My thoughts on: "Among the free" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

April,27,2014

    Hello, I know I haven't blogged in a while, but that's all over now!! I will write a post about every single book I read for the next couple of (days,weeks, maybe even months, who knows?). So today's post is going to be about Margaret Peterson Haddix's 'Among the Free'. The book is the conclusion to the shadow children series. First let's start with a little bit of background. The books follow third-born children who live in a restrictive society that only allows two children per family. Risking their lives they come out of hiding and fight against population police laws. That's pretty much it. The whole series can be summed up using just two lines. However let's dive in a little deeper. 'Among the Free' follows Luke Garner, a third-born that sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government (aka the P.P (population police :P)) In the book he has to work for the enemy, make a choice to resist direct orders to shoot a lady and face getting shot himself. He even has to go against himself when he decides to spy on the new government (the rebels/heroes who fought against the P.P). At the end of the book the people are finally free. However, who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they hoped?

   Anyway, thanks for reading this post guys! You are amazing!!

Future ACES

  This is what future ACES stands for:

A

• Attitude
• Ability
• Action 
• Achieve

C

• Co-operation 
• Confidence
• Courage

E

• Empathy 
• Example 
• Education

S

• Service
• Sportsmanship

What is the creed? Who wrote it? What on earth is Future ACES? You will find out when YOU read THIS post.

 So lets start with a little history. Future ACES started with Herb Carnegie. His family had moved from Jamaica to Canada and seven years later Herb was born! For more than 50 years, his primary objective has been to promote the use of Future Aces in elementary and secondary schools as the basis for positive initiatives utilized by teachers as an integral part of societal and citizenship education for students.

A family man, Dr. Carnegie was born in Toronto in 1919. He was married to Audrey May Carnegie in 1940 and had a loving partnership that lasted 63 years until her death in 2003. They had three daughters and a son, nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. But before all of that all Herb wanted to do was play hockey. Him, his brother and their friends used to play hockey after school everyday. Since they couldn't afford real pucks they played with horse poop after it had frozen. Herbie as he was called was the best of the best in his team. Being one of only 3 black players on the team he was rejected by the NHL. He was the best and because of his skin colour he couldn't play with the best. He was heart broken! Crushed!!!

• Northern Ontario Senior Champions – 1940, 1941, 1942
• Quebec Provincial Hockey League Champions – 1945 -1946
• Voted most valuable player on the Sherbrooke Quebec Team – 1947, 1948, 1949
• Quebec Senior Champions – 1952
• Owen Sound OHA Senior Champions – 1954
• African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame - 2007
• Black Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame - 2006
• Senior Hockey Hall of Fame Immortal – (Career 1940 – 1954) – 2004
• Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (for his contribution to Hockey) – 2001
• International Afro-American Sports Hall of Fame and Gallery (Detroit) – 1997
• Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame (Hockey Team) – 1997

He had won all these awards, he was the best of the best. But many believe that the unwritten code of the time denied him a tryout in the NHL because of race.  That to me is unbelieveable!!

Herbert wrote the creed 1956 which is designed to help youth develop the self-knowledge and self-confidence that will enable them to take control of their lives and to use their abilities in a positive way.  It provides a model for behaviour based on teachable skills with a meaningful message to encourage responsible citizenship.  Its like a instructions on how to live your life, with plenty space for your own decisions.

Today it is used internationally in many schools as guidelines for student growth and development. Today I went to a hotel to view the future ACES presentations. First they gave us 'light refreshment' that meant a chocolate croissant and a giant chocolate muffin. After that We had Bernice Carnegie, daughter of Herbert Carnegie talk about being our own BOSS. Which stands for Best Opportunity for Striving Success. Her talk was only 10 minutes but after that we had Vivek Patel former victim of bullying speak. He shared his story of getting bullied and his success story about being a martial arts teacher, jewelery designer, dancer and drummer.  20 minutes later we were doing a meet and greet which meant. We went around and talked to 3 different people about their schools and hobbies. At 11:00 am 15 minutes after the meet and greet we had our first workshop. My school was separated and I had to attend the team building exercise. Here we had to ski with 2 two other people to build team skills and then play a game of she-reds. Then we had lunch AKA pizza, fruit salad, coke and various other drinks. We had another workshop about believing in goals then we went home after some quick activities.











