Annotations

Ruby Bridges Photo." Ruby Bridges:Facing the Unknown All Alone. 26 Nov 2008 .


Borgna Brunner and Elissa Haney. "Civil Rights Timeline." ilestones in the modern civil rights movement. 26 Nov 2008 .

Annotations

"A Class of One." Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). 1996-2008. 20 Nov 2008 .


"Ask the Expert." Power To Learn. 2008. CSC Holdings, Inc. 20 Nov 2008 .

Fifth Annotation

McCluggage, Bruce . "Exploring Questions About God & Life." A Prayer for White Folks. Tuesday November 4 2008. 4 Nov 2008 .

One morning Mrs. Henry noticed Ruby walking toward the school as usual but then she stopped, turned toward the angry, howling crowd and seemed to even be trying to speak to them. The crowd seemed ready to pounce on her while the marshals tried in vain to keep Ruby moving. Finally, she stopped talking and walked into the school.

Mrs. Henry immediately asked Ruby what happened; why did she try and talk to such a belligerent crowd. Ruby irritatingly responded that she didn't stop to talk with them.


"Ruby, I saw you talking," Mrs. Henry pressed. "I saw your lips moving."
"I wasn't talking," said Ruby. "I was praying...I was praying for them."


Evidently, Ruby had stopped every morning a few blocks away from the school to pray for the people who hated her. But on this morning she had forgotten until she was already in the middle of the malevolent mob.

After school that day, Ruby bolted through the crowd as usual and headed for home with her two companion federal marshals. After a few blocks and with the crowds behind her, she paused as she usually did to say the prayer that she had repeated not once but twice a day -- before and after school:



Please God, try to forgive these people.
Because even if they say those bad things,
They don't know what they're doing.
So You could forgive them,
Just like You did those folks a long time ago
When they said terrible things about You.


This website gave me a quote from Ruby Bridges. The quote was about how she would stop and pray for the angry crowd of people outside of her school every morning. This is a secondary source.

Revised Thesis Statement and Introduction

Thesis Statement:

Nothing can be more moving than watching a small black child climbing the steps to her elementary school that historically and legally did not welcome her presence. It is my contention that Ruby Bridges help to break the barer of segregation by becoming the first black child in an all white school and she served as a inspiration because now schools are integrated.

Introduction:

In 1960, Ruby Bridges parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School System. Even though there was a large crowd of people surround the outside of the school, throwing and shouting things Ruby Bridges managed to go into the school. As soon as Ruby entered the school white parents were walking in and taking there children out.

Fourth Annotation

Civil Rights Leaders, "Resistance to the Movement." Ruby Bridges. 28 Oct 2008 .

Ruby Bridges played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement. Ruby was born September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi. A year later, her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. At that time, people wanted to keep blacks and whites separate because whites didn’t think that blacks were as good as them. For example, blacks and whites had separate drinking fountains, blacks had to sit in the back of buses, and blacks and whites each had their own separate schools.

This website was helpful to my research because it explained how Ruby Bridges was important to history. It also gave a time line of her important events. This was a secondary source.

Thesis Statement

Even though there was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting. As soon as Bridges got into the school, white parents went in and brought their own children out; all but one of the white teachers also refused to teach while a black child was enrolled., In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system. because Ruby Bridges played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement.

Third Annotation

Ruby Bridges. Dir. Euzhan Palcy. Perf. Chaz Monet, Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Pollak, Michael Beach, Lela Rochon . DVD. Yahoo Movies, 1999.


Based on actual events that occurred in Louisiana during 1960. Ruby (newcomer Monet) is a first grader who, after scoring one of the highest grades on her school board exam, is chosen as one of the first black students to integrate an all-white school. As racial tension escalates, Ruby is escorted to school by federal marshals, who attempt to protect her from the angry protesters. With guidance and support from her mother (Rochon), father (Beach), teacher (Miller) and a child psychologist (Pollak), Ruby finds the determination to overcome all obstacles. An uplifting story of one girl's courage.


