Delvin's Blog

A Filmmaker's Reflection

2009-06-08T07:13:00.000-07:00

I have learn about my topic that the sports facilities in the Bronx are not improving. I also learned about technology that we can do work faster and even make our own video clip. Working as a team helped me learn how to help each other and how to come with a great idea by putting each other's ideas.
My goals for my documentary are to persuade the mayer to improve and give more attention to the Bronx. My other goal is also to persuade the mayor to not let the Yankee Stadium get tear down.
I want people to give more attention to the issue of sports facilities because it would help kids get involve into sports and it would help reduce the obesity and it also helps kids health.
I think kids can inspire in the world because we all have a voice like any adult and kids can work together and with ideas we can act like adults.

Thises and My Documentary

2009-05-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

The social issue is to improve sports facilities in our community including parks, gyms and school. The massage is to persuade the mayer to improve sports facilities.

Blog critique

2009-04-22T08:30:00.000-07:00

Anne Frank is a young girl who lived in Holland with her family and had a good affluence family. She was a young girl who liked to party and have fun, she was also a girl who interested in love. Everything was find in Anne Frank's life but in 1942 the Nazis occupy Amsterdam and all Jewish had different rights of living there life's in Amsterdam. Anne Frank's life started to change in a terrified way. Anne Frank couldn't go out her home like before or either party because it was very dangerous. Soon things were getting worst and Jewish were treated badly. For example, Jewish were taken away and got put in gas chambers or in concentration and that's when Anne Frank's family had to take a choice and they decided to fled there home in Amsterdam and move into the Secret Annexe. More after the Frank family were living together with the Van Daan's and there lives changes ones again. After a year the Frank's and the Van Daan's were found in the secret Annexe.
I can connect to the diary of Anne Frank because Anne Frank was use to go to party's and have fun and then her live changed with out her making a decision because when the Nazis arrived in Amsterdam she couldn't do what she was use to do and I connect to this because when summer arrives I,m use to play baseball but when the winter arrives I can't play no more baseball and is not my decision because if it was I would love that the New York city was a place were there's only summer.
I can say that in this a sad moment was when Anne Frank had to leave her house to move to a smaller place. I also think that there was a suspenseful moment and that moment was when Anne Frank heard the foot steps.
I would recommend this book because is a diary of a young girl who went through allot of problems and there's young girls who are going through allot of problems.

Anne Frank book club responce

2009-03-13T07:08:00.000-07:00

In the 6 pages I read, I could tell that Anne Frank was a teen ayer who had fun, allot of friends and use to party allot. I also know that Anne Frank use to ride bikes and that her family loved her allot. I have read between the lines and i know that Anne Frank had allot who were in love with her but she didn't mind them when they would throw her a kiss.

Alice Walker

2009-03-03T09:06:00.002-08:00

Alice Walker wrote in the 1960s time period. Three major historical events that took place during this time period were the War in Vietnam, the plan to go up in space and the racism with the African Americans. This time period influence their poetry because during does events they were alive and they have experience of what they have seen and the problems she has face. Her background may experience her poetry because she faced allot of problems during the slavery and she saw allot of violence that she had to express her feelings about.

Paint Me Like I Am

2009-02-09T07:21:00.000-08:00

The mood of this poem is excited because the poet is getting painted and she want to get painted in so much ways but with a happy setting. I know because she uses happy word's and she describes how she wants to get painted. I think the poet wrote the poem with this mood because she feels in this mood.

Bronx Masquar Poetry Respons

2009-02-06T06:20:00.000-08:00

I can infer that Chankara is feeling very depress and lonely because she have notice that her boyfriend don't really love her and that shes going through the same situation her sister is going through. I can also infer that she needs a person to talk to and express her feelings, but the one that could have help is her sister and she is in the same situation. Bruise is the word she uses in the poem to describe her feelings because she uses that word to support her details to compare and make you understand what she mean in one word. The meaning of this poem is that Chankara don't want to go through the same problem her sister is going through because she wants to help her self.

Poetry responce Bronx masquerade

2009-02-05T07:00:00.000-08:00

What I think about Tyrone is that he talks about his neighborhood and how he thinks he is gonna drop out. I have learn that Tyrone is a person who lives in a bad neighborhood and he thinks the way he thinks because of his surrounding and his experience of life that his father have faced. I can infer that even though Tyrone lives in a dangerous neighborhood he loves it because he says that even though his neighborhood is dangerous he still chill's, party and have fun. The poet is feeling angry because he expresses his feelings about his neighborhood and his experience. The meaning of this poem is that Tyrone is having problem's with his live because he thinks he's gonna droop out of school and he talks about his neighborhood and some problems he have been experience from. I don't connect to this poem at all because my neighborhood is very different and i have different thinking for my future. For example Tyrone says thinks that hes gonna drop out of school because of his neighborhood but i think different and i won't agree because if he wants to be somebody in his future he could be a same body.

2009-02-03T08:59:00.000-08:00

This poem creates an image of a man riding on a horse between the woods and in the dark and the silence. To make the poem more powerful. I can infer that the speaker feels tired and rush. I know because when u have allot of things to do you feel rush. Yes i can connect to my feelings because when am having the expo projects in my school, i need to do a project for every teacher and i need to finish them in a certain day and i feel rush.

I Have Hands Like My Dad

2009-02-02T07:13:00.000-08:00

I can infer in the poem I have Hands Like My Dad that his dad is very playful because in the poem the sun describes how his dad gives him a high-five as he scores a basket. I could also infer that the father is proud of his sun because he claps his hands when his sun is on a game. The poet is feeling loved by his dad because he claps ion his games and he knows his dad feels proud of him.

