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

March 7; Classwork

Do Now: What is a myth? Do you know of any?
What is a Folklore? Can you recall a Folklore?

A myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to be in their present form. The active beings in myths are generally gods and heroes.

A Folklore is Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group.

What do you think is creation mythology?
Creation Myth- story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe usually as a deliberate act of "creation" by a supreme being.


Sources : Myth ;; Folklore ;; Creation Myth

March 6;ClassWork

Do Now: Watch a 22mins film on the history of Native Americans.
Students will take notes while watching the documentary on Native Americans.

What is an oral tradition in your family or amongst your friends?

An Oral Tradition in my family is that ever Christmas Eve during dinner my grandmother and uncles tell us stories about there childhood and all the things they did when they were young. Because when my grandmother was young her mother told stories at the dinner table. And now me and my brothers tell stories about most of the crazy things we did when we were younger

I Am What I Am

I am What I am
My mothers first born
My fathers pride and joy
I fought this cold War all alone
Until a Pink blanky Came Along
Behind the curls was a little Brave Solider

Together we conquered the sandbox
and all the little twirps that came along
But nothing prepared us for the Storm of THING 1 & THING 2
Like love sucking Monsters they craved for attention
Little Did we know we'd be left out in the cold
They'd Be armored with Soccer Balls and Legos
Kicking and Building all around the house

Our Telephones and Uber Coolness
Because with one frown we'd be yelling out mercy
Once the balls stopped rolling
And the phones stopped ringing
We Not Only Became a family
We Became the '

Letter To Speaker

Steffy Zambrano
67-14 47 Ave Apt#D4
Elmhurst, NY 11234

Dear Speaker,

A Few days ago I took sometime and read your narrative “Ambush.” From Beginning to end I

was touched by how well you had expressed yourself. I couldn’t even imagine what it was going to war, and leaving your family. When you wrote in your narrative” It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, “Of course not”,I figured you couldn’t be able to tell your daughter because you were afraid of what she might think. There’s times in life when you do everything that you can do possible to not hurt the ones you love and I think you did that with Kathleen. But she wouldn’t jugde you for killing someone because you didn’t do it on purpose.

To me you are a very brave man for doing what you did, fight for our country,

no matter what you have to do. I wouldn’t be able to do something like that because that means I would have to leave me family behind and loved ones behind. You could have been in Peril but that didn’t stop you. I know that you were affected by killing the young man, but if you think about it you can’t blame yourself because its not your fault. Everything happens for a reason, what you did was just try and protect yourself and your other soldiers. When I read your short story I wondered this must be how the people in Iraq are feeling and I complain about things that I shouldn’t complain about, when out there in world there is people fighting to keep me and this country protected. Sometimes I do things I’m not suppose to and I take what I have for granted when I know that what I have is something I shouldn’t take for granted.

The advice I could give you is don’t blame yourself for doing what you did. I know it’s hard but

you said “ It was entirely automatic.” so you didn’t do it to hurt him. Another thing is in the future if you do wish to tell Kathleen, tell her don’t be afraid that she’s gonna judge you because she’s not, she’s even gonna tell you that it wasn’t your fault. Finally this narrative left me in such Gape because it thought me many things that I know I’m gonna need in the near future or maybe now and I wanted to thank you for being a brave man and doing what you thought was right.

Sincerely.
Steffy Zambrano

Wik-elements/ Wiki-cabulary

Wiki-elements:
Identify Genre-a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
Symbolism–noun the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
Imagery–noun, plural -ries. the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
Plot: sequence of events- a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, esp. a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose
Characters-The combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another
Setting–noun the act of a person or thing that sets.
Conflicts (internal/external)
Internal Conflict–noun- in literature and drama, a struggle which takes place in the protagonist's mind and through which the character reaches a new understanding or dynamic change
External Conflict –noun- in literature, a struggle between the protagonist and another character against nature or some outside force
Point of View-–noun a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint: from the point of view of a doctor.


Steffy Zambrano
English 6
02.27.08

Vocabulary:
Bi-Lingual- written or spoken in two languages
Bi-cultural- of, pertaining to, or combining two cultures.
Exotic- of foreign origin or character; not native; introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized: exotic foods; exotic plants.
Inferior- lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often fol. by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
Alien- a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished from citizen).
Token- something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
Bi-lateral- affecting, signed, or agreed, by two sides, countries etc

Olaudah Equiano

Vocabulary/find the definitions:
pestilential- adjective producing or tending to produce pestilence.
avarice-noun insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
inhabitants-noun One that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident
apprehension-noun anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.
clamour-noun a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people



Cooperative Learning:
What aspect of the conditions aboard ship does the protagonist stress in this account?
The Conditions of the ship were deadly. They were under a deck, that was contaminated, sickness spread amongst because of contamination.

Cite two examples of the slave traders’ cruelty to slaves.
What might have motivated the trader’s behavior toward their human cargo? Explain.
Two examples of the slave traders cruelty is that they made then go through hunger, or get hit with a whip.

For what crimes were slaves punished? And what was the punishment?
They Slaves were punished when they tried to get food, because most slaves have rather throw themselves of the ship then die of hunger. As their punishment they were drowned, of hit with a whip.
Critical Thinking Questions:

Interpret: Why does Equiano blame the illness aboard the ship on the “improvident avarice” of the traders?
Eqiano blamed the illness aboard because traders didn't care about what they slaves went through they just wanted to get as much slaves as they could. They cared more about how much money they would receive so thats why they stacked them as if nothing not caring about the emotional and physical affects.

Support from the text: How can you tell that Equiano has a great zest for life despite his assertion that he wanted to die?
Equiano has a great enjoyment for life because he had never seen most of the things he saw, after he was taking out the ship. For example when he saw the houses he quotes "What struck me first was that the houses were built with stories." The things Equiano saw where things he hadn't see. "I was still more astonished on seeing people on horseback" he saw horse, houses, etc. which amazed him.

"I Am Nobody, Who are you?"

"I Am Nobody, Who are you?" -Emily Dickson

I am Steffy Zambrano. I am a girl who loves to play volleyball. I am a singer, but no i do not hit Jordin Sparks high notes because my vocals are far from that. I am a dreamer.I am a girl who is trying to pursue many dreams. I am afraid of the speed bumps life puts on the road. I am who I am, take it or leave it because I'm not changing for no one and being me is what is going to take me far in life. I am the best baker in this world and my cupcakes are not topped by no one. I am a star cause I shine in the hallways of ITHS. And I am not going to make my dream come true I am going to become my dream.