The achievement gap

1. what do you think causes the achievement gap?

• Kids not trying their hardest
• Parents not pushing their kids
• The curriculum at school

2. What can students do to close the gap?

• they can try harder and concentrate on school.
• do their work and finish assignments.
• have contest with some friends like to see who could get the highest grade.

3. What can parents do?

• get involved with their kids.
• keep a tight relationship with their kids
• give their kids encouragement(say good job and give a lot of moral support)

4. What can teachers/schools do?

• make the class work fun.
• give out rewards to the kids who do good.
• tell the kids that they did good and encourage them.

Quesions about Tom Hayden

1. what did you think of Mr. hayden?

• it first i thought he was going to be an old grupy guy, but he was really nice and he made every one laugh.

2.tom hayden doesnt think of himself as a civil rights leader. do you see him as one?why or why not?

• he is on a certain degree, because there were many people that took it was farther than he did. I do because he did more that i would have probably done, but i havent really tried anything yet.

3. Tom feels taht leaders are not as important as the hundreds or thousands of peoplebehind them. what does he mean by that?

• i think hes saying that the leaders are just speakers and its the people that are protesting are the main attraction.

dis week :]

This week was cool.... I did this thing at palms for our school.... like a recruitment ting.... And yeah.... Tonight im going to dinner with my boyfriend and his parents and my dad...I hope it goes well.... and yeah... I want to go to the basketball game... but I dunno if I can.. sooo yeah... ill post laters!!

stop HURTING yourself

I think the sign is saying like not to do things to yourself that will hurt you and possibly others. you really have to think about the upsides and down sides of the situation. i have a lot of situations and I have to think about them everyday, but id rather not talk about it, and I have to make a lot of decision. Sometimes you have to make decisions for your self, and that might not make the other person like you or hold a grudge on you. One example of a student hurting herself was yesterday where she drank alcohol and passed out. She threw up on the computer and had to go to the hospital. It was a very serious thing and she really should have thought about the consequences first, like if shell get in trouble, or who will it effect?? Something like that ... And yeah... I think it was really stupid to drink at school in the first place.

A) a quote that I think is true is that it is expected to fail the first time u do something... I think its true because no one is perfect and you have to fail b4 you can succeed...

B) my biggest failure is wheni make my mom and dad upset at me..... and it makes me feel bad.... but it doesn't happen often

C) I think u had us listen to the story because if we fail....Then its ok because were all human and its expected...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6196795

we learned a lot :]

in this class the top 3 things ..well...at least the koolest are learning how to make websites, use flash and create cartoons or comercials, and we learned how to use CODE.... lol its really confusing...but now i can do my myspace..i guess...lol yeah i noe im a loser :]] 3 things i wanna learn in this class is how to do more stuff on dreamweaver and make more stuff on flash.....

and another thing is how to make different things..like.. websites...and how to make it a lot KOOLER!!

this past...week...

yeah...its been a while i guess since the last time i posted....and yeah.. its been crazy lately...ive been moving all of my stuff to my new house...and i havent had a lot of time to myself and to concentrat on school cause my dad is always asking for help on the house..and all that stuff...... and i hate it... i just wish i didnt have to move... i didnt even want to move in the 1st place.... and yeha... but ive been goins outlike every saturday...wit hmy bf bryan.... he goes to hami :[ yeah we went to knotts and 6 flags...and then we went to peirce college to see the maze.... and yeah..this saturday he wants me to go with him to the grifith observatory..sooo yeah.. im looking forward to that!! lol..ok well yeah... ill post laters!! bye!!! :]]

japanese museum questions

well..... on the 24th we went to the japanese american national museum and took a tour... it was really cool... and then mr carr gave us questions when we came back... so i have to post them on here :]

1.what did u like most about the J.A.N.M?
A. i like how i got to learn more about what my race has gone through and what happened and everything because i dont want to ask my grandparents..... a lot of my older relativves wentto camps...sooo i guess it was kool leaning about it.

2.name 1 thing new you learned.
A. i learned that origami came from spain and china..... and i also learned that there were many camps and there was only one person(ralph lazo) that was not japanese in an internment camp..

3.what did u learn about the japanese american experience?
A. i learned that the treatmentthat they put us through was horrible and it was a bad thing to do over all...and the government admitted to it. after they let all of the japanses go, a lot of americans didnt like us.... so it left us stranded without a home,job, and our PRIDE.

soo yeah thats what the questions were ..

payit4ward questions :]

the movie pay it forward was a good movie.. but its a lil sad :[ i think it was about like how you shoukld help other people in need... but it has to be sumthin thats big and cant do thmselves.. it waoukld be good if it went throughout the year..adn it made the 9th grader nice..er.. i guess :]ting person was trevor.. cause he like takes things so seriously andyeah.. hes funnie :]] if i had to make a 2nd movie based on pay it forward i would have a lot of different characters..but have them like reallly bad.. and then yeah.... have sum ppl save lifes... and all dat gudd stuff :]

angel

the angel thing was kool because we had to be nice..... and not that mean :] but yeah.. it would be even better to do it with all the grades so we could like ....uhh... not be so separated?? hahaha yeah sumthing like dat :] k bye :]

my ANGEL!!

i noe who my angel is!! hah well.. i didnt really noe cause she sits right nezxt to me... and shes always.. nice to me.. haha so yeah.. its ELIZABETH!!! she was getting the book for me and was just like..,.different... or...like nicer... and if i didnt noe what was going on.. she would tell me.. so yeah... :]

payit FORWARD

dis week ivwe been doin a lot of lil things for my person.. like.. giving --------- candy and telling ---------to tuck in their shirt... and giving him a lot of hugs :] hahaha yeah..

r@NdOm

well.. we have this assignment... and i dunno who my angel is... hahah i wonder who it is??? doooooddde!! i have a c in ms reig!!! urgh!!o yeawh.. one good thing is that im going to knotts scary farm 2morrow!! yay!!!

tech questions

the first month of highskool was ok... i thought it waould be a lil bit harder.. but its hard enough already...i think i could trust this skool because most of the teachers are nice.... and they know what to do to get us into college.....hopefully the teachers trust me.. lol.. i think they can.. im not that bad of a student.... hah aiight well yeah.. bye :] ill post more laters :]

dis week

this past week was ok.. i learned a new trick on my board and yeah.. i hang out with a lot of people like zach and the skateboarders, my love aKa cOoKie and her friends, big bOoTy and her friends.. o yeah and i need to eat like.. lunch cause im hEllA HUNGRY!!!o yeah.. i thik that we should have a period where we just get to SLEEP relax and chill.... aiight well yeah.. ill post anotherone laters :] bye

this week

this week has been pretty cool.. sum.. ok a lot of the classes were realllllly boring, but sum were ok i guess.. the past few days i havent really been able to go home.. just like at night because my family is fixing up dis new house that we bought.. and its a realllly old house.. and its in really bad shpe.. soo yeah... thats what ive pretty much been doin the past like... 4 days......ok well. yeah.. today is kool cause its free dress day.. and yeah.. i might go do sumthin... like.. iceskate.. or.. the movies or sumthin like dat...aiight.. well... yeah ill post laters.. BYE :]

my week

dis week i went to all my classes... and most of dem were ok.. sum were kinda boring....i got most of my classes wit my friends and yeah.. it makes it a lot better... we learned how to ake li movies using flash.. and... i learned how to name body parts in spanish..... and yeah.. ok well.. ill update laters...... bye :]