6 things the school can do

1. Go out and clean up a city park maybe love park or washington square.
2. Go help feed the homeless maybe at a soup kitchen.
3. Do a fundrasier to help people in third world countries.
4. Maybe a school beautifucation type of thing
5. A food drive is allways a simple yet helpful way to help out.
6. A school tutor service for middle schools kids.

Places to do my 15 hours of work

1.My mom after school program to help kids with their homework.
2. Help clean up my local park/playground.
3. Voulenteer to work at a hospital with little things.
4. To help out old folks at the retirement home.
5. Go help out at my old school and tutor kids.

NHD Reflection

NHD was a new experience to me and i learned a lot from it.The most important thing i learned was how to do research and manage my time. I also learned many things about the Lenni Lenape cultures and treaties. My project focus most on their culture and their relationship with the Penn family. I dont think i would change many things next year about my NHD project, except that i would like to manage my time better. I think my final paper turned out great and i am very happy with my work. The biggest challenge I had was to find primary sources, because my topic took place over 200 years ago. Changes for next year would not really be anything. I would still like to do a paper a next year and maybe even another topic related to Indian-European relations.

Maya Angelou

Growing up in such a hard time such as the Great Depression must be rough. But be black and a women at the time could only make things worse. Well this was the early life of Maya Angelou. She went through rough times as a child and as a writer to be what she has become today, which is a role model to all little girls that are inspiring to be a writer. Because of all the hardships she went through and still became what she dreamed to be I admire her for this.
To start off let me tell you a little about her child life. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St Louis. She was born on April 4th, 1928. Her father was Bailey Johnson and her mother was Vivian Baxter Johnson. When she was only three years old her parents got a divorce, and she went to go live with her grandmother in Arkansas. In Arkansas Maya went through a lot such as racial discrimination. It was a lot different from her home town up north then from the small town of Stamps, Arkansas. But also when don’t in Arkansas she experienced traditional African American life. At age seven she moved back in with her mom in Chicago. While she was there she was sexually molested by her mother’s boyfriend. She was too ashamed to tell any adult about it she told the news to her brother. The word got out and soon her uncle killed her attacker. After she found out her words led to the death of a man she decided not to speak ever again. Until five years later when she was living back with her grand mom in Arkansas. Her teacher Beulah Flowers encouraged her to talk again, she also got Maya into literature.
Maya Angelou has made a wide variety of books and poems. One of her most famous books is called “Why the Cage Bird Sings.” This is a book all about her childhood. It covers her first eight-teen years of life. Another one of her books is Mother A Cradle to Hold Me. This book is about how a child needs the love and affection only a mother can give. One of the books you can get that will have most of her most liked poems would be The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. Now there was a controversial poem on the internet called “Clothes”. There was a rumor spread that Maya Angelou wrote this poem. The poem stated such clothing lines as FUBU, Ecko, and timberland were racist. Maya Angelou said that she was no way connected to this poem and that she never wrote it.
Being sexual assaulted, mute for five years, and yet she has been able to be such a courageous person. Not only to have gone through those things but being able to make it through them and do all she has done is just unbelievable. She has been a very successful person and had been able to help a lot of people out with her stories and he poems. This is why I highly regard her as not only as a writer but as a person. She is living proof that no matter what we go through we can become the best we can be.

From the start of her life things look bad and as her life went on things seemed just to get worst. Unlike most people who just deiced to give up trying Maya Angelou tried to make the best of things. As her writing career started it never really stopped. She always looked on the bright side of things and tried to keep going. With her stories she has touched so many people’s lives. I now know why Oprah Winfrey looks up to her as a role model.

NHD topic and 5 sources

My topic is on the Lenape Indians also known as the Delaware Indians

http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/NativeAmericans/index.html
This site has a map that shows me what area all different type of Indians lived, and what land they occupied.

http://www.chaddsfordhistory.org/history/lenni.htm
This gives me the history of the Lenape, the history of thier name, where they occupied, and what they ate.

http://www.nativeamericans.com/Delaware.htm
This told me the area where they lived and how they fought the Iroquois and lost and were forced to move westward towards Ohio.

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nj/state/Lenape.htm
This site told me the history of the Lenape tribe.

http://www.lenapeprograms.info/Lenape_History/L_history1.htm
This site told me about a encounter Henry Hudson had with the Lenape tribe.

controversy with huck finn

Hurting a child sounds a little harsh doesn’t it? I don’t think it is; well to a certain extent it is ok. If a parent cares for a child they should be able to discipline it. I have a few reasons for my thoughts.


First of all sometimes the only way to get a child to listen is to give them a little smack on the head. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think a parent should beat the child half to death, or leave them with bruises. I just think that some kids wont listen to you unless u discipline then which sometimes means hitting them.

On top of that I feel that the parent has the authority to discipline their children. The parent takes care of that kid, feed them. Clothes them, and puts a roof over their head. Why should they allow to hit the kids once in a while? Again I would like to say that when I say hit I mean that they should be able to discipline them in a humane way.

Now this ties in with Huck Finn because his father abuses him. But I think the way he hits him cannot be justified as discipline. He does it for no reason and hurts Huck Finn real bad sometimes. The way he hits him is just inhuman and wrong.

Sometimes parents need to go to extremes to get their kids to listen. They also care for the child so therefore should be able to discipline them. These are the reasons why I think parents should be able to hit their kids. This is also how it ties in with the story Huck Finn.

Should Huck Finn be taught in CHS

Murder, sex, and drugs don’t sound like a good book for kids right. Huck Finn has all these things in the book so I guess it is not suitable for kids. Well I disagree. These are all the things that make a good book and interesting. Half the times when kids are giving books to read they don’t even read past the first page, because it cant keep their attention, but not with Huck Finn. On top of that it is written well.

To start out I will say that as a book that has all the wrong things according to “The Man,” it is pretty well written. The way Mark twain uses the words to make it sound like you are actually down south in the 1800’s is brilliant. He also uses great imagery so you don’t only read the story you see it to. Listen to these lines describing a thunderstorm “My souls how the wind did scream along. And every other second or two there’d come a glare that lit up the white caps for half a mile around, and you see the islands looking dusty through the rain, and the trees thrashing around in the wind.” With imagery like that how can the book not be a good thing to teach in a school?

Also the book has the action to keep kids reading. Most times when teachers give out a story to read half of the class doesn’t even read it, because it is too boring. But when a teacher gives out Huck Finn to a class they know the kids will read it. I know this because I like to read this book. I say this because most books can’t keep my attention but this one can.

In conclusion all the things that make it a bad book, really make it a good book. It also has a lot of good things in it too. The imagery and the words make it a powerful book, and good teaching material. These are the reasons why Huck Finn should be taught in CHS.