Sustainability Visit

What is your name?
"Andrea."

What is your role here at the farmers market?
"I'm that Manager of this farmers market. And I also sell my foods at this stand."

How long have you been coming to Farmers Markets?
"Well ,my family owns a farm, and the first time I was able to help out at my fathers Farmers market I think that I was around 15. I still farm at my family's farm today, that's were all my food comes from. And I started this farmers market about two years ago."

Do you feel that you help not only the enviorment, but also help people become healthy?
"In a way I do feel that I help people make healthy choices when they by my food, and I feel good that I can do something to help the enviorment."

Questions:
1. What struck you about the location you visited? Was it what you expected, or very different?
Well the Farmers market that I visited was in the parking lot of an abandoned school, so I thought that it was a little creepy. But after we walked around a bit it really reminded me of a swap meet. The people that were selling the food, mostly sold fruit and i thought that they would be selling all veggies. And they also sold stuff like jewelry, art supplies, and blankets.

2. Which items were cheaper than you expected? Which were more expensive?
The oranges were really cheep, that surprised my little brother. And the cherry's were the most expensive item at three different stands, but I still bought some.

3. Do you think you will start going to a farmers market more often? Or using a community garden? Or supporting a CSA?
I don't think I will start going to a farmer's market that often, but I will keep it in mind.

4. How do these locations fit into our essential questions of "Why Don't People Live More Sustainably?" and "How Can I Convince them to do So?"
Well people wont try to live more sustainably because they can't afford to buy expensive food. Organic food is kind of expensive, but it is important to eat healthy. We can convince them to do so by giving them information on how it can help them become health, and how it can help your family to become healthy.

School Garden

1. What will happen to the garden during the summer?
They don't know what will happen to the garden during the summer, maybe someone from facilities will check up on it.
2.How hard is it to manage the garden?
Pretty tough.
3.How often do you work on the garden?
We work on the garden on Wednesdays and Fridays. So around like four hours a week.



Reflection

Does this inspire you to start your own garden?
No, but it does inspire me to help my mom with her garden.

Would you like to continue the seniors work?
I think it will be great to keep planting more plants and vegetables. We could make the garden big and may be have a grade lunch with all the food we would grow.

How did the visit change you?
Well the visit tought me that we had a garden, and that it is not that hard to make and maintain a garden.

My Parents Response

So I started to tell my parents about the movie that we were watching in class. I talked about how we got to see how animals were treated and the enviorments that they lived in. They said that they all ready had know about facts like that, and have tryed to change their diet. So I told them about how if they companys that make the meats feed the animals what they eat naturly for a week, the animals would be much healther, and that their would be less problems with the meat. Their responce to this was that people would be healther if big companys started taking cair of the animals and feeding them what their supposed to eat insted of feeding them corn, just so they could make easy money, their would be less problems and people would be healthy.

Dialectic Journal

In My Ishmael the chaptersSchool Daze and School Daze II, we looking at topics that they talk about, Rachel Sokolow, and how Ishmael watched her grow up and start school and how excited she was but as she grew older here interest decreased.
This is one of the quotes that I favor in these chapters.
“People imagine
That they'd like to see their children enter the workplace with really useful business skills, but if they
Actually did so, they'd immediately begin competing for jobs with their older siblings and their parents,
Which would be catastrophic. And if graduates came out of school with advanced skills, who would bag
the groceries, Julie? Who would do the sweeping up? Who would pump the gas? Who would do the
filing? Who would flip the burgers?"
"I suppose it would turn into an age thing."
"You mean you'd tell Johnny Smith and Jennie Jones that they can't have the jobs they want, not
because others are more qualified but because others are older."

Village Savior

Ben Dillard

January 18, 2010

"Darling, could you go and get some water from the well for the day?"

"Yes Papa," a blank look came across her face as she thinks about the day of work ahead of her.

"Oh, and could you pick up your little brother from school after the prayer?"

A look of joy and happiness came upon her face "Yes Papa!" She loved her little brother as if he were her own son. That’s why a question has been in the back of her mind for a while. "Papa?"

"Yes Darling?"

"Shouldn't we be worried about the resent raids of near by villages? I mean, what if we get attacked? What will we do?"

"They know that we are one of the poorest, if not the poorest village, so really we have nothing to worry about. And if they do come, all we can do is hope and pray."

