1st Annotation 4 NHD

The Red Hot Jazz Archive. " Bessie Smith " Oct. 17, 2008. http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html

This website is about who Bessie Smith really is. the article states that she a rough, crude, and violent women.
She was also the greatest of the classic blues singers of the 1920"s. Bessie Joined a traveling show as a dancing
and singer. In 1923 she made her recording debut on Columbia accompanied by pianist Clarence Williams and
recorded " Gulf Coast Blues" and " Down hearted blues". She also was one of the the biggest African American
stars of the 1920's and was popular with both Whites and African americans. Bessie Smith later on died in a
tragic car accident, while driving with lovers Richard Morgan their car rear-ended a slow moving truck and
rolled over crushing Bessie left arm arm ribs. Smith bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.
John Hammond caused quite a stir by writing an article in Downbeat magazine suggesting that Smith
had bled to death because she had been taken to a White hospital and had been turned away. This
proved not to be true, but the rumor persists to this day.

This article was very helpful to me because it gave me a lot of information on her success and how her life
ended tragically at a young age. From what I read I believe this a Secondary Source because somebody else
wrote it that was not from that time period.

Topic Selection NHD 2009

I chose Bessie Smith as my individual in history this year for NHD because she was one of the biggest popular star in the 1920's and I am interested in the popularity of African American during segregation time periods. This person is important to history because without her efforts she inspired people to live out their dream and to not let anything stand in their way on achieving them. As an African American female she has had a great impact on history because maybe being the most popular blues singer of the 1920's she allowed African American women to have more rights. For this week's research I found a article at http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html and next week I will actually read and summarize this article.

The Three Levels of Reflection

• What have I learned about myself through this experience?
Through this experience I learned more about myself by learning how to care more for the world
By caring more about the things in the world and most of all the importance of recycling.

• What would you change about this situation if you were in charge?
If I was in charge if this situation if you throw things on the ground that can be recycles you WILL be fined a
a fee of $500 or put in jail for 1 year.


• What are three big issues that create problems that our service is trying to address?
I can't exactly give three big reasons but i can give you two issue that create problems that our service is trying
to address and they are throwing trash on the ground that can be recycled and we are trying to get people to realize that
recycling can change the world.

service learning

At Wednesday service learning we set the following deadlines for completing tasks:

1. Research - all research assignments must be e-mailed to Ms. Thomas by the end of the period TODAY.

2. Block Walks - block walk data will be tabulated next Thursday. ALL BLOCK WALK DATA IS DUE TO MS. THOMAS BY MONDAY.

3. 9th Grade Attitude Survey - LaVaughn will collect completed survey forms from 9th grade Advisories on Friday. SURVEYS ARE DUE BY MONDAY.

4. Ms. Thomas will contact the Recycling Alliance of Philadelphia to see about the possibility of a visit (here or there) during next Thursday's service leanring period.

Service learning 5-15-08 talk abouts

today in service learning i expect to talk about the research we done and
stuff on our survey like how much plastic, paper, glass, and
metal we see on our blocks during the week.

service learning

last Thursday in service learning we went to the imc and researched more about recycling
paper, glass, aluminum etc . We were able to find a lot of information on these topics
and there really wasn't any challenges. During service learning so far we have got a lot
accomplished and we actually went outside to collect trash off the street that we can
recycle and make new things out of.

Reflection On Service Learning

Last Friday we talk about some of the researches people did on Plastics, glass, Aluminum etc.
Then we actually went outside to collect stuff on the street that can be recycled such as
cans, paper, paper plates, napkin etc. and then we went back to the school. Next week I think we are
going to talk about more research we found and about the stuff we found on the street.