When i can to new york city.

The first day i can to new york city i look everything different. I my cousin that were born here talking English and I didn't know what were they talking about. the next day my grand mother took me to the store show me how to used the street number and how to get back home again
also she show me how to used the money i means like what is a dime and the 25 cent.

we take what we can get and make the best of it

its mean like if you take something like money or a house you should enjoy it.

this quote is relate to the book ofthe house on mango street.

it relate to myself because if somebody tell me take this and makethe best of it is like enjoy it.

Vocabulary

FLOAT.


SHUT.

MOTH

BUY

COMB

COUCH.


DUST.

JUNK.

My best Day of My life.

my best day of my life is when I went to slip splash with my cousin yavonny and my other cousin alex. first we put our truck on them we talk to yovanny mother where we gonig 2 meet after 12:00 to go eat something. them we went to the waves pool like for a 30 minute we were playing in the water but we got tired of playing so we went to eat something.

My Child Hood.

When i was a child I remnber that I used to play baseball in the street with my friend also i used to help my mom in the kicken, I mean like if she need water I used to get it for her. also my father had a large farm with a lot of tabacco I used to take care of it I mean like watch it when he was doin sometihng else. when I was 6 year old I start going to school in the school yard my friend and me we used to play baseball there too. but now im here in NYC I play for a team.

my dream house.

My dream house is a house where i can have a good time like I want a big house where my children can play and have a lot of fun. in the firts floor I want a big kicken a large refrigetor and a big stone so my wife can make me some good food. in the liveinroom I want a big sofa and a 42 inches flash tv screen. some pretty flowers. now in the second floor i want 3 bed room one for me and my wife and the other two for my 2 son.

My Life.

Hello my name is Joel Antonio Rodriguez. My parents named me joel because they told me that When they were to have their firts child they were going to named it like that. because thier parents like that that named. my second me is my father named because in my culture when they named somebody they put a middle named. Now my last named came from my father parents.

I live in corona queens NY. I like that neighborhood because I used to live in a other part of queens where I could not sleep becasue there were a lot of noises cross from my there were some boys that they make some big noises with their cars. but Now I move to 31-50- 100st corona queens NY that is a peaceful neighborhood.

I have a big family Im start talking about my parents in my father side i have 4 aunts,7
uncle, like 5 cousin, 1 grand father and 1 grand mother. now from my mother side i have 4 uncle 3 aunts, 2 cousin 1 grand father and a grand mother and 2 sister from my mother and my father.
but I dont live with my mother eigther my second sister they live in Dominican Republic.

This story happen to me in real live. One day I was playing baseball with my friend on the street and they throw the ball and hit me on the head my father took me to the hospital so they can put me some stitches. I didn't play no more on the street.

I love to pratice sport like baseball also I pratice basketball but idont like it I like baseball because in my country the main sport is baseball so I know how to play it good. I was in a team but I quit becasue they only wants our money we didn't get to play that much games, and all ways they were argument.

When I was in 8 grade I had a girlfriend I went out with her like for 5 months but after that we allways were argument about something but one day some body told her that I was playing with her she broke out with I told her that was a lie but she didn't belive me I was sad for a few weeks I had a big pain all night i was thinking about her but like in 3 week i forgot about her.

In the futre i want to become a baseball player or a computer teacher. because I like those things.

Jaime escalante

1)Escalante was known as a great teacher. What shocked him when he camed to los angeles?
that he would need to repeat college.California would not acceptv his bolivian teaching degree.
2)What qualities do you think Escalante shows as a teacher?
he showing his student that he care about them, he want them to pass his class and become someone in the future.
3)Why was the student's success such a huge victory?
Because jaime worked hard with them. and they all know how to solve the problem the same way that jaime show them.
4)Outside his own classroom, how did escalante use his success to inspire more students?

5)reread escalante's rule for success. how does his teaching style reflect this rule? give details to support your opinion.

6) which events might have made Escalante angry enough to give up? how did he solve his problem?