Herb Carnegie

R.I.P

Peace

Middle school (part two)!!!!!!!

Jan,1,14

Halfway through 6th grade and life hasn't changed much.I'm thinking of making a encyclopedia of me. With words that relate to me. Yay me!

You know, when you that roaring lion( that old one) don't you always say to yourself " Oh, it's Tom & Jerry"

Well "I do!"

Don't know what else to write.

Facts : (again)

• The Chicago River used to flow into Lake Michigan, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers switched it to flow backwards, AWAY from the lake, for sanitation purposes.
  
  
• Ringtones of popular songs are now added to the equation of chart position on the Billboard music charts.
  
  
• Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.

• The Rams were the first pro football team to decorate their helmets. An early version of the "horn" motif is still used by the franchise today.
  
  
• Before it became PG, the "parental guidance" movie rating was known for one year as GP (for General audience, Parental guidance suggested).
  
  
• In the 1980s, a product called Vision-Dieter glasses promised to curb your appetite by making food look unappealing.
  
  
• Before Briton Hadden and Henry Luce decided to call their new magazine Time, they were debating calling it either Chance or Destiny
  
  
• Only one McDonald’s in the world has turquoise arches. Officials in Sedona, Arizona, thought that yellow would clash with the natural red rock.
  
  Read the full texts here: http://mentalfloss.com/amazing-facts#ixzz2pDhAVgZL 
  --brought to you by mental_floss! 

Well I would write more about middle school, but I only have 4 more days of vacation left. Obviously I don't wan't to poison my mind already?

101-90 fun things to do at home.

Make a miniature flamethrower:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjISYWVHoew&feature=em-subs_digest

Make a smoky waterfall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJx-xixOw4c

Create a fire tornado:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tZF6-i8aDc

Change food:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ8ZEKI9-yc

Nice lava lamp?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIpoLiesBgg0

To be continued at future date of Whenever, I , feel like it

Good joke to play on new years!

Dec,31,13

10:05pm

Person 1: Hey let's go to sleep it's getting late.

Person 2: Ya, okay.

Person 1: Wouldn't wanna be late for tomorrow's party.

Jan,1,14

9:18am

Person 1: Good morning y'all. How did you sleep?

Person 2: Great.

Person 1: Let's go down for breakfast.

(pause) (8-180 seconds passes)

Person 2: It seems like I saw you only yesterday but a year has passed.

(confusion to Person 1) (delayed reply) (exaggerated "Oh")

Person  1 : Oh, I see what you did there.

CUT

Happy holidays! Thanks for reading my blog!

growing up = loss of imagination?

Ok so you have a dream that when you grow up you want to be a pilot.

When you are five:

You: "Mommy when I grow up I wanna be a pilot!'

Mom: "Aww, that's so sweet."

You: "See I even drew a picture, that's the yellow plane, that's you that's me and that's daddy!"

Mom: Well, that's great! 

You: Thanks mommy!

(hug)

When you are ten:

You: Hey mom, look at the T.V, I was watching this show about plane chrashes and stuff, so like being on a plane is hard!

Mom: Well, don't you worry son. You will be the greatest pilot ever!

You: Mom I'm not a kid anymore.

Mom: Of course not!

(As you can see kids at my age start to let go of these dreams they find silly and childish and make the biggest mistakes of their lives.)

When you are 20:

You: Hey mom, my bros are hanging out at the pizza place today, so-

Mom:  -so you need some money. (sigh)

You: Uh, yeah.

Mom: You, young man will have to get a job soon, after all you already owe me $36.00.(smile)

You: K ma! love ya!

When you are twenty-five

You: Wassup mom!

