Multi Ethnicity at Constitution high.

"Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial, because you got everybody there...freshman's, preps, J.V Jocks, Asian nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks, "unfriendly black hottie's", girl's who eat their feelings, girl's who don't eat anything, desperate wanna-be's, burn outs,...the greatest people you'll ever meet, and the worst, BEWARE of the plastics.." This was from the movie "Mean Girls".

Does this happen at con high? Does our school have cliques? Well in Constitution High school, i don't think we really have "cliques" like maybe little groups? but their mostly all different ethnicity's. When i asked sophomores Miketia Starks-Aiken (vice president of our school), Lin feng Yang, and Nataly Ortiz if ethnicity groups at our school split up and they said " we have a few but no. Most ethnicity's are together", "Sometimes","usually no".

Also i asked how do they form cliques and how do you think students choose which clique they want to be at, and they mostly said," Personality" and " i think it's a matter of being cool with others like you, people you have alot in common with."

Well, the Multi Ethnicity's at our school is turning out well. We hope that it will stay this way or even more better, like not having ANY cliques? if that is possible ;]

Spring or Summer?

The season i am in is a little bit of spring because of my responsibility. Sometimes i'm not really responsible for some things like, losing thing that are important to me (necklaces, bracelets, rings, etc) but it only happened to me once or twice! Imagine..you have a bracelet on and you just saw it on your wrist a few seconds ago, then, a few hours later you find out it's not on your wrist! Then you think you should've kept it somewhere safe.
Next, i'm sliding a little bit more to summer because of my personality. When i was younger, i use to cry such much i was literally a CRY BABY! and i would cry over the littlest things. I was so timid like a little mouse. My personality then just just ehhh..because it wasn't good or bad, it was in between. But now, my personality's being random at times. It's just my thing :P. I'm also more friendly then i was before (not saying that i wasn't). Instead of being timid most of the time, i'm actually more outgoing now.
Finally, i'm in between spring and summer because of my maturity. I act immature and mature sometimes. Sometimes i go along with immature things, like everyone does once in awhile..for example, "Let's go over to Miss. Lottie's, said Joey....i was still child enough to scamper along wih the group over rickety fences and through bushes that tore our already raggedy clothes, back to where Miss. Lottie lived." That was from the story "Marigold's" by Eugenia Collier. Other times i act mature, like, not following kids and going along immature things they do.

"Mother to Son"

"Well, son, I'll tell you, Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." This quote, found in the poem, "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, inspired be to select this poem. The title hooked me into the poem because i converse with my mom all the time. The Language sounds like a conversation so it's easy to understand. The metaphor's unique how you can compare life to a staircase. How can you compare a life to a staircase??

First, the title of this poem drew my attention "Mother to Son". i don't know why but when i first saw the title i just got drew into it. Maybe because i probably knew what the poem was going to be about?
Second, the language of this poem moved me. When the mother talks to her son, she has this southern accent and the way she speaks. I can imagine her talking to her son. Also, there's several apostrophe's because of the southern accent.
Finally, the metaphor enriched me. This whole poem compares to life in general. It has struggles, and breakthrough's to stairs. I liked how the poem didn't really rhyme. It just sounded like people talking and i could imagine that.

So, this poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes hooked me into the poem because i converse with my mom all time time. The language sounds like a conversation so it's easier to understand. The metaphor's unique how you can compare life to a staircase.

My President is Black! =]

what do i make...
I make randomness??
black and whte pics are my fav.
oh wait!....i just swallowed my gum!!
Think of a korean like me hanging round gangsters! Black people!
Oooooh racist! what? wait...
i do have a german friend !
i never match but i <3 black and white!
Yooo, i got some uggs...i just saw a ghost!
Mr. Romero's dreads grew!
remember TAG?!...
Somebody in my class lip big...
Bartskiii ownzzz....PUGFACE! <3
do you have the Dia-BEETUS?
Kate has the BEETUS!
what do you make?

annotations

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a52078)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a52078

this is a picture of Edgar Allen Poe. this picture is in black and white.

Second Annotation

Poems by Edgar Allen Poe

http://www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=5

This website is the biography of Edgar Allen Poe. There are poems that edgar allen poe wrote. i think this will help with our nhd project.

First Annotation

"Poe's Life" 30 Oct 2008

http://www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=5.

Poem's by Edgar Allen Poe

This website was about Poe's life. He born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an orphan at an early age. He wasn't legally adopted. At the age of 24 he married his cousin virgina, whoat the age of 27 he was known all over the U.S because of the poem "the raven". was 13 at the time. Later

Topic Selection Post

I choose Edgar Allen Poe for my National History Day Project because I am interested in him and his poems. Edgar Allen Poe is important to history because without his efforts, there wouldn't be other great poets out there. I think his poems are about his feelings and about his life. For this week's research, I found an article at http://www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=5. I will read and summarize it for next week

what i thought about NHD

I thought NHD (National History Day) was REALLY stupid. i hated it. i hated everything about it. It was THE worst experience i have ever had in high school so far. I wish NHD was mandatory. This was my first year doing this and it was pretty hard. The things i learned form this project was that you should choose a good partner, choose a topic that you REALLY want to do, and lastly,...NEVER PROCRASTINATE. NEVER, because if you do..your gonna be so far back that you might not catch up with the other people.

Zora Neale Hurston

Born on Jan. 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, raised in Eatonville, Florida. She was a novelist, an anthropologist, American folklorist, author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston struggled to finish her schooling and eventually joined a Gilbert & Sullivan traveling troupe as a maid to the lead singer. in 1917 she was 26 and still didn't finfish high school. she needed to present herself as a teenager to qualify for free public schooling, so she lopped 10 years off her life, giving her age as 16 and the year of her birth as 1901. Apparently, she had the looks to pull it off. She graduated from Morgan Academy (high school division of Morgan College (now Morgan State University) in 1918. Attended Howard University and received her B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1928.

wanted poster.

Eli Whitney
December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825
Westborough, Massachusetts
In 1798 he built a firearms factory in New Haven. That’s where he worked and built his inventions.

WANTED FOR: He was famous for inventing the cotton gin, a machine that changed cotton growing in the South. He was also a pioneer, a mechanical engineer, and a manufacturer. He manufactured muskets (smoothbore shoulder gun) for the government. He went to Yale for college.

Quotes: “I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.”
http://www.eliwhitney.org/inventor.htm
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/whitney/index.html
Ashley Lee 04

inside the picture...theres a dance( a school dance/graduation dance ) and everybody is happy and sad because next year is high school and everything so..
i think before the photograph was taken, people were dancing, talking, etc.
i think after the photograph was taken, people danced again, some probably cried, etc.
i think the people were thinking that they don't want this night to never end..since it was probably alot of funn :]
the photograph was taken for memory.
i think the title should be " the night we'll NEVER forget :]"

My Philosophy

i don't really understand the government but i still think we need government because wothout it, the world would be full of choas. i also think that if we have government, we should have more laws so people wouldn't get killed or something like that. i think those are things why we government for now.