Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Reading Response
The book that i was previously reading was called, Access Denied. This book was about a girl named Erin Swift and how she's in the seventh grade and is a normal teenage girl. She goes to middle school and has an overprotective mother. Her mother checks up on everything, if Erin would want to go to the movies her mother would go online and check if its G or PG or PG-13 or R. She would only allow her daughter to see G and PG. Erin also has her first boyfriend. Her mom isn't to thrilled about it but Erin doesn't really care. But at the same time dating her boyfriend, Erin has a crush on a boy named Mark. Eventually, at the end Erin had quit the seventh grade year.
Response to My Papa'sWaltz
My Papa's Waltz
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
When i read this poem i thought that this poem was about a father abusing his son. When we talked about this poem in class a one or two kids thought that this poem was about a father and son playing around. But i don't believe that. I think that this poem is about abuse. For example, when the poet says The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; i think that means that the father was beating his son on the hand. which means that his father was abusing him.
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
When i read this poem i thought that this poem was about a father abusing his son. When we talked about this poem in class a one or two kids thought that this poem was about a father and son playing around. But i don't believe that. I think that this poem is about abuse. For example, when the poet says The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; i think that means that the father was beating his son on the hand. which means that his father was abusing him.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
3 other blog response
Amani: I love how Amani goes into great description. Every single post she writes, I can tell she really puts a lot of time and effort into it.
Emma: I like how emma has great ideas and comes up with things out of the ordinary. I liker her creativity and the way she puts things together.
Isabella: I like how she gives what she truly feels in her blogposts. I can tell she deeply thinks about what shes typing.
Emma: I like how emma has great ideas and comes up with things out of the ordinary. I liker her creativity and the way she puts things together.
Isabella: I like how she gives what she truly feels in her blogposts. I can tell she deeply thinks about what shes typing.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Response about a poem read in class
One poem that i read in class was Photograph of the Girl. The first time i read this poem i thought she was homeless and pregnant becasue the way Sharon Olds described it sounded and i could've imagined that too. And she also just so happen to be homeless. Because sometimes when teenage girls are prgnant the parents don't approve and could kick them out of the house. But the thing i was wrong about was her being pregnant. I thought that she was pregnant because it said, 'Deep in her body the ovaries let out her first eggs.' But it just so happens that she got her well....Best Friend for the very first time. I realized that she was pregnant when it said, 'Hunger and puberty are taking her together.' This poem was very open and it had a lot of detail and I could've imagined exactly what the girl looked and probably felt like too.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Observations, inferences, and interpretations
Observations: Use different colors, textures of shades of the same colors
Half of the painting is one color and the other half is another color
There is a man and a wman underneath an umbrella
Half of the painting is like fall and the other half is like winter
Inferences: The man and the woman could be on a date
It could show how long the man and the woman are together
The man could be the father and the girl could be the daughter or wife or niece or cousin
Interpertations: They both are probably on a date since there both avout the same height and look about the same age from the back and, from what it looks like, are arm in arm.
http://realchristianity.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/romantical-love-painting-photo.jpg
Half of the painting is one color and the other half is another color
There is a man and a wman underneath an umbrella
Half of the painting is like fall and the other half is like winter
Inferences: The man and the woman could be on a date
It could show how long the man and the woman are together
The man could be the father and the girl could be the daughter or wife or niece or cousin
Interpertations: They both are probably on a date since there both avout the same height and look about the same age from the back and, from what it looks like, are arm in arm.
http://realchristianity.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/romantical-love-painting-photo.jpg
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Author's note
Christina and her mother are homeless and have to live in one house with five other families. They don't have money to buy anything. The only thing that they eat is bread and water.
It's not easy being homeless, especially when your a kid. According to Nearly Half of New York City's Homeless are Children,Whyte, Alan. January 7, 2004;New York has the largest number of men, women, and children crowded into little shelter homes. Also according to the city's Department of Homeless Services, the night of January 2 saw 38,222 homeless people forced to turn to city's shelter system.
When you're a kid you still go to school,sometimes. It's not easy going to school with other kids that are not homeless and do have money. According to Homeless Families with Children, National Coalition for the Homeless. August 2002, there are many families that are homeless, about 41%.
I feel like many families should have more opportunities to do what they want and to achieve higher goals in life so they don't stay homeless and could do something with their life. Most people don't really appreciate the things they have. Even if it's the little things you should always be thankful because there are people out there that don't even have those little things, they have nothing.
It's not easy being homeless, especially when your a kid. According to Nearly Half of New York City's Homeless are Children,Whyte, Alan. January 7, 2004;New York has the largest number of men, women, and children crowded into little shelter homes. Also according to the city's Department of Homeless Services, the night of January 2 saw 38,222 homeless people forced to turn to city's shelter system.
When you're a kid you still go to school,sometimes. It's not easy going to school with other kids that are not homeless and do have money. According to Homeless Families with Children, National Coalition for the Homeless. August 2002, there are many families that are homeless, about 41%.
I feel like many families should have more opportunities to do what they want and to achieve higher goals in life so they don't stay homeless and could do something with their life. Most people don't really appreciate the things they have. Even if it's the little things you should always be thankful because there are people out there that don't even have those little things, they have nothing.
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