"Think, Then Think Again…"

When I read Maniac Magee I saw many signs of racism.  To me racism is when someone treats someone else differently because they look different (have different color skin, different color hair, etc.).  Many of the main characters either showed behaviors that were racist or experienced racism themselves for instance the Mcnab family, Mars Bars Thompson, Maniac  Magee himself, and even Earl Grayson.  “What happens when we go over there? Black is black!  White is white!  The sheep lie not with the lion! The sheep knows his own! His own kind!…”  That’s one of the quotes I got from the book on pages 61- 62 describing some of the racism in the book, that was an old man telling Maniac Magee to leave East End. 

I think Jerry Spinelli made the theme in M.M. racism because probably before when he was also in his pre teen to grown- up years kind of like M.M., he experienced racism.  I think racism affected Mr.Spinelli’s life a lot, something like he himself was black or he had a black friend or something like that.  

“Jasmine and Mark were making iced tea…Mack stirred his mixture and it all dissolved.  Jasmine stirred hers, and it didn’t all dissolve”.

Q: Would Mack’s suggestion to add more water work? Explain your answer.

A: Mack’s suggestion to add more water would work because the water would give the iced tea powder more room to dissolve in.  But the problem with that would be if she put too much water that also wouldn’t be okay because then the iced tea would taste too watery.  So she could add more iced tea powder to the solution until she gets it perfect.

Q: What could Jasmine do to make the powder dissolve?

A: She could get a coffee filter and another cup and put the coffee filter over the cup.  Then you pour the solution through the coffee filter and she may or may not throw out the extra iced tea powder on the coffee filter.

The other day Mr. Williams came into our class to increase our knowledge about alkaline metals. He had a jar of alkaline metals and told us that it was very dangerous. He dissected a piece so tiny it was smaller than a piece of rice. He told one of my classmates to get a little bit of water on the lid he gave her. She came back spilling almost half the water on the lid but Mr.Williams said it was okay. The minute he dropped the alkaline metal into the water I wanted to remember the moment forever. Red lights swooshed before our eyes around the lid and you could hear loads and loads of popping sounds. Then suddenly mini fireworks went up into the sky, it was so cool!!! When it was done he told us now we could try a bigger piece so we used the same process but this time it was two times bigger. The moment he put it into the lid of water red lights started swirling around the lid but this time faster and bigger. When the mini fireworks went up I felt like it was Chinese New Year. When one of the mini fireworks fell down it blew a hole in the rug. I had a great time and learned a lot with that incredible experience.

Hello World!!!

In all my ten years of living in this wonderful world, I’ve finally started my first web log… or more commonly know as the “blog”.  Let me be the first to welcome you to Isabelle’s Blog.   Here, I’ll be writing various things … big things, small things… nice things, bad things… red things, blue things… blah… blah… well, I guess you know what I mean… I’ll just keep writing when there are things to write.  I do hope you have a great time reading my blog.

With all due respect,

Isabelle