Wilco Music Review

Artist:Wilco
Song:Hummingbird
Album:a ghost is born

For my music review I will do Wilco. They are a Chicago based band, but I am sure most of you haven't heard of them which is sad. The song I am reviewing is Hummingbird which is a good song. This band is like alternative rock and they are mostly known in western Europe. In the USA most people know them in Chicago which makes sense since they are from Chicago. What I like about this song is that the music and rhythm go so well in this song. I learned about this band from my friend he told me about them one day and I started listening to it. He said "What is sad is that he only knows 1 person that listens to them and 5 that heard about them."
I like this quote from the song
"Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird"
I cannot emphasize how much the music makes this song so much better. This song makes me play the replay button a couple times. That is just me though. This also comes to show how popular music has taken over when there are many good artists out there.
Listen to this song if you like it well that is good but remember that we have to get to know the artists from Chicago. Hope you enjoy this song!!!
The play list on that side-------->>>
the song is playing

Jay and Nick

In our American Lit class we are reading the book The Great Gatsby. These two characters Jay Gatsby and Nick Carroway are building a relationship and it is an interesting one. It all started when Nick went to Gatsby's party which he has a lot of them. The reason being is that Gatsby is in love with Daisy, who lives right across the bay. He and Daisy were in love until Gatsby left to the War and she married Tom, but back to Jay and Nick. Nick is the cousin of Daisy. Nick to be a good friend helped Jay by inviting Daisy over for tea, and he also invites Jay to reunite them. Jay is nervous in the beginning so Nick calms him down and Jay gets relaxed and starts talking to Daisy normally. Then he takes her to his house and shows her around. While they are talking like a good friend Nick tries to leave them alone. Jay does not let him though because he needs his help. Nick stays and learns more about Jay when he stays. Jay is a good guy I think none of them are using each other because Gatsby sends a guy to cut Nick's grass and then also offers him a better job. It is a win win situation for both of them.

First Draft

So this week we have to come up with a first draft for a winter poem.
I would like to have a lot of varieties of poems
like Haiku: Holidays are beast
They come only once a year
So celebrate them
That is a draft now for a longer poem:
Here we are again
No more rain
Only white beautiful snowflakes
In the garage we now find our rakes
It is time for winter joy
For every child and their New toy
Under the Christmas tree, or the Menorah
While listening to music on Pandora
We all celebrate different things
But every god to us is our King
The whole family giving hugs
Little children spilling soda on the rug
The next day
The children play
While their parents watch in happiness
Even though they know that toy will last one MES(month in Spanish)
We all love that Winter break
And all those cookies we bake
So celebrate the Holidays in cheer
Because they only come once a year

Thankful for a classmate

This week's blog is about being thankful for a classmate in our American Lit class. Well to start it off I am thankful for my teachers, my family, and my classmates. I am very thankful for one classmate in my American lit class and that is Joe Wang. The reason I am thankful for him is that I have asked him many times what the homework is, and he tells me. Sometimes when I forgot to read I ask him what the chapter was about and he tells me. So he is a great help also, when we are doing the group assignments or the chapter questions he is a great help for our group. Well we can't be helpful for just one person. I am thankful for Emmett and Gordon who make the class more interesting and funnier. The main person that I am thankful is Mr. McCarthy the teacher that has made this all possible. The one who if you say Mr. McCarthy he will respond I am. He is the one I am thankful. I am very thankful to have third period American Lit with Mr. McCarthy and with all my classmates. That is what I am thankful in Third period because this list could go on if it was for other classes.

I am a plow?

This week’s blog is about a plow. Which is a tool used in agriculture.
WWW.Dictionary.com definition of a plow-an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
So a plow helps the soil get ready for sowing. So I guess many people can be our plows or we can be the plow. If we help people for the future we are being their plow. This means that parents, teachers, and coaches are the plows of us helping us and getting us ready for the future. We will all eventually not be used anymore like the real plows. We will shape the field and remove the weeds from the field. This is what parents try to do make you the best. Take away the weeds which are the bad things about you. Coaches do this too and teachers. There are many plows in your life. The most important one is you though because you are the main plow. You are the only one that will be able to take the advice and make your future how you want it. To put it in simpler ways there are many plows but you are the main one and you will be the only one that will be able to plow your future how you want it.

Direction the class needs??

Well the class is very good overall, we have a lot of humor and the class is entertaining. Even though it is in the beginning of the day this class wakes us up. We all stay on topic and we all know when to stop if we are being disruptive. We haven't even seen your dark side referring to you Mr. McCarthy. I guess what we do somewhat need to work on is doing our homework and our blogs. I think you should write the homework on the board. I like that we don't have to take our textbook home every day. I guess we stay in track (sometimes) I guess sometimes we fall behind in House of The Seven Gables (I don't know how that happened.) It is pretty cool that instead of independent reading day we have Hurley's day or Devin's day.I guess something that i would change but there is no reason for us to change it anymore was that we should be more interactive during the class. I guess there is nothing for our class to change we are a very good class we sometimes get on your nerves but it is solved quickly like I have stated. So, overall there is nothing for us to change.

Modern Day Slavery

So this week's blog post is about modern slavery. When many people see slavery the first thing they think about is the civil war the 1600s to 1800s. Many people don’t think about people working in sweatshops for low pay, trafficking of humans, and prostitution. These things are also considered slavery. Some countries like Cambodia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Honduras are living on less then $2 a day. Even though sweatshops are bad, because it is a form of slavery it had pros and cons. Children that lost their job after that they didn't have anything else to do so they went into crime and the girls went into prostitution. Even though these things are not as worse as what they did to African-American slaves, it is still bad. I wouldn't like to be people working in a sweatshop, or being sold to other people. Those things are wrong.  There are places like other countries or places that support sweatshops like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

I guess us Americans are not as aware of these things as much because we do not have this in our country. I guess many people have different opinions of sweatshops and prostitution. My opinion is that it is bad or sweatshops can stay if people get a higher pay. I mean some people in the world earn what we earn in 5 minutes of work in 30 minutes. Which is unfair to those people getting paid less. I guess there is modern day slavery and some of us don't even notice it.