Project Classroom: Mental Map

Hello again :)
You are part of a planning committee to organize an ecologically friendly park. Organize your ideas using a mental map, which you'll make in class.
This is the information you have to include in your mental map. Images can help you illustrate your ideas.
The central idea is : Ecologically Friendly Park.
From this idea, derive the following points:
1.  5 ways to use recycled materials in your park
2.  5 ways to promote recycling in your park
3.   Community involvement
      3.1  What can the park do for the community?
      3.2  How can the community contribute to the park?
4.  Signs
     4.1  What 6 street signs will you use to keep your park safe?
     4.2  What 6 signs will you use to promote recycling and respect for the environment inside your park?
5. 3 ways in which green energy will be used in your park
6.  Vision:  define your committee's purpose in terms of its values. This will inspire people to contribute time and money to your park.

How you will be graded

a) Did you include all 6 points?
b) Organization of your ideas
c) Are your images pertinent and clear?
d) Teamwork: was the work divided equally and did all the members of the team contribute?
e) Innovative ideas
f) Presentation: is your poster professional and easy to read?

Bring all your information, images and material for tomorrow's class.

Project Classroom: Crossword Puzzle Help

Hello all,
You all had a difficult time solving your crossword puzzle. Here's a website which can help you.

http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

All you do is type in your definition, click on "Find Word" and it will give you a list of possible words. Together with the vocabulary from this blog (Continued, Friday Nov. 18th), find the correct words. I hope this helps. This puzzle is due tomorrow.

Continued...

After watching the video, complete the sentences with options a-m below.

1.   Traditional ways of constructing buildings and sites create __________.

2.   Trucks use __________ that create __________.

3.  Conventional manufacturing materials like __________ require __________ and         cause __________.

4.  Recycled materials reduce the need for ____________________.

5.  Wood and metal can be used to make __________.

6.  The steel can be used to make __________.

7.  The remaining wood can be converted into __________.

8.  The recycled glass could be turned into __________.

9.  Glass pebbles help with __________.

10.With sustainable reconstruction ____________________.

a)      park lights and bike racks.

b)      additional pollution.

c)      pollution and waste.

d)     recycled benches.

e)      everything old can be made new again.

f)       an aesthetic ground cover.

g)      fossil fuels.

h)      wood chips used as mulch.

i)        watering filtration.

j)        new materials to be made and transported to the new site.

k)      carbon dioxide emissions.

l)        concrete, steel and wood.

m)    toxic chemicals

Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

1. Do you think this system could be implemented in your city? Why or why not?

2. Can you think of an abandoned site near where you live that could be  reconstructed using existing materials? What materials are available? How would you use them to build a park?

Friday Nov 28th: Lab Activity

Hello all,

Watch the video on youtube about building a park out of waste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcGNp7T4wY

Copy the document above (Continued) onto your e-mail and aswer the questions as you watch the second time.
Watch the video again.
Answer the questions.
Print the document and bring it to class on Monday.
Don´t send me an e-mail.

Homework for Thursday, October 3rd, 2011

Hello All :)

I hope you're having a great time celebrating Day of the Dead.  For those people who weren't in class on Monday, here's the homework you have for tomorrow. Workbook pg 31 and 32: grammar 3 a, b and c. Also, don't forget to turn in your videos tomorrow. You'll get 1 point for correcting your scripts if you turn them in.
Remember to study for your verb test. From the Student's Book, on page 155, all tenses and Spanish: from get-run.

Thank you and see you tomorrow.

Video and Script

Hello all :)

Please bring your script and your video on Monday. One script per team.
Include:
Presenter
     Introduction to the program.
     Introduce the first inventor
 First inventor
     Past invention
     Present invention
     Future invention
Second inventor
     Past invention
     Present invention
     Future invention
Third inventor
     Past invention
     Present invention
     Future invention
Presenter: Conclusion

Use your formulas!! ]Write original sentences. If you copy/paste, your homework will have no value.
Write simple sentences. For example.

