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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

For this week's partner read we’ll be reading  the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story , ‘The Man with the Enormous Wings. We will use this strange, beautiful child’s story to explore imagination, belief and superstition.  There is also some good vocabulary in this story.  Below are the discussion and vocabulary questions to consider:

You can read the story by clicking here.

1. “The world had been sad since Tuesday” is a figurative way of saying what in the story?

2. What does the neighbor woman think about angels? What do the villagers think about angels?

3. What do YOU think about angels?

4. Why does Father Gonzaga speak to the man in Latin? What does Father Gonzaga think after learning the man doesn’t speak Latin?

5. What did the cripples do with the old man’s wings?

6. What did they do to the old man when they thought he might be dead?

7. What new carnival attraction came to town that took the attention away from the old man? What do you Marquez includes the lengthy description of the spider girl?

8. Was he an angel? Justify your answer.

Vocabulary: Here are some good words from today’s short story. Using the context of the story what do you think each of these words mean?

conjecture_____________________________________________________________________

disperse_______________________________________________________________________

magnanimous__________________________________________________________________

proliferate_____________________________________________________________________

ungainly_______________________________________________________________________

impede________________________________________________________________________

ailment________________________________________________________________________

parasite_______________________________________________________________________

befuddled______________________________________________________________________

What is Love?

What is Love?

Love is a strong emotion

Love is for someone you really care for

Love is when someone is on your mind all the time

Love is when you wake up in the morning and you see your family

Love is god and his blessings

Love is delicious food that people make for you out of the ordinary

Love is when you have a place to stay with clothes on your back

And food in your mouth with shelter over your head

Love is for all my dead ones out

There who don’t know why they’re dead and gone.

When you work hard at what you want to do

and you keep doing it that’s love   

--Lashone Gates

Thoughts about Love

Love is confusing, unjustified but yet so beautiful and so unpredictable. Once you have felt love or found love it is one of the best feelings god has created on this earth, but very powerful. To me love is very passionate and unfortunate at sometimes.  I think once you have fallen in love with someone is when you are willing to do any and everything for that person no matter what it may take to make them happy. You don’t judge them.  Most of all you have never laughed or have such a good time so much with someone in your whole entire life. Love is the most butterfly feeling ever and you always want to be around this special someone.  You are not only in love with this special someone but they are your best friend, your lover, everything. Love has its ways, mysteriously but you learn from the mistakes out of life’s long lessons with your special someone that you guys have made with each other. Love can make or break you, you just need to live life to the fullest, happy, smiling, laughter, and love with your loved ones as they do unto you.   

--Brittni Strong

These are the lines that my friends and girls get to dipin

Chasing stacks and they be like boy you tripin

City on my back aint I even ask permission

They just toss me the keys and say start they ignition

I like the way I’m living just long nights of chilin

Rolling round my city with the friends

Just chillin

573 yeah I’m repin all my digits

Crown on my head just feels so fitted

Southside reppin sophomore addition

Everydays my birthday I’m getting all my wishes

I’m blowing all these kisses

Addicted to fast women

I do it for the people who love me for me

Nothing else could lose em

Proud of what I’ve accomplished but focused on the future

Hottest in the city but I guess that’s just a rumor

Say what up to the city.  Man I love y’all and I love this

Hitting all my strings hitting all my notes

--Raysean Huggins

Love Should be Unconditional

Learning everything about them

Overlook the flaws and look at the positives
View all the positivity and don’t point out the negative

Expect obstacles in love

Show love everyday

Help one another

Overcome obstacles together

Unconditionally love them

Learn from both of your mistakes; don’t hold it against one another

Don’t change who they are

Be yourself around them

Embrace your problems and solve them, don’t ignore them

U should always put them first

Never put yourself before them

Communicate

Open up with one another

Nurse them in their time of need

Drop what you’re doing to help them at any moment

If they love you they should accept who you are

Trust should be what builds love

Introduce to the ‘rents

Order them food without asking, its thoughtful!

Never hold their past against them, we all make mistakes, forgive and forget

Accept who they are

Let them know everything about you and how you honestly feel

--Genaro Cabrera

Have fun studying our vocabulary words with this printable board game.

When it Rains

When it rains there is something missing.

When it rains I feel empty inside.

When it rains I’m missing you.

When it rains I cry because you’re not there.

When it rain I seem to get mad.

But when it stops raining I seem to have a smile on my face.

And when the sun come out I sit down and write my poetry.

