The Notebook

The early memory that I have with composing is drawing with color pencils and crayons. When I was at age four I remember my mother had brought me a book of pictures and a set of color pencils. I learned to color the pictures inside the picture book and that time I was not that good with coloring I always miss a spot or the colors comes out the pictures. When I went to school in my fist grade we have an Art teacher and she asks each one of us to draw a picture of a family or a house and a…

Group Activity: After reading The Dinosaur Chase while asking and answering questions, the students will play “roll and retell” with their partner. Students will work with their reading partner and each have a roll and retell graphic organizer and a dice. The students will take turns and roll the dice. If it lands on one, the students will retell what the story is mostly about. If it lands on the number two they will discuss where the story takes place. If it lands on three they will discuss…

In the movie Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese and produced in 2007, set in Long Beach, California, is about a high school English teacher, played by Hilary Swank, who sets out to unite her freshman class and see past the racial borders that they grew up dealing with (“The Freedom Writers”). The students (main characters played by April Lee Hernandez, Jason Finn, Kristin Herrera, Jamal Hill, ect.) describe their lives as war, each of their racial backgrounds are at war with the…

The dance takes the vocabulary of ballet, the story line of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks and lyrics of Youth by Daughter and blends it into this immaculate presentation of my all-time favorite love story. The floor work resembles the struggle that those with Alzheimer’s face as they live daily without recognizing a…

Within Susan Neimoyer’s journal article George Gershwin and Edward Kilenyi, Sr.: A Reevaluation of Gershwin's Early Musical Education, she explains the inconsistency of literature written on the subject of Gershwin’s training. After reading, I’m convinced of the influence Edward Kilenyi, Sr. had as his private music theory teacher. The misconceptions written on the topic stem from music critic Issac Goldberg’s biography (which was later found to be ripe with inaccuracies) in which he writes…

This notebook that he reads shares a story about a young couple that falls in love but is tested through trials. This couple was a wealthy girl that had a father that wanted her to have nothing to do with her small town sweetheart boyfriend. Well the father was…

History from below as an approach to history was born in 1960s and it is connected to Social Sciences. It emphasis that a theory is a starting point, so history is going from theory to evidence. It looks into people everyday life with all its aspects. The biggest influence on history from below has Karl Marx and his idea of class struggle. He introduced the materialist conception of history, which have seen revolution as a part of complex social- economic process. In those processes the new…

Daniel Rooke was quiet, moody, a man of few words. He had no memories other than of being an outsider. At the dame school in Portsmouth they thought him stupid. His first day there was by coincidence his fifth birthday, the third of March 1767. He took his place behind the desk with his mother’s breakfast oatmeal cosy in his stomach and his new jacket on, happy to be joining the world beyond his home. Mrs Bartholomew showed him a badly executed engraving with the word ‘cat’ underneath. His…

Welwel Kisielnicki is my HMM I'D. I wrote my story on a notebook and I dug a hole and buried it while i was getting food in the daytime. Then one day my children asked me what was in the notebook and it gave me the chills and make me very sad.I told them well you guys are at a old enough age now so i told them the story it went like this. I am Welwel Kisielnicki I lived with my wife, Feiga, and three children in the small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn, which was 35 miles east of Warsaw.…

The teacher must have forgotten to ask for my permission, as I was completely oblivious as to why I was being called until she had stated the reason. It wasn’t an easy task, picking up my notebook and walking to the front. While I knew that there were footsteps all around me as students tried to shove around one another to find a seat that could hide them from the prying eyes of the staff, the auditorium felt deafeningly silent. Suffocating…