Cesar Chavez
- his family was poor and they used to live in a farm.
- Cesar when to school like 2 or 3 days in a week because he has to work in the farm. He finishes 8 grades he didn't go to high school.
- chavez start his strike named LA CAUSA ten thousand of people from all over the united state marched on the state capital in sacramento. after a few years, some of the strikers began to get tired. but chavez insisted on using only nonviolent tactics to bring attention to this point. finally chavez Accomplishments his work he has won the support of civil rights groups and churches.


Things they have in common.

- they both were a civil rights leader.

martin luther king jr.
- Luther family was a middle class family which means they were not poor or rich.
- His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
- Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948.
-martin luther king began a leadership he want to put the negro and white people together because they had beef each other he always said he had a drean=m that one day white people and black people were going to bee together and he Accomplish.

1)Who is afraid to cross the Mackinac Bridge? How does this fear affect them?
It's hard to tell who will be afraid to cross the bridge. Sometimes it's a man, other times a woman. It can be a young person, hut just as often it's an older adult.

2) What are the results of a phobia?
In some people, the fear is so strong they can't do the things they want to do. There are people so frightened of open spaces that they never leave their homes.
3)How can childhood events lead to phobias?
Childhood lead to phobias when you were a kid you almost died by a donkey when you grow up you are going to be afraid of a donkey.

Comprehension
1)How can people with phobias learn to live with them? (Main idea and supporting details
Most people just live with their phobias. They do what they must, even if they are afraid. Those who can’t carry on just stay away from the things that scare them. If they are afraid to fly, they take the train.

2)Many people have strong fears, called phobias, that greatly affect their lives. This is the main idea of the article. List at least five details that support this main idea. Some others people are so afraid?these are some of datails water, flying, height and animal.

3)Would reading this article help someone with phobia? Explain. (evaluating)
Yes because they can learn that there is nothing to be afraid of.

Cause and Effect.

1- People wanted to travel between two parts of Michigan, so a bridge was built.
cause: people want to travel between two parts of michigan.
effect: so a bridge was built.

2- When some people panic on the bridge, they freeze.
cause: When some people panic on the bridge.
effect: they freeze.

3- A driver comes to help when people stop their cars on the bridge.
cause: people stop their cars on the bridge.
effect: A driver comes to help

4- Sometimes people have bad experiences as children and they develop phobias.
cause: sometime people have bad experinces as children.
effect: they develop phobias.

5- Some people get rid of their phobias because they work bit by bit to get over their fear.
cause: some people get rid of their phobias.
effect: because they work bit by to get over their fear.

Context Clues: Definition and Restatement

1) Phobias are fears that are irrational, that is, not logical.
Irrational means: Not logical or reasonable.

2) One of the most common phobias is claustrophobia-the fear of closed places.
Claustrophobia is: Extreme or irrational.

3)A person with that phobia would feel great anxiety, or nervousness, in a small room.
Anxiety is: A feeling or worry, nervousness, typically thinking of something bad.

4) Some people have acrophobia, that is, the fear of crowds.
acrophobia is: Extreme or irrational.

5) Those people may not be able to walk down a congested (crowded) street.
Congested means: Blocked up or too full of something.

Book Report.

Title: Night John.
Author: Gary Paulsen
Pages: 92
Characters:
Sarny: is a little girl that people thinks that she is dumb but she not dumb.
Night John: he is a slave. He teaches sarny how to read and write. He body has a lot of scare.
Mammy: she is a slave and black women.


Setting: In a plantation on the south. t
Plot (*rising action * climax * falling action)
*Rising action: the story start when people thinks that sarny is a dumb person because she doesn’t likes to speak but sarny know that she is not a dumb person so there was a guy named clel Waller. He was a guy that buys slaves.

*Climax: Clel Waller buy a guy named night john he was naked like the first day he was born also he had a lot of scare on his back, and they put him in the back yard of he plantation to work hard they told everybody if they know how to read or write they were going to put them in the white house so hit then with a whip. Night john has to eat in a trough he has to carry it every day to wash it before it was time for the evening feeding.

