Independent Reading. Activity #3

Missy is  one of those few girls who really does care about finishing school without getting in trouble and when i say out of trouble i mean not getting pregnant, not getting involve too much with guys. From her teacher help she got a job at the hospital, she started to save money to buy herself an old Volkswagon bug.  Around five years after her high school she decides to leave Pittman County where she grew up destination to kentucky, for her good. On her way to kentucky her car runs out of gas in Taylorville she changed her name from Marietta to Taylor.  In Cherokee nation Oklahoma her car broke, now Taylor stops by  an old bar to get a cup of coffee and a hamburguer.  As she is eating at her car at the front seat a strange woman told her to take the baby that she was holding in her arms.  This woman told Taylor that she was the baby's aunt and that the baby was born in Plymouth car, the woman leaves without giving an explanation or not even a word.  Taylor decides to drive off with the child when she got to the hotel and took the baby to a bathing she discovers that the child was sexually abuse.  After all this happen i preddict Taylor is going to keep the baby.

The Bean Trees. Prompt #1

I had notice that the main protagonist who is Taylor Greer is an independent woman who since she was a young lady knew what she wanted and she did not want for her.  Staying away from trouble and trying her best to finish high school without getting pregnant being in trouble.   She was born and grew up in Kentucky, Taylor decides to leave kentucky leaving to Tucson, Arizona.  At some point she starts to learn about politics and how they were corrupted.  Mattie said that Taylor was a hero  for risking her own safety to succeed in getting her achieve about society.  She was totally different that her mind was not nothing about guys but her daughter Turtle and her mother.

Amir's Atonement

Amir got to the point where he seeks for an atonement that wants to amend and become good again without having his conscience telling him about how he didn't help his friend when he needed.   He envied Soraya for letting her secret come out, for her courage and all this because he'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between his Baba and Ali.  He had to live with this horrible feeling and having in mind the picture when he stopped and watched, turned away from the ally.  Knowing that he a change to make a decision the final opportunity to stood up for Hassan as he did many times for him in the past.  But at the end he ran. Ran because he was a coward, he was afraid of Assef and what he would do to him. Afraid of getting hurt.  That was Amir's price that he had to pay the lamb he had to slay, to win his Baba.  He knew it wasn't fair and it floated in his conscious mind before he could thwart it, he just thought about how Hassan was just a Hazara.  

Atonement...

ATONEMENT: Satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.

I think atonement could be possible for some sins or mistakes in the past, but for some cases won't help you because there is situations where you are not able to repair what you have done, and the only thing is left is to regretted.  But if you are lucky you can do something about it and atonement it.

Mistakes

Many times in our lives, we got to the point where we all commit many mistakes; and in many of those we just can not go back and repair it, there is mistakes that can affect you for the rest of you live and you must live along with it, because you can't make it disappear.  There is times when thanks to a mistake you got something that you never though that could happen to you and can benefit you.  There are mistakes that I had and i regretted a hundred times and there wasn't a solution to resolve but had to learn how to deal with it and let it go, learn from it.  By mistakes that can mark your life you are able to learn and do it again.  I know many of us would love to erase those dark times in our lives.  But all of life's experiences bad and good, make who you are. Erasing any of the life's mistakes would be a great mistake!!!.

Book Preview

PREVIEW TO A BOOk

The Front Cover

v Title: The Bean Trees

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

v Picture: An Idian Kid behind of the tree.

Words: none

v What do you think the book is about?

I think is about an Indian Kid who grew up poor in a rural kentucky with the

goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away.

Topic/Big Picture? It does not have a big picture.

v Jot down 2 questions you have.

Who does she grew up with?

Why does Taylor decides to take this Indian girl?

The Back Cover

v Synopsis or Plot Preview?

v Review/Praise/Acclaim? Overall what is your impression.

v Does the back cover reveal anything about the story (time period, characters, setting, etc.)? If so, jot down some notes.

Tucson Arizona

Taylor Greer

Indian Girl named Turtle

Inside the Book

v Copyright by Barbara Kingsolver

Publication date?

v Is there a dedication?

v Table of Contents? Chapter Titles? #’s?

v Other titles listed by the author? Jot a few down.

HOMELAND

ANIMAL DREAMS

v Open to a random page and read a few paragraphs. What is the author’s writing style?