"Ok, Papa." But this feeling inside of her, it was over, whelming. She knows something is going to happen, and it will happen soon.

As they arrived at the temple the prayer began, that same feeling came upon her again. She could feel it, something is pulling her to go, to go and find some one. She turns her head, and she sees a tall dark figure run cross the wide dirt road. The feeling rushed over her again, but this time in different waves. Each one stronger than the last, to the point where she finally stands. The feeling has completely taken over, and its as if she has no control of her body movements. So all she can do is just watch as her body takes her to the place where the dark figure once stood. She looks for any singes of where the figure might be, the heat from the sun slowly warms her face, but with no traces of the mysterious figure she starts to wonders around the village. This small village, this is where she was born, raised and will one day die in. This is her home, and yet she has always wanted to leave, so she could see the world. Her entire life she has always done what others have asked her, and yet she has not gotten her one and only wish, she just wants to see the world.

Then it happened, the one sound that is like the roar of a lion, the scream of death that brings about the cold wave of the reapers hand. The sound of a single gun shot filled the village. She opens her mouth but nothing came out, she ran back to the temple when a whole berage of shots go off. Bright flashes of bright lights and dark red blood cover the windows of the temple. Only one thought goes through her mind, her little brother and the other children at the school. She ran, and ran with a look of calmness and clarity on her face, she was on a mission to save the children.

Before she ran up to the school, she checked to see that no one would see her cross the empty field that the school was built upon. Within three minutes, she was able to gather all of the children and teachers. Now came the challenge of getting them out of the village, quickly they assembled at the back of the school and quickly crept across the field. They silently weaved through the back roads of the village until they finally got out of the village and to the edge of the jungle.

The teachers took the children deeper into the jungle, and Darling was able to finally hold her little brother in her arms. “Yaya, I want you to stay with the teachers no matter what happens. Promise me?”

With a big smile upon his face the words “okay!” came from his mouth with a playful and happy voice. She knew he didn’t understand what was happening, and she knew that one day he would and talk about how brave he was. But right now there was one final task at hand. That is, to save the rest of the village. With one deep breath she ran back into the village, heading for the only radio that the village owned. When she finally got there she flipped the switch and with a calm and quiet voice she began pleading for someone to answer. “ Hello, any one! My village is being raided, many of my people are already dead. The children are safe but there are still people who need help! Please any one! Help us!”

“Hello!”

“Hello, yes, can you help my village?! Please!”

“Calm down, we are sending reinforcements, they should be there in two minuets. Can you estimate how many people are raiding your village?”

Her eyes widen, her breathing stopped, there it was again, that horrible retched feeling that has warned her about all of this. She slowly sets down the radio, and turns around facing the door.

“Hello! Miss? Are you there! Miss!”

She could hear her own heart beat to a constant rhythm, like the quiet yet suttle flow of a river. There he was, the tall dark figure standing in the doorway. This time she knew that he was here for her, as he slowly raised his hand she could see that he held a gun. And just like that he pulled the trigger, that horrible sound yet again came upon her ears. She had always wondered what it was like to die, but to her surprise it was more like simply lying down as if you were to fall into a deep sleep. She lied there, as the warmth slowly left her body, eyes wide, motionless watching the dark figure slowly fade into the darkness that filled her
eyes.


Zine

Semester Goals

So for my goals this year, I want to improve apon my useage of vocabulary in all of my writings. I will also improve on adding creativity in all parts of school. Finaly i will improve apon my studing habits, so i can keep the good grades that i have.

Reflection

Project Description:

For are Time Travelers project easy, we had to research the civilization that was given to us. We had to write why we decided to pick the object that we wanted to send back in time. We had to provide evidence about how this would improve the success of are civilizations.
Process:
We made a first draft of what we all ready knew about the civilization that we got. Then we took all the facts that we had and made it into a formal paper. After that we mostly just revised and a little more information.

Reflection:

I learned more about the Roman civilization, even thought I all ready knew a lot about them. I learned that Romans were way ahead of their time when it came to medical operations.

Throught the entire project I didn't have any problems, and if I had the chance to do it again I wouldn't have changed any thing.

Because of this project I have learned that its very important to not only revise your work your self, but to have others revise your work too.

Semester Academic Goals

1. Take neater notes so its easier for me to study, and to help other students.

2. I'm going to do better on test so that way i can maintain the A that i have in Mysics.

3.Help other students, so we all can succeed as a class.