Servive learning

Day 1 of service laerning I did not have any thing prepared because I did not want to get work and every thing all ready because I heard that we were not doing the same thing as last year tourting. Anyway I thought the fisrt day was going to be easy any way because we were just going to set arorund and get to know every body in the group and talk about what kind of work we were going to do for the next service learning day.

SERVICE LEARNING [APRIL 25]

On friday service learning went well. We finished a lot of things in our group. Last service learning we made questions for the teachers and the students to answer. Well I was the person who had to type the paper up. I typed it up over the weekend and brought it in on friday. When my group cam together we printed the paper out that I typed and then we read over it as a class. We fixed a lot of things on the paper. Then I went and typed the paper over and made it better and make more sense. As I was typing the paper up my group was talking about what we would do for the next service learing. After the paper was all typed up and done we gave every body a job. Like we have a leader, reporter and more. I think is was the best service learning so fat because he did a whole lot and because the class went so fast.

SERVICE LEARNING

On the last service learning day I felt as though we did a good job. Every thing worked pretty good. In my group so far we have made questions for the teacher and students about how they would feel about having us help them with any work that do not understand. So far my undersatnding of my group so far is that we cant go out and teach younger kids from another school so we have to help students in our own school. I like my group a lot so far we are working well together. In my group I'm supossed ti=o write the questions for the students and teachers so they could pass them out and answer them.

Empire of the Sun

In English class we saw a movie called empire of the sun. The main character of the movie was a young boy named Jim also known as Jamie. In this short essay I would like to talk about how Jamie had a major character change in the movie. In this movie I would like to tell you his behavior when he was rich, poor and had nothing.

When the movie first started Jamie was rich and he had every thing. He had family and a big house. So as you know having every thing Jamie was very happy but he was kind of rude to his maid. He felt as though they had to do every thing he said.

After Jamie lost his mother and father in the big crowd you could see Jamie’s whole attitude changing. He was very scared and was acting like a crybaby. After his mother and father were lost in the crowd he returned home. You could see Jamie felt so sad. He looked all-lonely. When Jamie went out to find something to eat, He was real scared. He then gave up and started walking around saying he surrender to the soldiers.

Towards the end of the movie, the most interesting part of the movie to me Jamie made a total change. He walked around like he was a gangster but he cared about a lot of people though. Jamie did things he would never have thought about doing in the begging of the movie. Jamie was stealing from people. You can tell he hit rock bottom because in the begging of the movie Jamie had it all, he did not need to steal. He stood up for his self and others. For example the soldiers was about to destroy the hospital Jamie stood up for every one and the solider backed down. Even though Jamie was acting so hood he still was kind of soft. He cared a lot about his friends or family.


In conclusion I think that Jamie had so many character changes this movie. He went from happy to being a crybaby, to becoming a gangster. I really liked this movie it was so interesting and I hope that we could see some more good movies like this one.

SERVICE LEARNING

In my service learning group all we really did was talk with each other and the teacher. In my group we talked about what we wanted to do with our service learning. We did not really come up with anything in the group. It was kinda a waste.

three postivies

1. Mostly ever body got along in our group. so I know we are not going to have so many conflicts between the students because we all got along with each other.

2. Our group is small. That is good because sometimes when there is a big group of people trying to talk about a big topic such as service learning. With so many people trying to talk it wont work.

3. A good amount of people including me in the group did this same service learning last year so we were able to talk to the 9th graders about what we did last year.


three Negatives

1. Somebody acted liked they anit want to be in the group so they did not really care about it.

2. It was to funny some people were not getting along but I found it very funny.

3. I don't think this group id going to get to far I dont see where we are going with this. I dont understand why we can't do what we did last year.

SERVICE LEARNING

For service learning I still Kind of want to go a middle school and teach younger kids. Kids in the 4 or 5th grade. Last year I enjoyed working with the kids but if I was to do it again I hope that it would be more organized. Like Last time we did not even send that much time with the students so I left feeling like I did not teach them anything.

The second thing I might want to do for service learning

NHD REFLECTION

This year NHD did not go so well. I mean I was so stressed out working on things. My group members were Taylor and Ratisha. We worked really well together though. There were not that many disagreements, which was a good thing because there was not extra drama going on. Other then that finding our thesis statement I believe was the hardest part I am we had our conflict and comprise but we did not know how to word out thesis statement out. Another hard part of our NHD project was doing our annotated bib. We had a lot of website sources which did not look good, so we had to go and get some books. At the end of our project I think we pulled it together pretty well. I mean during the judging it was kind of hard. Some of the questions were kind of hard to answer and some of the questions that were asked of us we did not answer. I felt kind of bad about that because we should have known every thing about out topic and been able to answer every question asked of us. Our main topic was based on music during the Harlem Renaissance. The whole project helped me because I did not really know much about the Harlem Renaissance. The conflict was that there were racial issues during that time which kept African Americans from the entertainment life. The compromise was a group of people came together on an av. were they could entertain. I also learned that the Harlem renaissance was also known as the New Negro Movement. During this project I also learned a lot from a lady Ms. Figg who I interviewed. She was one of my group member’s grandmothers and she told me how she believed that the Harlem Renaissance affected her. That was a great interview because I learned a lot from her.