Presenter:  Hello everyone and welcome to our show today. We have a very exciting program. We have 3    innovative inventors with us today. Please welcome our first inventor, Dr. Garcia. She studied at Harvard, but she is a Mexican inventor.
Dr. Garcia, what did you invent two years ago?

Dr.: I invented a wonderful, resistant plastic to trap heat. You can cover your green houses. My invention is very cheap. Everyone can grow organic vegetables in their garden.

Presenter: That sounds wonderful! What do you have for us today?

Dr.: I'm here to show you my newest invention. It's a mini solar panel. It's so small  you can put in anywhere. You can collect and use the energy of the sun.

Presenter:  Wow! That sounds great. What will you invent in the future?

Dr.: In the future, I will invent a mini wind turbine. You can collect the energy of the wind and power your home during the winter. It's very small, so if you live in a small house or an aparment, you can have one.

Presenter: That sounds amazing! Thank you Dr.  Now, our next inventor...

Inventor 2
Inventor 3

Conclusion:  Thank you for being with us today. Hope you watch the program tomorrow. Thank you inventors!!

Feist: A Pop Star with a Punk Rock Past Listening from NPR

Here's a link to the interview with Feist and a copy of the transcript

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/30/140857143/feist-a-pop-star-with-a-punk-rock-past

Transcript

Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past

Introduction by the reporter (Short summary of what you’re going to include in your audio/video)

It's been four years since Leslie Feist released "1234," the career-making single that also became a testament to the power of a still-nascent YouTube. Feist, who performs under her last name, took some time off from performing after that surge in popularity. But she'll return next week with Metals, her first new album since 2007.

Insert Audio: Feist as a punk rocker

Feist may have made her name with sunny pop, but as she tells Morning Edition guest host David Greene, she got into music as a teenage punk rocker.

R: Where was your punk rocker kid shaped?

"I lived in Calgary at that point," she says, "and my world was super-limited. I was in choirs and stuff. But I was also starting to go to gigs that were happening at the community halls."

R: Is Mom worried hearing you screaming and punking out when you were a kid?

Feist fronted a Calgary punk band for several years, during which time she met Brendan Canning, her future band mate in the indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene. She released her first solo album, Monarch (Lay Your Jeweled Head Down), in 1999, and followed it with 2004's Let It Die — her major-label debut, which featured the song "Gatekeeper."

Insert Audio: Song “Gatekeeper”

R: “There’s a lot of romance in that album, but it was sad. It wasn’t romance that ended well.”

F: “When does it ever end well?” “I mean if it ends then it’s not ending well, it’s ending! And if it keeps going then it’s not about ending.”

" 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame, or boundaries, around song writing, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had an end result in mind," Feist says. "I haven't written many like that. 'Gatekeeper' was sort of like, 'I think I know what I want it to be about, so how do I go about writing about that?' "

R: “Can I ask you about Sesame Street?”

Insert Audio: Song “1-2-3-4”

It was Feist's fourth album, The Reminder, that birthed "1234" and its clever, colorful music video. The latter was featured in an iPod commercial and became a YouTube smash, and the song reached a younger audience when Feist performed it (with revised lyrics) on Sesame Street. Time magazine ranked it at No. 2 on its Top 10 songs of 2007. But what's funny, Feist says, is that her original vision for the song was more in line with her punk roots.

"When I first played '1234,' it was on stage in San Francisco, in some kind of sticky-floored club, and it felt like a punk song," she says. "I know it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had a kind of piercing straight melody, and then this fist-pumping ending. ... It just felt so simple in an absolutely non-patronizing way, and it's so funny that the song I approached with that sensibility became what it did, and turned everything on its head."

R: “Was there a downside to doing something that became really commercial?”

F: “It’s a double-edged sword”

R: “What was one day where you could describe to someone where you could really convince them this really got tough, you needed to escape for a while?”

F: “At the end of the day, ultimately I just got tired.”

Metals arrives in the U.S. on Tuesday. Feist says the title is about mutability.

"Metals can be found unforged and raw, and molten in the center of the earth," she says. "But they can also be highly refined and turned into little tiny jewelry."

Insert Audio: Song “Cicadas and Gulls”