Monthly Archives: February 2008

No school tomorrow (Friday)! Have an excellent long weekend!

Due Monday, March 3

1. Read and annotate the packet called “Four Readings on Child Labor.” Do not just highlight; if you choose to highlight, you must also annotate (write notes in the margins). Yes, you have to read and annotate the whole packet–13 pages of reading.

o n g o i n g h o m e w o r k

1. Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info (updated 2/26). Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!

Due Thursday, February 28

1. Read Hakim Chapters 26 and 32. Look up vocabulary and develop five questions for each chapter–see handout for specifics.

2. Michelle’s advisees: Go to blog.lrei.org and click on “Black History Month Assembly Follow Up Activity.” Follow the directions. Use the index card Leila gave you for your reflection–this card will be posted!

3. If you had a hard time locating some poems, keep looking! Just add them to your yellow or orange poetry folder when you find them. Here is the list of kinds of poems you have written:

a. On Turning ___

b. “so much depends” poems based on Williams’s poem

c. odes to everyday things

d. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)

e. word poems

f. snapshot poems

g. perspective poems based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”

o n g o i n g h o m e w o r k

1. Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info (updated 2/26). Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!

Due Wednesday, February 27

1. Type three new snapshot poems (one about a family member, one about Leila, and one about another member of the LREI community) and turn them in with handwritten annotations that explain why you broke each line when you did. To refresh your memory, click here to see the line break activity we did together in class. Each poem should paint a picture using words!

2. Gather all the poems you have written since we started the poetry unit so that you can choose the best of the best to turn in later. You do not need to choose the “best” poems yet. Just locate the following (some will be in your writer’s notebook–that’s fine):

a. On Turning ___

b. “so much depends” poems based on Williams’s poem

c. odes to everyday things

d. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)

e. word poems

f. snapshot poems

g. perspective poems based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”

Due Thursday, February 28

1. Read Hakim Chapters 26 and 32. Look up vocabulary and develop five questions for each chapter–see handout for specifics.

o n g o i n g h o m e w o r k

1. Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info (updated 2/26). Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!

Due Tuesday, February 26

1. Complete the Nickel and Dimed reading and questions. If you are absent today (Friday), you are still responsible for turning in this assignment on Tuesday. Since the reading is long (37 pages), you may want to check Nickel and Dimed (by Barbara Ehrenreich) out of a library, copy the selection from a classmate, or buy the book.

Due Wednesday, February 27

1. Type three new snapshot poems (one about a family member, one about Leila, and one about another member of the LREI community) and turn them in with handwritten annotations that explain why you broke each line when you did. To refresh your memory, click here to see the line break activity we did together in class. Each poem should paint a picture using words!
o n g o i n g  h o m e w o r k

1. Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info. Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!

2. Soon I will be collecting your “poetry portfolio,” which will count as a project grade. Gather all the poems you have written since we started the poetry unit so that you can choose the best of the best to turn in. Locate the following:

a. On Turning ___

b. “so much depends” poems based on Williams’s poem

c. odes to everyday things

d. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)

e. word poems

f. snapshot poems

g. perspective poems based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”

Due Monday, February 25

1. Finish the Triangle Factory Fire Webquest if you did not finish in class.

Due Tuesday, February 26

1. Complete the Nickel and Dimed reading and questions. If you are absent today (Friday), you are still responsible for turning in this assignment on Tuesday. Since the reading is long (37 pages), you may want to check Nickel and Dimed (by Barbara Ehrenreich) out of a library, copy the selection from a classmate, or buy the book.

o n g o i n g  h o m e w o r k

1. Keep meeting with your sustainability organizations and posting on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Aim to meet once per week, and remember to gather photos and other materials to use on the April 30 Day of Learning. Click here for updated contact info. Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!

2. Soon I will be collecting your “poetry portfolio,” which will count as a project grade. Gather all the poems you have written since we started the poetry unit so that you can choose the best of the best to turn in. Locate the following:

a. On Turning ___

b. “so much depends” poems based on Williams’s poem

c. odes to everyday things

d. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)

e. word poems

f. snapshot poems

g. perspective poems based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”

Due Friday, February 22

1. Meet with someone from your sustainability organization and post on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Click here for updated contact info. Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

DO NOT FORGET TO TITLE YOUR ENTRIES CORRECTLY (date of work, name of organization) AND TO SPELL-CHECK BEFORE YOU POST!

2. Begin gathering all the poems you have written since we started the poetry unit so that you can choose the best of the best to turn in. Locate the following:

a. On Turning ___

b. “so much depends” poems based on Williams’s poem

c. odes to everyday things

d. garbage poems (garbage, diamond in the rough, unbeautiful)

e. word poems

f. snapshot poems

g. perspective poems  based on Gary Soto’s “Oranges”

Due Thursday, February 21

1. Read the excerpt of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. Click here for the written assignment.

Due Friday, February 22

1. Meet with someone from your sustainability organization and post on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Click here for updated contact info. Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Due Thursday, February 21

1. Read the excerpt of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. Click here for the written assignment. If you are absent today (Friday), you should check Fast Food Nation out of a library, borrow it from a friend, copy the selection from a classmate, or buy the book because you are responsible for turning in the assignment Thursday 2/21.

Due Friday, February 22

1. Meet with someone from your sustainability organization and post on the blog: your hours to the log section and reflection to the journal section. Click here for updated contact info. Click here for detailed directions about how to post. Any work you do related to sustainability counts, whether or not it is in your assigned sustainability project group!

1. Complete the Comparison Questions for The Jungle and Fast Food Nation. The NYTimes Review can be found at the following web address:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/movies/17fast.html?scp=2&sq=fast+food+nation+film&st=nyt&emc=eta1

Tomorrow, I will collect your Jungle packet (annotations and answers) along with the work you do tonight.

2. Call or email the contact for your sustainability project group! Click here for contact info.

1. Get a good night’s sleep and eat a good breakfast!

2. Make contact with your sustainability group to schedule the first session. This contact information sheet is a work in progress; if you have specific questions, email me.

DUE TOMORROW!

1. Complete the readings and questions in the packet on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, one of the most famous muckraking publications of all time. Click here for the instructions. Click here for the first reading, the excerpt from The Jungle. The second reading (only one double-sided page) is something you have to get from me personally.

Note: I will collect BOTH your annotations AND your answers to the questions on Thursday.