Assignment - 10/27/11

1.  Click here.  Read the comments at the bottom.
Answer the questions here:

2.  Below this are two chatrooms.  Please answer the question in both, or you may respond to another's post.
Period 1 #1
Period 1 #2

Period 2 #1
Period 2 #2

Period 6 #1
Period 6 #2

3.  Now click here.  This is the assignment from #2.  Read your classmate's comments.

After 10 minutes of class, we will have a brief presentation.  Please pay attention.

4.  In a group or by yourself, please generate up to 5 rules for being a good Digital Citizen.  Please submit these rules HERE.

5.  I will hopefully have graded your Posterous accounts.  Check there.  If you edit it, please let me know.
Have your homework ready.  Tonight, study your words and prepare for next week's test.

If you are a "techno-geek" and are good with computers, I have extra credit for you.  See me!

Vocabulary extra credit:  Use one of our words in a Tweet!  Use the word correctly and add "#Vocab" to the end.  I will add +1% for each one (assuming you use the word correctly).  You can do one a day - that's up to 8 points of extra credit.  (There will be another assignment if you do not use Twitter) 

Extra Credit

Extra Credit:  English

Read p. 33
On p. 34, complete the "Writing".  Worth HW extra credit
Want more?
After you submit it, consult with Mr. Saltz.  Turn your chart into a compare/contrast essay.
Due Monday.

Extra Credit:  Literature and Public Policy
Find another food that seems healthy but has "hidden" ingredients or understated downsides.  Bring in a picture of the food and a written explanation of why it is really unhealthy. 

I've been a terrible classroom blogger

At the beginning of the year, I planned on using this space in order to communicate and reflect.  I would share grades, lessons, results, highs and lows. 

And then the school year started.

Suffice to say, blogging has not gone well so far.  Here's to a new beginning.

Some great stuff from English III:
We've started basic writing goals.  Our Juniors have great ideas, but terrible writing habits.  Instead of changing all of them at once, we're working on one goal at a time.  This week:  Perfect Capitalization.
We researched and peer-taught on our first group, The Puritans. 
Our vocabulary program, into its third week, had a big boost:  3 of our words were on the PSAT test! 
We're about 2 weeks away from our first novel (The Crucible)

From Literature and Social Policy:
Corn corn corn.  Ask your student how corn affects everything we eat.  We've read, watched, researched, and documented the government's role in producing cheap corn.  Our final project:  How do we educate others?

Online tools

We used www.posterous.com to track student writing.  And wordstash.com for vocabulary. 

2nd period gets the award for best blog posts, but 6th period wins for figuring out Profiles on posterous.  Make sure you are updated!

Gallery walk

Good stuff (mostly) on Puritans.

Classwork, October 13

Vocabulary games for List #3:  Click here

If you didn't get a paper:

1.     Go to www.posterous.com

2.     Sign up in the left-side of the screen.

3.     Type in your username, password, name, and e-mail account.

4.     Put your user name and password on the index card

5.     Click to accept terms of service, and then click Next.

6.     Type an entry:  “My first entry” or something easy.

7.     Choose different formatting if you wish (to bold, italic, etc.).

8.     Hit Post and Publish.

9.     Wait a few seconds and then hit View Web Page.

Vocabulary games:  Here