I, Tatyanta, have reached a goal that I thought would had been impossible or hard to pursue. Two years ago I received information about AP (Advanced Placement) classes; classes that students take in order to receive a college credit, its higher level learning. my junior year I decided to challenge myself beyond all means possible; taking honors and AP classes in the same year is truly a challenge for young students today.
My favorite teacher, Mrs.Day, taught me a variety of things:writing Argument, Synthesis, Rhetorical Analysis essays, and multiple choice questions. I know that teaching AP language and Composition might have been difficult for her, but she continued and yet taught 14 bright students how to pass and make a 5 on the nationwide AP test. This not only prepare us for a rigorous college coarse but she improved our comprehension of literacy in the world. Now I know that i'm prepared to learn on a level that most high school students wouldn't dare to attempt.
While taking the coarse I bettered my learning, comprehension, and speech skills. it goes to say then, that, Socratic seminars were my favorite activities int the class, The way that we hear each others perspectives and view points broadens our view of thoughts and opinions on the topic; this is beneficial for our real world, day to day lives.
Mrs. day asked if there was an activity that I disliked during the year. Honestly, everything we did was so much fun and joyous but i would say my least favorite activity was learning how to qualify an argument; its so confusing and yet more complicated than defending and refuting arguments. Other than that, this class was absolutely perfect.
I want t thank yo, Mrs. Day, for all the effort you put in while teaching me. You are the true definition of an awesome teacher. When these AP scores return i hope that you will be proud but I know you are proud of us anyways.
Without this class I wouldn't understand the different points of literacy. I can now say that I am a step ahead of high school students but ready to continue taking on the rigorous college courses for my future.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Great numbers of Black Southerners emigrated to the cities of the North during the Twenties and the Thirties. The new lives of these urban African-Americans in the industrial North were radically different from those they had led in the Agrarian South. On the surface, they confronted much less prejudice. What were the differences in racial attitudes between the two cultures? Was the prejudice of the North less real because it was better hidden?
Black Americans moved from South to North during World War I and the decade that followed changed forever black America's economic, political, social, and cultural lives. The Great Migration was, up to that point, the largest voluntary internal movement of black people ever seen.The migration continued roughly the for the next twenty years. By 1970, about five million African Americans had made the journey, and the geographic map of black America had fundamentally changed. Black Southerners pulled up stakes and headed north. Both their places of origin and destination shifted from earlier patterns.I believe that
they also moved in order to maintain safe haven from anti-abolitionists.
While the Great Migration helped educated African Americans obtain jobs, eventually enabling a measure of class mobility, the migrants encountered significant forms of discrimination. It wasn't like the worse of the South but it was surely hard for them to get jobs and even a fair education.
In many ways the North was less prejudice. Slavery had just been nullified from the South. So in many ways whites may have thought they still had control over the blacks no matter what the constitution might have said.
Was the prejudice the North less real because it was better hidden? In many ways I thought that the North would be a new beginning for the African Americans who emigrated.Not necessarily because the prejudice was hidden but maybe because the different opportunities they had. For instance, better jobs, education, land.
African- Americans wanted nothing more than the so called AMERICAN DREAM. I assume that moving to the North would better everything.
Black Americans moved from South to North during World War I and the decade that followed changed forever black America's economic, political, social, and cultural lives. The Great Migration was, up to that point, the largest voluntary internal movement of black people ever seen.The migration continued roughly the for the next twenty years. By 1970, about five million African Americans had made the journey, and the geographic map of black America had fundamentally changed. Black Southerners pulled up stakes and headed north. Both their places of origin and destination shifted from earlier patterns.I believe that
they also moved in order to maintain safe haven from anti-abolitionists.
While the Great Migration helped educated African Americans obtain jobs, eventually enabling a measure of class mobility, the migrants encountered significant forms of discrimination. It wasn't like the worse of the South but it was surely hard for them to get jobs and even a fair education.
In many ways the North was less prejudice. Slavery had just been nullified from the South. So in many ways whites may have thought they still had control over the blacks no matter what the constitution might have said.
Was the prejudice the North less real because it was better hidden? In many ways I thought that the North would be a new beginning for the African Americans who emigrated.Not necessarily because the prejudice was hidden but maybe because the different opportunities they had. For instance, better jobs, education, land.
African- Americans wanted nothing more than the so called AMERICAN DREAM. I assume that moving to the North would better everything.
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