--Shavonna Petty 

So Much Fire

I hate how I can’t focus in class sometimes. It really messes with me. Some people just don’t know how good they got it. It really is hard being me. I might try to put on this act like everything is good but it really is not. I’m just a kid trying to fit in and be cool and stuff. My body is yelling at me to tell me I can do better. These days when I feel like doing something bad, I think about it. Back then I never did, I just did it. Rock Bridge has really changed my life. The teachers in this school changed my life. If I never came here I wouldn’t even be in school. I can do better. I know I can. But growing up in a bad environment it makes it hard for me when everybody around me is locked up and all they want to do is bad things. I try so hard to change my life and do the right thing and be positive. But all this negative is around me and the negative is like fire and the positive is water. I try to put the fire out with the water but there is so much fire. Sometimes I think to myself and just don’t think I have enough water. Mrs. N,  Keisha, the cop and Mrs. Ragsdale, I love you with all my heart. Without them I would just be another black kid on that street trying to find myself. I never had a place, but now I do.  

--Antwane Sanders

What is Courage?

What is courage?

                                                         It’s what you make of it

What makes courage?

Someone that has a big heart

Who isn’t afraid to use it

Someone that takes responsibility

Towards making themselves and others look good

Courage is someone that sticks up for everybody

Including themselves

Someone that respect but not just

Because they took its cause they earned it.

Courage is knowing right from wrong

Dealing with what might ever come to

Courage is leadership

Courage is fighting for what’s right

Courage is fighting for what you believe in

Courage is ……… the Navy, Army, Military, Marines

Mlb, Nba, Nfl, whatever you want want as long

as it brings happiness to someone’s heart.       

By: Lashone Gates                   

A Miracle

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”   ― Albert Einstein

That is how my life plays out.  Nothing was a miracle, until this year came. It was a miracle that I came back to school and I am already halfway done. It is a miracle that I’ve made this far after dropping out. No one really knows about me dropping out besides my mom and my mom’s close friends. I didn’t want to upset or disappoint and of my family. I have been through almost hell and back in my life. I think that is why I have made it this far because I have been through so much and it has made me stronger, and also who I am today. When I dropped out of high school, I knew I had messed up. I couldn’t take all the stress and I just needed a break. It wasn’t easy and my mom knew what I was going through.

A lot of people didn’t quite understand, but just know it was not easy and it was hard to come back. I was so disappointed in myself over a lot of things, but I think this was the biggest one. I made the wrong decision and yes everyone makes mistakes, but what you do with them or how you fix them is really what matters.

It is a miracle that I am as far as I am and made these good decisions. It wasn’t easy getting back into the swing of things, waking up early, doing school work, homework, and tests. It’s been a drag but I am going and going stronger  than ever. I have a lot of people that are standing behind me and are there for me when things get tough and they are so proud of me for what I have done. I feel like everything that has happened last year has been nothing but a miracle. If not a miracle then I don’t know what it was. I have gotten this far and I am not giving up or going to start slacking, even when it gets tuff.

The day I graduate everyone will be cheering for me. Everyone is cheering me on now and trust me I am too! I am not ever going to give up on things when it gets tuff because I have learned it makes nothing better. It’s just a harder hole to climb out of.

I’m going to live my life as if everything is a miracle.

--Brittni Strong   

Vocabulary Words

Over the next couple of weeks we are continuing our study of biology words.  We are doing a number of different practices with these words in class. We are studying these words both within their biology context and within a larger context. Here is a list of the new focus words:

Mutualism

Parasitism

Permeable

Photosynthesis

Predation

Prokaryotic

Proteins

Replication

Respiration

Synthesis-

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February Journal Prompts

Do you believe in love at first sight?

What do you think about when you can't fall asleep?

What do you think courage means?

I wish I never......

Why do you think prejudice exists in the world?

Who do you trust the most and why?

Respond to the following quotes:

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Free choice

Reading outside in January.

When the cold winter comes, the darkness falls, when I feel lost, this place is always warm and joyful. This is my home which can comfort my heart and make me feel safe. I have lived there for 15 years. Age has left its trace in my house. The light green blanket, the lace curtain and the memories.

My mum and father are there. They bring my brightness and hope. They wait for me back home. The most amazing thing, is their love for me. Love is silent, it just like still water, it can take all the pain away. Love is vast, it is just like the darkness, shining stars are hiding behind it.

My home is not only a house, but a huge secret, which contains so much love and hope and gives me the power to forge ahead. It leads me to a way full of wonder.

Maybe everything will be changed one day, but my home will never go. Though it isn’t here or there, it will always live in my heart.

--Fang Fei Lin