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.