Michelle Tackles Fat

Michelle Obama reveals anti-obesity plan


one in three," Obama said. "And one third of all children today will eventually suffer from diabetes (and) in the African American and Latino communities, it goes up to almost half."
She called obesity "one of the biggest threats to the American economy."

Train

http://www.floridahighspeedrail.org/

Obama's State of the Union

http://www.c-span.org/Executive/State-of-the-Union.aspx

WillIItBlend.com

http://www.blendtec.com/willitblend/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=barbie

Agenda Periods 4 & 5

Get Journals (as always)and review yesterday's notes.
Take root word quiz.

1. Fold paper in half.
2. Write guess words under each root that you can.
3. Make sure to label the quiz with your name, date, and class period.
4. Answer the extra quiz question on the reverse of your quiz.

Take notes from PowerPoint that Murf created about bias.
Finish flash cards for bias.
Study and make notes from this blog site about paradox.
Complete evidence worksheet about paradox for waiver portfolio

• Old fogies think pencil looks too temporary.
• Reminder: waiver committee looking at handwriting and how you follow rules (conventions) of English.

Use extra time to polish writing samples in computer lab.

For Example Paradoxes, I posted this on Facebook:

Poll: What are the paradoxes of your life? I'm teaching a this to my students tomorrow and would like to give them some real-life examples besides my ole standbys (i.e. most teenage women love and hate their mothers at the same time.)

TONE -- Definition

Tone is: the attitude of the writing; the way you feel at the time you are doing something; the attitude that you give when you talk; the attitude and the speaking of the writing whether it be funny, anger, happiness, sadness; voice loud means mads , quiet means sad. Business tone is professional, serious, and to-the-point. A childish tone is whiny, needy, simple vocab, incoherent, short.  Romantic tone is conveys desire, quick to giggle, flirty, giving, concerned for other's comfort, softened voice, serious. 

Could you live here?

Symbols

Sand
Tree
Light

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Notecards

Watch the video below and write the story.  Make up a name for a man, woman, and child.  Start by making a list as you watch the film. 

Evaulating Skills for Report Periods 3 and 4

1. Get Journals
2. Acknowledge how Sam Newman helped with breakthrough by his past experience.
3. Class discussion about matching skill cards to yesterday's speech activity.
4. Making note cards

Martin Luther King Speech

"I Have a Dream"  He spoke at the end of the civil rights march on Washington.
August 28, 1963.

Repetition -- hammering ideas
Brings nonlisteners into the speech
Theme -- dream and freedom

Bonus Period Schedule

• Period 1:  8:15 – 9:10
• Period 2:  9:16 – 10:11
• Period 3:  10:17 – 12:01 (Lunch A 10:17 – 10:47, B 10:54 – 11:24,C 11:31)
• Period 4:  12:07 – 1:02
• Bonus Period:  1:08 – 1:48
• Period 5:  1:54 – 2:49

January Professional Development

1. New Stereotype -- "Recession Generation"
2. The Beauracracy that Murf Built
3. Issues with new technology

How to approach any nonfiction text ...

Nonfiction text is language that purports to be true.  It is presented with as much authority as possible.

Fiction does tricks to make the reader to pretend.  Believability IS important in fiction because the audience member must be able to imagine the story ... because imagination is based on the memory of real things.

To understand what you are reading, similar processes are required.  But, there are some very distinct differences.

1. Write the differences between approaching nonfiction and fiction.
2. Make a list of examples of different kinds of nonfiction.
3. Talk about nonfiction structures and make notes in your J

Learning about the Lyre -- 3rd and 4th period.

4th Period

Please write today's date on a new page of the J.

Read the writing prompt Murf has made for his last period class.

The Great Third Period Class

The first good thing was that Google got a pass before class, so that he wouldn't be late for class.  It seems that Sam has forgiven Murf after being mad at him yesterday.