Ruby is an inspiring and cute little girl. The film revisits a shameful past and shows what a powerful force moral fortitude can be, even in a child. The film was nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image award. The writer, Toni Ann Johnson, won the 1998 Humanities Prize for her teleplay. The film also won The Christopher Award. The movie was a secondary source.

Second Annotation

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), "My History." African American World History . 1995 - 2008. 20 Oct 2008 .


The PBS website on Ruby Bridges was about many different things. One thing that I focused on was how school was at the end of first grade. Near at the end of the year, Mrs. Henry, her teacher, and Ruby finally had company. A few white children began coming back to school, and she got an opportunity to visit with them once or twice. Even though these children were white, she still knew nothing about racism or integration. Ruby had picked up bits and pieces over the months from being around adults and hearing them talk, but nothing was clear to her. The light dawned one day when a little boy refused to play with me.

"I can't play with you," the boy said. "My mama said not to because you're a nigger."

Ruby, then finally realized that everything had happened because she was black. She remembers feeling a little stunned. It was all about the color of her skin. She wasn't angry at the boy, because she understood. His mother had told him not to play with her, and he was obeying her. She would have done the same thing. If her mama said not to do something, she didn't do it.



This website was helpful to my research because it gave quotes on how the children felt about her. It also helped me to understand how she felt because the other children were unable to play with her. This website was a secondary source. The audience is everyone.

First Annotation

Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. Scholastic, 1999.




Ruby Bridges was born in Mississippi in 1954. At the age of six, she was among the first black child to go to a previously all-white school in New Orleans. She attended William Frantz Public School and was accompanied by her mother and armed U.S Federal Marshals. The Marshals were necessary because angry mobs formed outside Ruby's school, shouting protests like "Two, four, six, eight. We don't want to integrate!" Many white people were outraged at the school's integration, and most white families pulled their children out of the school. Even the State legislature called for white families to boycott mixed schools. For a year, Ruby was separated from the other children and was the only child in her class. With the help of a loving teacher, Ruby made it through a difficult year and paved the way for many African American children who followed in her footsteps in integrated schools. Today, Ruby Bridges still fights for equal education for all children through her lectures and the Ruby Bridges Foundation.




The book Through My Eyes was helpful to my research because it gave me the biography of Ruby Bridges. The book is a primary source. I know this because primary sources are original documents or evidence from a given historical period take many forms; photographs, drawings, letters, diaries, documents, books,and films. I think that the intended audience is everyone.

Topic Selection

I chose Ruby Bridges for my NHD Project because she's someone that you don't hear people talking about on an everyday basis.



This person is important to history because she played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement.

Service Learning

The Mirror (A clear reflection of the Self)


• What have I learned about myself through this experience?
Throughout this experience I learned that there are many different things that can kill you.
Most of the things that kill you are silent killers.


The Microscope (Makes the small experience large)


• What more needs to be done?
In our group I think that we should make sure that people are aware of silent killers. We made flyer's, surveys, and business cards. I think we should go outside and ask people t take our survey and give them different information about silent killers.

The Binoculars (Makes what appears distant, appear closer)


• How will service learning change your future behaviors/attitudes/and career?
Service learning will change my future behaviors by being aware of the certain things that you many buy and the places that you may want to move because some houses and daycare centers have led paint in them and they can kill you. Also the certain types of toys that you may buy for your children can be a choking hazard.

Service Learning Reflection

At this service learning meeting we discuss all of the things that we have completed. We completed our final survey. During the meeting we started to get three facts on each of our topics. Everyone was split up into groups of two. The facts that we found we emailed them to each other.

For the next meeting we will be going out to get people to fill out the survey and make sure that they are aware of silent killers.

service learning video

Service Learning Reflection

On Friday we had another service learning meeting. I think that we were successful at accomplishing our first survey. The challenges that we encountered were deciding on how our business card should look and find the number to go on it. For the upcoming meeting we will be discussing different ways to get our information out on silent killers and to see if we can test a day care for radon. The role that i play in the group is to type up our survey with the questions we came up with.

