Spring B.

Over vacation I went to Drexel University for a Mocktrail competition. we last to Roman Catholic Charter High School and Overbook High School. Sunday I went to church and then I got some clothes. Monday through Wednesday I stayed at home and did some cleaning. Thursday I went to my little sister's house. We had fun taking pictures. Friday I went to Washington Township, New Jersey to my older sister Rachel's house for the weekend. While I was there I watched my cute baby Mehasia and the other kids. On Sunday We got up and sang Happy Birthday to Desmond. Then we died eggs, designed Easter Egg Cookies, and made Easter Baskets. then we went out to eat and I went home.

Reflections on the pre law convention

Yesterday was an okay day because it wasn't what I thought it would be. I learned a lot of things. I learned that there is a lot of ways to get scholarships and don't listen to people when they tell you you can't do something. Don't ever not apply to a college just because you think that your not going to get in, do it anyway. I was told to think about what I want to do Nd why I want to do it, if my reasons are good than continue with my dreams.

Resumé

Felicia Green
Lamayabrown@yahoo.com

Education:
Class of 2010, Constitution High School, Philadelphia, PA,
Courses: AP Biology (10th grade), National Constitution Canter Course (10th grade), Constitution Course (9th grade), and African American History (9th grade).
GPA: 3.86, Major: Law, Honor roll since the 6th grade.
Work Experience:
• Child Care Provider: Took care of children from the ages of 5 months to 12 years old. Feed them, washed them, played games with them, talked to them about life, took trips to the park, determined appropriate discipline, taught them to reading, writing, and math, and then put them to bed.
• Felicia’s Hair Salon: is a self-owned business that is held at my home. There is a list of different hairstyles I do like: braiding hair, curling hair, straightening hair, weaves, perms, and tracks. This helps to improve people’s appearance.
School Activities:
• Young Playwrights, 2 years
• Mock Trial, 2 years
• Student Judge, 1 year
• Student Council, 1 year
• Track & field, 2 years
• PA Ballet, 2 years
• Students Runs Philly Style, 1 month
Community Activities:
• Tutoring at Independence Charter, 1 year
• High School Fair, 2 years
• Handing out food to the homeless at the YMCA with the AKA organization, 1 year
• Proposed a club called G.E.F.S.(Giving Encouragement For Success)
Awards/ Honors:
• Honor Roll
• French Honors, Spanish Honors, Math Honors, Writing Honors, Science Honors
• Technology Award
• PA Ballet Award
• Best Advocate Award
• Citizenship Award
• The Promise of Music Award
• Scholastic Achievement Award
• Ms. Passion & Dreams Award
Interests/ Goals:
• Working for Ballard Saphr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP as an intern and lawyer
• Becoming a Lawyer
• Going to College
• Graduation High School with a 4.0
References:
• Marc Brasof: Teacher Judge/ Social studied teacher
• Carol Ackerman & Jesse Todd: Mock Trial coaches
• Gina smith & Diedre Downes: Lawyer Mentors
• Ms. R. McMillan: Young Playwrights teacher
• Dr. T. Davidson: Principal
• Eli Lesser: NCC Course Teacher (National Constitution Center)

Newspaper Article

Felicia Green
Newspaper


How to write a play


“To be or, not too be” is really not a question… Okay, Okay, so we are not really writing Shakespeare here, we are young playwrights… is a program that was created to inspire students literacy learning and creativity. It’s a program where students can express their creativity and certain topics or issues. Adele Magner created Young Playwrights in 1986. Young Playwrights has more than 50 sites with over 60,000 students joining the program a year. With each site they are assigned Playwrights, professional writers, and actors to help the students create a play.

Steps to writing a play

• In order to write a play you must have an idea
• Plan out how you want the play to go but remember that your plan can change as time goes on.
• Think of a setting, characters, conflict, maybe a solution, a great way to grab your audience, and maybe you want to have your character change by the end of the play.
There is no real way to write a play. In a since “You are the GOD in your play.” You can write your play anyway you want to. Good suggestions for inspiring playwrights:
• When you are stuck find a place that inspires you
• Ask for help
• Read it out loud and have your class tell you what they like or don’t like o you can make changes to it.
• Always write down what ever you think of during the day. Sometimes the scenes you write you may keep it and you may not keep it.
When the play is done you can send it in to the Annual Playwriting Festival. When the plays are send in they have professional writers and actors reading over each play and giving comments on each play. After that they will send you a letter telling you if you won first, second or third place. First, second and third place winners are picked from the elementary school level, middle school level, and the high school level. The first place winners have their plays preformed by professional actors.


