MLK Day
On Monday, I went to MLK day at LREI. I helped prepare packages for kids in need, and make signs for the Women’s March. I had lots of fun and the food was pretty great.
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Learning Values
To me learning is meaningful when it provides opportunities:
1. To use my creativity.
2. To learn about topics that matter to world.
3. To build relationships with my peers.
Racism Essay Template
Name: Ben C. Humanities
7th Grade Comparative Essay
Outline for Crucible/McCarthy Comparative Essay
Theme: Racism
Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)
Grabber Statement (G): ISIS took responsibility for 9/11, and since they affiliate with Islam, people develop a prejudice against all Muslims. When those people gain power, it can lead to deportation, terrible treatment, and unfair jailing. What are you supposed to think?
Introduction of Theme (I): Racism is a problem that appears throughout history. It can lead to unfair treatment, hysteria, fear, chaos, and death. Friends become terrorists and neighbors become witches. From the Salem Witch Trials, to the McCarthy Era and current day, it seems to never stop ruining lives and making terrible history.
Thesis Statement (T): Racism can cripple the peace and order of a society. Racism happens when people need someone to blame, so they oppress a group of people who may not have as much power.
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Paragraph #2: Crucible Thematic Connection
Topic Sentence (T): Racism in the Crucible is primarily displayed through the treatment of Tituba and how quickly she’s accused of witchcraft.
Explanatory Sentence (E): The play the Crucible showcases the racism that took place during the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690’s. Tituba is the first person accused because she’s a black woman who possess’ little power and no social status. Parris and Abigail use their power and racism in the following section.
Evidence (E):
“Parris: I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire when I came to you. Why was she doing that? And I heard a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth. She were swaying like a dumb beast over that fire!
Abigail: She always sings her Barbados songs, and we dance.” (Pg.64)
Analysis (A): This quote shows Parris and Abigail dehumanizing Tituba because she’s black and disempowered. Their treatment of Tituba is extremely racist and terrible. Abigail scapegoats Tituba to take the blame off of herself, because she doesn’t want to lose the slight bit of respect she has and be held responsible for “witchcraft”. Parris even says Tituba swayed over the fire like a beast, which is dehumanization.
Concluding/ Transition (C): The Crucible was a horrible time, even though it was more sexism, it still shows the theme of racism. But racism became more of a problem when there is at least some twisted proof, which is what happened in the McCarthy Era.
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Paragraph #3: McCarthy/Red Scare Thematic Connection
Topic Sentence (T): Racism was a huge problem that caused complete hysteria and chaos in the McCarthy Era as well.
Explanatory Sentence (E): The McCarthy Era was fueled on racism. Russians were persecuted for being from Russia even if they didn’t affiliate with communism. Because of the racism that took place during the McCarthy Era, America became a madhouse in which no one felt safe. People hid under desks for bomb drills and treated Russians terribly. People in power were the most racist, as you can see in this quote.
Evidence (E): “His first major raid rounded up hundreds of suspected radicals. Nearly 250 of them were deported back to their homeland. Many of the deportees had not done anything wrong. Their only crime was belonging to an organization that was viewed as radical.” (Pg.20)
Analysis (A): Russians in the USA were sent back to their homeland, even though they had done nothing wrong, only because they were Russian. This persecution was on their ethnic and racial background. They might have disagreed with communism, yet they were sent back to Russia. This is racism at its greatest. Major racism appears through history. It is natural to be fearful of difference, but it shouldn’t lead to unfair treatment and death.
Concluding/ Transition (C): Now this theme of sending people back to their homeland is happening again, and the McCarthy Era is repeating itself in current day.
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Paragraph #4: Modern Day Witch Hunt Thematic Connection
Topic Sentence (T): Racism is at its most in modern day because of people like Donald Trump.
Explanatory Sentence (E): People are still racist to this day, because there parents raised them that way, and their parents before them and so on. It’s a never ending cycle until someone breaks it and isn’t racist. The racism that is happening right now is terrible. People like Donald Trump are going to far and affecting millions of people’s lives. One example of this can be seen in this quote from a news article.
Evidence (E): “President Trump’s most recent executive order effectively bans citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days — but some Muslim countries were spared from the order’s blacklist, even though they have deep-seated ties to terrorism.” (NY News)
Analysis (A): Trump banned Muslims, even though he claims it’s not a ban. He categorizes Muslims as terrorists. Since ISIS affiliates with Islam, they fooled people like Trump into hating Muslims. Now racist people like Trump are making Muslims think America is a terrible place which shows how racism comes back and bites you.
