Reflection on NHD

Reflection on NDH

The Great Depression was a time of heart ache for all. We choose this topic because it was an interesting topic that we wanted to know more about. The way we went about researching this topic was that each person got at least 20 sources. Coming together was hard but it was exciting to work together again and talk about this topic and research it.

First we just went on our own with the research at first and we each had about 15-25 sources each. We then had a group meeting were twice a week at lunch to talk about the project. We had to bring all of our research together and all together we have 50- 80 resources. Later in our process our teacher told us that are group was too large so at our group meeting we choose to separate into two groups of three.

After we did that we also decided that if we are in two groups that one us can do conflict and the other group can do compromise. We informed our teacher about our idea and he said yes if we can make it work then it would be an good idea. After that we had another meeting and split the people up and got all of our information together but put it in two different plies one conflict and compromise. Then we split the work up and took what each paper said and incorporated into our work.

Lastly we got pictures of what the Great Depression did and how it effected the poor people and their families. We made captions for the pictures. Then some of us started to put together all the information while the rest of us started to decorate the board. In the last week of NHD we got together, we all worked as one group to finish the boards. We put the paper out on the boards and then pasted it down. We ran around typing and getting all of the information for the boards. We had some difficulties with the finding some pictures on the compromise because there were so little things that expressed what we wanted to talk about during that time period. On the great depression more problems we ran into was with so many people how to take all of our ideas and combine them into a project that we can all work on together.

In conclusion we choose The Great Depression not only to learn more about the topic but to look into the eyes of people who were there and to see what it was like, how they lived in these dark times. We all incorporated some of our ideas and we found a way to use them but not messing up anyone else's idea that they came up with. Yes we had some problems but in the end we came over them together as one group. We worked in two groups and on two boards but we all helped each other as one group.

Class work

Knowledge

What happened after Bigger killed the rat?

After Bigger killed the rat he was told to take it out but he showed his sister and she fall out and his mother said sometimes I wonder why I even birthed you.

Comprehension

Who were the key characters in the second book?

The key characters in the second book are Bigger and Mary.

Application

What questions would you ask of Mary before she died?

The questions I would ask of Mary before she died would be” Why didn’t you go to college?’ “ Did you think of black people as equal to white people?” “ Why did you keep it a secret that you didn’t go to college and go out with that boy?”

Analysis

Which events could have happened if Bigger told the truth about killing Mary?

The events that could have happened if Bigger told the truth about killing Mary is that he would have went to jail which I think would have been for life because killing a white person in those days was a huge deal. I also think this because of the fact that it was still underground racism between blacks and white.

Synthesis

Can you see a possible solution to Bigger trying to become a man other than killing Mary?

Other possible solutions to Bigger becoming a man other than killing Mary I think is first is standing up to his fears, taking responsibility for his family and caring about the emotions of others.

I think that he could have stood on to his fears by telling his friends that he didn’t want to do the job. I think he could have told his friends this instead of putting someone else on the stop about doing the job. I also think he should have taken responsibility for his family in a better way then he did. I think he could of did this by thinking of their emotions and not just taking the job but caring. I think he could have showed this by wanting to take the job and not having his mother make him and beg him to take it.

In my conclusion for the question can you see a possible solution to Bigger trying to become a man other than killing Mary yes I do. These conclusions are standing up to his fears, taking responsibility for his family and caring about the emotions of others.


Evaluation

Judge the value of killing a white person in those days?

The value of killing a white person in those days I think is a very high charted crime. I think this because in those days even when slavery was over what white people thought of colored people was the same. They thought that we shouldn’t be given the chance to do things that they did.

I say that white people thought that they shouldn’t be given a chance at things that they can do because they didn’t think that we are equal. They didn’t think that we should be treated equal because of the color of our skin. So by a black person killing a white person in those days would put a black person at the top of the crime charts. They think that the killing of a white person doesn’t equal up to the killing of a black person.

In my conclusion for the question “Judge the value of killing a white person in those days” is that they doesn’t think that the killing of a white person doesn’t equal up to the killing of a black person. When you killed a white person in those days it was a crime of the highest standard.

Why? (poem)

Why?

Why do I like you?

Why do I know you have someone but don’t care?

I feel as though I want to try to get you when I could have had you before she did

Why do I try to hide the fact that I like you?

Why do I think I’m not good enough for you?

Why do I like you so much but am afaird to tell you, to show it to let even a hint of it out?

What is it about you that makes me want to give it all up just to have you?

Why do I think about you all day for no reason,

You got me day dreaming all the time but your in love with her

Well her isn’t me

Im afaird that Im falling in love with someone that Im not even sure likes me back

Why do you have to do what you do to make me crazy for you

Why when I meet you, you got me listening to love songs so much more

Day in day out your all I think about

All I have to say is Why just why am I in love with you…….

Why?

Obdurate:

Definition:

unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding

Synonym: hard, obstinate, callous, unbending, inflexible

Antonym: soft, tractable

Sentence: Me and my sister are obdurate to what my brother says all the time.

Midst

Midst:
Definition: position of anything surrounded by other things or parts, or occurring in the middle of a period of time, course of action.

Synonym: thick, core, heart

Antonym: edge, periphery

Sentence: Wongel is in the midst’s of fly kicking in gym class.