2-20-1996

I celebrate my birthday doing something different every year with my cousin.

In Judaism, the perspective on birthday celebrations is disputed by various rabbis

My best birthday was the day of my birth.

Idioms

It's raining cats and dogs.

She had a cow.

A little birdie told me.

A scaredy cat.

It seemed a little fishy.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May 25 in 2009. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action.


We had Monday of to honor all who died in war for us and the United States.That's why we had Monday off.(For more information read the top of passage)

Da’Quan Barnes 5/14/2009
E.L.A Rm 214

#1. I would read with someone.

#2. Yes.

#3. In a group of three or four.

#4. Romello because we take turns and everybody is equal.

#5. Kenneth because he is a good pace partner.

#6. A summary.

#7. Yes.

#8. Yes.

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

A boy died and Walter Dean Myers wrote the book

It's a good book and fun to read

Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, August 12, 1937 his mother died when he was only two years old. Walter moved to Harlem, New York City, when he was three to live with his foster parents, his mother's friends Florence Dean and her husband.



After dropping out of high school, Myers joined the army. This helped inform the writing of 1988's Fallen Angels one of his most controversial and enduring books. Upon being discharged from the army, Myers returned to New York where he worked loading trucks and in the post office while writing at night. Then he entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book for children, Where Does The Day Go? His career began in earnest, however, when he began writing books for young adults.

Opinions

Eminem - sweet, good rapper, swagger, champ, my favorite rapper

Facts

Eminem - real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, born October 17, 1972, primary stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award- and nine-time Grammy-winning American rapper record producer and actor, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song

Fact - something that actually exists; reality; truth.

Opinion - a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.

Article

My favorite class is science.We sometimes get homework.I like this class the most because I like science.The tests are sometimes hard but most of the time there not.Also Mr. John makes it fun. He is also funny.We have learned about chemistry, atoms, electricity, heat, sound, motion, potential and kinetic energy, and way more.We also do a lot of experiments.The funnies experiment to me is when we made different colors using two products. This is my favorite class

definitions

Synonym - a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.

Antonym - a word having a meaning opposite to that of another word.

It's easy to despise what you cannot have.

One bad turn deserves another.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

A fox was stuck in a ditch and told the goat a lie. The goat trustedv him and came down to. As soon the goat came down the fox jumped on the goat and got out

9 right, 1 wrong (90%)

definitons

Character - the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.

Major Character - an important character.

Minor Character - an character that's not that important.

Static Characters - minor characters in a work of fiction who do not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story.

Developing Character - is revealed by how a character responds to conflict, by his or her dialogue, and through descriptions. For help in developing characters.

Protagonist - is the main character in a story, novel, drama, or other literary work, the character that the reader or audience empathizes.

Antagonist - the character who opposes him or her is the antagonist.

#1. Readers Theater - a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form.

#2. Holocaust - an act of mass destruction and loss of life

#1. walk ate breath blink drink talk run play cook clean

#2. Hospital grandma mom dad sister brother granddad grandma home church

Quiz Score

Score » 90 out of 100
Total Correct »
18 out of 20 correct
% Score » 90 %
Min. Pass % » 70 %
Result » Pass

Rhyming

House house I'm about to go into the house
Every time I say that make me think of mickey mouse
Your daughter is wearing a bright blue blouse
When you go sea diving you have a dowse
I know you wish you were a rousse

Rhyming

Run run I know you are about to run
Wait for a second the games had just begun
Because the man just pulled out a gun
He had to do it for someone
Now he think that he won

Class Work

#1. A verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word
Daquan is bold
And
Quiet
Using my head
A blessing in disguise
Never bite the hand that feeds you

#2. A narrative poem of popular origin
I now close my military career and just fade away

#3. Verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter.
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

#4. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero.
Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing

#5. An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there.
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

#6. A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Butterflies hatch.Bees drink the juice from flowers.Bees fly everywhere.

#7. A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme.
There was a young poet called Limerick and Limerick from Limerick came but he often got lost in the thing of it when Limerick wrote Limericks from Limerick.

#8. The art, technique, or process of narrating.
Was there a choice once Who can tell how it really was so long ago Before the rain washed away the darkness And the wind blew through the ruins.

#9. A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
Not with vain tears, when we’re beyond the sun,
We’ll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread
Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead
Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run
Down some close-covered by-way of the air,
Some low sweet alley between wind and wind,
Stoop under faint gleams, thread the shadows, find
Some whispering ghost-forgotten nook, and there

Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

Class Work

#1. Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

#2. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse.

#3. Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat.

#4. The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word.

#5. One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.

#6. Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.

#7. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

#8. A set of mental pictures or images.

#9. Speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech.

#10. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in.

#11. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.

#12. A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

#13. A spokesperson.

#14. A topic of discourse or discussion.

The movie review I am doing is Miracle Boys.I am doing this because life is rough.Great things just don't happen to you one after another.Sometimes good people do bad things.The movie is about a boy named Charlie robed a store and got caught by the cops.He scared his mother so bad that she had an heart attack.After a couple of years charlie get out and slowly getting better with school people and behaviors.I'll give this movie a 5 star.I had no dislikes about this movie.I will recommend this movie to any and everybody.

