Tuesday: Cell Phone Photography

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, and you can't [really] correct it..." Henri Cartier-Bresson

WARM-UP: Explore BAY-Peace (below) 

-OR- Go to Typing.com

BAY-Peace "Theater for Social Action" 

2015 Summer Program (paid internship if you qualify)

Apply today for the BAY-Peace 2015 summer program: Theater for Social Action! June 29-July 30th, 11 am - 6 pm, M-Th. This five-week (4 days a week) intensive training includes Theater of the Oppressed, Playback Theater, and community organizing for youth justice.

The program is open to Oakland youth, 13-20 years old, who want to develop their creative performance skills to fight for justice, and against violence in their community. The program is free of charge and meets in downtown Oakland.

PAID INTERNSHIPS: They also welcome participants who are enrolled in paid internships through ECCO, Mayor’s Youth Summer Jobs Program, Youth Uprising, YEP, Youth Uprising, Brothers on the Rise, etc. They can give you more information so that you can apply to one of those programs if you aren't already enrolled.

Rolling admissions—Interviews start in April. Please use the online form to apply ASAP!

You can also call 510-863-1737 for more info, or email baypeace@baypeace.org.

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we take good pictures no matter what kind of camera we have at the moment? 
• How can we use our critical thinking and computer skills to MAKE a good picture happen?

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can sort, correct, crop and export my photos using Picasa

Announcements: 

Photo Walk Weds & Thurs 

Bring Fully Charged Cell Phones and Cameras ON WEDS / THURS for the "Community" Photo Walk 

Agenda: 

• Do Now: [10]
• Discussion: Community Photo
• Concept

 Exemplar:

• Community: To work together, in common, for good.
• Tired of tagging and stickers and littering, and everything like that
• Love my school and "Love Oakland"
• The Love Oakland Movement

Transformed - how?

Other Internship Opportunities:

The Student Leadership Social Justice Conference this Saturday:

• All this year, about 15 EA students, as part of the Student Leadership Group, have been working with students at five other Bay Area schools to develop their leadership and take action on events they think are important. Their culminating "action" is coming up this Saturday.  They are organizing a youth Social Justice Teach In on various topics they believe are important. There will be around 100-150 students from six different Bay Area schools leading and participating in various student-led workshops. And the event is right here at EA!!! 
• There will be workshops on gender inequity, mass incarceration, cyber bullying, environmentalism - locally and globally, police brutality, and more.
• You can just show up BUT if you know you are likely to come please fill out this form

The Clinical Immersion and Mentoring Summer Internship (RESUME NEEDED TO APPLY):

• The Summer Internship is a seven (7) week (Orientation June 29^th,Program July 6- August 14^th, 2015, 15 years or older ) , full-time program where MIMS participants are immersed into direct patient observation, shadow mentors in patient care settings, interact with a broad spectrum of health professionals/staff and attend daily skill/leadership development seminars. Participants will observe patient care at a busy, urban emergency department, out-patient clinics and private clinics. In addition to the clinical segment, participants will be educated about the prevention and management of health issues disproportionately affecting marginalized communities with an emphasis on mental and sexual health. Participants will become peer health educators and teach younger students about the importance of health education.
• To Apply you will need to upload a RESUME so have that ready before you start.  For more information