Concluding/ Transition (C): Racism is a big problem throughout history that needs to be stopped. We look back at history and say how it’s different now, but it’s not. It just seems like that which is why it happens. If racism is not interfered, it will ruin peoples lives, which is terrible.
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Paragraph #5: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)
Reflection on Thesis (R): You wonder why people with power can be so racist and not feel bad, or even stop. History is going to repeat itself if no one does anything, yet the people who don’t seem to realize are the ones causing the problem.
Overview of Main Points (O): Race is something people should be proud of, and not something you hide to fit in. Race should not be hated on, but loved. If everyone wasn’t never racist, imagine how different history would have been. Racism fuels hysteria and chaos, yet people don’t stop being racist, as if the tragic moments in history never happened.
Concluding Idea (C): Racism shows how powerful words are, and how they can change people’s lives. From people like Tituba, to the Rosenbergs, and Muslims deported back to their home country, a world without racism would have changed their lives for the better, so why isn’t that possible?
Stretching & Shrinking Post
1: Figures are mathematically similar when their corresponding sides have a scale factor and the angles are congruent.
2: Not any two rectangles are similar because even if the corresponding angles are congruent, the figures may not have a scale factor.
3: All equilateral triangles are similar because all the corresponding angles are the same, so the triangles will have a slace factor no matter what.
Reaction To BBC Article
1) “Cities will need to incorporate the natural world in new and innovative ways. Parks and green spaces will be multiplied from ground level upwards, attracting birds and wildlife to sky-gardens, tens of floors up. In Singapore, for example, the Marina Bay Sands hotel features a skypark on the 56th floor, with trees, leisure facilities including a pool, and far-reaching views.”
This is saying we need to plant more plants and be greener. We need to think about other species besides ourselves and bring more biodiversity into the city.
2) “Creative growers are already converting industrial spaces, street corners and rooftops to micro-wildernesses or manicured into formal gardens. A disused raised railway in New York City has become a popular park, self-styled “guerilla gardeners” are planting flowers and trees in plots among the tarmac and traffic of London’s highways, and once-polluted industrial wastelands now chirp with birdsong, rivers swim with fish and populations of animals that have become rare in the countryside are thriving in urban niches.”
This shows that we need to be more resourceful and make more things like the High Line and have more street islands with plants.
3) “There is already a new field of urban ecology for scientists who study the city and biophysical interactions within it, in a similar way to traditional ecosystem research.”
This means that we are starting to take care or other species that aren’t just ourselves.
4) “In other places, the mix of human-introduced plant and animal species, and those opportunists that migrate to the urban environment, are interacting to produce unique ecosystems that exist nowhere else.”
The city is its own unique ecosystem that some animals can survive in.
Style Composition
This is my Jazz Composition and my Jazz Blendspace. I chose Jazz because I dont always see flutes in Jazz. I had a lot of fun researching Jazz. Learning about different composers and musicians like Billy Elliot. I found that Jazz needs a lot of Jazz notes, a specific drum beat type, and a really Jazzy intro and ending. So this is my Jazz piece. ENJOY!
6A Meal Data
In science, we made a chart on how we ate in lunch. After we made this chart, we tried to improve what we eat for lunch. We didn’t change that much. It was good too see that the amount of vegetables went up by a little. The fruit went down. Maybe there wasn’t any good fruit choices, or we just weren’t trying. Either way, the sixth grade definitely improved. We’re all going to try to improve more and keep up the good work. Every little bit counts!
Math Note Book Reflection
Before
After
It’s very important to keep you notebook organized. Not only is it helpful for you, but for other people to be able to read your work. Now I’m starting to be more organized and finding that it’s much quicker and efficient. By the end of the year I know I’ll be even neater.
4 Things I Hate About New York :(
1. Too many crazy people. I find it very disturbing to see people in that state of mind.
2. Very dirty. I like things clean and New York is the opposite of that.
3. Too loud. I like to sleep and New York makes it hard to sleep. Another reason we are the city that never sleeps.. (Literally)
4. Too little wildlife. I think New York could use some nature to make it more like the real world. and not how we shaped it.