In the story "A Rice Sandwich" Esperanza wants to eat in the canteen. The canteen is a place where the kids that live too far away to go home when it's lunch eat. Esperanza finally gets her mom to write her a note so she can eat in the canteen, but she learns it's not all it's cracked up to be.
My favorite quotes were from Esperanza's mom. One of them was "You kids just like to invent more work for me." because most parents will agree that their children sometimes make things more difficult on their parents. My second one was the letter that she wrote to the teacher saying,
"Dear Sister Superior,
Please let Esperanza eat in the lunchroom because she lives too far away and gets tired. As you can see she is very skinny. I hope to God she does not faint.
Thanking you,
Mrs. E. Cordero".
I found this humorous and a lot of the reason it stood out to me was because it's like the perfect example of what you don't say in a note to a school. It also made me remember when I was a senior in high school, it started snowing really bad and I texted my dad asking him to call the school and let me leave because my car sucked in the snow, well when my dad called the school he told them I texted him, and as you know most schools don't like their students having their phones on them, and my teacher wasn't very happy.
Monday, February 3, 2014
The Family of Little Feet.
Rachel, Lucy and Esperanza were given three pairs of high heeled shoes. They picked out of the three which ones they wanted, put them on and strutted past various stores and buildings and people in their town. They get a sense of new feeling, a good feeling and they say they're never going to take the heels off or wear any kind of other shoe again. They come across a bum man who Asks Rachel to kiss him for a dollar, and hypnotized by her new shoes and the dollar she actually thought about doing it until Lucy snapped her out of it and they ran in their shoes, ran all the way home, took them off and later on their shoes got thrown away.
The girls actually believed that the shoes changed their appearance when Lucy says, we are tired of begin beautiful on page 42. Why couldn't they feel beautiful without the shoes? In all reality if they were beautiful in the shoes then they were beautiful without the shoes.
When they previously said that they were never going to wear another shoe again that failed when one Tuesday her mother, who is very clean, throws them away. But no one complains. They never needed the shoes, they just liked how it made them feel for that day but i'm sure they learned that they could feel that way without them.
I highlighted those two ideas because they never needed the shoes to feel that way and everyone should know they're beautiful the way they are and that they don't need items to make them feel a certain way.
Rachel, Lucy and Esperanza were given three pairs of high heeled shoes. They picked out of the three which ones they wanted, put them on and strutted past various stores and buildings and people in their town. They get a sense of new feeling, a good feeling and they say they're never going to take the heels off or wear any kind of other shoe again. They come across a bum man who Asks Rachel to kiss him for a dollar, and hypnotized by her new shoes and the dollar she actually thought about doing it until Lucy snapped her out of it and they ran in their shoes, ran all the way home, took them off and later on their shoes got thrown away.
The girls actually believed that the shoes changed their appearance when Lucy says, we are tired of begin beautiful on page 42. Why couldn't they feel beautiful without the shoes? In all reality if they were beautiful in the shoes then they were beautiful without the shoes.
When they previously said that they were never going to wear another shoe again that failed when one Tuesday her mother, who is very clean, throws them away. But no one complains. They never needed the shoes, they just liked how it made them feel for that day but i'm sure they learned that they could feel that way without them.
I highlighted those two ideas because they never needed the shoes to feel that way and everyone should know they're beautiful the way they are and that they don't need items to make them feel a certain way.
The Vargas kids are bad. They don't like to listen to people. Also they are loud and obnoxious. They are also disrespectful. The theme of the chapter is to show how bad that the Vargas kids are.
On my active listening I highlighted one sentence. "They are without respect for all things living, including themselves." This sentence to me just prove how bad and disrespectful that the Vargas kids are.
On my active listening I highlighted one sentence. "They are without respect for all things living, including themselves." This sentence to me just prove how bad and disrespectful that the Vargas kids are.
So Many Children
Rosa Varga has so many children she didn't know what to do. She tried juggaling all of them the best she could, but at some point she lost control in the chaos.
The kids are wild and off the wall, they swing from branches, break things, and jump of roofs. They have no repsect when someone tells them to stop or they will get hurt, they just run away.The neighborhood used to look out the them, but they have gave up due to the crazy behavior. They now just expect it and let them go devasting the neighborhood.
"From buttoning and bottling and babying"
"One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny's roof"
These were my two favorate qoutes from this chapter. I think it is funny and almost everyone can relate. In almost every neighborhood there are "Those kids", the crazy ones that are destructive and wild that everyone knows.
The kids are wild and off the wall, they swing from branches, break things, and jump of roofs. They have no repsect when someone tells them to stop or they will get hurt, they just run away.The neighborhood used to look out the them, but they have gave up due to the crazy behavior. They now just expect it and let them go devasting the neighborhood.
"From buttoning and bottling and babying"
"One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny's roof"
These were my two favorate qoutes from this chapter. I think it is funny and almost everyone can relate. In almost every neighborhood there are "Those kids", the crazy ones that are destructive and wild that everyone knows.
Preston's Post Darius & the Clouds
Darius and the Clouds:
In Darius and the Clouds talks about how a boy named Darius who was a fool in class and never really tried in school talked about clouds and how he see's God. Darius doesn't really talk much and he chases girls and does tricks looked up and showed the clouds and pointed out that the big one in the sky was God.
And what I picked out from this chapter was that not every bad or good persons does well but if they see God and believe in him then they can do anything they want and I think that was one of the points Sandra Cisneros shows. She also talks about how that there is a lot of sad in this town and that the clouds can keep you happy, said "here there is too much sadness and not enough sky". and she goes on and says that they take what they can and make the most of it.
In Darius and the Clouds talks about how a boy named Darius who was a fool in class and never really tried in school talked about clouds and how he see's God. Darius doesn't really talk much and he chases girls and does tricks looked up and showed the clouds and pointed out that the big one in the sky was God.
And what I picked out from this chapter was that not every bad or good persons does well but if they see God and believe in him then they can do anything they want and I think that was one of the points Sandra Cisneros shows. She also talks about how that there is a lot of sad in this town and that the clouds can keep you happy, said "here there is too much sadness and not enough sky". and she goes on and says that they take what they can and make the most of it.
Ashley's post on "some more"
In this chapter the kids were arguing about several things. It started with how mant types of snow there is and how many different types of clouds there are, It then quickly turned into an argument between the children and Racheal called Esperanza a fat face along with Nancy a pig-eye.
Two favorite phrases i like are " I'm saying your mama's ugly...ummm... like bare feet in September". Also I like the metaphor You are like the cream of wheat cereal. You're like the lumps.It is not the insults I like, but the metaphor.
Two favorite phrases i like are " I'm saying your mama's ugly...ummm... like bare feet in September". Also I like the metaphor You are like the cream of wheat cereal. You're like the lumps.It is not the insults I like, but the metaphor.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thinking and writing together about what kids mean in our culture
- In the Comments section of this post, add your opinion to this subject and answer these questions: What do we learn from children, and what qualities do they have that are admirable or important?
- Tell us about a child that you value now, or that you have in the past. Think about someone who inspires you or others, and tell us an anecdote (a very short story about something that happened with this person) about that specific kid.
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