Monthly Archives: February 2010

Thursday, Feb 25

Due tomorrow (Friday)

  • Write a 3/4/ page response to the following query: “Why do you think that the ‘Child Labor’ readings and ‘Savage Inequalities’ were paired together? What connections do these two texts have? Explain with examples.

Wednesday, Feb 24

Due Thursday:

Read Jonathon Kozol and complete one of the writing assignments indicated on the first page.  This must be at least 2 pages typed, 1.5 space.

Due Next Wednesday:

Write three poems: one “Diamond in the Rough” poem, one “Unbeautiful” poem using at least 8 similes and metaphors, one “Garbage” Poem

Tuesday, Feb 23

Due Wednesday: Social Justice Visit and Post NUMBER 2 (speak with me if you will not have this) By February 24, you should have 2 visits and posts completed. Continue to create visits with your social justice organization. Get them in your calendars asap! If you do a visit, post about it asap: 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 Thursday: Read the excerpt from Jonathan Kozol’s book Savage Inequalities, do the vocabulary and ONE of the written responses. DO NOT LEAVE THIS UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE–it’s a long reading.

Friday, Feb 19

AWESOME OLYMPICS EVERYONE!

NOTE: On Monday, we are going to the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side from 12:15-3:00.  We will have a tour and see what actually Tenement living was like.

  • Due Monday: Complete the Child Labor Packet. Read CAREFULLY for a detailed reading quiz! Read and take notes (in margins, at the end of each section, with highlighter, whatever works for you!) the Four Readings on Child Labor.  On Monday, in splits, you will take a reading quiz that will ask you to recall important information in the packet.  There will be questions about each of the four readings, so please read all of the sections that are in the packet.  Hint: Pay particular attention to individual children whose stories you read about; pay attention to connections between child labor and immigrant issues; understand the types of jobs kids held and what companies employed them; understand some details about what it was like for children to labor as they did in the Progressive Era.
  • Due Wednesday: Social Justice Visit and Post NUMBER 2 (speak with me if you will not have this)
  1. By February 24, you should have 2-3 visits and posts completed.
  2. Continue to create visits with your social justice organization.  Get them in your calendars asap!
  3. If you do  a visit, post about it asap:

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.

Friday, Feb 12Readtheen

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY and LONG WEEKEND!

Due Wednesday:

  1. Read the entire Fast Food Nation packet, excerpted from the book.  You MAY take notes in the margins of this reading, your also may take notes on a different sheet of paper, but you MUST read it.  If I catch the drift that folks are NOT reading it, I will begin giving you pop quizzes on these reading assignments.
  2. You concrete poem, of PRESENTATION quality, is due on WEDNESDAY.  Please be prepared to share and to have these posted in our classroom. We need some new work up on the boards.

Thursday, Feb 3

Due Friday:

Part A: ERB Prep: Analogies, only finish the part we started today. Skip rest.

Part B: Social Justice Visit and Post

  1. By the end of this week FINAL DATE, 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.  Get them in your calendars asap!
  3. 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 Monday:

Excerpt from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.  (11 pages) and written response to the three questions. The whole reading and the questions are posted here.  The Jungle by Upton Sinclaire 3


Wednesday, Feb 3

1. Social Justice Visit and Blog Post–You must have one visit and one post minimum by Friday. If you will not you must speak with me immediately. Be sure your post is spell checked and follows guidelines.

2. Do Language Arts ERB prep: NEW BOOK (BLUE STICKER) and NEW BUBBLE SHEET

Lesson one, parts one and two (no part 3, writing)

Lesson Two, parts one and two (no part 3, writing)

The whole thing is pages 1-6, skipping the writing prompts.

DUE NEXT WED IN WRITER’S WORKSHOP

1.  Write 2 poems, inspired by “Love That Boy” by Walter Dean Meyers and “Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams.  If you didn’t understand the Red Wheelbarrow poem, don’t worry, but consider these questions:

  • why would he write about something as mundane (read: common, ordinary) as a red wheelbarrow?
  • why would be say, “so much depends on a red wheelbarrow”?
  • who or what do you think depends on this wheelbarrow?
  • what other mundane objects, tools, or things in our lives have “so much” that depend on them; so much meaning that we probably overlook?
  • is it possible that we over look the little things for some reason?
  • what is the red wheelbarrow in your life…..?

Now, write a poem that is inspired by his mundane but meaningful poem about the red wheelbarrow. Here is a copy of the two poems.

Lovethatdog:RedWheelbarrow

Tuesday, Feb 2

Due Wednesday:

1. ERB Prep lesson 7, 8 and Practice test.  Answer in the bubble sheet please.

2. Complete Muckraker chapter questions #6-10

  • Age of Extremes, Read chapters 23 and 24, complete vocab and handout.Hakim23&24

Ongoing:

Continue to visit your organizations or make you first appoint by the latest Saturday, Feb 6.

If you have gone on a visit already you must blog about it, individually, not as a group.