MON: Sub Day [EC Essays, Typing.com, Code.org, Reading+]

• SUB today - SUPER Sorry!  Sinus Infection w/ Massive Headache! 
• REMEMBER: I always believe the Sub and there are cameras watching everything you do. 
• All high-quality work done in class today is eligible for double credit 
• Your photos are now DUE tomorrow @ the START of CLASS 

• Agenda [65]

• You must do one or more of these activities, quietly
• NEW! TYPED Extra credit essays: Research and write in your own words 1 paragraph or more on one of these topics:
• The History of the Tuskegee Study
• The causes of YEAST INFECTIONS in both boys and girls
• The health impact of vaping (you may include a comparison to the dangers of smoking marijuana)
• The importance of photographer Gordon Parks.
• The Chinese Social Credit System; Why are they doing it? What positive effects has it had? What negative effects?
• NEW! TYPED Reader Response Articles 
• Worth Double the Extra Credit Essays! 
• Write a one page or more READER RESPONSE to one or more of these articles using these guiding questions:

• WHAT the issue is
• WHERE and WHEN it is happening
• WHO is involved
• WHY it is happening
• WHY do people think it matters
• What do YOU THINK about the issue?

• The Articles
• Gun Deaths in the U.S. Are at Their Highest Rates in Decades, CDC Says
• HQ Trivia and Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies, Apparently of Overdose, Police Say
• Jakelin Caal, the 7-year-old who died in DHS custody, isn't the first immigrant child to pass away after government detainment. Her death shows not much has changed
• Typing.com [direct credit for time & effort in this class]
• Code.org [see below for all the information from last class - send John certificate for credit]
• ReadingPlus.com [direct credit & incentives in Advisory]


• You MAY use headphones to:
• watch the Code.org videos & listen to music during coding
• Plug into the computer and listen to music during Typing.com 
• You may NOT use headphones while doing ReadingPlus.com reading lessons
• If you get LOCKED OUT of ReadingPlus simply move on to the typing or coding

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The HOUR of CODE Tasks

250 One Hour Tutorials (and counting!)
You Should Use Headphones
for ALL Videos
To get credit "PRINT" your certificate to PDF 
and email it to John (you may be able to text it)

hourofcode.com/us/learn
Sort & Select by skill, age, and interest!

The Newest!:

• The Grinch: Saving Christmas with Code
• Dance Party! Requires headphones!
• Sports Games to Code 
• Wonder Woman:  a block based tutorial with scenes from the film
• The Google Doodle: oodles of fun

John's personal favorite!

• Human Resource Machine from Tomorrow Corp: DOWNLOAD the Mac version and run it! (There is a lot of math logic in this one and it really doesn't need headphones to have fun with)
• You can also download it by clicking here

The Classics: familiar characters in a drag and drop environment

• Minecraft is entirely block based 
• There are now TWO Minecraft Tutorials - one entirely new in 2016
• Angry Birds is block based too
• Star Wars let's you use blocks or javascript directly
• Frozen is more artistic and has some geometry in it

Cool tutorials using WEB Technologies: 

• Photobooth is a working photo booth in HTML
• Build and animate a character using HTML/CSS/Javascript

You Should Use Headphones

for ALL Videos

Cool game making tutorials with really clear step-by-step instructions that don't need a video

• Brick Breaker
• 2-Player Cannon Game

You Should Use Headphones

for ALL Videos

 Other Cool Tutorials:

• Make it fly - blocks but with way more options
• Done a LOT of SCRATCH/Block programming?
• Want to learn to build a web page with CSS & HTML in an hour?  Then click here!
• Think you already know how to code and don't want the training wheels?  Build an iPhone Game!

Still think you are a boss?

• If the following doesn't scare you: "To be able to position items on the screen correctly we need to know the size of the screen. Go ahead and create a class-scope variable int screenHeight; right above the line@implementation GameplayLayer but below the #import lines." Then click here.