just another one of those blogs .

okay, here we go again . I wonder if we still have to do our blogs over the break . i hope not ! that would be horribly bad because i would never remember and then i would get like 20 zeros and fail and it just all goes downhill from there . I tried to do this blog on sunday on my phone but it didnt load all the way or something and it wouldnt let me type anything except the title . So that is why im doing it right now. I can never remember to do them any day except on sundays, it clicks into my brain on sunday, randomly . I didnt really want the delay for today, i was kinda ready to go to school . I really just want to do spanish . If we have a delay tomorrow im going to be disappointed . I dont want to go on wednesday, im going to be prepared and everything for tuesday and if we go wednesday it is just going to mess it all up. I honestly cannot remember anything we did on friday . Ohh ! we watched that movie ! that was really funny when that guys face popped up on the screen, i saw a few people jump haha . i am really looking forward to this semester ending so i can finaaaaaally be done with infotech and speech ! theyre the worst classes ever but then i go and start health after this, so nothing real positive to look forward to .

no response ! wooohooo !(:

i will finally get all 25 points this time ! i dont even know why i dont do the responses, its just crazy. I thought it wouldnt affect my grade that much either but, ohhhh, it does . i like the topic we are doing in class, the civil rights topic. There is just so much to talk about that involves it. its neverending ! i find it fun to watch the movies about the unit too, i think its easier to understand how they were feeling and what was going on that way. so i went to pickerington north this weekend and saw one of their many absolutely amazing plays. It was called "It's A Wonderful Life". They dont neccessarily have the best actors but they have most astonishing props and director. Scott Skiles is the technician guy of the play and i would give him lots of the credit for how great north is. i guess he has beeen to hollywood and has helped some theaters there but he always come back to pickerington to help out, which is very very nice of him. i know if i was that great of a technician i would be going around everywhere to be recognized and such, and id still go back to hollywood and try to get even bigger and become even more noticied until id be the best technician around and this is starting to end in  pointless blog .

malcom x

malcom was a boy who had two brothers and his oldest brother boxed and was really good at it. He felt that he needed to box too so he tried that but he diddnt do so well; he was beaten by a white kid. He started to train and worked hard to become a good boxer and later fought the same white kid again but lost, again. He finally figured that boxing wasnt for him. He was sent to an all white school and was called names but he wasnt sensitive to it because he was used to it. He stayed with the Swerlins and they treated him very well but more like a pet than a human being. He was one the best students in the class and had one of the highest grades but he still wasnt good enough. He told his teacher that he dreamed of becoming a lawyer but his teacher told him thats not realistic but he told everyone else in his class they could be whatever they want. This made him very mad and discouraged him; i think if the teacher told him to persevere to become a lawyer he might have actually became one.

The great debaters

There were many similarities from the movie The Great Debaters with the two shot stories "Nightjohn" and "Mascot." One is the similar occupational choice of Samantha Booke and the boy in "Mascot." They both dreamed of being lawyers but it was much more difficult for them because of their color. The boy's teacher told him he could not become a lawyer, that he has to be realistic; but the teacher tells all of his other students they can become whatever they like, only because they are white. In the end, Samantha makes it to be a lawyer because she fought against racism.

Another was between John from "Nightjohn" and the debate team from The Great Debaters. John protested against racism and discrimination by teaching other slaves how to read and write; to then spread to the rest of the world what was happening to them as slaves. The debate team did just the same, but with words as they spoke when they debated. They educated to their audience about what needs to happen to become equal.

A third comparison was about lynchings. The debate team told everyone through one of their debates about the lynching they witnessed in Texas; just as the slaves in "Nightjohn" had to watch lynchings of other slaves when they were punished.

nightjohn

we are suppose to do this, right ?

so this little girl, Sarny, narrates her life as a slave. She tells about her mother and anyone else who wants to pray has to do it secretly because they are not allowed to have religion and they could get hurt real bad if they get caught praying. Nightjohn was brought in but it was weird because he had scars on his back from being whipped and it isnt usual for slaves that have to be worked hard to be bought. That night he was in the same house where Sarny was sleeping and he asked for tobacco, he said he would trade letters for some tobacco. Sarny took the deal and he started teaching her the first few letters of the alphabet. This young girl, Alice, was whipped for wandering around and she ran away when the master started to come after her. He sent the dogs after her too, and they caught up with her and hurt her bad. Two other people tried to run, but the dogs were let after them and both were caught and hurt really badly, just like Alice. In the end, Nightjohn explains to Sarny's mother that he came to teach reading and writing to other slaves so they can write down how they are being treated and what is happening; for others to see what is happening to them.