Do Not Go gentle into that Good Night

2009-01-29T07:11:00.000-08:00

The meaning is to don't go easy on the death, to don't give up on death. It creates a mood of angry . The poet use repetition to show the reader that he is angry and that he is forcing his father to not give up on death. The other poetic device use is simile. The meaning of this device is that the eyes are angry.

"Yes we can"

2009-01-23T06:57:00.000-08:00

Obama on right
He won allot of votes
allot of people he gave rights

Many people he suprise
he's with his daughters and his wife
on the White House very fine.

he thought of change
and have a range of
all the money the city have exchanged

Bone

2008-12-22T07:42:00.001-08:00

I can infer that Bartleby stood with the rat monsters because thats his family and even thought he helps Smily and Bone he need to live with his family. I can text to text with the book called Runaways because is a book that wierd things happens like for example, the problems the carecters face are not problems that are seen in the real world like earth.

Themes in TKM

2008-12-22T07:42:00.000-08:00

Some themes in TKM are equality,rights and hope. He reveal the theme by describing the setting and by describing the different character traits. I think the character will learn how to follow the good way of life and not the bad way. For example, the kids will learn how to solve a problem without violence. He wants us to learn that we don't need to fallow no one we fallow are thoughts.

To my parents

2008-12-11T06:38:00.000-08:00

My biggest goal to accomplish this year is the grammar and read more at home. My favorite unit this year was the political lesson because i got to learn more then what we really learn because we didn't just learn about Obama and McCain we learn about there life and there pass. In this unit I wrote about Obama and McCain, I wrote an essay to compare and contrast the two candidates for the president seat in the white house.

We have use technology in many different ways in my ELA class. We have Google Docs and in the Google Docs we receive mail from the teacher and that mail is the work we have to complete every they. We also have ning and thats a website we use for the character unit because we reading a book called How To kill A Mockingbird and we each have a group and each person in the book haves a character and we have to comment each other about the different way and personality the character haves. Technology is good for us because we get the chance to research and use it like a funner plan for us and get us an emotion to weak up with no problem and go to school.

Readers Response 2

2008-11-24T11:49:00.000-08:00

I disagree with Chase because the young kids were board and they were trying to make a plan of how to have fun and Chase wanted to play spin the bottle when he could spy on the parents.
Chase is a character who don't respect his parents and likes to drink beer.I think he got this way because he didn't got an education from his parents.Hes personal traits is not a bad person but could be bad because when his friends father killed the girl when the kids were spying on the parents his reaction wasn't of a bad person, his physical traits is a strong kid.
A character changes throughout the book because the antagonist is bad but could change in a good way. For example, is like when the antagonist gives up.

Readers Response 3

2008-11-24T11:46:00.000-08:00

In my book Runaways I have many questions but one of them is why did the children decided to spy on there parents when they have machine games and other stuff to do? I can infer that they decided to spy on there parents because they want to act like detectives and spy on what there parents are doing. Another reason they want to spy on there parents is because there parents are suspicious. I can text to self details because sometimes my cousins take care of me and I be spying on the older cousins on the older cousins when we feel curios of something, and we also work and help each other to act like detective.

Charecter Unit Intro

2008-11-17T11:24:00.000-08:00

Delvin Gross 11/17/08
Class 802 Ms.Johns

Yes I think that people really change but it depends on what kind of person is because a person who gives up wont be able to change. For example, a person who uses drugs and thinks that they cant quit they wont be able to quit and wont change. Also a student from my class name Chantel Batista change because 2 years ago she use to talk and talk and never did work but now she talks less and complete her work.

Election Reflection

2008-11-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

This election was historic because Obama was the first African American to be a president.Its also the most important historic election because the first African American won the electoral votes by much more than what the other candidate did. Obama also was the president that got the democrat party back in the president seat. Obama election means to me allot because he is a smart person that try to help his country and make a better future for the young people and for the problems the United States is facing.

I can predict in the next 4 years that Obama will accomplish his goals that he promised the United States of America.I wish that Obama takes care first of the problem we are facing in wall street with the economy because he can't dill with no other problem if he don't have enough money because if he use the money we have we would do worst in the economy.

Raft:My land is your land

2008-10-15T08:47:00.000-07:00

How does the information in the box "A Day in the life (of me!)" help the reader understand the article?

The information in the box in My land is your land help me understand because it shows me what is her daily life. For example, also helps me because i can see the difference between my daily life and her daily life because we maybe got a different lunch time since we have different kind of ways to cook because Ashirah cooks with wood and i have to cook with a stove.

Readers Response 1

2008-10-07T08:48:00.000-07:00

Title:The road to the majors
Author:
Pages:1-15

Today on my book I can predict that Hanks and Danny will become goods friends in the double A. While i read i ask my self why hanks pick 3rd base as his of official position to play.I can text to self with hanks because we both want to be a major league baseball player and i think i can follow his steps because he makes errors and he still don't gives up.I can also text to text with the book called The Kid from Courage. I can text to text because they are similar in the way the characters act.They act similar because they are perseverance,they don't give up on what they because Hanks the character of the book The road to the majors did a lot of errors in his favorite baseball position to play and he didn't gave up to it and practice onto he learned how to play it well and in the book The kid from courage wanted to play tennis in his future and he made it with out giving up to what he wanted.