...Omen Summary...

Omen begins with a speaker lying on his side in the moist grass drifting into a fitful or restless, half sleep It is nighttime. Given that Hirsch's first two poetry collections tended to focus on insomniacs, a reader familiar with the poet might assume that the speaker of Omen is regularly unable to sleep at night. During his half-sleep, the speaker listens to the wind in the trees and, in stanza 2, notices the moon coming out.
Describing the moon as One eyed Hirsch uses a poetic technique called personification or the attribution of human qualities to something that is not human. The speaker says the moon "turns away from the ground, smudged," as though looking at the ground has marked its "glassy" eye. Getting ready to describe the October sky and how.....

The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

What is visualization?

Make a mental picture
I. understand/retain information
II. personally connect
III.Enjoy

Vocabulary:
1.Vulture: Any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion. / Is a tiuge bird that eats dead organisms.
2.Cautious: In the streets i'm very cautious.
3.Mortal: Every human being is a mortal.
4.Precisely: Most kid will love it precisely because it will irritate their parent./ That's precisely what i looking for.

...Underground Railroad...

Underground Railroad By Mary L. Bushong

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¹ What do you think of when you hear the words "underground railroad"? Perhaps a train that runs deep under the ground? Actually, it was nothing like that. There were no engines or passenger cars, conductors or train stations like you would find with a real train. Instead, it was a loose system of people helping other people.

² You might wonder how this organization got its name. It was first described as a railroad in some printed material in the early 1840s. Passengers were runaway slaves. The shelters where they rested were the stations, and those who led them were conductors. It was not a highly organized system. Sometimes it was simply a stranger taking pity on another stranger, giving food, shelter, or a ride for a short time.

³ Many of those who played major parts in the Underground Railroad were free blacks living in both the North and South. Sometimes escaping slaves received help from slaves on another plantation. The majority of help was not available until they reached a "free" state. On reaching the larger northern cities, the railroad became much more highly organized.

⁴ Abolitionists of every race were the main sympathizers of the Underground Railroad. They were committed to ridding the country of slavery any way they could. While they did not help vast numbers of people to escape bondage, the steady trickle of escapees was more than irritating to the slave owners.

⁵ It is estimated that of the approximately one million slaves, only a few thousand escaped every year between 1840 and 1860. Though small in number, the daring escapes were often exaggerated when reported in the various newspapers.

⁶ In the early days of the Underground Railroad, many former slaves were grateful just to reach "free" soil. They were more than ready to start living the free life as soon as possible. For many it was a dream they had cherished their whole life. Harriet Tubman was one of those slaves. It did not take her long to become involved in rescuing as many people as possible. She is credited with leading close to 1,000 people to freedom. The last run was the most dangerous of all. Though the authorities were looking for her, she returned to her former plantation to rescue her parents. She wanted them to know freedom before the end of their lives.

⁷ The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 changed how many people reacted to runaway slaves. Anyone caught helping the runaways could be prosecuted. The runaway slaves themselves were no longer safe just getting to the northern states. Their journeys suddenly became longer and even more dangerous. Now they had to make it across the border to Canada.

⁸ Men like the Reverend Josiah Henson set up colonies in Ontario and Nova Scotia. These colonies were places where black families could live and learn farming skills or a trade. Josiah Henson established Canada's first African American newspaper, the "Voice of the Fugitive." It encouraged other fugitive slaves to settle in Canada.

⁹ More than 3,000 people are estimated to have worked on the Underground Railroad. Some of them were well known names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony.

¹⁰ One of the strongest arguments many of the proslavery people used was that blacks were unable to look after themselves. That was refuted by Austin Steward, a former slave who lived in one of the Canadian slave colonies. He said, "The colored man can not only take care of himself, but is capable of improvement; as industrious and intelligent as themselves, when the yoke of slaver is taken from off their necks."

¹¹ The Underground Railroad was not a great success in rescuing the vast number of slaves held in bondage. It was extremely successful in giving hope to them, that one day they might be able to use it to win freedom, the most precious treasure of all.

