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Survival Poem

Swim 

breathe 

hold on 

do 

not 

drown

my 

baby 

brother 

please 

do 

not 

drown

I 

got 

you 

you 

are 

fine

I 

saved 

you 

you 

are 

fine 

you 

didn’t 

drown

my 

baby

brother 

you 

are 

fine

The- District Incident Report

Apparently they want your life. They fight for your hair, parents, sister, future, patients, thoughts, courage,
and world. They won't need any of you soon.
Give them
a fight too.

Book review

Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder
Chasing brooklyn is a poetry novel about a teenage girl who lost her boyfriend in a tragic car accident. Her boyfriend's best friend was driving and couldn't handle the grief. He committed suicide by a drug overdose. The novel is also about the boyfriends brother Nico who is being haunted by his brother to help Brooklyn. Brooklyn is being haunted by her boyfriends best friend who overdosed. Brooklyn and Nico come together to do a triathlon and fall in love.
  I recommend Chasing Brooklyn to anyone who is ready for a tragic but suspenseful love story. This book will capture your heart and make you realize that in life the most important thing is love and happiness. It looks like a really long book but it is very hard to put down. I would say this book may be more like read by girls rather than guys but guys may also enjoy the read.

K'Naan

I chose the song just take a minute by K’naan because it is heart felt. K’naan grew up in a place where there was a lot of child soldiers and the song reflect Ishmael now and not how he was as a child soldier. I am so glad that he is not still a child soldier. 

Child Soldiers

Child soldiers are used everywhere and in some places it is normal. In America it is out of the norm, so when I hear of children being drugged and trained to be killing machines it breaks my heart.  It is not right that children are given drugs to kill. What happens is that they become addicted to the drugs and the only place they can find the drugs is when the kill for them. Many children grow up and that is all they know is to kill for food, drugs, clothing, and shelter. I hope that someday this will stop and children will grow up in a perfect world but that will not happen. I hate the fact that children are killing to survive. I wish there was some way we could change the way things works so the children that are soldiers can live as children. 

Book review

Glimpse By carol Lynch Williams

MY sister Lizzy, in

MY bathroom.

SHE was blamed...for 

HIM and why, 

HE is gone, and now 

SHE will be gone to because 

SHE was holding 

HIS gun. to

HER head but why 

HER? and will it happen to 

ME? it is not 

HER fault...

SHE was made by 

OUR mother,

HER mother because 

OUR mother blamed 

HER for 

HIS death

RUN? no she couldn’t 

RAPE is her problem.

READ is what you should 

DO and you will 

UNDERSTAND.

I loved this book 

I want to read another one like it 

I think 

YOU will like it too if 

YOU like novels in verse  

I love that it looks long  but 

I can read it in a few hours 

This book is perfect for:

SHE, 

HER, 

HIS, 

OUR ,

MY,

HIM,

HE,

SHE,

YOU,  AND

I

Burma

Burma Is bordered by the following countries India on the top left side, The Bay of Bengal on the bottom left side, China on the top right side, and Thailand on the bottom right side. Burma is currently fighting in a war with the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) this makes it a civil war.Right now the SlORC has government over the entire country but there is a large group of people who don’t want the SLORC to be in office. At this time there are 70,000 child soldiers fighting for their country.

AIDs Awareness Video

This is a video about AIDs. It is really informative and gives a different perspective on AIDs.

"The Message" by Grand Master Flash

“A child is born with no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind.”

Quote from Rapper Grand Master Flash

This quote related to the book A Long Way Gone, because in the book children live such different life style than we do in America. They are free to roam throughout towns without telling anyone where they are going. They also are a really poor country and the children are born without a chance for education. They wakeup to crime and war. Infants are born in crime and war.

“God is smiling on you but he's frowning too

Because only God knows what you’ll go through.”

QUOTE FROM Rapper Grand Master Flash

This quote also relates to the book in the same way. Children are born into war and and lack of food. Most people can't relate because they don't have to live in the same environment and wakeup starving like the children do in the book A Long Way Gone.

RUF

Revolutionary United Front (RUF) is a terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone; seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions; responsible for attacks on civilians and children. In the end the Rebels lost the war although there are still people being tried for the acts that were committed.

Hip-Hop/Rap

Facts about Lovebug Starski

Starski recorded his first single, "Positive Life," on the Tayster record label in 1981.

Lovebug Starski and World Famous Brucie B also worked together at the Rooftop Roller rink in Harlem during the 1980s.

In the 1990s Starski began DJing again with his friend, DJ Hollywood.

He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978.

Book review

O.K so I read the book Glass by Ellen Hopkins. It was an amazing book. I definitely recommend this book. Both guys and girls can read it but I think girls would enjoy it more. It is about a woman named Kristina, she had just had a baby and is trying to recover from her drug addiction to Crystal-Meth. Her life was going pretty well until the monster starts to haunt her again. Then her life is back to the vortex it was before her son Hunter was born. Things go from bed to worse when Kristina came home the last time high. Her mom kicks her out and now she is going to move in with her boy-toy’s cousin Brad and be a nanny. Living there was a twenty four hour party with her new friend and the monster. When Brad’s wife moves back home Kristina now moves into a motel. Soon after she finds trouble and her life is in a vortex again... Although this book looks long, it is a very fast read. It is told in poems and I recommend it to people that like to read about drugs and other shenanigans of that sort.

