Chicago History Project

    I’m going to write about Tony Williams for my Chicago History Project. I decided to write about Tony Williams because I enjoy jazz music and Tony Williams is a famous jazz drummer who was born in Chicago, Illinois.
      I wanted to research about Tony Williams because, I really enjoy listening to jazz music and this was a way to learn more about a jazz musician.

  Facts I learned about Tony Williams are: He was born December 12, 1945 in Chicago Illinois. Tony Williams full name is Anthony Tilmon Williams. He died February 23, 1997 in Daly City, California. Tony Williams died from a heart attack.


   I already found three links about Tony Williams. The links are Link 1, Link 2, Link 3.



    My other choice was to write about H.H Holmes. I decided not to choose H.H Holmes because, I already had research about H.H Holmes and I wanted to learn about someone from scratch, not use old research to finish this project.
    Another reason I didn’t choose to write about H.H Holmes because I didn’t want to write/read about murder. I wanted to write something that I really enjoy reading about and murder isn’t something i enjoy reading about. Instead I decided to research on something that I enjoy, which is listening to music, I don’t really listen to rap music so I didn’t want to research about one, but I do
like listening to jazz music. Once I decided I wanted to research about a musician, I went to google and typed in famous musicians from Chicago. I went to a website, as I was scrolling down a name caught my eye, ‘Tony Williams, jazz drummer’. Afterwards I decided about researching about Tony Williams.

Hero

    “But darling, in the end you have to be your own hero, because everyone else is busy trying to save themselves.” The void called out. “How can I? It’s much easier to be your own villain and let everyone else defeat me!” He cried out to the void in front of him.
    The void began fading as it said its finally words to the boy who was on his knees, “Try looking at it in a different light.” Soon after the void disappeared leaving the boy to his thoughts.

      Why did t-that void mean? ‘Try looking at it in a different light.’ The boy wondered as he got up and began to leave the empty beach.


       This is a small story I made for school, the prompt that my teacher gave is on the top of the page. I decided to make a story out that quote, the story is about a boy, who doesn’t have a name, who is struggling to be ‘his own hero’, when out of nowhere a void begins talking and lecturing the boy ‘to be his own hero, because everyone else is busy saving themselves.’
    This is my free post for this week.

Quarter One Grades

 
       My goal for quarter one was to read fifteen books, I surpassed that goal with reading at least twenty books in quarter one, the first book being The Hunger Games ending with Bleach Volume 54. I surpassed this goal by reading any time I got free time, I also read on my phone so I could read when I don’t have a book at hand.

       My goal for grades is to get fours and threes, I met that goal with getting fours and threes. I met this goal by doing all of my IXL homework, No Red Ink , finishing my Classkick work, reading in my free time, and posted my posts for school.

   I didn’t make any big goals for writing because I believe I write pretty often.



My goals for Quarter two is to keep writing, to read at least twenty books, and to continue to get fours and threes.