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Name: Jonathan Espin

Date: 02/13/2008

Underground Railroad

1. The Underground Railroad was a highly organized system. A. False (CORRECT) B. True	2. Many of those involved in the Underground Railroad were, Slaves Free blacks (CORRECT) Whites Runaway slaves
3. Why would the escape of a small percentage of slaves cause so much trouble? BECAUSE THEY MAKING MORE SLAVES ARE THE OWNERS ARE LOOKING WOMEN	4. Harriet Tubman was not important to the Underground Railroad. False (CORRECT) True
5. How did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affect escaped slaves? It made people angry with the law so they joined the anti-slavery cause. It stopped slaves from escaping (CORRECT) It ignited more protest It had no effect	6. The first Canadian African American newspaper was produced by, William Lloyd Garrison Austin Steward Josiah Henson (CORRECT) Frederick Douglass
7. What might have happened if the Underground Railroad hadn't existed? THE SLAVES WOULD STILL HE SLAVES.	8. Why did so many escaped slaves move to Canada? They liked the climate better The Underground Railroad didn't stop until it reached the border. Because of the 13th Amendment The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (CORRECT)

Name: Jonathan Espin

Date: 02/13/2008

Underground Railroad
You are a member of the Underground Railroad. A small group of runaway slaves has come to your home to be hidden. All goes well until a neighbor who is not sympathetic to the cause becomes suspicious. What do you do?

I MAY TRY TO PLAY OT OFF BUT IF THAT DOESN'T WORK I WOULD TRY TO CONVERSE HIM THAT SLAVERY IS NOT A GOOD THINKG AND THAT SLAVES ARE HUMANS TOO THAT SLAVES ARE HUMANS BUT TOO BUT THEY THREAT THEM LIKE ANIMALS...

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Name: Jonathan Espin

Date: 02/13/2008

Underground Railroad
If you were a slave who was planning to runaway, what kind of plans would you make? How would you know when the time was right to leave?

IF I WAS SLAVE I WOULD SCAPE BY KILLIN MY OOWNERS AND I WOULD FIVE A DOES WHO ARE SLAW I WOULD GO HOUSE TO HOUSE AND I WOULD THE ALL SLAVES AND START A NEW LIFE IN OTHER PLACE, MY PLAN TO ALL SERIOUS THEY BE TOGETHER GUARDS AT THE VILLA CAMPESTRE PUTTING ONE NUCLEAR BOMB ATOMICA ALSO ACABE GIVING THEM WELL WITH ALL THE SLAVES UNOS MANY DIE BUT I STILL LIVE. IMPORTANT THAT IS WHAT THE REST DIE, I RUN AWAY AND I DO MY NEW LIFE OUTSIDE SOCIETY OF THE POOR OF THE BLACK...

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Name: JONATHAN ESPIN

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Meaning

Sentence

1.	slaver PRISON
2.	dangerous WARNING
3.	succesful EXCELLENT
4.	yoke PIRECCTION
5.	actually IN PRESENT
6.	treasure VALUES OBJECTS
7.	extremely HIGH
8.	industrious FACTORY
9.	runaway ESCAPE
10.	former BACAME
11.	various VARIATY
12.	bondage
13.	trickle DRIP

...How people are influenced by their environment...

Two Reasons that people are influenced by their environment. First Outdoor meting new people of different kind of cultures learning different experiences. Second ndoor getting and learning the cultural education that their parents or guardians give them since they were little.

People are affected everyday Outdoor. They learn different experiences. For example, how to defend and survive in the world it just depend in what situation their in.

The influence of people indoors is in their neighborhood were they grow up and the environmental society of culture that goes on. In addiction, the education that their parents give to their children's to prepared them sending them to school so they can get better education and can become professional or getting a career for their own benefits in life.

In conclusion, people are influenced by their environment and the neighborhood that they grow up in.