Thesis Statement and Introduction - DUE Friday October 31

Thesis: Christopher Columbus known as the great discoverer of the Americas whom many call one the greatest navigators of the sea, a man of such greatness he is dedicated every year in America for discovering America. He was neither and I don’t believe he deserves his own holiday. He luckily reached the islands on the outskirts of America and when he did he found hospitable host who feed his hungry and thirsty crew. The same crew he ordered to enslave these hospitable host and made them search for gold that was rightfully theirs that he wanted for his own benefits.

Intrdoction:Christopher Columbus took three ships and traveled west across the Atlantic Ocean searching for a new route to Asia but with a crew on the virge of death luckily found land on the outskirts of America. where he found the hospitable natives who he called Indians because his foolish navigating skills made he actually believe he was in India. The same natives that feed his hungry crew were the same natives he enslaved. Why is this cruel manipulative man called the discoverer of a land he has never been on in his life or even the discoverer of land that has been lived on by natives years before he was ever there.

how to finish annotation

write how the website is helping you and what the website told u and how or what ur goin to use the document and wheter its a secondary or primary source. Talk about how the article or website can help you for your project. Talk about the facts that was stated in the article for your first paragraph. Talk about primary source or secondary source in your second paragraph. state how it can help u in your second paragraph

4th annotation due tuesday oct 28

"Christopher Columbus Spanish Explorer ." Barlette School 2000 30 Oct 2008 .

I have spent the last year on my second voyage across the Ocean Sea. Sadly, I found the fort and the men that I left behind from the first voyage dead. I do not know what happened to them. I built a new village on another island. My men found gold on this island! I sent a load of gold back to Spain. The Indians were not as friendly this time, and I was forced to kill many of them.

third annotation due friday Oct 24

HTTP://WWW.COLUMBUSNAVIGATION.COM/DESTRUCT.SHTML
1997-2006 BY KEITH A. PICKERING

Therefore, when the Spanish took a number of Native Americans as prisoners on Hispaniola, Columbus saw an opportunity for profit. In 1496, he sent 300 of these prisoners to Spain, to be sold as slaves. The Spanish had come to America as conquerors.

Second Annotation Due Tuesday October 21

Hale, Edward. The Life of Christopher Columbus. The Carribean: Project Gutenberg, 1892.

They remained so friendly to us that it was wonderful. “They would be good servants, of good disposition, for I see that they repeat very quickly everything which is said to them. I believe that they could easily be made Christians

1st annotated due friday oct 17

"Christopher Columbus: Explorer." enchantedlearning.com. n/ana2000. enchanted learning. 19 Oct 2008 .

They landed on an island they called Guanahani, but Columbus later renamed it San Salvador. They were met by the local Taino Indians, many of whom were captured by Columbus' men and later sold into slavery. Columbus thought he had made it to Asia, and called this area the Indies, and called its inhabitants Indians.

NHD Topic Selection

I chose Christopher Columbus for my NHD project because i disagree with the way he is portrayed by many americans as a founder the Americas'. I want to prove to americans he is no more than a common criminal and discovered nothing. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/columbus.shtml

SERVICE LEARNING

What interest me hmmm... im not exactly sure but what interest me is school enrichment programs. this programs interest me because they are good to the community both sculps young minds into professors,lawyers,and doctors i also would like to help afterschool programs for the kids that keeps them from the harms of the streets. Also neighborhood recreation centers because they give kids a place to be instead of the streets all day.
Service learning is important it gives kids a way to give back to the community that once gave to them. Sometimes these programs are helpful to the world if these programs close it could hurt the lives of many kids in the world and sometimes they need help.

process paper

We chose our topic by coming up with ideas that we liked for a NHD project. My group and me narrowed the projects down to two; they were the Philadelphia Black Mafia and the Male Perspective of the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society. We gathered research on both of the societies and then asked some historians and teachers which do they think is least known about so people won’t be able to know more about the project than we do and which one stands out more they all said the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society. It was a society that most likely never talked history classes.

We started our research by starting on the Internet. We found a few things and when we found all we could find we turned to the teachers work. The teachers got us news articles and they gave us primary sources that were found from a museum. We went to two different places, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and The Quaker Meeting House. This helped us out by meeting people who actually studied the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. The Quaker Meeting House had a book on the PFASS that told us about the group in the eyes of Lucretia Mott. The book was called “ Valiant Friend The Life of Lucretia Mott.’’ The Historical Society of Pennsylvania gave us the primary source documents we used for our annotations.

At first we were going to do a documentary, but we had a choice change to performance. We decide to change our project type because we thought if we did that it would be more creative than a documentary. We thought by doing a performance it would bring the project to life if we acted the Male Perspective of the PFASS out.

This project relates to the Conflict and Compromise theme because in our play we the audiences knowing what the conflict is and at the same time let them decide what they think would be the compromise. Whether the compromise was the burning happening an the PFASS meeting at new places or letting the Pennsylvania Hall burn and still responded with peaceful actions.