1ST PERSON

OVERALL IMPRESSION

Based on your preview of the book, what do you think it may be about? What types of characters, issues, themes, etc… do you think you will encounter? What sort of background information (already known or researched) do you think you will need to understand the story? Write down 3 questions you hope to have answered by the end of the story.

WHY DID TAYL0R DECIDES TO LEAVE KENTTUCKY?

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CHILD?

DOES TYLOR REPOR THE CHILD TO THE POLICE OR WHAT DOES SHE DOES WITH HER?

My Story...

Every day in my life i dream that  i could live in a place where i can found peace, where i listen the birds sing instead of bombs and guns, where I don't have to fight for my life in order to survive I have to do things that I don't want to do but i have so I can be able to protect a place that i don't own but at least serving and protecting many lifes of my people.  Day by day I have to walk away from the people that I love, from the things that I love to do.  My heart is tearing with ever step i take.  Every day in my life Im sorry for what did to someone , sorry for the pain i have caused, i know my actions caused your heart to break like many of you have done with many of mine but you should know something my heart broke long before i broke yours.  The darkness consumes me every single night feeling my heart cold, my soul numb and my being became ice.  I am wishing that the next day there will be a light to guide my way.  Crying,  screaming, talking, repeating everything over and over again is driving me crazy.

Quote

I agree with this quote because if the evil has triumph thanks to  the bad or ignorant people, I think it will have a big success if all the people including the goods one do nothing.  That is exactly what the evil wants... the people to do nothing.  But sometimes no matter what even when good people do something the evil can find they way to got in it; for example if a good person had made a bad decision.

Decisions, decisions...

Every day in our lives we make new and different decisions that could impact you in any way or any body else around you.  There is many factors that affect people and their choices could be small or big decisions that can decide part of your future.  All of us always have to deal with different situations in our lives and those decisions could be for good as well for bad.  For example making a decision for college, once you start high school you start making decisions if you work and do what you supposed to do, to get in the college that you wanna go; if you work hard during your 4 years of high school you can be sure that you are going to the college.  If during those 4 years you have been making poor  decisions you will have a big impact at the time of applying to the college.  I think one of my best decisions that i had was when i decide to stay over USA and attend high school here, because whenever i go back to Costa Rica i know that with the little English that i have been learning little by little will help to get in a good college and get a good job for being bilingual.

Afghanistan

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

To create your own Afghanistan you will need the following ingredients:

• your main ingredient Capital- Kabul
• Population- 3,120,963
• Official languages - Pashto, Dari (persa), and uzbeko
• Goverment- Islamic Republic
• President- Hamid Karzai
• A container with a total of area of 647,500 km2
  
• GDP per capita- $350.

1. You need to located in the center of Asia (bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the south and west, Turkmenitan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast).
2. Shake the population of 3,120,963 very well notice that some people will get stuck in the capital Kabul.
3. Be carefully at the time of mixing the borders specially with Pakistan because there is where AlQaeda takes place to set the terrorism, (like the one with USA in 2001 at the world trade Center).
4. Make sure to add the 34 states.

Spring Break

During my spring break I did plenty of different things.  To start on Monday I woke up late; I had lunch with my best friends from school, but at 5 p.m i had to work.  On Tuesday I just chilled at home, downloading music.  On Thursday i had to work and after it i went to the movies with my friends from work to see the movie "Fast and Furious 4" I think the movie was great lot of action, adventures and little of comedy there was my favorite actor Paul Walker and one of my favorite Spanish singer Don Omar. Well my Spring break was great... 

Prompt #8

The problems posed by sexuality...

For Yolanda the problems started when when her  cousin promised her a human body doll if she'd drop her pants. She keep continuing having problems with her boyfriend, Rudy, who told her that she was frigid, and her husband, John, who she divorces.  Sofia used sexuality to rebel against her father and trying to get her independence.  For Carla, she sees sexuality as an embarrassing and possibly threatening aspect of human psychology.

Prompt #18

"How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent"

I think the author decide to call this book "how the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent" because -Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia all of them with Dominican Republic plants were planted in New York City in 1960 finding a different life with different culture and language force to adapt to this new custom.  Featuring of the immigrant experience to always look back, the story begins with the oldest one Yolanda who was 39 years old returning where she born Dominican Republic.  I could change the title of the book, i think i would give the same title because if fits perfectly to their story.

