Seniors! (Period 4)

We are creating a college survey.  Click here and enter your data from last week. 

When you are finished:  Check out the Common Application:  https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx

Register today!

Show me your annotations tomorrow. 

Classwork: 9/22

Directions.  For each link, please hold CONTROL and then click.  Open a new tab - this will make things much easier.  

1.  Read this poem here.  Be sure to read carefully.
2.  Click here.  Answer all questions - you can switch tabs in order to read the poem and check your answer.
3.  Click here.  Try some vocabulary games to get ready for tomorrow. 
4.  Stop by and check your grade.  If I am not running around fixing things, this is a good time to talk.

Make sure you get your homework!  And study for that test tomorrow. 

More letters!

Briana , Antoinette , Moniquetta , Antoine & Kamira:  http://robeson6.pen.io/

Kyjae Moore, Terri Patrick, M. Gainey:  http://robeson7.pen.io/


Raymond's Group:  http://robeson8.pen.io/




Ms. Poole, Ms. Palmer, Mr. Bolen:  Dear Mayor Michael Nutter,




Lately you have been informing people in Philadelphia about the huge affects flash mobs

have taken in our community today. Recently you have talked about having police patrol

certain neighborhoods and having volunteers monitor the streets, you also talked about

moving curfew up for minors but my question is for you do you really think this will stop

flash mobs or better yet try to? I personally don’t think it will work because teens my age

didn’t stop before so what makes you think they will stop now over something a black man

said or better yet a black mayor said. I feel this way because you’re basically telling me with

this curfew for minors flash mobs will stop but flash mobs can happen at any given time in

any area of Philadelphia. Did you ever stop to think that maybe the 50 percent of the kids

who are going out in flash mobs hurting people and putting them in the hospitals are

showing you a sign that maybe you should come up with more clubs to join, and help the

youth voice their opinions did you ever stop and think about that? NO, you didn’t stop to

think about that you just saw your 5min time to shine and ran with it you never asked kids

what they liked to do and what you can do to keep them off the streets, you just saw a gang

of African Americans kids hanging out and getting bored, looking for fun in hurting people.

No I honestly don’t agree with hurting people but maybe there ability to hurt and kill

people is there only ability to show you a sign that this negative energy can be turned to

positive energy. I know you were young once and felt like you had to do something to prove

you was the man while maybe they were in the same category just in another generation

and time. So yes I do think the curfew is worth a try and could work if Philadelphia works

as a team to keep the youth off the streets.

Sincerely,

The youth of Philadelphia

Letters from Students

Ms. Anyae Dudley and Group:  http://robeson1.pen.io/

Aysia, Ayinde, Quadir, Gary, and Tiera: http://robeson2.pen.io/

Aliyah McClary and Group;  http://robeson3.pen.io/

Aliah Evans and Group:  http://robeson4.pen.io/

Mr. Bolen:  http://robeson5.pen.io/

Homework! (September 13-15)

Due Wednesday:
Your good copy of your two paragraphs on Flash Mobs (we started Friday, peer edited Monday)
Your speech regarding your group Flash Mob proposal

Due Thursday:
Typed Flash Mob proposal, emailed to me (amsaltz@gmail.com)

Due Friday:
10 Word Webs

What did we do this week? (September 6)

The first week, in both English and Social Policy, is a type of boot camp.  The goal is to refresh-remind-remeadiate students' skills.  Three skills we worked on were annotating (what you agree with, disagree with, and have questions about) in the text, stop-and-summarize (reading strategy), and professional language.  We did this through readings on a potential soda tax, slang in school, and the mayor's response to "flash mobs"

Ms. Wallace, Ms. McClary, Ms. Ward, and Mr. Barnes work on their professional language.  Ms. Wallace with the quote of the day:  "There's no right way to talk."  (They were also examining the article on slang)

Period 8 Literature and Social Policy, practicing annotations. 

Ms. Brown working on her first-day survey. 

Period 4 Literature and Social Policy, formulating their response to the flash mobs.

Week One Participation

Period 1
Question 1
"What are the causes of the Flash Mobs?"

Question 2
"What effect will the 9pm curfew have?"

Period 2
Question 1
Should the police be able to "stop and frisk" people in certain neighborhoods without a warrant?

Question 2
Why should parents have to pay fines for their kids actions?  Will this actually help the situation?

Period 3
Question 1
How would this have been different if the mayor was white?

Question 2
Who is more to blame:  The Adults or the Teenagers?