English10 Class

The Great Debaters is a movie based on a true story in 1935-36. It took place in Texas. The movie is about a proffesor named Mr.Tolson trying to influence his students into entering the school's (Wiley College of Texas, an all black college) first debate team, but only a few can make it. It's a drama movie, which means there's a lot of drama and sadness in it. The few students who make it in the team until the end (The main characters) are: Henry Lowee, Samantha Brooke, and James Farmer. Mr. Farmer is James' father and he plays a big role in the movie. Finally, The Debate team of Wiley College goes on to debate against Havard University and Win, which makes them Number#1 in the United States of America.
1) The Great Debaters is similar to Night John, because John and the cast of the great debaters were both leaving in the south, they were both discriminated against because of their skin color, that's the same it's also similar to the story "Mascot", because Malcom X was also being discriminated against because of his race.
2) The GD is different from Night John, because in NightJohn, slavery was still deep in as a major problem. There were no schools for black people. They were not yet "Civilized". But in The GreatDebaters, they at least had clothes and shoes and schools to go to and get some education, but they were still being discriminated.
3) The Great Debaters is different from "Mascot" becaue in mascot, Malcom X lived in the north and GD took place in the south, but they were both still being discriminated against because of their Skin color.


BTW: THIS BLOG TOOK ME A LONG TIME...

English 10

The story of  "Mascot" took place in Michigan, in the late 1910s,which is part of the north, which means they did not have slavery. But some negreos were still being discriminated because of their race, and one of them was Malcom X, who is also the main character of tthe story mascot. Mascot is about Malcom X trying to acheive his goal in life, but he is not able to because of his race. They treated him nice after he got expelled from his old school and went to boarding school because of pulling a prank on his white teacher. According to malcom, the boarding school wasn't a bad place to live in, he was treated nice there and all of his class mates were nice to him, even his teachers were nice to him. But one day he realized that they were just doing it to make him forgive them for enslaving his ancesters. So, Malcom ran away from the school, but he got caught and sent back to the boarding school. My belief is that he ran away because he was hurt emotionally. So, after a few time, malcom finally reach the point of his graduation and since he was a child he always wanted to become a lawyer, so whenm the time came, malcom told his counselor at school that he had decided to go to college and learn to become a lawyer. But his counselor told him that it wasn't nessecary for himto go to college because he was black and that there are no black lawyers. Then the counselor suggested to Malcom to be a Vender, a laundry owner, a waiter at a restaurant or a toilet cleaner beacause those were the onky jobs for the blacks at that time.

English10 Class

John, was a slave in the 1800s. He ran away to the north where he was free and learned to read and write. Then he figured that it wasn't right the way that they were treating slaves in the south, so he decided to go back and see how he can help them free, by teaching them how to read and write. John didn't plan on getting caught, but, he did get caught. That was not enough to stop john from teaching young african american womens and mens to read and write. He got caught in the farm own by a white man, and in there he met a little girl called "Sarny". John thaught Sarny how to read and write, but the white mens wouldn't aloud the black mens to learn the white mens' language "English". So, John only came out at night so the white mens won't see him teaching english to the kids, and thats how he got his nickname "NightJohn", which is the title of the book. Sarny' s mom did not agree with this.

