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Archive for May, 2013

Friday Night Lights – Questioning

May15

The book I am reading is Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. This week in the novel the town of Odessa is being described and the racism is being portrayed. The football team was preparing for another football season and the town has high expectations for them this season. Despite the fact that there was […]

The Night category Question

May15

So far from reading the night there is a new character introduce his name is Eliezer. Eliezer comes to the concentration camp with his mother , sister , and father.  As Eliezer gets out the train he is immediatley seperated from his mother and sister. But he sticks with his father. One of the old […]

#25 questioning

May15

In the book, “let sell some weed and make some cash…Yeah I said….” (Gantos 46).Why can’t you ask the government for financial help? Why are you go along with your friends plan? Wouldn’t it be better to get a loan form the bank? I think you’re capable of receive financial aid because you don’t earn […]

Blog Post #25 (Questioning) – The Best American Sports Writing

May15

“Iverson had hit rock bottom. At 34 – having nearly exhausted his athletic gifts – he’d washed out of the NBA, largely seen as too troubled or too demanding to finish his career with some team needing to get a few more fannies in the seats. That failed last year in Philly, after Iverson had […]

Car Smart blog post # 25 (QUESTIONING)

May15

The transmission system transmits or sends power from the engine to the wheels. A car moves forward through a combination of speed and torque or twisting power. For example, “The transmission sets these two characteristics so that the driver gets the smoothest, most efficient ride at the speed she wants. “ How does the transmission […]

Jackie’s girls 2

May15

This post is going to be about making questions of what I have read of Promised the Moon. The chapter is about Jackie, a talented female pilot, and all of her accomplishments. Nolen says that “… [Jackie] thought United States should be organizing its female pilots… for a women transport division” (Nolen 41) during World […]

The Freedom Writers Diary (questioning)

May15

Ms. Gruwell teaches at a high school in a “bad” neighborhood. The class she is in charge of is full of kids who are called rejects. This teacher comes from a rich place. Why would she move from that comfort place to the ghetto? When she sees that her dtudents are troublemakers and that thye don’t like her, why doesn’t she […]

To Timbuktu #questions *25

May15

Steven and Casey are in china now and they are enjoying themselves.In the beginning Casey was a bit skeptical about going there, despite her excitement to start work.She and Steven have been living together for about a month and have started teaching children in china English.Casey feels “Stevens Heart is an entirely different skill”(page 57,Scieszka,Weinberg).I […]

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

May15

Today is the big day. Nujood is in court with Shada, who has been like a second mother. The courthouse is fuller than it’s ever been. While Nujood waits for the decision on her divorce. They bring out her monster of a husband and Aba(Her father). The judge asks her husband if he has ever abused her […]

#25 Questioning. The Tao or Wu

May15

For my non-fiction book, I chose “The Tao of Wu.” I question very little of what RZA states in his autobiography-style book. He seems like he knows what he wants in his life. Sometimes as Im reading, RZA goes to jump from all these stories of people, but how they turned out after an event. […]

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