The Skin I'm In ( Coming of age blog 2)

A girl named Maleeka is facing some hard times in middle school. She goes to McClenton middle school. There is this kid that always makes a rap song about her and his name is John-john. Maleeka mom makes her clothes.

A girl that that also goes to this school is Charlee. She has been letting Maleeka wear her clothes. Maleeka puts them in her locker and changes into them before first period. Maleeka is the tallest and skinniest in the school and people like John-john remind her every day. She is also a math whiz and can outdo ninth graders. She is also has a good memory and never forgets.

One day Maleeka had on Charlee’s dress. Maleeka was walking down the hallway and Charlee came up to her and to her to take her dress off. There were about 8 other kids in the hallway when charlee said that. Maleeka went and changed in the locker room.

Another day a girl named Daphne Robinson goes up to Maleeka and acts like she wants to start a fight. Maleeka want to yell but knows that bad thing happen around the school. She tries telling Daphne that she has the wrong girl. Daphne stars grabbing Maleeka’s hair. All the kids around them start yelling “beat her”. Some of the teachers are yelling to the kids to break it up.

The principal, Miss Saunders and Maleeka’s mother come up with a way to punish her. They told her that she would be working at the school office. She would be filing paper and stapling them.

The skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake ( Coming of age) part 1

The book that I’ve been reading is called The Skin I’m in. the character in this book thinks she is a freak. She has a way of attracting strange characters. They draw to her like someone stuck a note on her forehead saying losers wanted here. She goes to McClenton Middle school. Her name is Maleeka.

Miss Saunders is Maleekas teacher. She wears a dark purple suit and a starched white shirt with matching purple buttons. She tells Maleeka that her skin is pretty like a blue-black sky after it has rained. She tells Maleeka that the line came from her favorite poem.

John-john is the smallest fifth grader in the world. John-john says to Maleeka the he doesn’t see any pretty just a whole lot of black. He starts singing a rap song. “Maleeka, Maleeka baboom, boom, boom, but she is so black, Baboom boom, boom, we just can’t see her

Tai is the math teacher. She stands at the blackboard with her leg leaning on the other like a flamingo. She does Yoga and hums like a heater on the blink. Tai looks funny standing next to Miss Saunders because Miss Sounder is six feet tall. Tai is short with long hair and two sets of silver hoops earring

           Caleb Jamaal Assamis is the smartest in school. He is friendly. He started hanging out with Maleeka and caused her trouble. He starred her half of the school year. He told Maleeka that he saw something different in her. He told her that she was pretty and liked her sweet coco brown skin. He wrote her poems and letters. He even walked her to class.

Malcolm Moore is fine. He has long straight hair. His skin color is butterscotch milkshake. He has gray, sad eyes. His dad is white and his mother is Black.

reading responce (3) spring break ( news article)

His Life’s a circus

April 13, 2012

By TFK Kid Reporter Aviva Landau

This reading response is a about a guy named Alexander Lacey and his lions and tigers. This guy grew up around lions and tigers. Alexander Lacey has loved being with lions and tigers his whole life. 

When Alexander Lacey was two years old he was playing with lion cubs. When he turned 12 he stepped into a lion cage. When he turned 17 he was in his very own circus show. Alexander Lacey’s family raised and trained 11 generations of lions. He has also raised and trained 9 generations of tigers. His father was a director of a zoo and circus. Both of his parents presented a lion and tiger act. Alexander Lacey brother works in a German circus. His wife and 8 year daughter travel with him to help him with the animals.

Alexander Lacey understands the lion and tigers personalities. He has routine each animal’s strength. The animals that can run and jump are athletic and the animals that are lazy don’t do much. He works with them 3 times a day for 12-13 minutes. He works with then individually and in a group. It is very important to Alexander Lacey that the lions and tigers feel comfortable with the training.

The purpose of this article is to show how this guy trains his lions and tiger for the circus. It also shows have much he love them. This is important because some people do not know how they train their animals for the circus.

reading responce (2) spring break (Plagiarism)

This reading response is going to be about plagiarism. Plagiarism can be very bad because you are not writing in your own words; you are just copying what the author wrote.

          What I found was that the person how wrote this did not have the URL. Another way I found that this was plagiarism is that this person copied the information from the author. Another thing I found that the person did wrong was they did not put the name of the author.

          There are many ways you can avoid plagiarism. One of the ways to avoid plagiarism is to write in your own words. Another way to avoid plagiarism is to put the name of your source.

Reading Responce (1) spring break

The first reading response I enjoyed reading the one by Joyce “Gale VS. Petta. I love how she compared to characters in the hunger games. After reading this response I understood the two characters a little better than I did before. I definitely fell for Petta. The second reading response that I enjoyed was the one by Ruby Much Ado About Nothing. I loved how she described the play. I love how she used so much detail to describe the play. I love how she described the theater. I loved reading this response.

The reason why I liked these blogs are because they both have great detail. Both of these reading responses were fun to read. I like how these to blogs were written. By reading Joyce’s reading response I felt like I knew the two characters in the hunger games better than I did before.  By reading Ruby reading response I know that she really enjoyed the play because she described everything about the play. 

The things I would do to change my blog post is a more detail. I would organize my reading response and make it enjoyable to the reader. I would put more time into my blogs.

Reading response on Much Ado about Nothing

We recently got to go see a play with our school MS51. It was for a field trip, because we have started reading Shakespeare.  I liked that two people from the play came to our school and did activities with us. They did a ten minute summary of the play with us. This was very helpful to me because I knew what the play was going to be about. This was a Shakespeare play, but used moderate language. This made the play easier to understand, and it made the play more enjoyable. I liked seeing the different acts and watching them change from scene to scene. In this play they used a lot of emotion. I liked the different costumes that the characters would wear. I really enjoyed Claudius and Beatrice. I thought that they were really funny. I would like to see more Shakespeare play in the future.

Kyla Brutosky

Reading Responce on Romeo and Juliet

This reading response is going to be about my favorite character in Romeo and Juliet.  The person I like in Romeo and Juliet is Juliet’s nurse. The reason why I like her is because she cares a lot about Juliet. The reason why I know this is because she has taken care of Juliet since she was a baby. The nurse had her own child, but took care of both kids. The nurse acts like a second mother to Juliet. Juliet mother would never act like a mother to her. Juliets mother would alway have the nurse with her while she would talk to Juliet. this is why I like the nurse, because she cares alot about juliet.