End of Class Celebration 6/28/10

Congratulations On Finishing the Spring 2010 Cycle!

Hello, everyone! Congratulations to everyone who finished the cycle: Maria, Jesus, Damian, Ralphie, Juanita, Teresa, Jose, Gabriela, and Abdussalaam! You worked until the bitter end of the cycle, and I am so proud of your commitment to our class. We had a delicious feast of chicken gumbo, rice, cupcakes, lemonade, and other goodies. Thank you to everyone who provided something to share with the class!

Most Improved Reader: Ralphie
Most Improved Writer: Abdussalaam
Most Improved Math: Anthony
Participation Award: Teresa
Best Attendance (60 hours): Juanita and Damian

Maria, Jose, and Teresa: We missed you!!!!

Gabriela, Ralphie, and Abdussalaam- you will be missed! Please keep us up to date with your GED preparation! Ralphie will be holding study groups at the Learning Center every Tuesday/Thursday 1pm, right?

For the rest of the class: please bring your TABE score slip to registration at the Coney Island library on July 7th at 5pm. You won't have to stay to take the test- just to sign up for the next cycle.

Enjoy the next couple of weeks off!
Karen

Childhood Narrative Writing Celebration 6/9/10

Writing Celebration 6/9/10

New Horizons Karen

Hi Karen,new horizon would like a copy of my test faxed to them.

It's probobley not mandatory ,because they didn't ask for it until I mentioned my test scores.

So if it's to much trouble, don't worry about it.

''WHAAAAT''?!

Do I have to take the tabe test again , in order to register for GED classes.

to Karen

the day i'm registering for the next cycle is the day i'm away down
south so can you register for me please?

to Karen

the day i'm registering for the next cycle is the day i'm away down
south so can you register for me please?

to Karen

the day i'm registering for the next cycle is the day i'm away down
south

to Karen

the day i'm registering for the next cycle is the day i'm away down
south

to Karen

the day i'm registering for the next cycle is the day i'm away down
south

Woodstock thunder

I have writer's block, please help


It was a scorching hot summer morning of 1982 .The sun rose high over the Woodstock farm ,triumphantly chasing the moon back to it's shadowy retreat.

Artemis Riel Woodstock woke suddenly at 7AM to the sound of crows having a buffet out of this springs harvest.


It became clear to him that his paper mache scarecrow wasn't getting the job done.Art had recently requested of his father that he be allowed to construct a new scarecrow for the farm .The last one had mysteriously caught fire and almost set fire to a third of the farms crops. Art's father suspected the Wilkinson brothers, who were always trying to sabotage his plans.Art saw this as a great opportunity to earn some extra cash from his father.


''What in God's name is going on out there''Art's father yelled as he pulled open the window to his bedroom.


By this time Art was already in the fields fending off the shadowy black vermin with a broomstick.


''Uuh ,nothing Dad, just feeding the chickens.Feeding the chickens? he thought, what a ridiculous excuse for an excuse.I might as well have said the chickens were being abducted by aliens.His father's continued shouting brought Art back to earth.


''Well,try to keep it down. Your mother's trying to sleep.I'll be down in a minute'',his father said from within his room.


Robert Riel Woodstock was a moderately tall man whose' neighbors called him Woodstock willow.His gnarled, boney and vein filled hands and arms, along with his shaggy faded hair gave one the impression of a weeping willow tree.He was also of Native American and Scottish decent.
While his wife was African American.


''Egg soup again Lillian?''Robert said jokingly to his swan like daughter, as he walked past the kitchen.


''Well maybe if Mom was ever awake this early, she could tell me how she makes her omelets''Lillian said as she wrestled with the fried eggs.


I'd be exhausted to if i had to deal with you meddlesome kids all day long''.Her father said laughing as he stepped over his youngest child Lucy who was playing with Lego's in the middle of the hallway floor.


Lillian threw a damp rag at her Father's already damp looking willow head, as he hurried though the door.


Robert found his two sons talking in the field.


''You call that a scarecrow?Art's stocky older brother Benjamin said ,setting a stack of hay down that he brought back from the stables.Lucy has dolls that look scarier than that ''He continued as there father approached.

''We'll worry about the scare crow later, there father said standing by the barn with his arms folded.Today is a very important day for all of us.Today is the day that we drive three score of cattle to greydey farm.Now I want You both to be on Your best behavior, because your sister is coming with us.The two of you are enough trouble as it is''.

''Aw Pop,you know Lilly couldn't drive cattle to save her life''.Ben said as he sat on the stack of hay.


''I heard that'' Lillian yelled from the living room window.


