Lights/Camera/Action!

Objective& Purpose: I can take care of business when it really matters so that I finish the year strong and proud.

These Days in History:

• News about the recent "EF5" 200 mile per hour Tornadoes
• Five Tornado Myths BUSTED
• Anatomy of a twister: How tornadoes form and why they can't be stopped

Agenda:

1. Silent Typing Web or Classwork while
1. Check in Productions lists and get approval for filming
2. Work on production lists, build props, practice
3. Possibly Filming out of class [depending on who is ready]
4. Possibly "Finding Benjaman"

2013 Freshman/Sophomore Portfolio Schedule:

PORTFOLIO WEEK PURPOSE AND SCHEDULE

You are attending so that you can see what YOU will be doing at the end of your 10th grade year.  You are also there to support your 10th Grade colleagues.

Your Advisory MUST stay until 4:30 on your allotted AUDIENCE day, as follows:

• Failure to attend will result in a failing grade in Advisory and a lower GPA
• If you are asked to be on a sophomore panel during your scheduled audience time you will be excused to do so.  If you are asked for a day that you are NOT scheduled to be here you do so on your own time

THIS FRIDAY    5/24: John's Advisory
NEXT Tuesday   5/28: Natalia's Advisory
NEXT Wednesday 5/29: Ms. C's Advisory
NEXT Thursday  5/30: Mr. K's Advisory
NEXT Friday    5/31: Mr. Soliz's Advisory

Freshman/Sophomore Portfolio Schedule:

THIS FRIDAY    5/24: John's Advisory

8:30-9:45 – Period 1 
9:50-11:05 – Period 2 
LUNCH (students out at 11:40)
12:00-1:00 – Defense #1
1:05-2:05 – Defense #2
BREAK
2:25-3:25 – Defense #3
3:30-4:30 – Defense #4

NEXT Tuesday   5/28: Natalia's Advisory

8:30-9:45 – Period 3 
9:50-11:05 – Period 4 
LUNCH (students out at 11:40)
12:00-1:00 – Defense #1
1:05-2:05 – Defense #2
BREAK
2:25-3:25 – Defense #3
3:30-4:30 – Defense #4

NEXT Wednesday 5/29: Ms. C's Advisory

8:30-9:45 – Period 5
9:50-11:05 – Period 1
LUNCH (students out at 11:40)
12:00-1:00 – Defense #1
1:05-2:05 – Defense #2
BREAK
2:25-3:25 – Defense #3
3:30-4:30 – Defense #4

NEXT Thursday  5/30: Mr. K's Advisory

8:30-9:45 – Period 2
9:50-11:05 – Period 3 
LUNCH (students out at 11:40)
12:00-1:00 – Defense #1
1:05-2:05 – Defense #2
BREAK
2:25-3:25 – Defense #3
3:30-4:30 – Defense #4

NEXT Friday    5/31: Mr. Soliz's Advisory

8:30-9:45 – Period 4 
9:50-11:05 – Period 5 
LUNCH (students out at 11:40)
12:00-1:00 – Defense #1
1:05-2:05 – Defense #2
BREAK
2:25-3:25 – Defense #3
3:30-4:30 – Defense #4

Reading Assessment for Incoming Students

Purpose:  I will try my hardest in order to know my reading level

Warmup: Sit quietly and prepare to be a good reader
Agenda:

• This assessment will help us determine your reading level.  With this information we will make decisions about some of the classes you will take next year.
• Take this test seriously!
• This is an ADAPTIVE TEST.  The more questions you answer correctly the harder the test will become.
• Do NOT let that frustrate you!
• The test is TIMED and EACH QUESTION is timed
• If a small clock pops up that means you need to hurry up ON THAT QUESTION. 
• Your Username is as follows: 
• 1st Letter of FIRST name +
• 1st FOUR letters of LAST name
• Example: jkitt
• Your PROCTOR will tell you your password
• NOW Click the link below but DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING AFTER THAT!
• https://hosted333.renlearn.com/2076072/

Catch-Up Day

⌘ Objective & Purpose ⌘

I can use my critical media and filmaker's lenses 

to analyze and discuss the film FOOD Inc.

AND

I can budget my expenses so that 

I will have money when I REALLY need it

These Days in History:

• Mine collapses in Indonesia [and John was way off on the number of casualties]

Agenda:

• Periods 1 & 2
• Typing Web
• Finishing Discussion
• Work Day
• Possibly "Finding Benjaman"
• Periods 3 & 5
• Click Here AFTER the announcements

Food Inc. Socratic

⌘ Objective & Purpose ⌘

I can use my critical media and filmaker's lenses 

to analyze and discuss the film FOOD Inc.

