May 31

AGENDA:

1) Complete movie 
2) Review of class and year



HW: Literary Circle presentations tomorrow

May 30

AGENDA:

1) War Dance


DISASTER RELIEF MISSION
EDUCATION MISSION

Response to Dr. Preston's post

The project Dr. Preston is talking about is the EVOKE project.

ROGUE POST

Hey everyone, this isn't Mrs. Byrne writing-- it's Dr. Preston (click this link if you want to verify).  Thought I'd take a walk on the sophomore side and see what you're doing. 

Your projects look amazing!  But, I confess that I don't completely understand them.

So here's the deal: write a 1-3 paragraph comment to this post that describes why you're doing this project and what you hope to achieve in the world (beyond a star on your report card).  I will make it worth your while by rewarding anyone who posts by midnight tonight with one essay's worth of "A" credit in my class.

"Wait," says the enterprising sophomore honors student, "Who cares?  We're not even in his class!"

No kidding.  But, unlike the driver's license you probably don't have yet, this credit is transferable.  You can select any senior in my class-- or more than one-- and give them your total of 100 points or divide it among 100 seniors (actually, I only have 95 in class).  Of course, you could keep it all to yourself, but then you'll be missing all the fun: Have you ever had a senior owe you a favor?

Here's all you have to do after you get your 100 points.  Find a senior online or offline, ask him/her about the work we're doing in class, and determine how valuable you think the work is, both to the author(s) and the rest of the world.  Assign your points accordingly by logging on to Project Infinity (or sending our sys admin an email at: projectinfinitysite@gmail.com).  That's it.

Have fun... now teach me!

May 29

AGENDA:

1) Uganda
2) War Dance

May 24

AGENDA:

1) Poetry
2) TED - http://www.ted.com/talks/suheir_hammad_poems_of_war_peace_women_power.html
3) SOMALIA

"Break Clustered"

All holy history banned. Unwritten books predicted the future, projected the past. But my head unwraps around what appears limitless, man's creative violence. Whose son shall it be? Which male child will perish a new day? Our boys' deaths galvanize. We cherish corpses. We mourn women, complicated. Bitches get beat daily. Profits made, prophets ignored. War and tooth, enameled salted lemon childhoods. All colors run, none of us solid. Don't look for shadow behind me. I carry it within. I live cycles of light and darkness. Rhythm is half silence. I see now, I never was one and not the other. Sickness, health, tender violence. I think now I never was pure. Before form I was storm, blind, ign'ant -- still am. Human contracted itself blind, malignant. I never was pure. Girl spoiled before ripened. Language can't math me. I experience exponentially. Everything is everything. One woman loses 15, maybe 20, members of her family. One woman loses six. One woman loses her head. One woman searches rubble. One woman feeds on trash. One woman shoots her face. One woman shoots her husband. One woman straps herself. One woman gives birth to a baby. One woman gives birth to borders. One woman no longer believes love will ever find her. One woman never did. Where do refugee hearts go? Broken, dissed, placed where they're not from, don't want to be missed. Faced with absence. We mourn each one or we mean nothing at all. My spine curves spiral. Precipice running to and running from human beings. Cluster bombs left behind. De facto landmines. A smoldering grief. Harvest contaminated tobacco. Harvest bombs. Harvest baby teeth. Harvest palms, smoke. Harvest witness, smoke. Resolutions, smoke. Salvation, smoke. Redemption, smoke. Breathe. Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

May 23

AGENDA:

1) Congo - City of Hope - Speaker
2) Literary Circles HUMAN RIGHTS MISSION
PANDEMIC MISSION

May 22

AGENDA:

1) Kenya - Story of the Kikuyu Tribe "Pink Cheeks"

May 21

AGENDA:


1) Analyzing "Nomadic Life" from Niger

May 18

AGENDA:

1) Sudan - Darfur
2) Video overview on Darfur

May17

AGENDA:

1) African Children's Books

LITERATURE ANALYSIS[1]

May 16

AGENDA:

1) Angels in the Dust

HW: EVOKE Extra Credit

ENERGY MISSION
POVERTY

May 15

AGENDA:


1) South Africa - Apartheid
2) Apartheid Video
3) AIDS PPT
4) Angels in the Dust

May 14

AGENDA:

1) Miniature Earth
2) Peace in Africa PPT
3) What we Eat

EVOKE PROJECT!

May 11

AGENDA:

1) Speaker

May 10

AGENDA:

1) Literature Circles - African
2) Plan next three weeks in your groups

HW: Don't leave vocabulary and literary terms to the last minute for your final LITERATURE+CIRCLES2
WATER MISSION
FOOD MISSION

May 9

AGENDA:

1) Unit Test

May 8

AGENDA:

1) Complete trial


HW: Unit Test tomorrow

May 7

AGENDA:

1) Trial begins

HW: Unit Test on Wednesday

May 4

AGENDA:

1) Science Projects

HW: Prepare for trial


Trial will proceed as follows:
- Opening statement by plaintiff's attorney
- Opening statement by defendant's attorney
- Interrogation of plaintiff's witnesses by attorney for the plaintiff
- Cross examination of plaintiff's witnesses by attorney for the defendant
- Interrogation of defendant's witnesses by attorney for the defendant
- Cross examination of defendant's witnesses by attorney for the plaintiff
- Closing arguments from both attorneys
- Jury will deliberate and submit verdict in writing to judge
- Judge will read aloud the verdict

May 3

AGENDA:

1) Science Presentations

HW: Prepare for trial and unit test

May 2

AGENDA:

1) Themes
2) Roles for the Trial of the Monster


HW: Science presentations start tomorrow; begin to prepare for trial