A LETTER TO PETER STONE

The year is 1800 and you have recently arrived in New York City as an Immigrant from London England. You arrived on the Red Rose after being rescued from your island...TINKER'S ISLAND.

Write Peter Stone, back home and tell him about your adventure, and about your new life in America.

AVATAR REVIEW

Bring this REVIEW completed to class on Wednesday, March 19, 2010

Review for TV argentona

(Include illustrative photograms when pertinent)

The review should contain references to the Plot,

A description of the fictitious locations,

The camerawork,

Evaluation of the different components of the

Soundtrack

(Narration techniques sound FX, music, etc.)

Specific, descriptive comments about the different actors and their performance,

Comments on the special FX that reflect your

Investigation of how they were made and your opinion about how they “worked” in the film

And finally,

A FOUNDED recommendation either encouraging or dissuading a potential movie-goer considering seeing this film

P0ST YOUR REVIEW ON YOUR BLOG

YOU WILL RECEIVE A MAXIMUM OF 10 POINTS EACH FOR EACH OF THESE 10 ASPECTS OF YOU REVIEW

DARWIN AWARDS

Darwin Awards is a competition, named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, in which awards are given to people who “ who ensure the long-term survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion”.

Wendy Northcutt, who runs darwinawards.com and has stated five requirements for her Darwin Award:

1. The nominee must be dead or rendered sterile.

2. The nominee’s foolishness must be unique and sensational.

3. The nominee must have injured or killed themselves, rather than a third party.

4. The nominee must be at least past the legal driving age and mentally healthy.

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

Invent a story for Darwin Awards. Write a short paragraph describing what happened. Try to use different narrative tenses and publish it on your blog.

go HERE and answer thes simple questions.

NEW MOON TRAILER QUIZ http://www.eslvideo.com/quiz_begin.php?id=2970&pagenum=1

Where is the Love....IN CATALAN

Go to: http://dotsub.com/view/7ac3ac20-9741-44c5-b949-70a61b29cdca

Follow the instructions to Sign up (register) for this web (it takes about 2 minutes).

Translate at least 4 lines (any ones you want that are not already translated)

Then copy the "embed code" and embed it on your blog page.

GOOD LUCK.... and hopefully on Wednesday, we will have the whole song in CATALAN

YES WE CAN !! OBAMA INAUGURATION

Use the internet search to answer these 3 questions. and send me the answers on FACEBOOK.

1. On Sunday, January 18th (my birthday!!) Obama held a huge concert at the Lincoln Memorial
Park. How many bands played? .... AND which 3 are your favorite.

2. Monday, January 19th was MARTIN LUTHER KINGS BIRTHDAY, an important holiday
in the United States. Tell me 2 important things Obama did this day.

3. Yesterday, January 20th Obama was inaugurated 44th president of the U.S.A. Read (skim,
don't read it all....it's much to long) and find ONE thing that you think is important to the international community. Something interesting for you, for the world in general.
Copy it, translate it, and send it to me.

This week is the premiere of TWILIGHT in our country. That's a good reason to know something about that phenomenon in all the world. (thanks God, Harry Potter has a substitute)
Above all, I reccomend you reading the book, before seeing the movie.

Plot summary
Isabella "Bella" Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona, to rainy Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. She chooses to do this so that her mother, Renée, can travel with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, who is a minor league baseball player. In Phoenix she was a bit of an outcast, so it surprises her that she attracts much attention at her new school, and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys in the school compete for shy Bella's attention.
When Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. He even attempts to change his schedule to avoid her, leaving Bella completely puzzled about his attitude towards her. After tricking a family friend, Jacob Black, into telling her the local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires. Although she was inexplicably attracted to him even when she thought Edward drank human blood, she is much relieved to learn that the Cullens choose to abstain from drinking human blood, and drink animal blood instead. Edward reveals that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love.
The seemingly perfect state of their relationship is thrown into chaos when another vampire coven sweeps into Forks, and James, a tracker vampire, decides that he wants to hunt Bella for sport. The Cullens plan to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in Phoenix. Bella then gets a phone call from James in which he says that he has her mother, and Bella must give herself up to James at her old dance studio, to save her. She does so, and while at the dance studio, James attacks her. Edward, along with the rest of the Cullen family, rescue Bella before James can kill her. Once they realize that James has bitten Bella's hand, Edward sucks the venom out of her system before it can spread and change her into a vampire. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their prom and Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses to let happen.