this feels like the 72000000nd blog. We need to be done with these, we have done them long enough annd i think we have all had a great fun time but we can stop now ha. I have had so many tests this weeek, i have had at least one each day and i had to take them all during third period so i missed like all of that class and now im really behind. We have to make a glogster or something today for a job, because the fairfeild career lady came in again for the freshmen so the project is based on careers. i still havent figured out what career i am going to do, i have to find out today though or else ill be even more behind and i just cannot fail this class. im reeeeaaaally looking forward to this weekend, this week seems like it has gone by pretty fast though. I like how we watched a movie yesterday in english and im hoping we can finish it today. I always like watching movies, no matter what the movie is about. this girl next to me is putting out fires with a hose haha. she loses all the water though when she drives the firetruck becasue shes going over hills and cliffs. im soooo glad we have the renaisance rally today and all our classes are shortened . its been 17 minutes.

monday

i always tell myself that i wont forget to do this blog but then i do, how wonderful. this is seriously like the 7th time i have forgetten to do it in a row. im making a chart right now. making it all colorful and bright. its for infotech, but i honestly have no idea what im doing. We have to race everyday too, its a typing race. There are these little cars and the faster you type the faster you go. My car always has a flat tire though, so it doesnt really move. I thought that 12 angry men was an interesting book; it was different. i dont like how it never tells you what really happened, like it doesnt tell you if the boy really did it or not. i thought the case was really bad too because all of the evidence was shaky and there really wasnt anything that couldnt be questioned. It would have been a more interesting book if the lady who saw the boy do it didnt wear glasses and could see and all that. It was really short too, the book i mean. we read it in like a single week, which was nice so i didnt forget anything that happened.

ohh mannn i forgot to write it again. well i glad we are done with out research papers, those took too long. i hated doing those bibcards and notecards, they take too long. i did the same thing last year in english. Im looking forward to starting something new, i know we are reading a book and mr. potter told us what we were going to do but i forget. i think it is the easiest to read books and do stuff with that because there is only one right answer, its not like algebra where theres a 72 million ways to do one problem. i just submitted my paper to turnitin.com. it was alot faster than last time i did it but i was using wordperfect last time and this time i used microsoft so maybe thats why. i hate wordperfect. it makes me so mad. its annoying and doesnt do anything i want it to. i dont know how to get it to do anything i want it to either. im gonna have to buy mircosoft eventually. someone in the corner is listening to their music reeeeaaaally loud. i can hear every word. its a pretty good song, id have to say. its on my ipod haha. me and this girl made this psa for driving and texting and its the best psa ever. weve got this new report on this guy crashing into another car and an interview with the lady and then the required facts, of course. we have the most amazinnng background song to go with it too. its just great. three more minutes. im really excited for this week to be over and for next week to start, thatll probably make this week go by suuuperr slow. i hate slow weeeks, i really do. i always have something to look forward to on tuesday though, panini day ! yeaaah !

im going to write my blog right now because i know im absolutely going to forget this weekend and i already forgot last week, so i do not want to lose more points. This week has actually gone by pretty fast. i diddnt think it was going to but it really did, im really glad  about that . I just came back from science and it made my day. we were suppose to have a vocab test yesterday and i tried to study but it was sooooooo hard ! i ddidnt know any of the words. but when i got to class he announced that we didnt have it becasue he forgot to make the test. so that was good. then i thought we were going to have it today, like the test was jsut delayed. but i was wrong(: he just talked today and explained most of the words which was semi- helpful and then the best part of it all... we may not even have a test over this chapter ! yaaaaaaay! i finally fixed my works cited page just a second ago. it took me forever. my moms computer broke; my sister kicked it off the bed and something happened to it, so i always have to find another computer. i used to always go to my fathers house to use his computer but it takes forrrrreverrrrrrr! so i went to osu, again, to use tricia's computer . but then i did it wrong and had to correct it and i wasnt about to type it all over again so i had my mama email me it and i just corrected it . so there, mr potter, i finally have my works cited. i typed my outline last night too. i think im up to date now.

okaay, 6th blog. i feel like i have written a lot more than just 6. I cant wait for this week to be over. Monday was horrible because i had to dress up but after 8th period it was completely pointless becasue i diddnt even have to present. Then i had to dress up today again, but not entirely. i may even have to dress up on wednesday if i dont go today. It is only a 6 minute speech, i dont see the point in this. but ohhhhhh welllllllll. I got this letter during this class that said someone in one of my classes has the woooping cough. I guess its very contagious and you need to get a shot to cure it or to prevent from getting it. I hope i dont catch it, i dont want to be wooping. I typed out my works cited page last night, it took awhile. The computer wouldnt let indent the second line or anything so its kind of messed up. at least i have it though. i have to write my outline tonight too, thaaaats gonna be fun ! I did something really similar to this last year in english, but it was on pets and animal abuse. We did this whole project on it that took all year, it was crazzzy. I dont even remember what happened to thhat project, it was fun though having dogs brought to the school and going to help take care of the animals. i got to walk some dogs ahha. Im excited for this weekend, im going to hang out with a few friends that i havent seen in a long time. yeaah so it has been 15 minutes.

blog 5?

