Monthly Archives: January 2010

The MS Dance is this Friday from 7-9 for eighth graders! Bring your permission slip back tomorrow, please.

Due Wed:

Personal Narrative final

Due Thursday:

Tenement Life Packet–Do the 4 readings, and highlight.  Then, write a business letter following the instructions and model on the handout.TenementLifeBusinessLetter

O N G O I N G

1. By the end of this week, you must have had one visit with your organization! If this will NOT happen you must see me ASAP.
2. Continue to create visits with your social justice organization.
3. If you do  a visit, post about it asap, using the directions here and then on the blog itself.

1. Go to http://blog.lrei.org/greencore /wp-admin
2. Username is greencore; password is the opposite (if you don’t know what I mean, ask a classmate).
3. BE SURE YOU READ carefully the Blog Post/Journal Guidelines by clicking the link on the left side of the blog so you are sure that your post will be recorded properly.  You must read this in order to know what boxes must be clicked.  It might be helpful to print out to follow or open in another screen to refer back to it.

Due Tuesday: Complete the assignment, minimum 1 page typed, 11 point font, 1.5 spaced, about our Turn of the Last Century Image Gallery from today’s class. The assignment is in paragraph form at the bottom of the handout from class. TurnofCentImageGal

If you were absent today, you should read for one hour and bring a note that you did so.

O N G O I N G

1. By the end of this week, you must have had one visit with your organization! If this will NOT happen you must see me ASAP.
2. Continue to create visits with your social justice organization.

• If you do  a visit, post about it asap, using the directions here and then on the blog itself.Go to http://blog.lrei.org/greencore /wp-admin
• Username is greencore; password is the opposite (if you don’t know what I mean, ask a classmate).
• BE SURE YOU READ carefully the Blog Post/Journal Guidelines by clicking the link on the left side of the blog so you are sure that your post will be recorded properly.  You must read this in order to know what boxes must be clicked.  It might be helpful to print out to follow or open in another screen to refer back to it.

Due Friday: Social Justice Blog Work

A. Social Justice Blog Post About Last Year:

Please follow these directions in order.

Go to our Social Justice Blog: blog.lrei.org/greencore and click on the link that says 2008-2009 blog posts at the bottom of the page.

Find a post from last year that you think is A quality work.  (to scroll back you have click Previous Entries so you can find some older ones).

Copy down the name of the person, the date, and the organization (do not use the sample we used in class from Madeline, and you must not all do the same one, so find your own example!) of the post that you think is excellent.

Then, log in to post your first post which will be ABOUT that post you located from last year that you think is A quality work.  To do so, you need to log in.

Directions to Log In:

1. Go to http://blog.lrei.org/greencore /wp-admin
2. Username is greencore; password is the opposite (if you don’t know what I mean, ask a classmate).
3. BE SURE YOU READ carefully the Blog Post/Journal Guidelines by clicking the link on the left side of the blog so you are sure that your post will be recorded properly.  You must read this in order to know what boxes must be clicked.  It might be helpful to print out to follow or open in another screen to refer back to it.
4. For your first post, write about last year’s blog post that is a A quality work and say why you were impressed and what made it so good. Follow the directions to be sure your post is recorded!

B. Posting About Any Visits: If you have had a visit, you may want to do an actual posting now; go ahead. Be sure you follow the steps and use the titling guidelines.

C.  Follow Up– with your voicemail and email to check for responses from your organizations and be in touch with your group members to keep the ball rolling. You have 9 days to complete your first visit!

O N G O I N G

By the end of January (two weeks!)  you must have at least one visit to an organization for your Social Justice Project that takes place outside of school hours.