The Watsons Go To Birmingham

1.It was so cold on saturday the watsons sat together under a blanket on the couch

2Momma felt the cold the most because she was from Alabama.

3.Kenny and his family lived in Flint ,Michigan.

4.Joetta was Kenny's little sister.

5.According to Kenny which of the following was not true of his older brother Byron?He tried to make Momma laugh all the time.

6.The weather man said the temperature in Atlanta,Georgia would reach the mid-seventies.

7.Dad told Kenny, Byron,and Joetta they were lucky not to be the children of one of

Momma's old boyfriends named Hambone Henderson.

8.When she was about to laugh, Momma put her hand over her mouth because she has a big gap betwween her frount teeth

9.Which of the following was not a warning Moses Henderson gave Momma about Flint?Because it was so cold, babies were born with lumpy heads.

10.Momma said life in Birmingham, even though it was not perfect, was slowwer, friendlier, and neither expensive nor cold.

11.Since they couldn't contact their landlord about their cold apartmaent ,the Watsons planned to spend the night with Aunt Cydney.

12.The Brown Bomber was the Watsons 1948 Plymouth.

13.Byron and Kenny were not happy when Dad ordered them to scrape the ice off the car windows.

14.Kenny was agitated because Byron was not doing any of his share .

15.The night before ,Byron and his friend Buphead had given Kenny lesson in how to survive a blizzard.

16.At first Kenny ignored Byron's calls because he thought his brother was playing another trick on him.
17.Kenny discovered that Byron's mouth was frozen onto the outside mirror.

18.Kenny's parents were shook up when they heard that Byron was crying.

19.Dad laughed at Byron's predicament because he realized that Bryon had been kissing his reflection in the mirror.

20.Kenny could tell momma was worried because she started to talk Southern style.

21.During Byron's ordeal Dad kept laughing and making jokes about the situation.

22.Pouring hot water on the mirror not a good idea.

23.With all five of them crying and standing around the car in freezing tempertures ,Kenny thought it was no wonder the neighbors called them the Weird Watsons.

24. Momma freed Byron from his predicament by yanking his head away from the mirror.

25.On the way to Aunt Cyndey's when Kenney paid Byron back for punching him
in the forehead and for not doing his share of the work all the Watson except Byron
cracked up.

homework

Read for 2hour and answer some questions:
What are the themes of the book you are reading?How do you know?
What actions or events in the story that tells you what the themes are?
If you were the author and you wrote a novel what kinds of themes would you address
How and Why?
(Due Mon 11-2-09)

Homework#31

The song that reminds me of place is "The sound of music''the place that the song makes me think of when i went on a trip in kindergarden we played in the grass
and i saw a rainbow.

Don't Forget The Past

The African Burial Ground is very important because
it tells us about our African roots.And it is worth
fighting for.

Without this burial ground you would have never
known that there were slaves in New York.People
often think that slavery was only in the south,
but it wasn't.The slaves who where there did not
pick crops.Instead slaves in New York where
construction workers and farmers.

The ABG was found when construction workers
where making the foundation for the Federal
Office Building.As the where building the foundation
they found the remains of Africans.Historians estimate
there may have been15,000-20,000 burials there.This
place was so important they had to go above and beyond
to show this to the public.It was also made a
Historical Landmark.The African remains where found
in 1991.

That was the best thing our nation did for our
fellow black and African people.It was made as
a Historical Landmark in 1993.Now lets learn
more about our life,our culture,and our everday
life.

P.S.This is for my ancestors.

remember the past!