Nelson Mandela 

After reading this article I found intresting that before Nelson Mandela , there was actually segregation in Africa. Also I had no idea that Mr.Mandela was actually the first black president in Africa. I found this things really intresting due to my lack of knowledge in this subject. I really wish to learn more of the political history Africa.

Nelson Mandela

After reading about Nelson Mandela I think he was a great roll model for many people because of what he did I think he was a nice  person because I mean he was Put in jail for 27after being convicted of treason by the white minority government  . He was a great person in my opinion even though I didn't know about him or what he did few days ago .

Nelson Mandela

After reading the article about Mandela's death, I personally think I still don't know who he was. I didn't want to do research about him because since I don't know who is he I just decided to read the article and a have a real opinion of him based on that source. It's easily to google his name and get information about him and come back here and write that he did this and that. I'm surprised I never have heard people mention his name until Thursday even the president of the U.S talked about him Thursday evening. By reading this article it seems that Nelson Mandela was a very kind man wanting to change the world. People have nothing to say but positive things about him which makes me think he was a great person but I need evidence what did he really do, why are people so sadden about his death? Yes, he went to prison for 27 years which is a really long period of time and let me tell you he seems like a strong man because after that he became president of South Africa. Overall by the looks of it he went through some tough events in his life and it sounds to me that he had hope in humanity and respected every living soul that cross him. He was like another Malcolm X.

this week's homework assignment

1. Read the article on Nelson Mandela.
2. Write a response to the article. You can use any of the following sentence starters...
     a. After reading i think that....
     b. After reading the article, i found it interesting that.....
     c. What really caught my attention was....
     d. I think ...

Due Sunday at noon

raven

The raven is about a man who lost his wife and a raven comes and says "never more" to symbolize the man to not care and more about anything.

Allen poe

Edger Allen poe was married to his cousin that was 13 years old and died at the age of 40 and many think its becuase of drugs or rabbis.

Marigolds


Some people have difficulties in their life and obstacles come in the way but they have to get threw them and think positive.

In the story " Marigolds " it's about a girls that's sad and angry because she lives in poverty, so she takes it out on somebody she destroys some yellow blooms and starts pulling them with anger & the garden it's destroy. She's so mad because her mother/ dad didn't had jobs because of their skin color, & they live in poverty so they can't really do anything. in the quote " I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms. " This quote is saying that she was so angry she destroyed the person garden by taking all her anger on it.