Review

This year has been amazing we went from crazy last year to mellow and better behaved this year and next year will be even better. As a class we grew and we will continue growing. I used the word impulse because last year we were impulsive separately and this year we were impulsive together as a whole. I can’t wait for next year.

Impulse

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

This book is about three teens who have very different lives. First of all the are all sent to this Rehab clinic/camp because they all try to kill them selves. The book shows the journey these three teens overcome while in this clinic/ camp. Vanessa is one of the charters who you will meet. She is beautiful and smart but her family history haunts her until she cuts a little too deep and her little brother finds her. Tony has had it rough too. He is a gay teen that grew up without a dad and a mother who could care less, and the pills and boos got a little too out of hand. Conner has what some people think is I perfect life, but to him he is pushed over the edge with all the pressure. He copes when he finds emma but when she is gone it all goes down hill from there. I loved how connected the three got during the book. Three opposite people with a bond that will last forever, or for a while anyway. I also loved how I related to each of them in away I felt like I was with them in the book like a fly on the wall. I recommend this book to Mature readers. It is a very intense book. It is for people who like realistic fiction. Impulse looks long but the poems are very short so it is a really fast read. The book is told in poems which is very cool. This book was very Intense but heart warming.

Tarot Vignette

I am bad for instance I sass my mom and get grounded

I am wonderful for instance I sit up late at night and type my mom’s papers

I am ugly for instance I am built like a man

I am beautiful for instance I have long dark curly hair

I am tough for instance I walked on a broken feet for two weeks

I am weak for instance I cry over almost anything

I am stupid for instance I know nothing about cars

I am smart for instance I have made high honors all sophomore year

I am mad for instance my dad really pisses me off

I am happy for instance I have a wonderful life with my mom and step dad

I judge for instance I look in the mirror and judge myself everyday

Born Accident

Born Accident

I was born on accident my mom was 18 and my dad was 19. I was told that I caused my parents to get married. Through my life I have continued to be accidental.When I was little I was accident prone. I know this because of the huge scar on my leg that only I notice. That scar is there because when I was little my mom was cooking mac and cheese and I was on the counter watching her cook. She bent down to get a oven mitt to lift the very hot pan. Before she had the chance to stand back up I dumped the hot mac and cheese all over my legs. My dad picked me up and put me on a cold bath but the burns were so bad that they had to take me to the hospital and I had to have skin grafts and to this day I still have that huge scar on my leg that only I can notice. That is why I was born accident.

Temptation of Time and Love

Temptation of Time and Love

The tattoo that I wish I had looks like an old fashioned pocket watch with a vine plant growing up it and under that I the last name Atwood and it the center will be a single rose bud. The whole thing will be pink and black. I want this because the clock means the time of life. The vine means my growing love, and the last name Atwood for my step dad Jeff who is forever changed my life. On the picture of the tattoo there is a scull and cross bones that I do not want on my tattoo and I want the words changes to Atwood.

Sandra Cisneros Poem

Line 1: Sandra
Line 2: Who is a writer
Line 3: Who writes about her life and other books called My Wicked, Wicked Ways,Bad Boys
Line 4: Who loves to write, colors, and animals
Line 5: Who feels strongly about creativity, generosity, and writing.
Line 6: Who says "I've never seen a marriage that is as happy as my living alone... My writing is my child and I don't want anything to come between us."
Line 7: Who gives knowledge,
Line 8: Who is known for writing The House on mango street, Bad Boys, and My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Line 9: Who has worked as a teacher a poet works in the community
Line 10: Whose parents were poor with hungry children
Line 11: Who is creativo and trabajo duro
Line 12: Who is a resident of Texas

The book NIGHT by Elie Weisel Is a book about a boy and his family who lived in a little town. During the time of the holocaust. Near the end of the holocaust the boy and his family were put in a cattle cars on a train with about eighty other people. At first there was a lot of optimism even though these people were tortured, but when they arrived to the concentration camp there was a bit of hysteria. The boy and his father stayed together but they were separated from the boy’s mother and sisters. The boy agony when he had to leave his mother because he was closest with her. In the concentration camps the men were made to work every day and the old ones were killed. When they were fed their coffee in the mornings they were poisoned little by little without knowing. All were taken away even gold teeth, the boy had a gold tooth and it had been removed with a rusty spoon. Anybody with the littlest amount rebellion was killed instantly. The boy hurt his foot he was put in the hospital until it healed. At the end the boy and his father and hundreds of other men had to run 42 miles without stopping. This is a true story of the traumatic terror that Elie Weisel had to encounter.


My Opinion of the book Night by Elie Weisel is that it is a very traumatic book and I feel Remorse for Elie and his family. When and if you read this book I think you well feel the same as I did. The holocaust was a very troubled part of our history. I learned by reading Night that people are treated differently not only by the way they look by also what religion they take.