Interviews

I have interviewed two students from the young playwrights program one from the tenth grade and one from the ninth grade. I also interviewed McMillan. One of the students by the name of Shakyra Wilson 9th grade was interviewed. During the interview I was told that she likes being in the program and she will continue to participate in this program. Shakyra said, “Being in this program she learned a lot of things like: how to write a play, how to create emotional characters, how to put scenes together, how to put emotions down on paper, and how to separate characters.” She said, “When she came to Young Playwrights she thought that it was going to be corny, but she changed her mined as time went on.” While in this program she was helped by other students and the teachers. She also said, “The teacher was very quiet and it was like she really wasn’t in the room at all.”
I also interviewed Jada Walton 10th grade. During the interview she told, me that “Being in Young Playwrights she learned how to write a play, to be creative, to be more persuasive and expressive with words.” She also told me, “ she doesn’t like being in the program sometimes because its stressful and it gets in the way of school, but it can be vary fun. Jada is working on a play with Doriean Jackson and they are thinking about smiting their play this year and joining the program again next year.
I also wanted to get a teachers point of view on this topic so I interviewed Ms. McMillan. M. McMillan loves the program and looks forward to every meeting. She loves how it gives students the freedom to express themselves with few rules. Young Playwrights is a more creative than your average class. It also gives students a new experience, encourages the freedom of expression, and gives students a chance to build something and have it seen live or on stage. These are the words of Ms. McMillan.

Doing this article I have learned a lot about the program and how people feel about this program called Young Playwrights. If you are interested in joining the club next year talk to Ms. McMillan. This is a very fun club to be apart of. It is a lot of hard work but it pays off at the end.

ideas in mind

I live to tutor kids because i believe that if kids have someone that is willing to spend time with them and show them that someone cares about them then the world would be a lot better. i love to be around little kids and to play learning games with them. I believe that if you put things that you want kids to learn in a game then they will learn it faster and it will stick better. kids learn better when they are having fun.

service is important because we are helping out the community. when you help someone out you never know when you may need someone in life. helping other people is like the "pay it back" thing. where you help someone and they help someone and it goes on and on. when you help someone it can be a good thing because that very person you just helped can be a millionaire or something and they can give you and award for helping them. I love to help people because that's just me.

service learning ideas

1. tutor students
2. help homeless people
3. volunteer at the YMCA
4. set up a recycling club
5. set up a tutoring club for students that needs help in different classes in our school.
6. plan fun trips to take kids on, so they can learn about Philadelphia.

independent service hours

For my independent service hours I volunteered to help out with the high school fare. I helped the school bring in students that wants to come to our school next year as freshmen. I learned that it is fun to help other people and it makes you feel good about yourself. I found out that my school dad Mr. Overton worked at an all boys school as the princal, Mr. Razano is the V.P., and Mr. Richardson is the math teacher at that school. I also had fun because I got to take pictures with Reshay and Zoe. I made so new friends from chad high school. they are all graduating in June.

Questions - Synthesis

5. How many ways could Bigger have killed Mary and how could he expose of the body?

There are many ways you can expose of a body. You can dump it into the river with a brike tied to the bottom of it, you can burn it, chop it up and feed it to the animals, barry it or freeze it. He could have put her to sleep with chlrox on a rag or he could have injected her with heroin, crack, cocaine and killed her with that.
If I was Bigger I would have injected her with the drugs and then chopped her up and feed her to the rats. then burned the clothes and dumped the tools in the river after i cleaned them off, so by the time they found out that she was dead they couldn't find her or find evidence on how she was killed.

Questions - Analysis

4. What was the motive behind Bigger killing Mary?

Bigger killed Mary because he was scared of getting caught by Mary's blind mother. He felt that if he was caught with mary then he would be killed or thrown in jail. He really wasn't sure so he killed her by accident. She was killed out of fear.

Questions - Application

3. What questions would you ask of Mary if she could speak from the dead?

If I could ask Mary a question, I would ask her, " Do you blame Bigger for killing you?" Mary would say, " If I was a live I would tell bigger that : " i just wanted to come here and tell you that I'm not angry... I'm not angry and i want you to let me help you. i don't hate you for trying to blame this thing on me... maybe you had good reasons... i don't know. and maybe in a certain sense, I'm the one who's really guilty...." " bigger, I've never done anything against you and your people in my life. but I'm a white woman and it would be asking too much to ask you not hate me, when every white person you see hates you. i know my face looks like theirs to you, even though i don't know we were so far apart until that night... i can understand now why you put all of your weight on me when my mother walked in the room. it was the only thing you could have done, but i didn't know that my white face was making you feel guilty, condemning you." then she would say she forgives him and she hates that whites frown upon blacks. basically when Mary came back she would tell bigger how sorry she is about how things turned out.

questions - Comprehension

2. What made Bigger want to feel up on a drunk White women?

Bigger was happy that the White girl was drunk, so he decided to cop a field. Because she was White and he was black he thought that it was the ultimate taboo to have a relations with a White women.

Question- Knowledge

1. Who was it that killed the rat?
In the beginning of the book bigger killed the rat with a skillet?

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