This week in English class, my class was told to comment on one of the writers on a literary magazine called space . I found one blog a 6th grader in Massachussetts . Her blog’s name is called the electric pencil(http://epencil.edublogs.org/). The thing that is unique about this blog is that it has fun things to do on the sidebars of the blog. This blog also shows interesting writing by the bloger. I could spend hours at a time on this blog.

Memories! As you walk through the halls of your school thinking it is almost summer vacation, do you think about all of the fun times you’ve had with your friends and teachers. When you leave the school for summer vacation, you will leave all of those memories behind, and all you will have are memories of those memories. When you move on further in your life, you will only have memories of those memories. To prevent this from happening, you must make new memories and rejoice that you have memories

Many Voices For Darfur Thesis Essay Comment

Did you know that while you read this comment, people are getting run out of their own villages and towns just because they are a different race from the others in their country? Did you know that the little boys that are still alive from the attacks by the government of their own country still risk their lives to forage for water for their refugee camps? Yes, that’s right; I’m talking about the horrible genocide that’s happening in Darfur, a region in Darfur where a different race of Sudations is living. The Sudanese government is trying to get rid of them. They hire militiamen and a vicious group called the Janjaweed to kill them.
We, as citizens of Planet Earth, have responsibilities. With these responsibilities comes the need to look after our fellow citizens. That is why it is necessary to save the people in Darfur from the genocide that is happening in Sudan. People are dying in Darfur. All we need to do is realize the fact that this genocide is madness. We are all the same people. One way we can help stop this genocide from happening more is to admit that we have a problem on our hands. Then you can help spread awareness.
For example, earlier this month, two seniors, Ben and Alex, came to my English class to speak to us about Darfur. They came to give us all of the information they knew about Darfur. I learned some devastating fact on Darfur. For example, I learned that the genocide in Darfur has been going on for 5 years now. That is one of the longest times that the United States have known about the genocide in Darfur and have not done anything to help stop the genocide and take action. Also I learned that President Bush to live up to his promises that he gave in his speeches. If we gave a little more time and effort into Darfur, we can really make a difference. I believe I have learned lots from this experience and it persuaded me to contribute more of my TV watching time into helping save lives from genocide in Darfur.

While you sit here, reading this excellent post, there are people dying in Darfur due to destroyed villages, and the janjaweed, ruthless killers out to kill every last person in Darfur in the country of Sudan. Don’t you feel horrible. We need to help stop the genocide in Darfur by helping to spread awareness about this horrible event. That is why I ask once again to post a well written comment on the Many Voices For Darfur weblog. Your comment will help spread awareness about the sad events in Darfur. Remember your comment counts!!!

Frederick Douglass, a.k.a. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was one of the greatest minds of the nineteenth-century. He was one of the great minds behind the civil rights movement and the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 on Maryland’s eastern shore. Frederick was born as a slave. He was the son of a slave woman and an unknown white man. Fredericks life as a slave was horrible. Frederick learned at a young age to read and write. You could be sent to jail if you were aslave that new how to read or write. When he was 18, he was sent to jail because he was found with plans of escaping from slavery. When he was 20, he ran away from Baltimore, where he resided,  with his future wife to New York City. Ther is where his journey began of being an abolitionist.

Today in English class, two seniors from Montgomery Blair High School, Ben and Alex, came to my English class to speak to us about Darfur. They came to give us all of the information they knew about Darfur. Today I learned  some devastating fact on Darfur. For example, I learned that the genocide in Darfur has been going on for 5 years now. That is one of the longest times that the United States have known about the genocide in Darfur and have not done anything to help stop the genocide and take action. Also I learned that President Bush to live up to his promises that he gave in his speeches. If we gave a little more time and effort into Darfur, we can really make a difference. I believe I have learned lots from this experience and it persuaded me to contribute more of my TV watching time into helping save lives from genocide in Darfur.

http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com/ 

http://stopgenocide.edublogs.org/

 Press Release

We, as citizens of Planet Earth, have responsibilities. With these responsibilities comes the need to look after our fellow citizens. That is why it is necessary to save the people in Darfur from the genocide that is happening in Sudan. People are dying in Darfur. All we need to do is realize the fact that this genocide is madness. We are all the same people. One way we can help stop this genocide from happening more is to admit that we have a problem on our hands. One way to do this is to write well educated comments on a blogspot for Darfur. March 6th is International Darfur Awareness Day. On this blogspot we will spread awareness about Darfur so that thing may be changed in Darfur and all around the world. The genocide must stop!

These past weeks in my English class, we have been working on a project called the Animoto project. The anomoto project is a project where you make different comercials showing examples of propoganda and censorship in the novel Animal Farm (we just finished it in Class). This project is part of the exploding walls project. The exploding walls project is a project where my english class has many different project , for example a project on dafur, the XO laptop, the presidential campaign, and my teachers twitter story. The purpose of this project is expand past the walls of the classroom and get our work into the computers of people all around the world.  This project includes a group of about 5-6 people that all have different roles. The roles are 2 researches, researching propoganda and censorship, a tech. person who makes the commercials, a google docs person which makes the google docs page, and the 2 people that help to make a chant describing what is going on in the commercials and what is in it. My group had three commercials. One was on Animal Farm, another on propoganda and another on censorship. I think this project was a good project but I would have rathered do a project on darfur or a topic that needs to be talked aout more than Animal Farm, propoganda and censorship.

http://animoto.com/

If you think about it, there are a lot of connections between Animal Farm by George Orwell and the Penguin from the San Francisco from the previous post. For example, the six new penguins from the closing zoo in Ohio represent the pigs. The pigs persuaded the other animals of the farm that only the pigs were right and that they should do what they do. The penguins did the same thing. They persuaded the other penguins to swim around the pool almost as if the penguins were migrating. Another connection between Animal Farm and The Penguins is, that like in Animal Farm, the penguins did not listen to the humans and they took advantage of them.

Today in English class, we read an article about how in 2003, a group of 46 San Francisco Zoo Magellanic penguins were persuaded to “migrate”. By migrate, I mean swim around in the zoo pool various times almost 24/7, and by the persuaders, I mean 6 Magellanic penguins from a closing zoo in Ohio. The penguins are totally out of the zoo keeper’s control. This used to be coddled flock, a group of privileged animals or people that get want, is so exhausted from their constant swimming that the zoo keepers are more worried about their health more than anything.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/01/16/MN175528.DTL&type=print