Friday, December 11, 2009

What I want to now about high school?

I think high school will be different from middle school because we will have different teachers. Another reason why is because we will learn new subjects. Lastly it is going to be harder then middle

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Chapter 2 quiz

1. Larry Dunn was kindergarten to fourth grade King at Clark Elementary because he was a lot older the anyone else and twice as stronger as the rest of us.( p. 20)

3. For Kenny there were advantages to having an older brother who was a god - he got teased less about his eye and being smarter then he would have.

5. Demonstrating his reading ability to other classes did not make Kenny one of the popular students at Clark.(p. 23)

8. Kenny suspected that Byron was ashamed of having a litt

13. Even in Byron's absence, Kenny didn't feel saft

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Watsons Go To Birmingham

6. The weatherman said the temperature in Atlanta, Georgia, would reach the mid-seventies.

7. Dad told Kenny, Byron, and Joetta they were lucky not to be the childern of one of mommaold boyfriends nameHambone Henderson.

8. When she was about to laugh, Momma put her hand over her mouth because she had a big gap between her front teeth.

9. Which of the following was not warning Moses Henderson gave Momma about Flint? It was colder then inside of an icebox, and people livedin igloos.

10. Momma said life in Birmingham, even though it was not perfect, was slower, friendly, and neither expensive nor cold

11. Since they couldn't contact their landlord about their apartment, the Watsons planned to spend the night with aunt Cydney.

12. The Brown Bomber was the Watsons' 1948 Plymonth.

13. Byron and Kenny were not happy when Dad orderd them to scrape the ice off the car window.

14. Kenny was agitated because Byron siad he was adopted and shouldn't be forced to work for the Watson family.

15. The night before, Byron and his friend Bphead had give Kenny lessons in how to survive a blizzard.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

How slavery began

Wall Street is called Wall Street because Africans biuldt a wall there. The wall in Wall Street was made to seperat the African from the Europeans. In 1626 the first eleven slaves came to New York. The first eleven slaves didn't come by them slefes. They looked for slaves with skills because they they want the Africans to work for them [they were the Portuguese.] When they tried to escape they punished them by hanging them or rogstingth them alive. They did that to teach them a lesson . They didn't want to buy another one because they had to waste more money.

Slaves were only allowed to go in groups of 12 to bary a family member. They were allowed to only go in groups of 12 because the owner feared that they migth try to escape. They were allowed dusk.

In June 1991 bones began to appre. Some women were found with there babies. They were found with ther babies becase when they were baried the mom they also buridthe momthey also buriied the baby.

They put pennies on the people who died they put pennies on there eyes to keep them closed. When they put pennies on the dead prsons eyes that means that they are going to have a bad after life