AND

I can budget my expenses so that 

I will have money when I REALLY need it

These Days in History:

• Google had it's I/O Conference last week and I'm wondering if we are seeing the future: a connected life utilizing an increasingly intelligent web. 
• I'm hearing more and more of this stuff described as Web 3.0 and I'm beginning to believe.
• I didn't see a single cicada... dang it
• I had a great time

Agenda:

• Modified Socratic Discussion on FOOD Inc.
• Take a moment [actually, 10 minutes] to review the questions you answered about the film, Food Inc. [I'll show you the questions at the end]
• Choose the three you think you understand BEST 
• We are going to have a discussion about the movie
• Write down some NOTES about your answers.  You will need to contribute to the discussion even if your best answer was taken by someone else.   
• Take your notes on paper or by using the TextEdit program on your computer 
  

The questions were:

• Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? Why or Why not?
• Do people have the right to know what is in their food? Why or why not? 
• Who’s responsible for keeping our food safe? Why or why not?
• Should access to healthy food be a right for everyone? Why or why not?
• When deciding what to eat, how much should we consider the workers who pick, process, and transport it? Why or why not?
• Does it mater to you which food companies produce your food? Why or why not?
• Should companies be able to own the DNA contained in plant seeds?
• Should a company have the power to decide what information to give consumers about the food it produces? Why or why not?
• What individual or collective actions are you willing to take to improve our food system, and what would be their impact? Why or why not? 

Work Day

Objective& Purpose: I can use my time wisely so that I am up to date on all my end-of-year work

Note to students:

• Of the five New Yorkers that I have spoken with so far, FOUR had not heard of the cicada swarmaggedon... go figure!  Should be a good weekend for bugs!  Hope I see some. Here's some current articles on the invasion and the science behind it...
• Here comes the buzz
• 17 years to hatch an invasion
• A look at ALL EIGHT periodic broods over the next decade
• And my favorite: The Cicada's love affair with prime numbers

Agenda (you know how to do these things, so do them): 

1. TypingWeb.com TEST
2. Complete your nine reflection questions from Food Inc. THESE QUESTIONS ARE DUE AT THE END OF CLASS TODAY!
1. 3rd period/Block C: One of you text me if you did not see the entire film
3. Work on your Facing History website
1. I am available to help by text, off and on, until 9:30 or so, and then after 10:30.  YOU MUST GET PERMISSION BEFORE YOU PULL OUT YOUR PHONE AND TEXT ME @ 510-684-3862
4. Work on your Physics project, analyze your video, print your graphs, etc...
5. Work on the worksheets in your packet - bring the entire packet with you on Monday!

Have a great day, xoxoxo, J

p.s. look for pictures to show up BELOW this post during the day (assuming I have something to take a picture of!)

Trinity Church

@ Ground Zero

My favorite place

@ Ground Zero

9/11 building site

Down the rabbit hole...

DLE is Physics is DLE, oh my!

John's kids to the Physics room!

Santiago's kids to the lab!

Pronto!

Objective& Purpose: I can budget my expenses 

so that can have money when I REALLY need it.

These Days in History:

• Massive Solar Sunspots!  Boo!
• An update on the Bangladesh Factory Collapse

Schedule:

• today
• MST for anyone who has NOT tested their Physics Model - it must be tested TODAY!
• 12:25 - 1:25           P.3
• 1:30 - 2:30            P.2
• 2:35 - 3:35            P.1
• Wednesday: Soliz's Room: John - film, Food, Inc (Reflection Homework Due Friday)
• Thursday: Soliz's Room: Javier - film, Food, Inc (Reflection Homework Due Friday)
• Friday: Computer Lab: Javier - Facing History/Physics Work Day

Agenda:

• Expense 
• Fine Tuning our Categories
• Anybody Ready to film?

Reading Assessment #4 of 4!