English 10

Hello again partners, This week in english class we mainly debated on how most cultures in the past exect the whites didn't have human rights. We read a book of 56 pages in one day, the the next day we read another one. After it took us two days to read them and understand them, we watched a movie called "The Great Debaters" i already like it because denzel washington is in it. I used to love his movies as a child and i still do, sometimes i think he is one of the greatest actors ever! Anyways, we haven't finished watching it yet, next week we'll probably get it over with and then talk about it, I remember my teacher saying earlier that we were going to write an essay, which i have no problem with, because as you can see i have no problem with writting; My only problem with writting essays is that when i write one, i focuse a lot on it, then i don't do good in my other classes, i need to learn how to manage that. Anyways, thats all we did in english class this week. My week-end was so busy and i had so little time trough  it. First, after school on friday,i decided to just chilax for a couple hours, Then before i could start my homeworks, my uncle calls for a family reunion at his place, because his sister "My Aunt" that i had never seen before died. She lived in paris that's why i had never seen her face to face. So, the rest of the family and I stayed there for a couple of hours to pray together in harmony. Then, when it was getting too late we left, som stayed with him at his house for the whole night and were gonna leave in the morning, But we couldn't afford to stay because i still hadn't started my homework, plus my mom had to go to work and my uncle leaves in Grove City which is about 20miles from us, im not sure thought, go look at a map, its here in ohio, its not as far as cincinnati from columbus. Anyways, the next day, on saturday, i went to a charity thingy, where i baby sitted about ten litttle kids, we watched a lot of movies, It was from 9:00am to 5:00pm but i wsnt straight like that, i had sometime in the middle for rest. It was fun, the kids loved it and i enjoyed it too, i thought i did pretty good for my first time, it wasn't for money or nothing, it was just for me to gain my own personal skills. The at the end of the day i was so tired from chasing does kids around, so i ate wath a little tv and then i went to bed. The next morning, on sunday, i had all my homeworks to do, including this blog, plus i had soccer try outs at 3:00pm and i woke up at 9:30am i did all the morning stuffs then i cleaned my house a little, plus, i also did my homework, it was tuff to try to do it before 3:00pm. anyways i haven't gotten the results yet, i'll probably get it on wednesday next week. I hope i make the team, The coach said i was very skilled in soccer, so i believe i'm gonna make it, plus i have been playing it all my life so it wasnt really that hard. well i cant wait for what happens next week, besides if i make the team we have a macth coming up on sunday of next week, do you think they'll let me play? Well i believe so, i guess if you want anything you just gotta believe in yourself, which is what im doing. Well, its all for now, i'll write again next week.
                                                PEACE LADIES N GENTLEMEN,
                                                                                                     Written by: Lance Vance!

English 10

I believe today is my last day for this week and i have to answer to my friends' blogs. Anyways, to day in English Class we finished the movie and i don't remember much after that. I don't think we had much homework thought. I think that we read something, but I'm not sure because my head hurts. Anyways, English Class was fun and i learned a lot today. I hope to lern more tomorrow, Im not sur of what to right about. But today I had nothing for lunch cuz i didn't feel like eating and We have a test tomorrow in science and in History and I'm ready 'cuz I studied. I can't wait 'til tomorrow 'cuz I'm not feeling so well today. Anyways I'm also gonna go to Eastland Carreer Center for something that has to do with me becoming a Doctor/Writter of novels. Anyways i hope it's gonna be fun. I gotta go sleep now but i don't wanna stop writting until i get my rest of 5mins out of this at least I'm doing mine. It's actually 8:30 Right now...And i'm so tired cuz i did so much. and i ate so little, Guess thats just the wa things are in this Ghetto life i'm in...I'm used to it thought it's where i would say i grew up when i get older. I don't have muc to say other than I'm in my room writting this and I'm way too tired to think of anything but i don't have an option; Either i write this or get anf F on it. And I rather write it cuz i like writting but currently i'm too tired so i see you guys and girls later...Bye!

English 10

Yes, i came back today to finish part two of my blog. Yesterday, i believe i took away 5mins so today im deciding on taking another 5 to describe what we did in English Class today. Well, today we had to go watch theather about that we read "To Kill A Mockingbird" and it took 1st, 2nd and 3rd period for them to proform it. I say that it was good because i know what they had to go through in order to make it good. Some who read the book might say that it was stupid. But I raised to respect other's efforts and thats why i loved it. Because i saw them put a lot of effort into it. Not just anyone can stand in front of more than a hundred people and preform knowing that you could mess up. They had no faults and thats why it was very good to me. I hope to be in theater one day all thought i got stage fright, but thats the reason im taking speech this year in which i have to give a speech in front of my 50 class mates i have to say that i have never seen a more bigger class in GLHS, 50 students! thats a lot but not compared to where i come from. Lolz, my point is that im tired of people not appreciating others work and efforts...I mean comon people! Lets make a change here! It all starts with each of us putting a little of effort into it. I mean look at lil wayne, he got everyone listening to it. Its because he puts effort into his songs, He attracts them to it. So what if we are not popular like him, but know this. Keep This In Your Head! The world beats one! what i mean by that is, lil wayne can't control us. We control him! We can all stop listening to his tracks and listen to something else. It will make him bow down to us. Because "We" his fans are all that should matter to him. But he says we dont matter on his documentary. I mean really? I thought he was cool...but all he does is negative...he is the "Negatif"...and i won't follow "it"...i will follow the "positif(God)"...so my friends...i say pick up your Bibles, open them to Psaumes and read it...just read any chapter that you want...let me ask you all reading this a question...How long as it been since you have read the "BOOK OF GOODS" IN OTHER WORDS THE BIBLE? Well if not i reckon you start now and if you still don't believe me listen to all of waynes songs and actually try to do yur best to comprehend what the lyrics say and what they mean...im not teling you to stop listening to him, im telling you to stop liking him and doing what he says...Remember...Be "positif"...Love Him and adore him with all your heart and love before its to late...

