Journal Entries

Date: February 4 2008
Aim: How prepared are you for college?

I'm not so well prepared for college. I already know what I want to be and the college I want to go to but I still need to complete my junior and senior year, in order to have enough credits to
graduate.
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Date: February 5 2008
Aim: How can we integrate technology in this English course?
Do now: Write a paragraph on how you think technology should be integrated in an English class. What things would you like to do using technology.

I think technology should be integrated in an English class because students would be more open mind, be able to think more, be more creative and able to express themselves more, because they can find usable information on website. Also, students can be able to use Microsoft word when writing essay etc. because even when making mistakes they can correct it and use perfect grammar and spelling.
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Date: February 7 2008
Aim : What is a Slave Narrative
Do Now : Explain in one paragraph what you've been taught about slavery in Social Studies.
How can slave narratives be a form of protest literature.

Well, in Social Studies class I have been taught that the British have brought African people into the Americas and other countries for cheap labor. They have work them on plantations and doing other difficult works without paying them. They have treated the Africans very poorly and give them very little rights. After some years, the black started fighting for their rights. In the congress for voting, the slaves were considered to be three fifth of a person in voting, meaning three slaves for one whole white person.
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Date: February 8 2008
Do now: Olaudah Equaino
1) The crimes slaves were punished for is trying to escape. The punishment was to work on plantation for the white people without being payed. They were treated badly and beaten without having any food.
2) Equiano blame the illness on the the ship, because of the amount of people they pack in one ship. They were staving and were chain. They couldn't use the toilet because they didn't have any. Some of these people died because, they were suffocated on the ship. Equiano blame the traders because they put too many people on the same ship and they weren't enough space to move about, they were cram together. And the reason why there were so many slaves on the same ship is because they wanted more money by selling them to plantation farmers. They didn't care what would happen to these people and even if they get sick.
3) Equiano felt a great zest to still live because you could tell his excitement when he saw the horses because he never saw any in Africa before. He stated that " the people were full of magical art."
4) The passage reveal that the author was also a slave and was in the the same pain as everyone else because he was they during that time. He was very strong curious and wanted to know about what will happen.
5) When one culture dominates another, society faces a lot of trouble because everyone have their own believes of religion and have to follow different laws. They sometimes have war, going against one another because they fighting to gain their own rights.
6)Draw conclusion - The slave trade was a global issue because African slaves were exported to different countries speak different languages, so it was hard for these slaves to adopt the language at first, thats why most of the people in the Caribbean countries speak broken down English. Also when one culture dominate another there would be more tension and conflict between them.
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Date: February 11 2008
Do now: Compare One of the poems to Equiano's narrative.
When I read "Bury me in a free land" and Equiano narrative I notice that both author where reflecting what slave is going through and their would feel the pain of African people because they were there during that time period.
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Date: February 15 2008
Aim: What is rhetoic and how important is it to protest?
Do now: Select one of the literary work discussed and analyzed in class and give reasons why this work can be considered the best work that represented protest literature.

I think Equiano is the best work that represent protest literature beacue it show how the white go against the black slaves by treaty them unfairly and it also show how the slaves try to fight back for gaining equal rights.
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