Art Connection

This picture shows great intensity and emotion.  The picture portrays how poorly the African Americans were treated during that time.  In the front of the picture there is an African American that chained up, and in the background there are white people carrying the African Americans and throwing them into a dirty pit.  This relates to "Having Our Say" because Sadie and Bessie are constantly talking about how terrible the blacks were discriminated and how they had little or no say.

Art Connection

Art Connection

Having My Say

In "Having Our Say", Sadie and Bessie had very strong opinions about black descrimination and slavery, and they always voiced their opinion from their heart and didn't care what would happen to them.  I have a strong opinion about leaving people out. Kids are left out every day in the world, and I can't stand it.  When kids sit by themselves at lunch or not get invited to teenage events because their not cool or popular really makes me mad.  I try so hard to include everyone and lend out hands to the kids that have no one.  Studies show that every 100 minutes another teenager commits suicide.  Teenage suicide is sometimes caused from being left out and feeling like no one in the world cares about you.  Another thing that makes me angry is when someone is publically humiliated in front of large groups of people.  Just as the bible verse says, "Treat your neighbors as yourself," God wants us to be nice to everyone even our enemies.  I wish I could help more people out there that just need a friend to be with. 

Poem Connection

This poem means to me that this child is what he is surrounded by. He grows up to be what he has always known. Everything around him influences him in some way and a piece of every surrounding is left in him as he grows up.  The poem first talks about nature, then a school, his parents, the streets, the houses, and then nature again.  I think that he's talking about how a child grew up. First he was a baby and one with nature all cool and calm, Then he grew up and started going to school.When he was old enough to be disciplined for his actions by his parents he was let out into the streets to buy his own house. And at the end he retires and is cool and calm again with nature.  This poem connects to my life becasue everyone goes through life without taking it for granted, and in this poem the boy takes little things and connects them to his life as he grows up.

The Bee

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

I hear the level bee:

A jar across the flowers goes,

Their velvet masonry

Withstands until the sweet assault

Their chivalry consumes,

While he, victorious, tilts away

To vanquish other blooms.

His feet are shod with gauze,

His helmet is of gold;

His breast, a single onyx

With chrysoprase, inlaid.

His labor is a chant,

His idleness a tune;

Oh, for a bee's experience

Of clovers and of noon!

- Emily Dickinson  

Reflection: In this poem Emily Dickinson refers to the bee as something of high power and royalty.  She enjoys nature and always adds some kind of nature reference to her poems.  Because she was always in her garden or looking out her window, she observed many of these qualities.  She also explains the characteristics about the bee in this poem. For an example she explains head of the bee is of a gold color and his breast of a single onyx.  Dickinson loves the outdoors and shows it through all of the different poems she has written.

transcendentalists

I prefer reading transcendentalism becasue it is about nature and happy things.  I don't like reading poems and stories that are dark and dreary and always about negative thoughts.  I really enjoyed  learning about apothogems. I thought it was cool that we had to depict them in our own words and thoughts.  I feel that transcendentalism is a lot easier to understand also.  All of the peoms in class that we have read throughout the week have been easy to comprehend and read.