Prompt # 3

I had notice that because Carla was the oldest one she felt more out of place in the United States and had much trouble getting alone with her new social and cultural environment. Carla had so many problems at school becuase of the boy and her disabiltiy with the language. She was dicomfort with the puberty and encounter with a pervert American exibitionist in a car. She changed by becoming a psychologist and analyzing her family's myriad mental problems but later in life she had to deal with all those issues that she had lived when she was in her younger life.

Prompt #15

I had choose the image to symbolize the story of The Garcias Girls since they had a big impact on their life living two different cultures, finding a life far different from the The Gentel existence of Maids, manicures, and extended familly that they left behind. During this change of cultures they end up loosing and found a new life style.

Prompt #9

• Why did Carla wanted to return to Dominican Republic?
  

I would think she wanted to return because she had a lot of trouble getting adapted to the English language and American culture.  Besides she is the oldest one so she had the closest tie to the Dominican Republic, plus leaving her family and moving to a new neighborhood, school and country.  

• How was Yolanda's attitude about learning English, what did she did?

Yolanda expanded her English vocabulary with her Sister Zoe.  She knew that learning English would help her to interact with American culture and could open a new world of language and opportunities.

Prompt #17 Symbol

GUAVAS

The guavas Yolanda craves when she arrives on the Island symbolize her desires to reconnect to the best memories of her childhood. She hopes the taste of the guavas will take her back to a vivid experience from the past. Instead, the outing highlights how culturally unprepared she is to pass as a Dominican woman, and how culturally American she has become as an adult.

Youtube Video

file:///Users/09mcerdas/Desktop/www.youtube.com:watch%3Fv=bnQBwoBV-iE%202.webloc

Prompt #14

1. She has been too frightened to carry out any strategy, but now a road is opening up before her. She clasps her hands on her chest—she can feel her pounding heart—and nods. Then, as if the admission itself loosens her tongue, she begins to speak, English, a few words, of apology at first, then a great flood of explanation . . .

In Chapter 1, I think  Yolanda gets lost while gathering fresh guavas in the countryside, and gets a flat tire. While stranded, two men approach and ask if she needs help. She is frozen with terror until they ask if she is an American. At this point, she begins speaking English, which the men do not understand, and assents that she is indeed American. This is ironic because the purpose for her trip to the Dominican Republic was to assert her Dominican identity and connect to her cultural and family roots. Yet, she fears interacting with Dominicans outside the safety of the family compound. During this moment of panic, she feels most comfortable pretending not to understand a word of Spanish. Her behavior is considered strange by Dominican standards, since a woman would not be out alone after dark looking for fruit. She can only explain herself by remaining tightly enclosed within her American identity and sticking to the English language.

Prompt #10

I had made connections with myself because i had been in the same situations like the Garcial Girls. The change of culture didn't affect me, but the language did as Yolanda i was afraid to give a speech or presentation in front of the any class  I was feared that i wouldn't understand or they wouldn't understand what i was saying.

Prompt #7

Write about your predictions from prompt #6.  Were they correct?  Why or why not?

• My predictions were corrected because they had problems with the cultures and language.  Because they lost their identities and withstand the pressure of discrimination plus her mother didn't help them at all because she thought that this change could have bad consequences and problems with her daughters who wanted to become Americans and would argue with them in English.

Prompt #6

6. Make some predictions about what you think will happen in future chapters.  What support can you find?

• The girls will have problems with having two cultures and two languages.
• They will eventually realize the importance of both their cultures.

How the Garcia girls lost their accent.

18. The book is called "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent" The author chose this title because the native language of the girls is Spanish they are from Dominican Republic until they move to the United States and they star learning English and they end up forgetting Spanish making English their principal language. If I could call the book different i would change it for letting behind Dominican Republic.

Do Now 03/11/09

Che and Alberto found many interesting things around Peru but what really catched their attention was the Indigenous (Incas). Why they were really interesting talking to this people even if the majority of them didn't speak Spanish, and actually they had one of the Indian son's as an interpreter?

Che, Do Now, Writing

I think when he was young he wanted to become a doctor which he almost did, later in his life i think he wanted to be a figure and at some point he wanted to help Latin America.