Objective and Purpose:  I will try my hardest in order to know my reading level

Warmup: Sit quietly and prepare to be a good reader
Agenda:

• This is the last of the 4 Quarterly STAR Reading tests for the year! With this information we will make decisions about some of the classes you will take next year.
• Take this test seriously!
• This is an ADAPTIVE TEST.  The more questions you answer correctly the harder the test will become.
• Do NOT let that frustrate you!
• The test is TIMED and EACH QUESTION is timed
• If a small clock pops up that means you need to hurry up        ON THAT QUESTION. 
• Your Username is as follows: 
• 1st Letter of FIRST name +
• 1st FOUR letters of LAST name
• Example: jkitt
• Your Flight Attendant will tell you your password
• NOW Click the link below but DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING AFTER THAT!
• https://hosted333.renlearn.com/2076072/
• When you are done with the assessment...
•  Enter your expenses
• Work on your websites
• Do TypingWeb.com
• You MAY race each other...

Upstander Website Work Day

Objective& Purpose: I will use my web skills

so that my Upstander website is something I am proud of

Agenda:

• Establish/share the website per the instructions below
• At this point it can be a blank canvas
• Your EXAMPLE is here
• Do research and complete #7 from the packet you got in Facing History class
• Scan your original notes page from Tuesday's guest speakers 
• Begin work on either website or typing work into a Google doc

Process:

Log in to your email

& click on SITES

Click CREATE

 Choose BROWSE THE GALLERY FOR MORE

Select a Site Template

[look through the categories on the left]

Click on one to see more

 Click on PREVIEW TEMPLATE to see it in action

 Click on USE TEMPLATE to, uhhhh, use the template...

Now, Use your ORGANIZATION'S NAME 

as YOUR SITE NAME

When you are ready 

Click CREATE 

Now Click SHARE

Under "Who has access" click CHANGE

Change the RADIO BUTTON to "Public on the web"

Check to make sure the "Access" is set to "can view"

Click SAVE

Under "Link to share" COPY the URL/LINK 

using ⌘C

PASTE the URL/LINK below Using ⌘C

SUBMIT your Form

And start working on your website!

[Use the EDITING CONTROLS in the upper right corner]

Bus 174 fin fin!

Objective& Purpose: I can budget my expenses 

so that can have money when I REALLY need it.

1. Announcements: 
• Facing History Work Day on Friday!
• Start your websites
• You MAY use the TEMPLATES!
2. Film:
• Bus 174
3. Reflection
• The society you see depicted
• The realities of life in Brazil for poor people
• The implications of how people view the Police in Brazil
4. Typing Web if time
5. Film anyone..?

Bus 174 - Penultimate Fin

Objective& Purpose: I can budget my expenses 

so that can have money when I REALLY need it.

1. Announcements: 
• We can film next class!?!  Who is ready?
2. Film:
• Bus 174
3. Reflection
• The society you see depicted
• The realities of life in Brazil for poor people
• The implications of how people view the Police in Brazil
4. Typing Web if time
5. And Don't forget...

Today is Stroke Awareness Day

$$ Day One - Bus 174

Objective& Purpose: I can budget my expenses 

so that can have money when I REALLY need it.

• These days in History
• They're Back!
• 
• Bus 174 (1/2 today, 1/2 next class + writing)
• Reflection Topics
• The society you see depicted
• The realities of life in Brazil for poor people
• The implications of how people view the Police in Brazil
• Your reflection is HERE

May Day / Managing our Money / Bus 174

Objective& Purpose: I can budget my expenses 

so that can have money when I REALLY need it.

1. These days in History
• Wednesday is MAY DAY - the real Labor Day?

• American job prospects make for dim May Day celebration

• Pope joins day of labor condemnations
2. How we are going to finish these movies?
• The cameras
• This weekend?
• The time
3. How will we fill our time?
• Physics Project
• Upstander Project
• iWitness Pilot Project
• *Watching Documentaries and other cool films
• *Personal finance tracking
4. Managing our Money: Tracking our Expenses
• Where is my money going?
• How can I divide my expenses into categories, so that I can evaluate them?
• What guidelines can I set up for myself, so that I am not spending unnecessarily.
• How can I track my spending so that my spending stays within my guidelines?
• With money I have "found" by closely tracking my spending, how will I use this money to meet my long-term goals?
• [these questions adapted from http://www.helium.com/items/1074533-tracking-spending-budget]
• 
  
5. Bus 174 (1/2 today, 1/2 next class + writing)
• True story
• Real footage taken from news, traffic cameras, and other found footage
• Interviews conducted after the fact
• Filmmakers used the interviews to weave a story that starts long before the bus incident and continues to ask questions about the world left afterwards
• You will write an extensive reflection on this movie about
• The society you see depicted
• The realities of life in Brazil for poor people
• The implications of how people view the Police in Brazil