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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.