't want to.

NHD Reflection

NHD this year was actually a lot less stressful than last year. I guess it's because I already knew what I was doing because of last year. At first, i thought that mine and Becky's exhibit was never going to get done, but after awhile I seen that we were actually a lot farther than a lot of people. The hardest challenge I had was printing things out, and actually figuring out where to put them on the board, but other than that everything actually went good, and we found a lot of images, graphs, statistics and information that supported our view of the project. Doing this project was actually easy for me to do since I had just seen the affects the drug war has had on some of my friends, this helped me make real life connections to my project. Next year I am most likely going to do another exhibit because I like doing them alot better than i do writing papers. I am not sure what I want my topic to be yet, but I know thats it will be one that I am interested in so that I can get it done easy like I did this one.

NHD Process paper

Streets Vs. Society

For NHD this year we chose to do the war on drugs as our topic. We found this topic very interesting and unique because we figure that nobody else would pick this topic. Also, we have both seen the effects that it has on the people involved and the people who have suffered the repercussions of being involved in this war. For example, the boys who sell drugs (who are better known as hustlas), the people who buy it, the fiends who need it and also the dumb people who get caught with it and end up spending months to years of their life in jail. Months and years that they will never get back. Other people who are involved are the people who are against drugs, and want them off the streets. These people include the cops, probation officers, judges, the government, rehab facilities, narcs, and of course concerned parents. At first we were going to focus on the war on drugs in general, but then we figured that it was to broad and we re thought our topic and decided to focus only on Marijuana. For the project we decided to do a board because we figured that it would show our prospective the best.
At the start of this project our opinion was the same, we both thought that the war on drugs is senseless, and unlike many other people we talked to about it our opinions still have not changed. We still believe that the war o n drugs needs to end for many reasons, this war as many people already know is going on around the world and is not just affecting the people that I just named; it is also affecting people just like you and me. Examples of this are loosing friends and family members either to death, the streets or addiction, and the penal system. As a result to this war we are experiencing many effects. Such as racism, racial profiling form cops and also neighbor hood people, more people taking up spaces in jail because it is illegal, people not being able to get a decent job, because they were sent to prison which then results in poverty among the community.
Now we know that many people would disagree with this but truthfully from the data that I found in doing this project I found that the government spends more money on the war on drugs than people do on there drug use. Also the percentage of people incarcerated for marijuana is the highest among young people, which proves that this war is greatly affecting the young people of our community.
For this project we conducted two interviews. The first one was of an anonymous source that smokes weed. And the other was our Art teacher Ms. Klose, who used to work at a drug rehab facility. We figured that we would conduct more that one interview so that we could get both sides of this war. We also conducted a lot of research using the Internet and found that the drugs that are actually legalized in our country are the ones that kill the most people, such as tobacco and Alcohol, but marijuana has never been proven to kill any one.
The conflict of this topic is racism due to drugs, poverty, the crime and murder rate, and also the temptation/peer pressure of illegal drugs. The compromise of this topic is actually hard to explain since there isn’t really a specific compromise because this war is still going on today. And in our opinion locking up 3 generations of people including our neighbors and friends isn’t a compromise at all. Especially when we still have rapists, murderers, petifiles, and robbers on the streets. So after all of this I want you to just ask yourself is the war on drugs all worth it.

Chapter 2 (Native son)

Chapter two starts off when bigger comes back and gets scolded by his mom because his sister Vera fainted from Bigger shaking the dead rat in her face . At the end of chapter two Bigger went to the pool house. When Bigger gets scolded by his mom I think that that was a big let down for him since he had thought that he did right by killing the rat, but in the end it seems like he just can't make his mom happy.

Chapter 1 (Native son)

Chapter one starts off at page three and in my opinion it should end at page 7, when it says "Aww I didn't know she was that scary". This chapter starts off with the alarm clock ringing, and is bout Bigger killing a rat which in my opinion symbolizes the society around Bigger and his family and also the struggles that they go threw, and then him teasing his sister with it and she ends up passing out and his mom yelling at him about it.