* Falling action: After night john finish doing his job sarny, mommy and night john went to sleep but night john could sleep he need some tobacco so he went to Alice and ask for some tobacco she said “what are you going to give me”. He didn't know what to said them he said if she know how to read or write she didn't know how to read so night john start to teach her the alphabet but one time Alice learned how to write a words call BAG she start writing all over the place them clel Waller came and saw that Alice know how to write and read she don't want to said who is teaching her how to write so they took mommy and put it on the white house they want to whip her but then came night john and he said it was him that was teaching her how to write. They cut night john 2 fingers but he still teaching Alice letters they went to a litter school to learn how to read and write.

Pretend that you are either sarny or nigh john * write a journal entry a bout a day you had in the plantation.
I just finish doing my work I’m going to Alice house to teach her some letters because I need some tobacco but I don't want Waller to see me because them he going to whip me on the white house. Today a teach Alice the letter J to Alice when I was on my way home there was Waller and he took me and send me to the white house and he almost cut me a other finger so I stop teaching not more.

* 5 words you learned from the book meaning sentences.

What maybe happen to technology on the future.

There are likely to be major changes over the past 100 years. Changes have taken place in the three main areas.e.g. Electricity, motored, transport and space exploration further dramatic change seems likely in the coming century, esp. in the following 3 areas information technology, biotechnology, alternative energy sources.

Computer technology has developed rapidly in the past few decades (e.g. Bill Clinton became US pres) In Jan 1993 only 50 webpage’s were on the Internet. This is still likely to be a major area of change in the coming decades: e.g. computerized houses, where your fridge can be programmed to order fresh milk also we can order a fresh gailon of water. in the other hand you will hold a small remote control and it will order everything. For example the car will drive to your house by itself according to your orders the TV will choose the best program and tell you what is the important news for you today.

Biotechnology is likely to change our lives significantly Genetically modified crops will be grown in climates that were previously impossible for sample wheat in semi-arid areas and tropical fruits in the far north and will have higher yields than in the past also we will have no traffic, because the cars will fly in the sky, you don't need to drive them, because everything is automatic.

A major challenge facing the world at the end of the 20th century is a global warming resulting from man that made pollution. It is likely that alternative energy sources will soon be exploited more seriously Solar, wind and wave energy. Nuclear energy? Perhaps we will abandon high speed vehicles and accept slower, more energy efficient ones.

In summary, we can expect major changes in the areas of IT, biotechnology and energy, eletricity and computer technology.

One should not give up.

People should not give up because sometime we can do what we want to be on the future, also it you live in this country we can do what ever we want to do, because here the government give us free education. But some people or child doesn’t want to take the education.

I know a friend that he want to become a baseball player he was playing for Newtown H.S. he played for the Newtown H.S for 4 year he travel to a lot of state like New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. In 2005 he was going to travel with his team to Dominican Republic to play with others team over there. But his family didn’t have the money to pay the
Ticket.

He decides to give up his dream because he doesn’t have the money to play when they have to travel to different countries . Also he decides to lives the School. He got a job in a restaurant he worked there like for 2 year they change his mangier and he didn’t like him and they fire him. Now he don’t work and don’t go to school and he didn’t complete his dream.

In conclusion people in this country never should not give up at theirs dream, because in this country everybody have a chance to become what they can to be on the future. But if they don’t want to get the opportunities.

The Trombones and Colleges "Question"

Joel Rodriguez

1) He needs to retake math and pass all others classes.

2) Clyde chose the academic course.
I though he was going to switch to the commercial program.

3) She wants to send a massage not to give up.

4) I think is because she wanted to cheer him up and tell him not to give up
5) Because she knew his care of passing the math class. She start gives him advice.

6) He feel well because he said that he wanted more people to tell him to keep trying.

MUSIC Poem.

I hear the music
The music is playing
The music is soft
The music is now fading.

vocabulary

A) voacabulary

1) there are many different wrriting systems . the english language uses the ramon alphabet.
2) A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in problems of the skin.
3) the united states is divided into fifty states.
4)in the past fiftty years, the population of the world has increased rapidly.
5) can I borrow your pen for just a minute?
6)it's much easier to form wet snow intoballs than to use dry snow.
7) in some countrries, student refer to their professors by their firts names.
8) noam chomsky, a proferssor at MIT, is one of the most famous linguists in the world.
9) A team of workers can build a car at a faster rate than people working alone.
10) the word DIVERTSITY has nine characters.