Holes was about a boy who found a pair of sneakers that were stolen.So he went to court and had a choice to go to jail or Camp Green Lake.In Miracle Boys a 17 year old had robed a store and got caught by the cops.He scared his mom making her have an heart attack.In holes Stanley had to go to camp for 18 months.In Miracle boys Charlie went to juvie for 18 months too.
The different about the movies are that Holes is when had a choice to go to jail or Camp Green Lake.In Miracle Boys he did not have a choice.Also he did not leave early.These are some differences and similarities

Shia La Beouf

Sigourney Weaver

Patricia Arquette

Khleo Thomas

Max Kasch

The book holes is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats and he has a chose to go to jail or go to Camp Green Lake.He chooses Camp Green Lake, also he was from a poor family.He then discover the mystery of the camp.

idiom - parlance: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
A bit much-if something is excessive annoying
A day late and a dollar short-too little to late
A pretty penny-something is very expensive
Back to square one having to start all over again
Beat a dead horse to force an issue that has already ended

Drink like a fish
A leopard can't change his spots
Question of time
Use your loaf
A house divided against itself cannot stand
Needle in the haystack

The people I work best with is Romello and Josh

Malcolm X

10 African Americans

1
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Baptist
2
Frederick Douglass

3
Booker T. Washington

4
W.E.B. Du Bois

5
Charles H. Houston

6
Richard Allen andAbsalom Jones
African Methodist Episcopal Church (founder)first black Episcopalian priest
7
Prince Hall

8
Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm

9
David Walker

10
Nat Turner

How it started

The remembrance was originated in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as "Negro History Week". Woodson chose the second week of February because it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Newspaper Articles

Barack Obama became the president.And MLK J.R. day

The websites both talk about whathappend along time ago and famous people.

The History of Black History
Famous Firsts by African Americans
Civil Rights Timeline
The March on Washington
Important Cities in Black History

http://www.darrenshan.com/

Darren was 17teen when he made his first book.

Classwork

#4.

#1. Cirque Du freak A Living Nightmare

#2. Darren Shan

#3. 266 Pages

#5. No.

#6. I dont know yet.

#7. Because I like scarey books.

young adult fiction books

#5 Books

#1.Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury

#2. The Trial by Jen Bryant

#3. Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer

#4. My Brother's Keeper by Patricia Mccormick

#5. Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Fable

Fable-A short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by means of animal characters who speak and act like human beings.

My reflection to the E.L.A exam was good.I had planned my time and concentrated.Nothing was difficult especially if you read the passage and understood it.I will do good tomorrow to

Author's purpose
An author’s purpose is the reason an author
decides to write about a specific topic.

Anecdote

A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.

Climax
The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination.

Drama
A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story.

Conflict
A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.

#4.

Inauguration

#1. Is a formal ceremony to mark the beginning of something such as a president's term of office and a ceremony in which the president officially takes the oath of office.

#2. When Obama swarn into the White House.

#2. January 20 2009.

#5.Find a website that has to deal with inauguration. Describe in two complete sentences in your blog.

#5. One website is about Barack Obama.It tell you about his early life and growing up and also how hard it was for him.

#1. When was the last snow day in Buffalo?
#1. 1-7-09.

#2. What magazine wrote an article about snow days?
#2. Nickelodeon Magazine.

#3. When was this magazine published?
#3. November 20 2000.

#4. In 3 sentences, summarize what this article was about.
#4. The article was about the day of a superintendent on a snow day.Also how hard it is to decide to have school or not.And last how the rest of his day is.

#5. According to this article, what was the worst storm?
#5. November 20 2000.

#6. What is the lowest temperature reported in the information?
#6. 40 degrees.

#7. Why do schools have snow days?
#7. Because snow is safer than ice.

George Lucas star wars is the director of star wars 1

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks.

#1. The SF Site- It tell you a lot about science fiction books.

#2. Science Fiction Musem-It tell you about Horace L. Gold founding editor of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, Beyond Fantasy Magazine and editor of If SF Magazine.

#3. The Science Fiction Poetry Association-It tell you about poetry.

science fiction

Science Fiction
is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology.

antagonism
#1. Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.
#1.Some people have an antagonism fight with other people.
flustered
#2. To make or become nervous or upset.
#2. Some people get flustered when talking.
idiosyncrasy
#3. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
#3. The boy said you are idiosyncrasy.
incriminate
#4. To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act.
#4. The man how did the incriminate didn't tell.
legitimate
#5. Being in compliance with the law.
#5. Are you legitimate?

Rod Sterling's life

Rod Sterling's early life first started in Syracuse, New York. One of the two kids was the youngest. Rod Serling was raised in Binghamton, New York, where he later graduated from Binghamton Central High School. He earned his B.A. in 1950 from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Though brought up in a Jewish family, Serling became a Unitarian Universalist.

