This quote is taken from the into of the book freedom writers. In the intro the author explains her connection to the students and how she had visited them in 1996. She explains how the students were given the idea to start writing diaries by reading the book Anne Frank: a diary about a young girl and also got the idea from the authors own book Zlata's Diary; a child's life in Sarajevo. The quote explains the authors veiws towrds adversity and evil. She realizes that she cannot always change things but simply try to rise above it and survive by staying strong and true to your self. I think this is a very good mind set because alot of people face tough things in life and it is a great way to try and beat it
Thursday, February 24, 2011
second book post
"Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves. And most important, we can inspire others- this is what makes us human beigns, this is what can make us immortal" (Zlata Filipovic xvii).
This quote is taken from the into of the book freedom writers. In the intro the author explains her connection to the students and how she had visited them in 1996. She explains how the students were given the idea to start writing diaries by reading the book Anne Frank: a diary about a young girl and also got the idea from the authors own book Zlata's Diary; a child's life in Sarajevo. The quote explains the authors veiws towrds adversity and evil. She realizes that she cannot always change things but simply try to rise above it and survive by staying strong and true to your self. I think this is a very good mind set because alot of people face tough things in life and it is a great way to try and beat it
This quote is taken from the into of the book freedom writers. In the intro the author explains her connection to the students and how she had visited them in 1996. She explains how the students were given the idea to start writing diaries by reading the book Anne Frank: a diary about a young girl and also got the idea from the authors own book Zlata's Diary; a child's life in Sarajevo. The quote explains the authors veiws towrds adversity and evil. She realizes that she cannot always change things but simply try to rise above it and survive by staying strong and true to your self. I think this is a very good mind set because alot of people face tough things in life and it is a great way to try and beat it
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
glog
glog link
In my glog I have pictures that depict different parts of psychology. I choose to use the picture of wheels around the shape of a head because psychology is the wheels of the brain and how the brain works. I have a picture of a head with a key hole inside of it because psychology is exploring and unlocking the brain and how it works. I have another picture that is of two heads one overlapping the other. One of the heads is white and the other is black and they both have what looks to be the galaxcy inside where the brain would be. I think this picture represents psychology because the galaxcy is like your mind and humans explore the galaxcy just as they explore the human brain. On the right of my poster I have put a picture that looks like it was painted on and it is a tree but inside the tree there is a face resting with leaves falling all around it. I think this represents psychology because the leaves that are falling off the tree are like ideas and thoughts that are running through your mind. I have a picture that has a neon outline of a head with psychology writen in neon letters on top of the outline. Inside the outline of the head there are words that have something to do with psychology and what it is. At the bottom I have a picture of a little boy. The face of the little boy is blurred out and there is one circle outlining the eye of the child and on the outside of the circle there is a drawing or what looks to be a blue print of a gear or a wheel. Over top of the boys face there are building blocks, which I think represent the building blocks or fundimentials of psychology. To the left of the building blocks there is a drawing of a sunflower which I think represents the creativity and ideas that run throughout the childs mind. The last picture I have is a face but the top of the brain is removed and it is sectioned off into 7 different sections that look like different thoughts or catagories in your mind.
In my glog I have pictures that depict different parts of psychology. I choose to use the picture of wheels around the shape of a head because psychology is the wheels of the brain and how the brain works. I have a picture of a head with a key hole inside of it because psychology is exploring and unlocking the brain and how it works. I have another picture that is of two heads one overlapping the other. One of the heads is white and the other is black and they both have what looks to be the galaxcy inside where the brain would be. I think this picture represents psychology because the galaxcy is like your mind and humans explore the galaxcy just as they explore the human brain. On the right of my poster I have put a picture that looks like it was painted on and it is a tree but inside the tree there is a face resting with leaves falling all around it. I think this represents psychology because the leaves that are falling off the tree are like ideas and thoughts that are running through your mind. I have a picture that has a neon outline of a head with psychology writen in neon letters on top of the outline. Inside the outline of the head there are words that have something to do with psychology and what it is. At the bottom I have a picture of a little boy. The face of the little boy is blurred out and there is one circle outlining the eye of the child and on the outside of the circle there is a drawing or what looks to be a blue print of a gear or a wheel. Over top of the boys face there are building blocks, which I think represent the building blocks or fundimentials of psychology. To the left of the building blocks there is a drawing of a sunflower which I think represents the creativity and ideas that run throughout the childs mind. The last picture I have is a face but the top of the brain is removed and it is sectioned off into 7 different sections that look like different thoughts or catagories in your mind.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
first book post
The Freedom Writers Diary
The book The Freedom Writers is about a teacher, Erin Gruwell, who confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. She and her students use the books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata's Diary: A Child's life in Sarajevo as guides to takle a life-changing, spirit- raising journey against intolerance and misunderstanding. By reading these books they were able to see the parallels that the main characters experienced and were able to conect their own lives to it, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the "Freedom Writers". I chose this book because I wanted to learn about children with problems and obsticals I would never even think about facing and I wanted to see how they over came those osticals.
The book The Freedom Writers is about a teacher, Erin Gruwell, who confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. She and her students use the books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata's Diary: A Child's life in Sarajevo as guides to takle a life-changing, spirit- raising journey against intolerance and misunderstanding. By reading these books they were able to see the parallels that the main characters experienced and were able to conect their own lives to it, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the "Freedom Writers". I chose this book because I wanted to learn about children with problems and obsticals I would never even think about facing and I wanted to see how they over came those osticals.
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