Brooklyn Collegiate: a College Board School

I hope you enjoyed the selection, Joey Pigza Loses Control by John Gantos.  Please post your comments about the book below.

Do you write poetry?  Members in our Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday Poetry/Book Club write poetry.  As they post their poems, tell us what you think of them.

Zavian

Determined, Trustworthy, Intelligent, Responsible

Son of Geraldine and Andrew, brother of Jordan and Jonathan

Who enjoys playing videogames, enjoy family and friends

Who feels Happiness, Courage and Bravery

Who fears death, parents falling ill, and heights

Who makes a family proud, and hopes to go to college

Who wants to see no more violence and death.

Born in Manhattan, and live in Brooklyn

W

Derricia

Creative, Outspoken, Strong-willed, and Determined.

Daughter of Hazel-Ann, and sister of Shayna, Kareem, and David.

Who loves reading books, people and taking memorable pictures.

Who has felt fear, embarrassment, and love.

Who fears loosing my love ones, fears not being successful in life, and fears being poor or ending up in all the wrong places.

Who has accomplished making it to high school, joining my church choir, who has discovered there is more to life than a smile.

Who wants to see everyone accomplish their dreams, America to be fair to people of all kinds no matter their class, world peace, and the cure for diseases and STD’s.

Born in St.Vincent, living in Brooklyn, and originated from Queens.

B

Tremanda

Funny, competitive, loving, responsible.

Daughter of Carla and Trevor, sister of Tamara, Trevonna, Trevor, and Akeem.

Who loves to make new friends, my family, experiencing new things.

Experienced tonsillitis, and going on a plane.

Fears snakes, hospital, and the lost of family or friends

Made it to high school, have many certificates and awards, won 1st place at a science fair.

Wants to see Obama as president, and want to see the Great Wall of China.

Born in Guyana and living in Brooklyn

P

Vanessa

Beautiful, Intelligent, Loving and Crazy at times

Daughter of Gregory Mark Chance & Denise Vanessa Summerson

Who loves to play sports, eat, sleep and watch television

Who has felt sadness, hopelessness and disappointment

Who fears losing her family and the people she cares about

Who has achieved many of her goals physically and academically

Who wants to experience something good in her life without something bad occurring afterwards

Who was born in Georgetown, Guyana, but lives in Brooklyn, New York

C

Well, our RUSH Book Club is off and running for a touch down! Our first selection is Jackie Robinson: An American Hero by Anne Schraff.   Please post your comments about the book here before October 20th.

Some many books, so little time. That is why I began my summer reading list in June.  Please check out one of these titles at the public library.  If you have read any of them, tell me what you think of the titles from my list you have read.  Also, please feel free to suggest any books I should read.  Remember to give me the title and the author.

• New Moon-Meyer, Stephanie
• Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods – Collins, Suzane
• Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane – Collins, Suzanne
• The Thief Lord – Funke, Cornelia
• Twilight – Meyer, Stephanie
• Chew on this: everything you don’t want to know about fast food – Schlosser, Eric and Charles Wil
• The Book Thief – Zusak, Markus
• Savings and Investment Information for Teens – Deering, Kathryn R. ed.
• Cut – Patricia McCormick
• Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales – Noyes, Deborah ed.
• In Search of Mockingbird – Ellsworth, Loretta
• I am Scout: the Biography of Harper Lee – Shields, Charles J.
• Yay, You!: Moving Out, Moving Up, Moving On – Boynton, Sandra
• A Time to Love: Stories from the Old Testament – Myers, Walter Dean
• American born Chinese – Yang, Gene Luen
• 3 Days Off – Morgenstern, Susie Hoch

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