B) vocabulary.
1) the best way to become bilingual is to live in a foreign country.
2) his friends began to worry about him when he said that there was no longer anything meaningful in his life.
3) If you want to study how people learn languages, you should take a linguistics
course.
4) Motorcyclists wear helmets to prevent brain injury in an accident.
5) I don't know the exact population of my city, but I estimate that there are about 2 million people.
6) My dentist said that I need to go to a specialist to get my tooth fixed.
7) During the president's speech, she made reference to an important new medical study.
8)The computer system for the whole office was down for two days.
9) when you exercise, your heart rate goes up.
10) We had such a large class that the instructor had to divide it up into three groups.

C vocabulary.
1) harmless= hazardous
2)instructor= student
3)once in a while= often
4)lift=drop
5)maybe= certainly
6)terrify= calm
7)empty= full
8)positive= negative
9) demand= request
10) take off= land

E comprehension Question.
1) What is the definition of a language? a system of sound to communication idea, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.
2)what is a sign language?
its when you communicate with your hands.
3) in English, the basic order of words in a sentence is subject, verb,object. What is the basic order of words in your first language? is the same as english.
4)What is an example of a borrow word?
the word tomato.
5)What is an example of an invented word?
the word BYTE
6)What is one difference between the austronesian languague family and the Indo- European languages into families? that the austronesian languages have 500 languages word than indo-european has 55.
7)why is it useful to group langueges into families?
Because when you group them it wuld become similary.
8)should we try to keep languages alive? Why or why not?
yes becasue is away to communicate your culture.
9)Why is it more difficult for adults than children to learn a second language?
Because the adults use a different part of theirs brian.

F paraphrasing.

1) there aree aobut 150 America indian languages spoken today. These languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty language families. the american indian langueges today have been divede into more than fifty languegas families.

2) Most children learn their firts langueage easily and sometime other languages as well. Adults often must work harder at learning a second language.
the children learn the second languages more easiern than adult.

G maind Idea.

1) write a sentence for the main idea for paragraph 4( lines 19.27)
Languages are always changing, but they change very slowy.

2)write a sentece for the main idea in paragraph 7(lines 46,51)
the people learn languages by listening, reading, and using the languages.

I word forms: Active and passive.

1) the lecture on safe driving was very instruct.
2) honest is an important characteristic for someone working in a bank.
3) that mystery program was very imaginative. I did't know how it was going to end until the last minute.
4) the telephone invent by alexander graham bell.
5) the minister of health didn't like some of the question that the asked him. he by a foreigon journalist.
6) Marge stared a fight with her sister, this was very characteristic of marge; she is usually nice to her sister.
7) Barbara is going to study psychology. then she will work with people who have psychologically problems.
8) dan beg his friend to lend hi his car.
9) Mr. thompson is a dependability person. you know that he will do what he says. you can depend him.

J noun substitutes.

1.page 134 line 15 it: word.
2) page 134 line 19 they: languages.
3) page 134 line 30 they: scientists.
4) page 135 line 61 they; adults.
5) page 135 line 68 they: languages.

K article.

1)some langueages are used by millions of - people.
2)many hearing- impaired people use sign languages, in which the gestures do the work of - sound system of they spoken languages.
3) word order is more important in english than it is some other languages such as - russian.
4) the english word BYTE was invented by the computer specialist in 1959.
5) the english word meat once referred to a food in general.
6)experts estimate that, on average, the world loses a language every two weeks.
7)today, 50% of the world's population speaks one of the top fifteen languages.
8) recent research indicates that the child's brain learns a new languages differently than an adult's brain does.

L two- word verbs.

1)U.N stand for united nations.
2) tom had a big party. afterwards, he had to clean up the house. three od his friends stayed to help out.
3) Ali studied at new york university for fives years. when he left, twenty
people went to the airport to pick up.
4)let's go to the party together. I'll pick you up at 9:00.

M guided writing.

1) compare your firts language to the english language. how are they similar how are they diffent?
2) what is easy about learning a second language? what is difficult?

the vacation Home work

1- What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her depth and found out the real value of the necklace?
I think she wiil find a new husband that will give her all she want.
2- Do you think money can bring happiness? Explain.
Yes because she is greedy always want expensive things.