''Yeah,well their's a lot more were that came from, so consider yourself lucky.Benjamin said his arms out wide as he walked towards the house.


Just then they heard a loud crash coming from within the house.Soon after Lillian cam running through the front door with a piping hot spatuler in hand.


''Oh hell naw'' Ben said flying past his brother in the opposite direction.


''Ouch''Robert said, feeling the hot sting of the spatuler as he restrained his oldest child.




TO BE CONTINUED

can you apply if you are niether a convict nor have any children

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sorry, wrong dish

Hi, Im sorry everyone ,but I wont be bringing chicken stew.

I will be bringing chicken gumbo.

sorry for the inconvenience.

Last Class: This Monday, June 28th!

Hello, folks!

This Monday, June 28th will be our last class for the Spring 2010 cycle. As a reminder, you are all expected to bring a new final writing piece of your choice to share with the class. This writing piece is of any genre and topic of your choice.

Also, we will have one last dinner for the cycle!
Here are what people have volunteered to bring. Many thanks in advance for your contributions!

***Maria- Rice or pasta salad might be a good addition, but of course whatever you can put together is much appreciated!

Main dishes-
Chicken stew (Abdussalaam)

Sides-
Chips and dip (Damian)
Veggies (Karen)

Dessert-
Watermelon (Teresa)
Cupcakes (Juanita)
Cookies (Gabriela)

Drinks-
Lemonade (Anthony)
Soda (Jesus and Ralphie)

Music-
Ralphie

See you on Monday! We will have awards and certificates as well!
Best,
Karen

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I can't reach the blog at my house because when I tried to reach the blog, it says "Internet cannot display the webpage." I need some help.

School in Puerto Rico

It was the summer of 1974 I lived in Trujillo Auto Puerto Rico.
I lived there with my sister Noella her ho spend Paulo and her two kid's Danna and Pablo. I was four ting years old. It was graduating that year. I was sow existing about graduation learning the graduation song , with was Today is me graduation and Aim sad to leaf it here today. I us to have sow much fun with my fiends Yolanda ,Walesa and Marisol. We were always together asking each other what we were going to wear for graduation. They would all take about what color of dress they would were and how they hair would be I would just lessen because I had no plains not noting what i was going ot ware or how my hair would look like. Because my sit er had no plain for me.


Before graduation we went to a park that had a pool with was tree to eight feet deep. we gate there at about ten o'clock and leat at five.
In does hours we had some barbecue they had some hamburger, hot dogs, pizza,frechfrids and for desert we had some ice cream. I was so happy that I was out out of the house. I wish I could stay here I would sad to my self. On the ride back home we all talked about graduation and how good the pool was.
Graduation day was on a Friday June Eighting and it was a hat summer day.

We all matted at school sow we cloud look at each other .
All my Friends had Flores in there hands with there new dress and there hair done.Marisol was wearing a black set of short back open with her hair up in curs.
Yolanda was wearing a white long dress with her hair up.
Walesa was wearing a baby blue mine dress with her hair down.
I Ware a pink dress and my hair up in a bond. Sow I wait to life the house with my nice Danna to be with me in graduation day. Because me sister Neila was to tire to come .

On the way to graduation I charge me hair and lift it down. When my Friend sow me they could not boiler what i was wearing, they sad your sister is not right.
So they pamper me so I could fell good . We graduated that day we had som much fun hogging and kissing each other and saying I see you on High School.

''SUP!'' #2

Hi everyone,i'm sorry that I didn't coment on all of your writing pieces in class last wednesday.

i will need too reread them if you all would like me to coment.

see you ya'll on wednesday {God willing}

A DREAM DEFERRED

What happens to a dream deffered?

Does it dry up like a raison in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

By Langston Hughes

''SUP''!

Hi,everyone i will try to bring two or three large dominos pizza pies on wednesday.

Is that alright Karren?

Also,are thier any preferences to what the toppings should be?

I'm not very picky about that kind of stuff ,so i''ll just have whatever you guys choose.

This Wednesday

Our Writing Celebration is THIS WEDNESDAY!!!!
Please bring your:
1. writing piece- typed if possible, hand-written if not
2. a dish to share
3. math homework- pp. 29-31

The following people are bringing these items to our celebration:
Gabriela: sandwiches
Jesus: soda
Damian: rice and beans
Rafael: music
Teresa: something to eat
Anthony: sweet potato pie and lemonade
Karen: brownies

I hope everyone will bring something to share!
See you then!

Mother to Son

Well, son,I'll tell you:

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

It's had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor-

Bare,

But all the time,

I'se been a-climbin on,

And reachin' landin's

And turnin corners,

And sometimes goin' in the dark,

Where there aint been no light.