1. Please write today's date on a new page of the J.
2. Read the writing prompt Murf has made for his last period class.
3. When Murf tells you to, please write how you think his past period class is going to react to the prompt.

How to Be Me --Writing Assignment

Hello there!


Will you contribute to my project?

I have been asked to produce a book that helps college students (who want to be high school teachers) understand what current high school students are like, their issues, interests, challenges, and joys. The title of the book will be, How to Be Me. It is going to be a collection of chapters written by members of this class. The goals are to raise awareness of the new challenges today’s students face in order to be educated and to dissolve the old stereotypes about teenagers. You are exactly the kind of student I would like to have represented in this book. Would you consider writing one of the chapters? The scene title for yours will be, “How to be [your first name goes here].” Don’t be afraid to get creative, as long as it works like a chapter in a book and fits the chapter title.

Your chapter must be word-processed (New Times Roman, 12pt font size, double-spaced, indented paragraphs) on white paper with at least one-inch margins and with the page number and your name in the margins on every page.

Submit your final draft to Mr. Jones by 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.

10A Agenda

1. Sit in new assigned seats, no exceptions. (complaints to be written in J only)
2. Take Root Word test to check your own knowledge.
3. Reflect on Mr. Priest's talk, P-R-E-P-A-R-E,  and the assignment which is due before 3:30 next Tuesday.
4. Make Creative Writing schedule for your book chapter. (One grade for today -- GET A TOF)
5. Write a list of search phrases for the research section of your Project.
6. Conduct Research in the lab.

Video for 3rd and 4th periods

3rd and 4th Period Agenda

1. Root word test
2. Update Js
3. Video -- "How to be Emo" by www. gradualreport.com
4. Assign computer lab seating.
5. Followup activity for Standard 1
6. Start Standard 2

5th period

Agenda

1. Make sure your Js have been updated.
2. Watch short film.
3. Listen to second short film.
4. Watch the second short to see how your mental images change.
5. Color Swatch presentations for the client (murphy).
6. Guest speaker.
7. Writing Assignment.
8. last minute changes to Color Swatch brochure.
9. Turn-in paper copy for brochure grade.

Mr. Priest visited class to talk about how to do a project.  He showed students his acronym he uses in his classes.  Finally, he recommended that students alter his process to fit their individual needs.  He said, "In order to make this work, you have to make it your own so that it is customized for your style."

• P - planning
• R - research
• E - evaluation
• P - production
• A - analysis
• R - review
• E - explanation

Beauty

Was what we watched today "beauty?" Explain.

Today's English 10B

The class watched the winner's pitch for a TV commercial for the NFL annual contest twice.  Then, the class was asked to watch the ad once the idea was turned over for an ad agency for production.  Afterward the class noted the differences, but also how the integrity of the initial idea was saved.  Murf told the class,  that each of them had been given the idea for the paint brochure, and that it was up to them to make a finished product; and that Murf was the Client (NFL).

Murf then explained (angrily) how disappointed he was in the performance of the class on the day before; that as copy-writers each of them was dragging their feet about the project. 

Today's class

Today in the Language Lab classes during periods 3 and 4, the class used the same processes the experts use to analyze literature to breakdown and explain rap lyrics.  During the 3rd period, the class discussed the language, wording, styles, themes, and tone of Gucci's Lemonade, which was Davon'Ta's recommendation.  In fourth period, Katemia suggested Lil' Wayne's I Get It In song and the class analyzed it.

For the second half of the period, individuals worked on the copy (text) for the waiver report.

Final Ad

Advertising Pitch

Today
Short film called "Billy's Balloon" by Don Hertzfeldt
Parody - using humor to imitate or mock a person or situation.

English 10B

Today

1. Look your journals over
2. watch short film
3. parody
4. description exercise
5. Paint chip brochure.

3rd Period

Get your Journal.

1. Review past posts.
2. Write a paragraph about Grinch?
3. Story as Satire
4. Story as Parody
5. Layout past
6. Understand scope
7. Computer lab