The Necklace‏ chart.

1) Madame Loisel:

greedy. middle class vain unhappy

2)Words and actions:
give the invitation to one of your friend that wife can dress better than I can. she was unhappy as if she was falled from a higher class.

3)Thoughts:

she wants more and more even that she has a lost and she doesnt't have to work and she isn't happy becasue she wants more plus she thinks she looks better tham other womens.

4)Appearance:

charming pretty

5)Monsieur Loisel:

content clerk giving selfless

6)Words and actions. #2

Buy a dress that you can wear on different occasions.

7)Thoughts. #2

he is a content becasue he nevers complyings he gives her money even though he was saving that money to buy a rifle.

8)Appearance. #2
a nice man and selfless.

The Necklace Question.

1. What might be Mme. Loisel's thoughts and feelings right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste? she feel stupid becaseuse she work for 10 years to pay a paste necklace.

2. How does Madame Loise changes as a result of her experiences? she started getting old because she was working like a slave and she wasn't pretty any more also she learn how to be content.

3. Madame Loisel pays dearly for losing the necklace. Do you think that experience ruins her life or saves her life? Explain your answer.it ruins her life because she worked for 10 year and she got old also she work like a salve.

4. The literary critic Edward D. Sullivan declares that "The Necklace" is showing that in people's lives "blind chance rules". Do you agree or disagree? cite evidence to support your opinion. Im agree because this story tell us that we dont need to borrow things from a other person.
5. Suppose that Madame Loisel had not lost the necklace. On the basis of her feelings and actions in the story, what do you think her future would have been like? I think her future would be differeent maybe she would get a good job like works for a big company.

6. Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Explain.
yes because I would have a lot of moneny.
7. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found real value of the necklace? she would got home and think the day of the party and how she was looking.
8. Analyze Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel' characteristics.
loisel characteristics was greedy,vain, ect mosieur loisel comtent , satisfied and selfless.
9. SYMBOLISM: What does the necklace symbolize in the story?
the story symbolim social status, richnes and wealth.
10. From which point of view is the story told? Explain. when madame loisel was walking on the street and saw her friend she told her friend the story.
11. What is the main conflict in the story? it the madma is a greedy person and she want to be rich and have a better life. also she not happy with what she has she wants more she want to be rich.
12. What is the theme of the story? the theme is vanity
13. What is the moral of this story? the moral of the story is don't be greedy. and Appreciate.
14. Outline the events in "The Necklace" that form:

* EXPOSITION: the girl was a pretty charming girl born into a family of clerks and marry a little clerk of the
* RISING ACTION : when her husband brough the invitation for the party.
* CLIMAX : when she lost the necklace.
* FALLING ACTION: when she had to work for ten years.
* RESOLUTION:when she saw mne forestir and forestir told her the it was paste.

The necklace. " Question part 1"

1)What is the central conflict that has propelled the events so far?
that she dressed plainly because she could not dress well, becasue she was so poor she can not buy a nice dressed to wear.

2)Why is the woman so unhappy?
Because she had no gowns, no jewels, nothing and what ever she want she cant have it becasue she was poor.

3) Why does the invitation have the opposite effect on Madame Loisel from the one her husband expected? because she dont have nuttin nice to wear for that party like no jewels ect.

Comparison and Contrast My friend.

Me and my friend khadim we have a big similary becasue he like from and other culture. however he is one of my best friend from school. also I like the way he act with me when i have some problem in school I tell him because I belive that he not going to tell nobody else.

One of the similary in khadim and me is that we go to the same school, also most of the class that I have,I have it with him. however he live in the same street that I live at. anthor similary of him and me is that I just know him from two years. neither khadim or me has a car. however we both like music.

Secondly khadim is from other cuntry, however I from Dominican Republic. he like a different sport. but I like to play baseball when I grow up I want to be like Alex Rodriguez becasue he is my favorite baseball palyer however khadim likes to sing I know when he grow up he wants to be like AKON he is a big singer in africa

in conclusin we both have similarys things however we have a big diffent culture. but we are going to be best friend for ever.