We chose this topic with many different ideas. Our research was a great help so that we could write our skit. The different topics were to well known so we chose something not many people didn’t know too much about. The project really relates to the conflict part of NHD. We chose this topic because we really wanted to learn about something that will probably not be taught in history classes.

NHD REFLECTION

National History Day this was a big learning experience it was hard ,fun ,stressful ,and a times angering. I never heard of NHD before constitution high school. so i'm happy that i actually made it to the citywide competition. this project was a learning experience in many ways ,this project taught how to work with my group members , it also taught me how to write an annotated bibliography and it also gave me an idea on what project type is the easiest and which is the hardest. the project was stressful and frustrating because i was unable to do a proper annotated bibliography my group could get each other annoyed and we got sidetracked at times when we tried to solve our group problems and then teachers would get us upset because they would think we weren't
doing anything and one even said he's looking forward to failing us this was discouraging angering and motivating at the same time because we wanted to prove those who doubted us wrong. this was upsetting but at the end of the day i'm happy that i went through this learning experience this is something that prepares me for life and that is why i like it.my project was the Philadelphia female antislavery society in and my group did a performance i wouldn't change anything except for how i studied for my project.

what should my grade for mr. romero's class be

I like english its a fun class it helped my find a literary side of me. Since the beginning of the year i have been learning a lot and obtaining information. So for my first report card i got a A. But for my second i believe my grade dropped. But i still learned plenty of new things in this semester. so truthfully i believe my real grade should be between a c and a A. i turned all my work in even though some is a little late it was not on purpose. if i knew that i was missing items then i wouldve been done

biography:Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed is the African American author i am writing a biography about. Ishmael Reed is a highly recognized author he started writing newspaper articles at the age of fourteen. Reed is known for several different types of writing and also publishes. I love writing so that's one way i feel me and Mr.Reed have similarities.
Reed moved from his birthplace Chattanooga Tennessee after the first four years of his life. Ishmael was raised with his stepfather Bennie Reed and his mother Thelma Coleman. Ishmael began composing stories in grade school. At the age of fourteen this young black man started writing regular columns on jazz to the empire state weekly which was a local black newspaper.
Ishmael Reed was a great writer he is known for lots of work. Reed write all types of works and publishes so it is hard to narrow his work to one topic. He was a great writer who knew and wrote several styles of writing. He was nominated for multiple awards one poem he was known for was beware:do not read this poem. This poem is kind of scary it is very interesting at the same time. the poem talks about a women who disapearred in mirrors and hunted people in the house for years until the move.
This great writer Ishmael Reed whom is one of the most pre-eminent African-Amerian literature figures. Reed's work as a poetic writer has inspired me. His poem .05 which to me seems like a a boy talking about his romance life inspired me to do the same. Another great poem of Reed's is beware do not read this poem in this poem he talks about a story of a women haunting a house this is the type of poems i like to use.
Ishmael Reed is the writer i wrote a bibliography on. when i started this project i knew nothing of this great African American author now i know of his works his success and contribution to the big world of literature. i didn't know that there were writers that could relate to me. From this project i learned about new cities . this is the African American author that i wrote about.

controversial topic:racism

This story is controversial because of its racism. In this story they treat jim the main black character like a fool. Since jim ranaway and huck went missing around the same time they charged jim for supposedly killing huck. This story provides racial tensions in classrooms.
The story treats jim bad and view him as a dumb "n" word. The widow and ms. watson dress jim with dirty clothes ripped, dirty, and stitched up clothes. The kids woke him up purposely and call him a big "n" word.
The story is very racist when it comes to blaming someone for huckleberry murder. They don't blame the person who kidnapp Huck. they didn't even arrest him for kidnapping huck or breaking in the widows house. They blame the slave who went missing after huck is thought to be dead.
When you read the story you come past the "n" word alot. when tachers allow students to read aloud or read excerpts from the story sometimes they say the "n" word. Some students take this word offensive and especially when said by different races. So this could cause bad tensions in class.
The story is very controversial in many ways. One way the story is controversial is it's very racist. In the story there is alot of racism towards jim. This story can cause racial tensions in schools.

Should Huck Finn Be Taught In Schools

Huckleberry Finn should not be taught in public schools. this book is racist all throughout the story. the dialogue isn't very understandable because they talk exactly how they would in that time. this story has a lot of violence and sexual overtone.
This story is unacceptable it's simply a racist book. students who read this aloud could start tensions if one takes something read offensive. In the story we are reminded of how horrible African Americans were viewed in this story. This story even accused Jim of killing Huck just because they went missing around the same time.
The story has bad language. teachers tell us to read overnight sometimes and if i don't understand the story what's the point of reading by myself. If I am unable to comprehend the story how will I be able to answer questions on the story. Why would i read something I don't understand. The story shouldn't be taught to kids especially. The violence in the story is unacceptable they talk about gangs, killing, and theft. Theres also some sexual overtone in the story. The way they beat on Jim in the story is wrong. I don't think this story should be taught in schools. The story is racist and call African Americans the "n"word multiple times. this puts an extra strain on kids minds because it takes longer to comprehend the story then to read the story. I don't think someone would want their kids to read a story with such violence and racism.