Monday, May 19, 2008

Service learning 5/19/08-5/23/08

Since we don't have service learning this week we are going to go out to the free library. We are going to the free library so we can interact with the children and to spend time with them.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

An American dream

What is the American dream? Some believe that this dream is just a way to make people work harder knowing that they wont get anywhere. The American dream is different in every race, in every culture, and in every age difference. But for George and Lennie their American dream was simple, a house on a farm. Where they would eat off the fat of the lands, have a stove and Lennie’s was to tend to the rabbit’s.

Their American dream was to have a farm well my American dream is to have a house with about five rooms and two baths. It’s to live in a place where there isn’t many killing so when I grow up and have kids it will be ok, ok for them to walk down the street. For me to have a job where I get paid a good amount to take care of my family. I would like to do this with someone or without someone. My American dream is different from everyone else’s is different because I am different.

In the book there was a different dream, Curley’s wife’s. Her dream was to become an actress. Her dream was one you had to work for but she never did. She just let men use her for what she had and what they used to get her was her dream. She was so gullible that she would fall for what any guy said. They used her dream to use her for on thing, sex. Her dream wasn’t as simple as everyone’s that you would meet it was a dreamed that people think upon but never do because they thought it was too farfetched.

Some people didn’t have an American dream of their own. Maybe they thought that if they wanted for nothing then if it didn’t happened they wouldn’t be disappointed. Well I don’t know if that’s what Slim thought but he never had a dream, or at least he never talked about it. He was like the leader in the male group, whatever he said goes. If he was like the leader then I guess he did dream something with leadership in it. I think maybe he just never tried to dream maybe he just never thought he could persue it.

In conclusion everyone has an American dream but you may not know what it is. An American dream is a wish, a hope, a thought you could maybe get something out of life. Maybe its something to wake up for each day. Its powerful and it will be the same for everyone because everyone is different, in a American dream.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

What we did

What we did was get libary cards for everyone in the school that was known didnt have any. I got room 404 a 9th grade class. I will pass them out maybe today which is tuesday or tomorrow.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Loneliness equal’s deaf(Grade this essay)

Imagine a place where you have no one. You’re all alone and all you wanted was a friend to talk to. You had someone but they never wanted to talk to you, they just wanted to show you off. This never got affection, so you just went somewhere else and got it. You didn’t known of the harm you were about to cause or that would be caused to you. This was the life of Curley’s wife. She had no one, she was alone. How would you feel if you were alone, and had no one to talk to?

Curley’s wife was alone in her own home. She never did anything with her husband because he never showed her any kind of affection. The only thing that they did together was that he worked out and she watched. He always wanted her to stay in the house and do nothing. He never wanted her to talk to any other guy but him. He trapped her emotional and physically, in that house. All she wanted was to talk to someone, and her husband never let her do anything. If he went out she stayed in the house, and if he worked out she got to watch him. Where is the love in that?

She tried to get affection from the guys that Curley’s father hired, but she didn’t. The guys thought that if they talked to her then they would get in trouble. Curley made it so the guys would be scared of talking to his wife. So when Curley’s wife went to go talk to the guys they said nothing but yes or no. They made her feel as if she was nothing, like her interests didn’t matter. All she wanted was to talk to someone, share her feelings, and her opinion’s with someone. But she never knew what was going to happen.

Lennie was the only one that would or could be tricked into talking to her, and that’s what she did. She talked to Lennie, she was so lonely that she would talk to a retarded person. She was that lonely that she would sit there and talk to someone that couldn’t understand or remember what she was saying. She was interested in what he liked which was soft things. She let him touch her hair which was soft in exchange to talk to someone. But what she didn’t know was that he killed things when he pet them to hard ,and that’s just what he did. She died because of her loneliness.

In conclusion Curley’s wife wasn’t asking for much but someone to talk to, since her husband never did. It could be like they say “never get to deep in the pot if you don’t know what’s in it”. That’s what she did, she got to deep in something without knowing or caring what’s going to happened. So as I asked in the beginning “How would you feel if you were alone, and had no one to talk to?”.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Service Learning

What we want to do this week is to I think go to and do something active with our service learning group. I also think we should write to more writers so we can see if we are able to get more books that we would like to read. We were having a discussion on the kinds of books we wanted with an adult and he said that the books that we read really aren't for school but thy do teach us about real life. We were saying that what we read in the books is what we are subjected to every day around our types of surrounding. But I really don't want those types of books I want like different types of books like the real libaray. I think we have enough room in out libarays.

Service Learning

What we did in service learning was help cleaning off the books and putting them up on display so we can see what books we want and what books we want to give away. We also started cleaning and throwing the books away that were old and we didn't read but we had to keep the history books because we are a history school. We also wrote to some writing seeing if they would send us some books so we can put them in our libaray What we want to do next week is to go out and do somethings about active with finding new books for the school.