Topic Selection Rough Draft

Born on October 4, 1941 to Oscr and Birdie Eckford was Elizabeth Ann Eckford. She was one of six children. Her mother taught at a segregated state school for blind and deaf children and her father worked at nights as a dining car maintainece worker. 

But who would ever think that sixteen years later she would make an effort to change black America in the 1950's. She made history as a member of Little Rock Nine, the nine African American students who desegregation Little Rock Central High School. 

Walking Alone through a screaming mob of furious caucasion students making "smart" remarks must have been scary. Despite the obstacles she faced as African American woman in the segregated world of the 1950's, Elizabeth Ann Eckford had enough courage to the attend Little Rock Central High, an all white school. 

(Will Be Continued) 

My Third Annotation

Margolick, David. "Elizabeth Eckford, of the Little Rock Nine, Tells her Life story." September 24,2007. 23 Oct 2008<>

This website gives information on Elizabeth Eckford's life story and experiences.

My second Annotation

CNN, "Eckford: Central High in 1957 'was not ...a normal environment;May 17, 2004; 21 Oct 2008www.cnn.com/2004/Law/05/17/eckford.transcript/index.html

This website is a interview about what it was like going to an all white school as a black girl during segregation.

Thesis Statement

Despite the obstacles she faced as an African American woman in the segregated world of the 1950's, Elizabeth Ann Eckford had enough courage to attend Little Rock Central High, an all white school. 

NHD Topic Selection

My partner (Shaquille) and I choose to do our NHD project on Elizebeth Ann Eckford because we were interested in the Civil Rights movement. Elizebeth made history as a member of the little rock nine, the nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School. She is important to history because without her efforts, school would have not been desegregated. 

reflection on Service Learning 5/6/08

I am a ninth grader that attends Constitution High School at the age of fourteen. At my school we have service learning, which is basically community service. For our independent hours we had to have fifteen hours of community service. For my community service I assisted at a home daycare, tutored children at a younger age, helped senior citizens clean house, and more. For my group project I worked on Darfar(Africa).


This was a great experience that taught me about myself ands others around me. One thing I have learned about myself through this experience is I am a very kind, caring, and generous person most of the time. Another thing is I have to work on my patients especially when working with children because when I was tutoring I began to grow inpatient after the boy couldn’t get the problem right after I just had explained to him what to do but then I realized that I once was a youngster and my mom, dad, and brother and sister were all patient with me and took time out of their day to work with me with things I needed help with. I also had to baby-sit little babies which was bitter- sweet. They all were so cute but bad also. They look so innocent, not! They were throwing crayons on the ground, fighting over toys, hitting each other, and screaming and crying. By the end of the day I was the one who needed a nap. Although I had to deal with all the noise and commotion all day and gained a slight headache, it was exciting.


Lastly, I learned that I am a very attentive person because I waited on this old lady hand and foot and I cleaned her house from top to bottom from wall to wall. It was spotless and sparkling. She couldn’t stop smiling from ear to ear, when my service was done. She made me feel appreciated. Three moments when I felt like a failure, success, and sadness, was when I did not raise much money for Africa even though I tried, after I was finish cleaning the old lady’s house and when I was finish cleaning the old lady’s house. I felt sad once I was finish the old lady’s house because she had no one that lived with her to help her clean periodically, like grand kids or her own children.


In the end I think I did great. There were some things that didn’t go my way or that I could’ve done better but at least I tried and did my best. But their will always be next year because this year was just preparation for next year. Service learning will change my future behaviors, attitudes, and career because I will be more caring and considerate of others especially to the elderly also more respectful. I also will be patient with others giving them a second chance to achieve their goals. Thanks to service learning I can be a better me.

