I AM (POEM)

I am kind and friendly
I wonder if Ill get threw college
I hear my baby laughing
I see stars around me
I want to graduate
I am kind and friendly

I pretend everything in life is good
I feel tickles
I touch the clouds
I worry about my baby
I cry for my parents
I an kind and friendly

I understand life is difficult
I say for every single mother to be strong
I dream to have my own house
I try my best in school
I hope for a good career
I am kind and friendly

Obama's Speech: My Education, My Future

What I remember about the speech is when he said "To never give up on yourself" I liked that part because a lot of young teenagers give up and don't go back to school.His three important words were Education, Responsibility, School. I think they are important because they all relate to students and they have to have those things to be successful.Yes he has inspired me to move on to become a register nurse and move on to a doctor. No he hasn't challenge me. "No one has written your destiny you make your own destiny" means to me that you choose the way you live and they way you are you make your own decisions about yourself. Well my contribution will be to treat sick people in my city and other country's and to help them with whatever Ican to support them.

Words Alive Discussion:A Piece of Cake

What I liked about the book A Piece Of Cake was that everything the author wrote was real and I loved how she wrote it she wrote it how it really happened and exactly how everything happened. What I learned about this was that every person in the world has a story and you cant judge someone by there looks. What I liked about the discussion that we had about the book was how some girls related to the story and the cupcakes we had everything was great about it. I enjoyed the discussion because we got to meet some of the new girls that came in and also new somethings about there life that they related to the story.

Spelling Bee Sentences!!

My cousin is affluent and she takes really good care of everything she has.
My brother didn't believe me when I told him that Dinosaurs where extinct a long time ago.
I made a oath in church and I have to keep it.

Manifest Destiny and Ethnocentrism

1. Why can we say that there was cultural diversity in the Americas even before whites arrived?For example they had different tribes, different beliefs about God,different diet depended on location,different dress codes.
2. Give two examples of how the Native Americans and the Europeans experienced acculturation?Native Americans shared food, corn, furs, planting tech.Europeans shared tools, horses.
3. Describe how Navtive Americans and Europeans had different ways of looking at how the land should be used and shared?The Native American had land for everyone they didnt need to have documents to show that they could be in there land. Also they had a religious belief that there wasnt such thing as private property.The Whites had to see legal documents for the people to live in there land.Also the titles gave people rights to own land based on there religious beliefs.
4. Explain why the idea of Manifest Destiny is an example of ethnocentrism?The whites believed that God wanted them to own and control all of the land from coast to coast regardless of what other cultures believed and wanted.
5. How do you believe American history would have been different if Phillip/Pometacomet or Tecumseh had been successful in their plans?the expansion of white settlements and private property
6. What purposeful strategies (list at least three) were employed by the English to clear the Wampanoag from their lands?NA trated health care for land. Using God as a excuse to kill and take land.
7. What were the main events of King Philips War?Why were the whites ultimately succesful in winning this war?They took some of his people and made them into christanity.

Kumeyaay Tribe

1. The Spanish rename the Kumeyaay tribe The Digueno.


2. The three main foods of the Kumeyaay were mollusks, grunion, wild fruits, berries, stapple acorn


3. The three groups the Kumeyaay were divided are called Ipai, Tipai, Kamia.


4. No, they didnt convert into Christanity.


5. A force of Kumeyaay surrounded Mission San Diego de Alcala and set fire to its wooden structures and attacked a small contingent of spaniards.


6. Currently there are about 20,000 Kumeyaay decendants in San Diego.


7. Women had tattoes in their chins and sometimes in foreheads, cheeks, arms, breasts as well. Men sometimes had them on their legs. And painting in the face and body were also used for body decoration and ceremonial purposes.


8. Women wore willow bark shirts. Men usually wore no clothing only a woven agave belts to hold tools for hunting and gathering.They sometimes wore agave fiber sandals over rocky or thorny areas but usually went barefoot. In cold weather men and women wore a rabbit fur blanket.


9. They were experts on making baskets and weaving which were worn as hats by both men and women. Also they used it as a bowl to carry water.


10. Cuyamaca State Park.

Cora Faces her Father and Mother! Ziomara Gutierrez


Cora: But why papa? I love school!
Paloma: This is not fair! (slapping the desk)
Mama: I am so sorry, there’s nothing else to do
Papa: Sorry about this girls (putting his head down)
Cora: (crying) I can’t believe this is happening to me!
Papa: There is nothing much to talk about anymore, go to school tomorrow and say bye to your friends
(Cora and Paloma leave the room and talk in Cora’s room)
Cora: Paloma, I am sad. Why did papa have to do this? He knows I love school!
Paloma: I am sorry Cora; we will soon go to school again
(The next day they woke up to take care of their brothers)
Cora: Good morning everyone (entering the kitchen)
Papa & Mama: Good morning Cora
Paloma: Did you sleep well hermana?
Cora: Well not as good as I wanted to (drinking orange juice)
Mama: Well girls it’s time for me and your dad to go work at the farm I will see you girls in the afternoon
Papa: Okay girls! we will be back later we love you and take good care of your brothers (waving bye Dad and mom leave the room to go to the farm)
Paloma: So, Cora what do you think about what Papa is doing?
Cora: Well, you know I love school and that it’s not fair at all, but I am going to convince my papa to get me back to school
Paloma: I will help you hermana! (giving her a hug)