Ty’Ana’s English Blog

 Today we read letters 66-70 and celie finds out that fonso is not her real father. She stop writing letters to god and start writing letters to Nettie. Samuel wife thinks celie kids are Nettie’s kids and not only that she thinks they are Samuel kids too.

 Today we took a benchmark and to be honest I didn’t even read the passage I only read like a paragraph. The passage was about John F Kennedy speech but it was kind of boring so that’s what I stop reading it. Plus my comprehension skills are not the best so I doubt if I was to read the whole passage I would of understand it.

 Today we learned about black owned businesses. My mom has her own business and been having it since 2011. We had to do a PowerPoint about black owned business like hair salon, grocery store, restaurants, etc.

 Today in class we talked about hbcu which stands for historically black colleges and universities. There are currently 101 hbcus in American and half are public and half is private. Spelman college is the oldest private hbcu for women. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Morehouse college at the age of 15 and majored in sociology. Kamala Harris went to Howard University.