Mom: Now, is that any way to talk to a woman my age?

You: Sorry mom. What I mean to say is "How is your day going?"

Mom: Good, Good. How was your day at that "Tim Hortons"?

You: Oh great, got lot's of tips today.

(silence)

You: Um, ma could I take your good car Friday night?

Mom: Sure, where to?

You: Um, that fancy resturant up on Darrow Street.

Mom: Oh, I see what's happening, you having some lady company?

You: Mom!!!

Mom: Ok,ok (squeaky, excited voice: Oh, my little man's growing up!)

( The dream of being at the helm of a plane has pretty much vanished at this point in his life. Your problems only grow bigger with time.)

When you are 35:

You : How are you fitting into the new house Grenda?

Wife: Oh, I'm fitting in just fine!

You : Wanna go somewhere saturday night?

Wife: Not until you get a pay raise at that office of yours!

You: That's to bad.

The end.

Credits:

Script producer: Hardik Shrestha

Script writer: Hardik Shrestha

Character producer: Hardik Shrestha

Idea by: Hardik Shrestha

Publisher: Hardik Shrestha

Editor: Hardik Shrestha

Qoutes by: Hardik Shrestha

All References made to real people are just a coincedence. All characters were made up. All story ideas were made up and are not a reference to anyone's life.

If you have time please post this back, but with the ending of his dream getting achieved. Please edit this if you wish.

 

All unathourized sharing, publishing with the mass public is prohibited unless I give you permission. Yay me!

my french blog!

Can anyone here actually read french???

Mon jour

La premier parte de mon jour.

Mon jour  commence a 6h30 quand je me lève. Je brosse mes dents et prendre une douche. Apres je finir la douche le tempe et 7h00! Je porte mon vetements est je saisir mon manteau et un veste et desendrè la escalier et aide ma maman et papa avec cuisiner la dejeuner. Normalement je mange de pain, lait et oeufs  ou "Tiger flakes cereal" avec lait, banane et oeufs. Après je finir ma dejeuner le temps est 7h30. Je porte ma veste et ma manteau et prepare ma sac et la autre petit chause comme attachment de lacets. Aussi, je dire " Good bye and love you". Finnalement le temps et 7h40 et je marche à la école.

La duexieme parte de mon jour.

Maintenant il est automne et la vent et BIZZARE! Quand je approche la école le temps est 8h50 est il est très froide! Je jouer avec mon ami pour une minute ou deux. Finnalement la choche sonner et tou la proffeseur arriver pour les élèves. Parfois Madame Dywer est retard et la classe dois attendre. Après un longe temps de classe après classe après classe on mange le dîner à 11h34.Après 20(vente) minute de mangent la élèves va dehors pour recreation. La recreation est 40(quarante) minute longe.

La troisiéme parte de mon jour.

Dans la recreation je jour soccer et football ou je va pour praqtique de la musique ou pour Glee club. La recreation est très amusant tou de jours. Après la recreation la élèves va retourner à l'intérieur, le temps et 12h 34. Après deux plus classe il est le temps pour va à la maison, le temps et 2h10. Mes mon papa et maman est à la travai. Est je dois va à la YMCA , à la YMCA la premier chose on fait est mangent un petit casse-croûte. Et après ca tou le monde jouer dans la Gym ou dehors pour 30 minute. à la YMCA tou le monde joue avec tou de chose, et chaque semaine on à un nouveau theme. Comme future, court, pizza, etc. La YMCA et amusant pour moi.

La denier part de mon jour.

Mon papa veint à 18h pour moi et j'arriver à ma maison. Je jouer avec mon petit frere pour 20(vente) minute et après ca je fais mes devoirs.  Après je finir les devoirs ma famille mange le souper à 20h00 ou 20h30 parfois. Après je finir je fais mon passe temps préféré, je lire un livre pour mois(ne pas tou des livre selmon un petit parte.). Je brosse mes dents encore à 21h30 et endors. Sa ces't ma jour.

bye