Today in service learning we discussed our ideas and what we were going to do still. Bat, Ayanna, and me were supposed to writing an article on why Philadelphia should get involved with darfar and help them. Lakiesha and Georgia was to write letters to bussinesses for sponsors. Others were still looking for books to read to an appropiate age group. Aquila came up with a great idea to have a flip flop drive. Then Mr. Brasof  

SLP May 15, 2008

Today we talked about different ideas that we've developed. Darren, Ayanna, and me were planning on writing an article on why Philadelphia should be involved and help Darfar. Lakiesha and Georgia were supposed to be writing a letter to businesses about being a sponsor for us. Other people were looking for books still that we could read to kids of an appropriate age group.  Another idea that Aquila  came up with was to have a flip flop drive since people that live in Darfar don't wear shoes or if so they are very flat in not so supportive. Then Mr. Brasof  came up with a flip flop party and Todd said that we should do flip flops for flip flops meaning if you bring in flip flops for the drive you can wear flip flops too.  

SLP May 15, 2008

service learning Project : What I've Learned?

Though service learning I have learned the following facts about the issue of Darfar:

• Darfar is Sudan's largest region 
  
• there are 2.5 million refugees 
  
• there is a 50% death toll( high mortality rate) 
  
• 100 or more people get killed a day 
  
• Janjuweed come and killed newborns and others, rape the women, and bomb their homes early in the morning when no one is awake 
  

Service learning Project

We had SLP on thursday, April 30, 2008. We had talked about wearing and selling T- shirts and wrist bands to support Darfur. Aquila was telling us about people that wanted to help us. New ideas that we came up with that we would like to accomplish. Some of these ideas included going to school to talk about Darfur and read books to appropriate age groups. We also had made suggestion about finding sponsors.  At the end of the of the session everyone was assigned a job that should be completed for the next time we meet up. I was assigned to find some book on Darfur that we can read and to continue to collect donations. 

Service learning Project

Last friday on April 25th, we discussed the information that we researched on darfur. We then exchanged this information and copied it off the board in to our notes. We then distributed and passed out folders to keep our info organized.  

Service learning Project

Service Learning Project

Now we have to choose and assign different roles to each person in our group. The six different roles are facilitator, recorder, reporter, materials manager, time keeper, and checker. I would like to be the recorder because i take vivid and clear, understandable notes so that the group can keep up with what each meeting was about so that we can go further with this project. 

Service Learning Project

Last Friday on April 11, 2008 we had meet up to talk about our service learning projects. The project that I joined was the Africa project. I joined this group because Mr. Brasof showed "us" a documentary of how life is for teenage high schoolers in Africa. This documentary inspired and motivated me to want to help "them" the kids in Africa. When we had our meeting we talked about different ways to gain money for fundraisers and donations. Some ideas consist of bake sales, fashion shows, dance benefits, donate clothes, care packiging, and even more. We then narrowed our ideas down to three major ones including adopt a classroom, buy an animal, and clothes// and personal needs. We also agreed and suggested to do more research on Africa so that we can have a better understanding.   

Service Learning Project

For my service learning  project I joined the Africa group lead by other peers and Mr. Brasof. The reason for joining this group is because we just watched a documentary on how life is for teenage students in Africa and it inspired and motivated me to reach out and help them because they are struggling.  My service learning project is coming along. Last Friday on the 11th of April, we had a meeting to narrow down our ideas. We had came up with ways to raise/gain money including bake sales, walk-a-a thon, care packaging,dance benefits, and donations of clothes, and a fashion show 

Reflection : NhD

NHD (National History Day ) was a strenuous, time consuming, difficult , long, and  stressful project. This project took about 3 months to conduct. This project requires a lot of research and you have to log it in a thing called a annotated bibliography to show your sources and it has to be in a particular way including seperated from primary and secondary sources, in alphabetical order, and you have to have at least 20- 60 sources depending on weather or not you work with some one or by your self. I don't want to do this project again. My topic was The suffrage movement and Fashion. I got an A on it but I was stressing on my grade at first because it was hard. I did a paper on it but you could've did a board, performance, or a documentary. I'm kind of glad that I didn't work in a group because of what my peers experience but it was a lot of work for just one person. Even though this project  was hard it looks good on your resume when applying to colleges.