English 10

Today was aight, we wacthed the movie of the 12 angry men, it wasnt that bad. But the characters were not at all as i pictured. I liked the book because my role to me was more important than the others and it sort of made me feel a little bit more special. Anyways i already wrote last week's blog, this one is for this week. Its due on sunday but i rather start it today on tuesday, so tht at least i can get out 5 or 3 mins out of it, because it has to be 15mins long. I still haven't lost love for this blogs yet, althougtht i was very suprised when i saw my report card, i thought i had an A in that class. But it turns out it as a C minus because of this blogs i hadnt fone. So right now, i have mixed feelings about it. i wasnt planning on writting anything today but instead of listening to my Favorite new song "Right Above It: By: Lil Wayne and Drake" That song goes hard an i love it. Hopefully those two would come up with something else soon, cuz im sort of getting bored with this one. Anyways, instead of listening to it over and over again i took some time to write this. I hope i have written enough for today and maybe i'll continue tomorrow with something new. Anyways, this is it and i'll see yu all tomorrow, Hopefully:)

English 10

Oh man...I almost forgot i had to do this blogs every week. At first it wouldn't let me in, so i got mad at it then i had to go through this whole weird process just to log in. Anyways, now that I'm in I am going to talk about a couple of things that we did this week in English class. First, Our teacher Mr.P gave us a book to read called "Twelve Angry Man" I don't know who the main character is yet, but, i sustain that i play an important role "The 8th Juror" who is trying to change everyone's mind into voting a kid who is about to get Fried alive in an electric chair because he killed his father "Not guilty" so far this week i got 5 people to change their votes I took one person each day and now the vote is 6-6 and i can't wait for next week. I'm not sure if I'm making the right choice here thought, the kid might be guilty, the woman across the street so it as it was happening and the old man heard the kid say "I'm gonna kill you!" I guess you'll have to be reading the book or if you have read it before to know what I'm talking about. Anyways I can't wait for next week I hope It'll be more fun, so far it is. Another thing thought, This week-end i went to a Festival kind of thing where there was a lot of food from different countries and stuff, my whole ESL class got to go. It was certainly fun, but not as fun as last year, i don't know why thought, maybe it's because there wasn't enough Spas. Well, I least i got to go out. Although I missed our soccer team play finales, I'll have to ask my classmates the score on Monday. I hope they did well out there. Well, that's all i got to say for today, so see y'all later folks! *"I hope its Long enough for Mr.P to take time away while reading this. I think it is, I'll just add a few more words into this to make it seem even more longer. Well, Peace! Again!"*

English 10

Today my blog wouldn't let me log in so i ask my teacher. He said that i was doing it wrong, so when we got to the library he showed me how to do it. So i wont get 25 because i hadn't done it early enough. so now im jst writting it at school while mr.P is standing behind me. I really have not much to say, bo im gonna talk about what we did in class today. Well, last week we finished the "To Kill A Mockingbird" book. But this week "today" we read a paper about if there was a nuclear war who would survive and who would die. The we had to pick four people out of eleven to kill in order to survive. A lot of people were being super sensative about it but me? No. I mean it was just a game they were taking way too seriously, i dont blame them doh. It was a game its not like we actually got to kill people. But aanyways i dont know where Mr.P is leading to by letting us do that but i'm sure i'll find out about it tomorrow. But for now all i can be is curious about it. It was quiet interesting to say the least, and im not just saying that because mr.p is watching me type this. Anyways i dont have much to say and i cant wait to find out what he has planed for us. I figure its gonna be fun, because all we do in there is fun. And im not just saying this because he is going to read this. Alors, i guess i have to go now. This is my lunch period and i'm super hungry! so Peace To All of People!