so i think we need to write another blog? im not really sure though, i feel like i have just written one earlier this week. This girl in my info tech found out how to get on facebook, thats pretty cool and we have a sub today so its quite fun. Im going to kings island this weekend, im really looking forward to that ! im going to have so much homework though because i wont have any time to do it, annnnnnd my spanish teacher never told us we had to write another journal so i have to find some time to do that. i cant wait for lunch today, its spicy chickenn day ! thee best ! so mr. potter, i talked with someone from your 7th period class a few days ago and we decided that you need to change something with these blogs. theyre getting boriing because all we ever talk about is your english class. We think you should have like a topic of the week and we have to write something about that, but you couldn't make the topic too hard. we have a test today over our book, im thinking im going to do pretty well on it. I like how we can take home the essay though so we can think about what we want to write and we have however long we please to write it. its almost been 15 minutes. i feel like this blog is really random, im just stating whatever pops into my head at the moment.

blog 4

im back at osu again, i come here almsot everytime i write my blog. i honestly kind of like it here though, the people are all really nice and the computer is suuuuuuuper fast ! and there is a mcdonalds downstairs ! The only bad thing is the walk up here is sort of long and we have to walk through a construction site so the guys working always look mad at me because of that. This really funny man, as we were walking up to the unit, had all these cords connected to him and a wheelchair in front of him and he was leaning against the fence so someone asks if hes okay. he said yes, he was just trying to get this m&m from under the fence so he could help the society and feed the ants. okay, so on topic for english: the book is really interesting again. my favorite parts have always been the parts about Boo Radley and the very ending, and the trial also. Atticus is so smart in the trial, i like how he asked simple questions. i dont want the book to be over though, that means we will have some project or big test to do and i really hate doing projects over books, even after we evaluated it in class. i like the little tiny mini tests, theyre easy and the only thing i miss is the vocabulary, but only sometimes. so im pretty sure this has been about 15 minutes or so and i already did my response. immmmm donnnneeee(:

blog 3

so im sittting in info tech writiing this blog, i just thought i should get this over with. We just took a test on Introduction to Computers and i got a C on it. i should have studied more. I already finished my typing lessons, all 14 of them ! so i now have some free time. the girl next to me finished her quiz too and she has some freee time so shes searching for a job online. Some of the professions are kind of funny; you can apply to be a floor care person and vacuum or sweep all day long. Or you could be a squash cordinator, which i have no idea what that is but it reminds me of a farmer. For some reason i cant respond to anyones blog, i dont know why though. It doesnt let me click so the curser comes up so i cannot type anything. I will try again tonight though. So this boook, To Kill a Mockingbird. I just read the chapter when aunt alexandra is on their front porch and i remebered what happens next buuuuuut im not going to say anything about it. This morning i had to help someone in my spanish class read that same book, even though they have a different teacher they are reading the same book. We have another test today and i havent studied the vocabulary ! i think it has beeen about 15 minutes, so im done .

alrighhht, another blog to write. i wasnt home all weekend and i forgot to write a response to someone elses blog so i dont have one of those. points off for me :/ I spent my whole weekend in toledo, thinking it was a state, but its just a county thats three hours away. i accidentally read chapter six in To Kill a Mockingbird . i read it then remembered that we diddnt have to read this weekend so im just one chapter ahead. i answered all of the questions too. I can honestly answer about half the questions without reading the book because i have read this book so many times ! Its not a bad book or anything, im just bored with it. It is very long and drawn out too. I think the author could have left out a few of the details, because in the end some of it doesnt tie into the main idea of the story; of the theme of the book. I like the variety of vocabulary that she uses too, it keeps things new and more interestinng so it doesnt get old real fast. so i think this has been about ten minutes, only five more. im not really sure what to say. i dont like how we have to write one of these each week, and then respond to someone elses. i think we should write a blog one week, then respond once the nect week without writing a blog, like one week on, one week off. i think that would give me more things to talk about because it has been a longer period of time and more things have happened in english class.

im looking forward to starting a new subject in english. i dont want to write this essay, not because it is hard but bevcause it is boring. i have written at least three essays each year in english and here is yet one more. if we start something new i dont want it to be a research project though. those things are the worsttt and most complicated. i wouldnt mind begining reading one of the 72000 books mr. potter has planned for us to read; that sounds like it would be pretty easy just reading a book and then doing something with it. just as long as it is not like the honors summer reading project was this past year.

this english assignment takes up alott of time. i keep having to find a computer to blog on and i REALLY need to write down my username and password. i finally found a topic for my essay , im going to write about how wakeboarding is more dangerous than tubing. im really glad this paper only has to be five paragraphs long, because i wouldd have a hard time finding more than just a few things to say about wakeboarding.

i came all the way to osu to write this blog. I forgot my username at first and then i couldn't figure out my password so this took quite awhile. Now im going blog about the blog we are suppose to blog about for english. I'm glad were done with poetry and starting an essay, especially since its a persuasive essay because i have written lots of those over about every topic under the sun. I think its so dumb how we have such little time to write them though, it doesnt give me enough time to write a goood essay.