Staton Park

Well I haven't gone to staton park yet but I can't wait! In my biograpy I included that I enjoy playing basketball. I am looking forward to see the kids at the park. I am also happy that I can help this kids have fun because we are big kids they look up too. I can't wait to see how the play will turn out?

Model U.N. Project

Last Wednesday on the on May 4th our 8th period class went to the State Department Building for Model United Nations Project. Model U.N. is just a "pretend" version of United Nations. It was interesting, me and my co-delegate/blog partner Omar represented Egypt. I learned how United Nations U.N.H.R.C. conducts there meetings. I liked how people got up and told about there countries, i didn't like how long we had to sit in the seats....listening.

America I Am, National Geographic Field Trip

Today on Tuesday the 12th, our class along with Mr.Garner's class attended a National Geographic exhibit called America I Am: The Black American Imprint. After visiting the exhibit, we can conclude that the title is saying America, the life, culture, and history from the black prospective. The exhibit was interesting, simulating life and times in different periods of American history. i t was cool walking through and seeing how blacks lived and acted. the most, different part of the exhibit was walking through the bottom of the slave ship, the creaking floor bored. it was cool seeing the achievement part of the area, knowing our culture, our people have achieved so much. our favorite art of he exhibit was Michael Jordan, Chicago Bull's Jersey, And Tupac Shukur's poem in the middle of the room. the video at the back of end of the exhibit was the best, seeing so many iconic faces achieving so much, paving the was for the future generations. it is true "You can only appreciate freedom when you finally find yourself in a position where you're rooting for sombody else's freedom, and not worried about your own" - Ruby Dee

America I Am, National Geographic Field Trip

Today on Tuesday the 12th, our class along with Mr.Garner's class attended a National Geographic exhibit called America I Am: The Black American Imprint. After visiting the exhibit, we can conclude that the title is saying America, the life, culture, and history from the black prospective. The exhibit was interesting, simulating life and times in different periods of American history. i t was cool walking through and seeing how blacks lived and acted. the most, different part of the exhibit was walking through the bottom of the slave ship, the creaking floor bored. it was cool seeing the achievement part of the area, knowing our culture, our people have achieved so much. our favorite art of he exhibit was Michael Jordan, Chicago Bull's Jersey, And Tupac Shukur's poem in the middle of the room. the video at the back of end of the exhibit was the best, seeing so many iconic faces achieving so much, paving the was for the future generations. it is true "You can only appreciate freedom when you finally find yourself in a position where you're rooting for sombody else's freedom, and not worried about your own" - Ruby Dee

America I Am, National Geographic Field Trip

Today on Tuesday the 12th, our class along with Mr.Garner's class attended a National Geographic exhibit called America I Am: The Black American Imprint. After visiting the exhibit, we can conclude that the title is saying America, the life, culture, and history from the black prospective. The exhibit was interesting, simulating life and times in different periods of American history. i t was cool walking through and seeing how blacks lived and acted. the most, different part of the exhibit was walking through the bottom of the slave ship, the creaking floor bored. it was cool seeing the achievement part of the area, knowing our culture, our people have achieved so much. our favorite art of he exhibit was Michael Jordan, Chicago Bull's Jersey, And Tupac Shukur's poem in the middle of the room. the video at the back of end of the exhibit was the best, seeing so many iconic faces achieving so much, paving the was for the future generations. it is true "You can only appreciate freedom when you finally find yourself in a position where you're rooting for sombody else's freedom, and not worried about your own" - Ruby Dee

Mock Trial Project- Omar

Our eight grade history class took part in a contest. The "We The People" essay contest involved six groups, each group had an argument questions about the constitution. the contest first took place in our class. Me and Quintin, my co-blogger were apart of the same group. There were at least for groups competing for each unit question. Only six teams could win, our group had the pleasure of winning for unit 3.

Winners of there unit went to city wide, the next stage of the middle school competition. There were another 6 schools competing against us. Overall our school came in third place. This was a great experience for us to take place in. it was enjoyable.

Tuskegee Air Men

Last week, I Quintin was allowed the honor to listen to One of the men who served in WWII. He was one of the 900 Tuskegee Airmen, the first black group of pilots in the Air Force. There where many lessons to learn from Lt. Broadwaters, the man who spoke. I learned that Stereotypes are usually wrong, there was a poll prior to WWII saying blacks were incapable of flying air planes, but the Tuskegee Airmen proved that wrong. I also learned that anyone can do anything, and that intelligence leads to great things in life.

I (Omar) did not get to listen to Lt. Broadwaters, but i did learn a lot in the reading we did in class. I learned alot from the Tuskegee Airmen, like that there are no limits in life, or that there are people in life that try to harm you, and tear you down, but there are people in life that also want to help you. I learned this from the Tuskegee Airmen because they fought in a war during segregation in america, at first blacks weren't allowed to even fly air planes, but people helped push them so that they could, so that now the legacy that people helped the Tuskegee Airmen make, now allows minorities be apart of the Air Force, and other Armed Forces

Mock Trial Project

In History Class we participated in a mock trial competition among schools on the Constitution. First we all had units from 1-6, me and my Co-Blogger Omar had the pleasure of being in the same group. Our group of five had unit 6. In the competition we all had to write 1 paragraph each (5 in all) answering a question, ours was "How Does The Constitution Give And Limit The Powers Of The 3 Branches Of Goverment?". There was about four groups per unit. Our unit won out of our school, along with five other groups.

We later went to a city wide competition. there was six schools there. One by one groups went up to read there paragraphs, and state there arguments. Our group went toward the end of the day. Every 20 Minutes, after groups presented and answered questions, three new judges would come in. All of the scores that each group earned were added together. At the end of the day it was told wich school had the most point, Our school SHMS came in 3rd place.