So, boy, dont you turn back.

Don't you set down on the steps.

'Cause you find it's kinder hard.

Dont you fall now-

For I'se still goin', honey,

I'se still climbin',

And life for me ain't been no crystal stairs.

by Langston Hughes

Sorry, I got the tittle wrong last week.

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my invite to this blog had expired

Game Day, revised and edited

One crisp autom afternoon ,with trees weepingly declaring the end of summer, my two older brothers decided to take me to the local recreation center to play some ball.I was only 13 years old at the time and we didn't usually hang out much so I was really looking forward to going, and I was ready to go in no time at all.

Aparrently thats not what my brothers thought as I could hear my oldest brother Jamal running down the hall.''Hey abdussalaam, hurry the hell up or were gonna leave your short self hear'' he shouted as he pounded on the door to my room.

Jamal had a some what wolfish apearance ,with a frizzy afro ,hooked nose and sharp and pointed teeth. His birch wood skin gave him a much darker complection than my second oldest brother and myself.

''Yo, Jamal, let me barrow a pair of your jordan's today'' Hakeem yelled fastening his due rag as he jogged up the stairs. Hakeem's Galieth stature made him the taller of my two brothers, and he has the same skin complection as me.

''Nah bro, you know how exspensive them joints are? The last pair that I let you barrow had one of the tungs torn out and were missing the shoe strings'' Jamal said standing by the banister as he pointed to the shoe shelf which was visable from the top of the stair case.''Take a pair of my nikes instead Jamal said as I came hurrying out of my room.

''Bout time, Forrest'' Jamal said to me as he handed Hakeem a pair of nikes from his back pack.

''Hey chill, I was just lookin for my shorts man''I said stuffing the rest of my gym clothes into my duffle bag.

''Boy shut up, or I'll still leave your slow self hear''! Jamal said as he strapped his pack on.

''Then what are we waitin for, lets go'' I said ,runing towards the stairs.

As we were heading out of the house our older sister Yasmeen yelled to us from the kitchen and told us to be back by 6 pm .

''Don't worry Yas, we will''Jamal said as we left.

On the way to the recreation center we played taps with Jamal's new Spalding TM basket ball ,which I thought to myself probably wasn't a very good idea because Hakeem almost got hit by a car.

We arrived their in one piece however and found a fair amount of our friends there as well.

''Yo what up, Hakeem'' Marcus, a kid in our neighborhood said walking toward Hakeem.

''Hey what it is, Marcus '' Hakeem said as he tied his sneaks.

Marcus was about the same height as Jamal at that time and almost everyone called him pee wee because of how his head was shaped.

We started two teams of three players each. One team consisted of my two older brothers and myself.

The other team had Pee Wee ,a kid nicknamed speedy, and a 6 ft 6 in. 18 year old west indian nicknamed big shaah.

We had a fairly good game, other than the fact that we lost and when marcus knocked me down in retaliation for me causing him to fall with a crossover move. He did so by pretending to trip {Over what I honestly couldn't tell }.

''Ayyo Pee Wee, what the hell was that''Jamal shouted walking towards marcus.

''He was in my way'' Marcus said laughing as he stood near the bleachers

.

''Hey you'd better cool it, or your going to be the next one on the floor'' Jamal said pounding his fist into his hand.

''Yo chill dog, my bad'' Marcus said backing away. That was the last time he tried anything like that.

On the way home I told my brothers I was sorry if I slowed there progress and cost them the game.And Jamal replied ''Are you kidding bro?, I'd chose you as a teamate over those clowns any day''.

Beat the Calculator

Take a look at ”Beat the Calculator”. I think Ralphie especially will like this site.

http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html

I found this through the math class I'm taking.
This webpage includes hundreds of mental calculation tricks for adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, squaring numbers and finding percentages. Pick a few tricks and practice them until you can do the calculation quickly. Then find a colleague, friend, or family member to test your skill. Can you use the calculation trick to get an answer more quickly than the person using a calculator?

To team Hanna

i hope you all had a great weekend and a spactaculer memorial day.
and i thank everyone who rated my writing piece.
see you all on wednesday

To Karren

thank you for your ratings and supporting comments karren.

I hope you had a great time at that barbaque and enjoyed your movie,you deserved them both.

ill try to have the copy of my writing piece on wednesday ,see you then.

To Ralfie Damian Jesus and all study group members

Wear were you guys today.

I came to see you all at the learning center .

I'm not mad or anything but i could really have used some help with my math home work.

aw well ,I hope ya'll had a great weekend and a wonderful memorial day
I hope to see you all in class on wednesday and goodluck with your writing pieces.