Summertime

Summertime

Jackson Quach, Steffy Zambrano, Andre

This is Summertime by me, Steffy, and Andre not the exemplary Will Smith

But you already know this is something you can’t discredit

Schools out, no more homework and animosity

Not the time to be penurious, it’s the time to be spontaneous and desultory

At the top of the “To-Do List”, infiltrate Six Flags

Then off to every shopping spot, walking out with mad bags

Next day, looking all foppish

Causing everybody in the street to do some major stoppage

Now epitomized as debonair

Next stop, the florid New York State Fair

Nonchalantly in line waiting to get into the club

The impervious bouncer told us to cross the street and grab some grub

I tried to compromise with him, hoping things will get better

But things got out of hand and like Lupe it was a fiasco and he whooped out the fetters

Augment your joy and jubilation at the beach

Perpetual happiness is something school can’t teach

Ostentatious women walking the sand in their bikinis

And I see slovenly enormous women who need embellishing, eating Panini

Skeptical of the water at first because of the shoal

But parched from the hot weather, I have no choice but to go

Feeling no remorse whatsoever

The summertime will be engraved in my memory forever

Summer’s ending, school’s approaching

Back to the teacher’s incessant questions and coaching

Oblivious of everything that has been taught in the past

In class reminiscing about the summer and hoping next summer will come fast!

Biography Booker T. Washington Speech

Steffy Zambrano
Information Technology High School
Ms. Hyde
English 6
04|09|08
Booker T. Washington "Atlanta Compromise"

“To those of the white race...Cast down your bucket where you are."Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.” Cast down your bucket to the people who need help and encouraging. Cast Down your bucket the people who have been there. “As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach.” We will be there for you even if it means putting our life in danger. We are the people who protect our kids. But as long as we are separate but equal… There should be boundaries when it deals with equality. "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."

Sources:
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1895washington-atlanta.html

Classwork; April 1st

Rubric Standards for persuasive writing:
Successful persuasion should:

1. State the issue and the writer’s position
2. Give opinions and support them with facts or reasons
3. Have a reasonable and respectful tone
4. Answer opposing views
5. Use sound logic and effect language
6. Conclude by summing up reasons or calling for action

This speech was aimed towards the soldiers who were involved in the Civil War. The audience of this speech were the soldiers of the Civil War. The reason that this speech was written was to commemorate the soldiers who fought in the Civil War. " The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." This short 2 minute speech changed the perspective people had on the civil war.
"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, or the people, shall not perish from this earth." Abraham Lincoln is saying
that he plans to keep "we the people" from the preamble of the constitution alive because that's what this country is about being ran by the people.




Sources:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
• http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/gettysburg.htm

Strange Fruit By Billie Holiday

Strange Fruit Billie Holiday

Being Compared to a fruit ↓

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood of Slaves↓
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Blacks who were hung↑
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

A young man of Fashion ↓
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
How the Slaves looked like when they were hung ↑
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
Crow Eating the Leftovers ↑
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.


Purple= Rhyming
Lavender=Annotation
Red= What is Being Annotated

This Picture Relates to our topic Slavery because it showing that slavery should be abolished in africa.
Partners: Steffy Zambrano & Jackson Quach
Links/Sources : Slavery Picture

Classwork; March 26

Do Now: Read an excerpt from Chief Joseph’s speech. Interpret the following quotes:
“The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it."
(Chief Joseph).

How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?
The art of Rhetoric is evident in Chief Joseph's Speech because he talks about how his people were in the land first and how every man should be created equal.
Who is he addressing in this speech?
He is addressing it to the government because they aren't paying attention to what his saying about how they want to take his land.
Who is he indicting and why? Identify any heroic characteristics?
The Heroic Characterisic in this speech is that they didn't give up there land for fur skins, or anything that what given to them.
Why is this speech Protest Literature?

March 12 - 13; ClassWork

Do Now: How can you connect man and nature from your researched folklores? Share with class.
Native Americans can be connected to man and nature because they depended on nature to live. And also they got their names from animals.

Recall: from your Global studies class what is imperialism. Now recall the documentary we viewed last week together with your notes and identify any system of imperialism as it pertains to Native Americans.
Silent reading from Excerpt from Trafzar’s “Cheyenne’s Revenge” and make annotations in your books. Identify characters, point of view, conflicts, setting, and historical references.

Point Of View: 3rd Person
Setting: Sand Creek in Colorado
Characters: Lone Wolf, Tall Bear, Chief Black Kettle

March 10 - 11 ; Classwork

Day II:
Cooperative Learning: group students who have similar folktales.
Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare their folktales with their peers, and use Sense Chart for their own folktales.

Sense Imagery