Choose 3 Blogs That are awesome:

#1-Melody Wallace

               I think that her blog is very thoughtful because in her writing she would write what she thinks about a certain thing, like for example her reading response to "photograph of the girl" she wrote :" It stinks because while going through puberty you get hungry and thirsty all the time . And it sucks. I don't know how it feels to feel hungry and thirsty." I like how she is honest with everything and says stuff like i don't know how it feels. Another thing that i liked about melody's blog is that she makes her writing fun , like for the poems she would struture it in a unique way to make her poem look more interesting for other readers to read.

#2- Serina

                  I though that serina's blog was very colorful , which i think is very intresting . She uses color not just to make her blog very pretty but she use it to make powerful or meaningful words stand out by coloring thing with another color or making them capital letters to make those words stand out . Like for the " I have a dream poem" she capitalizes : FREE AT LAST! , THANK GOD ALMIGHTY and WE ARE FREE AT LAST. which i think is very correct because that's the main message that Mr luther King wants everyone to know that we all want to be free. In her blog for poems i could tell  that she uses lots of repetition in the poem Why , which i think is very unique. She uses the word why so  that much that it makes you think why?. And she uses many question marks with the why like she is asking someone.

#3- Nurshat
     
                      I like how nurshat's blog is very detailed and i could tell that she worked very hard on every blog post she made , because all of them are very long. She even includes a note saying that everyone's blog is very unique and interesting in their own ways which i though was very nice and in her writing about other people's blog i could tell she really pay attention to the writer's writng because she wrote: all of his writng is full of passion, ideas and has a very clear focus . And in her writng she also uses really advanced vocabulary like the word seizure , dominant. I also noticed that her blog posts uses very meaningful and amazing words to describe another person's blog, like she uses deep and dark,  enthralling visual picture. But i really like how Nurshat takes alot of time to make her blog very good.

Found Poem

"Education"

The next 10 years,
half of all new jobs
will require education
that goes beyond a high school education

Quarter of our students
aren't even finish.
The nation is to
"win the future'
reform schools in a
generation.

40 states,
raise standards for
teaching and
learning.

No child left behind,
challenge students,
Best teachers.

Reauthorization bill ready
by end of the summer.

( I got this found poem from obama's new speech )

Narrative Poem:

Boring Days At Home

Waking up in the morning,
same house,
same people.
Every morning it's simliar

Eggs, bread and milk
Table of five
Newspaper begin flipped
Ah, i wish it would be differnet.

It's the weekends,
finished all my homework,
got nothing to do.

Just flop on the couch
and check if there are good shows.
Yuck

Walking around the house thinking what to do,
Nothing new

I just take out my laptop
and make it a day.
So boring!

Poem to the photograph

Life Is An Ocean!!
by: Susan zheng

Sun dawning in the morning,
beaming and glowing over
the ocean.

Ocean is life.
It is filled with seashells,
fish, and crabs.

Watching the ocean water slap against the rocks,
feeling peace and calm.
Waves dancing and prancing under the blue hot sky.

My feet deep under the sand ,
tiny particles touching my skin.

I lay down to to see the sun dawn.
Life is an ocean,
ocean is my life,
ocean is what life should be.
(i'm bad at poems) -____- !

Photograph of the Girl

Photograph of the Girl
Sharon Olds

The girl sits on the hard gorund,
the dry pan of russia, in the drought
of 1921 stunned,
eyes closed, mouth open,
raw hot wind blowing
sand in her face. Hunger and puberty are
taking her together. She leans on a sack,
layers of clothes fluttering in the heat,
the new radius of her arm curved.
She cannot be beautiful,
 but she is starving. Each day she grows thinner, and her bones
grow longer, porous. The caption says she is going to starve to death that winter
with millions of others. Deep in her body
the ovaries let out her first eggs,
golden as drops of rain.

            
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Response to the poem-

                     This poem is really strong because the poet studied the picture really closely. She notices details in the photograph like how hungry the girl is and how sad she looks.
           
                      She also uses lots of simuli "dry pan russia" to a drought. She tries to include evreything she can get of the photo like the date and location of the drought and puts it into the poem . She even has the caption from the photo " The caption says she is going to starve to death that winter with millions of others". That line also can give a clue to the reader that alot of people are also starving not just the girl and they are really suffering badly from the drought.
              
                     She uses powerful words like "golden as drops of rain" to show that the girl is in her puberty , and that also means that the girl in the photograph is really young because this is her first time getting her period.

               

This is the picture I'm going to observe on for the ELA homework.

Observations: uses lots of colors like pink,purple and green.

The painter doesn't show the vase or the place the flowers are places in.

The flowers look like real life flowers and i can some purple paint that got splash on the painting on the bottom left purple flower.

The top of this painting is very different , because the flowers aren't very clear , but it catches your eyes.

Inferences: I love the colors the painter picked because they make the flowers look very beautiful. i could tell that , in the middle of the pictures the painter might have taken a long time to paint it but as you look on the sides the flowers look like some paint just spilled on it , but i think the painter did it on purpose to make the painting of flowers very beautiful and unique.

I think this pictures catches the meaning of nature or the beauty of nature and you should always treasure it.

Response on my research article

             The topic I search on was child abuse and so there was many article on the ms51library.org. The title of this article is called "child-abuse claims vs. parents' rights"; and i thought that this article wasn't fair. Children shouldn't get abuse by their parents because that's just not right , and we can't hit them back . But the government's interest is moving quickly to the safeguard children from abuse or neglet and the right of parents to raise and maintain a family without undue government interference. Even though parents are older and have more power over kids , they should think before they act. Sometimes, children can get abused when they do something wrong , or if you have someone in your family that hates you ,could be your step-mom or step-dad . Or if your parents are drunk they they hitting you from no reason. Abusing really harshly ,can ruin the image the child gives you. State procedures to investigate allegations of child abuse have been a topic of nation concern after more then 400 hundred children from polygamist groups ranch in Texas were taken from their parents and held for nearly two months in foster care .
      Now parents can be aware of that ,if you really want your child and love your child; then you shouldn't hit them , because in the end you will just end up losing someone you are about , and be sent away as a foster child; a child as you can call it , with no parents. It's a scary thing for the child because s/he will have to live with someone they don't know, because they can't b safe at home.
     Parents also have right's for teaching their child what is right to do and what is wrong to do , but maybe hitting them and scolding at them won't make it an better ; it will just make them more scared of you as a parent.
       Th safety pan program began in 1995. Safety plans offered to an estimated 100000 Illinois families per year.There is no record that any parent has ever refuse to participate in a safety plan and risk having the state take custody of his or her children. Child abuse is a serious issue and will separate the child an the parent for safety of the child.