I Am From Poem

I Am From…

I am from the city that never sleeps

Where people follow each other like sheep

People and cars in a hurry

People tall, short, or furry

I am from the capital of the world!

Where cheap food makes you hurl.

A place where the pizza and hot dogs are known as the best

People treat each other as pests

Surrounded by tourists from everywhere

Y’know…they should start paying us a fare!

I am from Wall Street

Where stomp down many feet.

Where murders are always made

The news of this always fades

A place that’s full of journalists

They always get some fists

I am from a place where taxis drive crazy,

Gas station clerks are always lazy

A place where curses fly out of everyone’s mouth.

Everyone lives down south.

I am from CK, Gap, Aeropostale, Abercrombie and Fitch.

Where everyone is filthy rich

From a place that celebrates New Year’s Eve.

Ugh they never leave!

A place full of concerts,

Where everyone makes unusual shirts

Full of pride;

Bad people always hide [From the cops]

A place where people, rich and famous work.

Near them, different types of people always lurk

A place where people work nonstop.

You can shop till you drop

I am from a place,

Where everyone treats us like white lace

An international place

Full of different religions

And also, of smelly dirty pigeons.

I am from a place…

A place unlike no other,

So advanced, so rich, so magnificent

A place beautiful both by day and night.

The Beast Reveiw

In The Beast by Walter Dean Myers, a teenager from Harlem goes to a rich, white school named Wallingford Academy. He leaves his hometown to learn in a really good school. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Gabi, was left alone. When his winter vacation came, he went back to Harlem to visit everybody. He noticed everything turned different. Including Gabi. She was in trouble. Her mother was very sick and she had a blind grandfather on her hands. Also, Rafael, her brother, was thought to be gangbanging. Somehow Spoon found that Gabi was on drugs. When her mother died, Gabi had a nervous breakdown. She's been missing for three days. With the help on Monica, another drug addict, they found Gabi in a dope house. He tried to help her and brought her to her house.

Walter Dean Myers makes the story end happily. Gabi quit drugs, Spoon graduated Wallingford, Gabi took a job, but Rafe was also thought to be taking drugs.

Literature Circle Book Blog (Makeup)

So far I'm Reading Gone With The Wind. It Is an extraordinary book. It is filled with romance, hate, war and many other things. I would recommend this book to anyone who would be looking for a great book to read.

I'm up to where Rhett Butler left Scarlett With Melanie, who is extremely sick, her own infant, Melanie's child, and her slave, Prissy. It is pretty horrible how Scarlett treats Prissy. She pinches her and yells at her for no reason and tries to make a reason out of it. It is really mean. I know that in the 1800's whites are superior to blacks and they own blacks, but Scarlett would never do that. She's always been nice, and selfish, jealous and other bad things. I guess that she's taking her feelings that she's had the past years on Prissy.

Anyway Scarlett has wasted all of her energy trying to go back to Tara. The trip was about 15 miles away from where Rhett left her. Melanie has been a big responsibility for her and her child. The newly borned baby was dying of hunger and thirst. Luckily, Prissy's Mother, Dilcey, fed the baby milk. I feel a very good and strong connection between Pork's family and the O'hara Family. They've known each other for more than 20 years. They are like family. It sort of warms my heart knowing that Pork and his family are slaves to the O'haras but they treat themselves nicely.

So this is where I'm Up to. I can't wait to find what will happen next!

Black Clouds

Black Clouds
Her Life Was Bright, Shiny, And Full Of Life
One Of My Only Loved Thing In My Life
This Sickness- Brought A Line Of Black Clouds
To Us.
A Line Of Black Clouds
To Our Lives.
A Line Of Black Clouds,
Of Hate, Despair And Agony
The Aftermath Of Black Clouds Is Tragic...
It Brought Her And Everyone Around Her...
Depression.
Full Of Hate,
Ready To Die- Give Up.
Depression
What Did It Do To Us?
Bad, Terrible EVIL Things
Leave!
Black Clouds...

Big Joe's Funeral by Walter Dean Myers

The Story, Big Joe's Funeral, by Walter Dean Myers is full of irony. You see, Big Joe, is a loved person around 145th street. He helps a lot of people out and lends money to people who need it. He has been talking about his funeral for a time and he died. He was wearing a nice suit and almost everyone cried. He faked his funeral. He decided it was enough lending people money and wanted to end his insurance. At the end, he opened the coffin and came out. He received all the money and tricked everybody.

I think that the main theme in this story is RESPECT. I think it is respect because a lot of people lent money from him and he doesn't know who his friends are from that. So he planned his fake funeral and from the speeches, he found who his friends were. He wanted to be respected because he respects everybody else, and he wants them to return the favor when he's dead.

In my opinion, I think that the fake funeral/party was foolish. Because he spent a lot of money on it- maybe more money than he lent to other people! I wouldn't do that because its just a waste of money and what if you really-accidentally- get buried. It would be hard to hear a person 6 feet underneath the ground. Wouldn't you agree.

I didn't really like the story. I mean, it was just there, not very interesting. Although it has a good theme, it sucked.

Monster Reveiw

Okay, from this point, I really enjoy this book. At first I thought it was boring. It was nothing special, because they didn't really explain everything well in the beginning. But as I started to read, I LOVED IT. It was really interesting. I felt really bad for him because he was accused of being involved in a robbery. Although it was a big fight through the justice system, it ended with a happy ending.
The book, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers is about a young black 14 year old, who was accused of being a lookout in a robbery in a grocery store. The owner of the store was accidentally shot by another black man. He was sent to court because a woman accused him of it, she called him MONSTER. Steve Harmon was sent to jail and writes down what he hears, thinks, and says in a notebook. He hopes to turn it into a movie.
The holdup was held in December when 3 black men, King, Richard "Bobo" Evans, and of course, Steve Harmon. They all went to court and went through a long battle. He writes in his notebook of what happens in jail, what he thinks is going to happen, and what happens in court. After the long battle through the justice system, Steve Harmon wins, with his lawyer, O'Brien. The other two were sent to jail because they were really involved in the holdup. Steve was just in the store looking around for stuff, there was nothing against that.

I would personally recommend this book to all my friends who would want a really interesting and serious story.It would teach them a life story and would kill the time. I really love this book. I would also give it 4/5 stars.

The Streaker by Walter Dean Myers

In The Streak, a young boy named Jamie Farrell. This a boy had bad luck. First, Jamie lost his baskeball game and later dropped his soda. Glass spilled everywhere!! Later after that, he dropped a slide at biology and it broke. His teacher was mad at him. After that, he accidentally threw a milk carton at the school's scariest person. Jamie freaked and ran away. He couldn't pay for his food and hit his ankle.It was a really bad time for him. Then his friend, told him that he could be a streaker. That is when the tables turn and you have good luck. And it worked!! He had 6 or 7 good luck chances. With those chances, he fixed everything he messed up, and was asked out by his crush, Cecilia, a very hot girl from DR.

I really liked the story. I liked it because it was pretty funny. It was about a normal teenager dealing with ordinary average problems. He had some bad luck but it sooner came back around. I was happy when everything came back to its place. I thought if he didn't do some of those things it wouldn't have fallen back to its place. Like for example, if Jamie didn't call Cecilia's mother, she wouldn't even thought about asking her out!!!!!

The Lesson of this story is, "What Comes Around, Goes Around." I think that this quote best fits this story. That's what a streaker is!! Froggie said that a streaker is when a person has bad luck and then good luck. This quote explains that everything happens for a reason.