The impact that he wanted to give was to help to improve Latin America because he was interested in Socialism for the better Latin America.

Chile

A long strip of Spanish people

Che in Chile...

TWO ARGENTINE LEPROSY EXPERTS TOUR LATIN AMERICA BY MOTORCYCLE.

On the local newspaper they found an article about them, they as experts; key figures in the field of leprology in the Americas, with vast experience, having treated 3,000 patients, familiar with the most important leprosy centers of the continental and researches into the sanitary conditions of those same centers, had consented to visit this picturesque, melancholy little town. I think they had a big impact when they were the "experts" because every one treated them accordingly.  And they were helped by some many people in town for example when they left to the north and their back tire was punctured and they had to stop and fix it.  Soon a railroad worker took them to his house and treated them like kings.

America

Strong nation; enables progress and opportunity!

My Personal Ideology...

"We create our future by what we do today" I think the actions, decisions and values are our prior and individual ideology.  I believe we are all good.  We all make mistakes it is up to us if you want to learn from it and change it or if not and make yourself worse.  I believe is just part of everyone's life of growing and learning.  I believe all of us can succeed only and only if you believe in yourself and not in what everyone else think about you.  Yo can demonstrate those people that your able to get whatever you want or get there... and not only to demonstrate or if not for your own satisfaction. The good you do today the better you'll be tomorrow!!

Apples to Apples?

Che was violent to his people while USA troops are training the AlQaeda and the taliban how to fight but is the benefice of both countries.

Documentary on 9/11

If I was doing a documentary on the September 11th i would like to make an originated plan for a a fiction film, on the advice s that to make successful film, i would offer the audience something they want to watch, and as the concept advance through research into footage and resources for the film, the film will became a documentary.  I would suggested that there was an usual device u under fuselage on the plane that struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center; representing the evidence that the planes that were involved in the attack were replaced with remote-controlled drones.

Documentary on 9/11

documentary on che guevara

I would like know a little better about Che to star in order like from his birth until his death because otherwise it gets a little complicated and the audience viewing the movie would be confused. 

Che documentary

My adventures trip...!!

I remember my road trip with my family, it was a great adventure.!!! Out of Niagara Falls and Buffalo, NY. I couldn't believe we were on the road for 7 days, we crossed our 16th state. We had done and seen so much... its was incredible.
But the best trip i ever had was in Iowa, there we had a special tour guide for a day. The next day we saw how boats and barges got in around the river. It was really cool to watch the system in action. We had lunch at this Italian Restaurant, it was delicious. Then we went over the Rock Island Arsenal and the Arsenal museum, where we saw hundreds of weapons that were produced at the arsenal and used in many significant military confrontations. It was interesting to me, specially because I and my family don't know that much about weapons. On the way home, we stopped at this Ice Cream store, we had a little taste of local taste.

Che

How do you judge books before reading them? What characteristics of certain books catches your attention? Can you give an example of a particular book that caught your attention early and maintained it through reading? Please write 100 words and include an image of a book cover (if you have one) that has caught your attention.

Some times i judge books by the cover and i know many people does that, it shouldn't be like that because behind those covers there is always a great content inside. Mostly of the time the best writing, best advice, compelling story and secrets to a great life may be in a book with mediocre cover... because of it many books never get read because of the cover.

Whenever i choose a book I look at the cover and if it has a big creative picture or words (something bright and lively); that can catch my attention. I like when it has something on the cover that interest me.

"Like it or not, people DO judge a book by its cover." And companies should make covers beautiful and enticing and reflective of the work between the pages.

The Real Story of Che Guevara

It is the first time that i heard about what this person was and what he did, and I am surprised of how this person was all negative- just like Fidel Castro and Chavez.
Fun, loving guy that you are wearing in your t-shirt not knowing who he really was, Che was not a hero; he was a killer. Who is blamed of thousands of people deads, he was the one who helped Fidel Castro rise to power. So obviously he is not the "King of Communism" and those folks who buy bags, purses, t-shirts should know about this. This man oversaw prison executions, started labor camps. He is a heartless man.

Cinquaine

Birds

Are Animals

That can Fly

High in the sky

Flying

Welcome to the Department of English.

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."