Of Mice and Men!!!!!!!

Of Mice and Men was a very facinating movie for several reasons.


First, it showed how two men really cared about eachother no matter how the other one was. It showed that many people do honestly have hearts, meaning that in the movie and from what I’ve read in the book Lennie and George shared a bond and pretty much a dream that they once hoped to fulfill being pretty much poor with not really alot of money just enough for them to survive.

Second, I like the story because it showed that mental people are not always what people think of them. They have the ability to think for themselves. They have feelings and and they can be very strong when it comes to working and getting the job done. In the story Lennie who is supposed to be the guy with the mental problem seems to be very smart and defensive when it comes to his partner george, he seems to really care about people and animals.

Last, I like the story because it was very sad especially the part where Lennie and Curley had that little altercation and George tells Lennie to fight back and when he does he squeezes Curley’s hand until it literally bleeds and after that he started crying saying “ I did’nt mean to hurt him”, that part was very sad and heart felt it almost made me cry because of how sad it was.

Inconclusion, I would recomend this story to anyone who looks down on mental people because they do have feelings and they really do care and they may be as strong as Lennie so watch what you say and do to them.

The Skin Im in!!!!!!

The book called the Skin I’m In was a very great book for many different reason,

First the book was a great book because it told the story about a young girl who was teased and tormented everyday in school about how dark she was, the kids would call her all types of names, names such as Black and Ugly they would aslo tease her about the way she dressed, she would have to wear clothing that her mother made for her, which she really did not like at all so she would borrow clothing from her only friend, because of that she would get teased even more.

Second, I liked the book because it is based on true real life things that go on in young teens meaning things like poor families, children who are depressed and have very low self-esteem because of things that go in in school in their personal life where the family cannot afford the things their children need. The book is also about teen stress the girl in the book undergoes alot of stress, she feels that she is unable to get a man because of the way she looks and the guy that she likes is the same as the other kids but although he likes her back he does’nt want the other kids to know that he likes her.

Finally, I like the book because of the way the narrator tells the story, he tells the story as if we were actually there. The narrator also puts the story in a perspective where as though the reader feels where the girl in the book is coming from and it makes the reader feel like they have been there before even if you has’nt been there before you still feel as if you were.

Inconclusion, These are my reasons as to why I liked the book The Skin Im In.

Service learning

In Fridays service learning group we talked with Mrs lynn about the problems that we have had with the selling of the foods and she said that she really didn't like how we did not give her a three day notice about us selling food near her because she could get in trouble for it. We also talked with Mrs Lynn about food services and she was able to tell us that we could petition and get children to get the school better lunches and one of my group members who is Katonya Leach drew a rough draft of a petition just to get started. We also talked about changing the service learning schedule or keeping it at 45mins or raising it to 90mins because the last service learning meetings there are a numerous amount of trips going on so they asked for our opinion on what we would rather have it be. Last we talked about a rubric where we had to evaluate ourselves and have it turned in by the next service learning meeting. These are all the things that we talked about within our service learning groups.

Service Learning Plans

Tihira Johnson
May 8, 2008

Service Learning


In tomorrows service learning meeting I plan on going over more ideas on how I plan to help get our school better lunches. I plan on listening to others ideas and and either supporting it or not supporting it. I also plan on trying to get help from my group mates on when we should sell sandwiches but it has to be an available date where there is nothing really going on. These are the things that I plan on doing in tomorrows service learning meeting.

Out side lunch trip

In yesterdays service learning meeting we talked about a numerous amount of things, we talked about the feasibility trip we went on to figure out if it would be a better way to better our school lunch plus see if we are able to get to where we have to go to eat and still make it back to our school in time to get back to class. In doing all that we found that there was not enough time in our schedule to get there and back on time. We also talked about how healthy the food was and the different prices for the food, we also completed a survey on the quality of the food and the highest and the lowest prices for the food. In my personal opinion I think that being as though there is not enough time for us to get there and back, our classes should be lowered bout 10mins because it's just not enough time to do so and the children really want to have better lunch and in order for that to happen classes need to be lowered so that the children can be back to school on time and wont' have to worry about getting in trouble for being a few mins late to class everyday.