Rod Serling served as a U.S. Army paratrooper and demolition specialist with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific Theater in World War II from January 1943 to January 1945.He was seriously wounded in the wrist and knee during combat and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

Serling was inspired by legendary radio and television playwright Norman Corwin. Both men would trace their careers through the WLW broadcasting franchise to eventually find homes at CBS, and both would be honored for weaving pivotal social themes into their scripts.In 1959, CBS aired the first episode of a groundbreaking series, The Twilight Zone. Serling fought hard for creative control, hiring writers he respected such Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont and launched himself into weekly television.

definitions

Teleplay
#1. a play or screenplay written for, or produced on, television.
Stage Directions
#2.directions given to the actor by the director.
Theme
#3.is a broad idea in a story or literary work a message or lesson conveyed by a written text.
Author's Purpose
#4.In order to effectively evaluate a passage, it is essential to determine the author's purpose.

Classwork

#1.Rummage-to search thoroughly by handling, turning over, or disarranging the contents of.

#1.My mom rummage through here purse.

#2.Legacy-something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past.

#2.Some families have a legacy.

#3.Welfare-health, happiness, and good fortune.

#3.Some people are in welfare.

#4.Enfeeble-to deprive of strength

#4.Are you enfeeble.

#5.Crux-a difficult or ambiguous passage in a literary work.

#5.Somethings are crux.

#6.Compassionate-having tender feelings.

#6.My mom is very coompassionate.

Letter c

Metaphor
#1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another.
#1. A mighty tiger is all hope.

Letter b

Simile
#1. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
#1The school is a garden of kids.

Letter a

Adverb
#1. The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
#1. My grandma said that "those flowers are lovely."
Verb
#2. The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.
#2. I ran to the corner.
Adjective
#3. pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
#3. My grandma's name is Annette.
Noun
#4. The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing.
#4. My name is Da'Quan.

letter h

wilt
#1. to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.
Blossom
#2. the flower of a plant, esp. of one producing an edible fruit.
Voracious
#3. craving or consuming large quantities of food.
Classic
#4. of the first or highest quality, class, or rank
Persuade
#5. to prevail on a person, to do something, as by advising or urging

My Thanksgiving was really good. I ate a lot of turkey and mashed potatoes. I slept a lot. We went shopping at the Galleria Mall. My cousins came in from New York City with my aunt Sherrie. We had lots of fun. I can't wait for the next brake.

Over Thanksgiving break I got ready for the next day.My mom had cooked some food while my aunt and grandma cooked the rest.My mom is 30,my aunt is 29, and my grandma is 50.I had cooked some strawberry cake.My mom cooked turkey,and apple pies.My aunt cooked mac&cheese,&greens. My grandma cooked ham,dressing,&potatoe salad.Then I went to my uncle house and played the game.That's what I did over the break.

News articles

#1 The two are different because you have to read with a newspaper.
#2 The videos I watched were Kevin Evert knew he was paralysed and a football reporter died by falling down football stairs.
#3 The two articles I read was How two save groceries and alleged hazing at UB.
#4 The both are different because you watch a video or get a little about the topic.
#5 News websites don't have paper like newspapers.
#6 They both give you news.
#7 I like channel 2,4,&7 better.

Barnes & Noble

Barnes &Noble breaks away from the Galleria. The new store would be two stores high.This project would cost $60 million.

Principal’s departure stuns Amherst school

The teacher at Small wood Drive Elementary School resign unexpectedly.Not coming back left the school scrambling to find a replacement.On Monday teachers were sending home letters about what had happened.

Roscoe Parrish

Roscoe Parrish
One of the best kick returners in my opinion.That was a 63 yard punt return.Basically running from the whole team,he is unstopable.

Myself in 20 years

I see myself as a smart billionaire or a astronaut.My uncle said I might be a smart millionaire.That would be nice if that happens.I can be like Tony Stark off of Iron-Man.If that happen I would help people out.On the other hand I would also like to be a astronaut.I enjoy science and space.Those are the things I would see myself as in 20 years.

#1 Jackie Robinson is important because he was the first African American to play in the MLB.
#2 Jackie's autobiography is when he write about himself.
#3 Jackie ran track.
#4 Me and Jackie both like sports.
#5 Someone shuld consider Jackie as a hero because he tried hard.

How my half day was

My half day.It was almost a boring day.All we did was listen to people speak about their carer.Then I went home and went to sleep.

Barack Obama.What can I say.He can be the first African American president.He said he would put the armed forces out of war.This is a serious matter.He also want to fix the tax stock.It's a bunch of stuff he want to do but I cant name them.I would write more later.

Test



#1 Barack Hussein Obama is his full name.


#2 He is a Democrat.


#3 He is a senator.


#4 His birthday is August 4, 1961


#5 Malia and Sasha is his kids name and Michel is his wife name.


#6 Barack Obama attended Occidental College for two years, then got his B.A. from Columbia University. He later got his law degree from Harvard Law School graduating magna cum laude. Obama was also a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.


#7 Obama was known at home and at school as "Barry." Obama's parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.


#8 He is married to Michel.