Service Learning Reflection

On Thursday, it was our second meeting. In our meeting we picked a topic that we were going to discuss. We dicided to pick a topic for each marking period. Befor we left we each were assigned to write down one question for the survey and bring it to the next meeting. For our next meeting i think that we are going to make our first survey.

Service Learning Reflection

Friday was the first day of service learning in school. The service learning group that I am in is the pollution group. Our group talked about silent killers. Silent killers are many differnt thing that kill people. One silent killer is smoke. We also talked about ways that we can inform others about those silent killers. Some of the ideas that we came up with were making brochures and handing them out to people. We also thought about handing out smoke detectors to people who dont have the. We were going to put different types of ads in newspapers and magazines. We also thought about trying toget the information out over the radio or make a website. For the next meeting which is on thursday, I think that we will start to research the silent killers to get a better understanding of it.

Service Learning

For my service learning project I would like to volunteer at an after school program. I would volunteer once a week to help younger children with their homework or other things that they might need help with.

NHD Reflection

I felt that the NHD process was very stressful. I thought that it really didn't hit me until the last couple of days. From this experience I learned that it was kind of good that worked by myself because I didn't have to depend on anyone. As the days began to pass and everyone began to procrastinate. I observed that many people were angry because people were criticizing there work. Doing NHD made me kind of angry at times because one teacher was telling you to do one thing and another teacher was telling you to do the opposite. I also learned that you shouldn't always listen to teachers. I think that I could of had more time to work on my exhibit bored. One important thing that I learned is that everything isn't as always easy as it may look.

African American Biography

Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753, Gambia Africa. As a child Phillis was captured and sold into slavery, and purchased by John Wheatley of Boston. Her genius impressed her owners, who arranged for her to be educated by private tutors in several subjects, including Latin and Greek. Phillis was so brilliant that she began to publish serious poems as a young teenager; Wheatley became a sensation in Boston.

Phillis Wheatley to succeed was that her owners was very fond of her and they never trained her as a domestic; instead they encouraged her to study theology and the English, Latin and Greek classics. She published her first poem in 1767, and six years later, she published a book, Poems on Various Subjects. That same year, John Wheatley emancipated her.

Wheatley’s contribution was important because she was the first African American woman; she was the first slave, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems. She prepared for her future by at a young age writing on the walls and instead of getting in trouble they encourage her to write.

We should know that Phillis Wheatley received her freedom and married a free black man in 1778 but, despite her skills, was never able to support her family. Although she died in complete poverty, subsequent generations would pick up where she left off. Wheatley was the first black writer of consequence in America; and her life was an inspiring example to future generations of African-Americans.


Phillis Wheatley inspired me because if you put your mind to something then you can achieve it. She achieved her goal by learning to read and write and she became the first African American women and slave to publish a book of poems.

What Should My Grade Be?

Dear Mr. Romero,

As you know the marking period is approaching and end. Report cards will be given out, and everyone’s wondering about what there grade should be. Well I think my final grade for English class should be an A. I deserve and A because I complete all assignments, and I have blogged all of my work. I also have completed a story on story write.

I believe I deserve an A because I complete all assignments. You have given out many assignments throughout the semester, such as reading the Huckleberry Finn book, and the thirty-six questions and answers about Blooms Taxonomy. I also completed the assignments about analyzing each character from Huckleberry Finn. I completed the drawings of the characters as well.

I have published all of the work on blogger. I published numerous essays on blogger such as the essay on Should Huckleberry Finn be Taught in School. Another essay that I published was Should Parents be Allowed to Hit their Children, and the last essay that I will publish is the African American biography.

Earlier in the school year you assigned a story to be written on story write. I have written a story and published it on story write. You also required everyone to post five comments on others peoples story. I have posted many comments on story write.

In conclusion, I feel that I should receive an A in English class. I feel as tough I maintained my grade since last report card period. I should receive the same grade as last report, which was an A.

Sincerely,
Taneah

N.H.D.

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