Now invent 4 questions about this Plot Summary to test your classmates.

Use these key words:

1. Surprised
2.Phoenix
3. Renee
5. Outcast
6. shy
7. a lot of boys
8. repulsed
9. tricking a family friend
10 animal blood
11.a tracker vampire
12. her old dance studio
13 sucks the blood out of her hand
14. he refuses


Post them on your blog.

MORE VAMPIRES

Today, read the comments on your vampire stories. Then go to the "corrections page" and edit your blog the incorportate the corrections.

Now try making a voice-recording of your vampire story. Tell it in an appropriate voice.

Next, investigate the movie "TWILIGHT" on the internet.
tell me 1. Where exactly did the idea for the movie come from?
2. Who are the principal charaters in the film?
3. Where is the film set?
4. Copy one interesting dialogue from the trailor. (4 lines)
5. How do you think the story ends?

TWILIGHT and YOUR FRIEND THE VAMPIRE

Go to the link for the new TWILIGHT movie.

Watch the movie at least twice and then answer the questions on the online quiz page.

Now invent a story...part in catalan and part in english...where you discover that one of your friends is a vampire.

The setting should be Argentona (both the village and the surrounding countryside, the time TWILIGHT and you and your friends are the characters.

Use the google image search to help set the backdrop and illustrate your story.

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=794

ARGENTONA "ROCKSTAR"

Your video is ready....now you have to write in the "subtitles" !! (next class).

But first:
FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY:
1. copy the code for this video at YouTube and Post the video on your site.
2. write in YOUR BLOG the sentance (verse, or line) immediately before your re-mixed line,
then your line, then the line afterwards. (three lines from memory).
Try to do it without looking at the words, then look at the lyrics and see how much was correct.

3. On your blog write the sentance..."If I were a rock star..........." and finish it with the correct form of
the part you play in the video using the conditional or "hypothetical" tense like in this example:
If I were a rockstar, I would have a big black jet with a bedroom in it.

ROCKSTAR - " REMIX"

CHOOSE TWO SCENES FROM THE VIDEO-CLIP THAT YOU THINK YOU CAN IMITATE BETTER.

IN GROUPS OF 4 TAKE TURNS ACTING-OUT AND SHOOTING THESE SCENES.

INSERT-EDIT YOUR NEW SCENES INTO THE ORIGINAL VIDEO ( WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES FOR THE PARTS YOU CHANGE) AND POST THE RESULT ON YOUR BLOG.

OBAMA: Reactions around the world

Use the internet search to find an international message (not from the u.s) related to Obama's being elected President of the U.S.A. and post it here. Translate it to Catalan.

FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17th QUESTIONS + ANSWERS

Use the LINKS on the side column to enter your classmates blogs and look at their projects.

Make at least one CHALLENGING QUESTION to each of them about their project in the COMMENT link at the end of their last blog.

ANSWER all of your classmates' questions in your final presentation.

For example: Albert, did you eat on the ave? How was the food?

ORAL PRESENTATION, POLLS AND QUESTIONS FOR FRIDAY.

FOR FRIDAY:

ON YOUR BLOG:
Prepare a POLL to see if how many students know an important fact about your project. (i.e. mine, about the length of the Nile River).

ORAL PRESENTATION IN CLASS:
Introduce your subject to the class. Show us at least 2 photographs and tell us something about them. (post these on your blogger with brief description)

Ask the class two questions about the subject of your project to see how much they already know. (post these questions on your blogger)

Show us at least 2 websites and tell us something you have learned about your projects on each of them.


Prepare one question for each of the other projects. (use the "classmate links" on your page to see their projects.

PUBLISH POSSIBLE RESOURCES

To help FOCUS the subject of your project, (make it more specific) look for resources on the internet that might be useful in completing your project. Be sure they are in english and that you can understand them well enough to use them in your project. Examples may include: pictures, YouTube videos, websites, other blogger sites, facebook etc.

POST these resources on your webpage. For example use the "link list" to reference possible websites.

POST a mimimum of 5 links to resources about your project.

Also edit your BLOGGER page to include the subject of your project in the "interest" window.

My project is going to be about:
BIKING THE NILE RIVER

STUDENT PROJECTS

FIRST: GIVE YOUR PROJECT A NAME

THEN: Go to GOOGLE IMAGES (or any other image bank) and publish a picture that you think best represents the project you are going to research for class

BLOGWORK FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 9

POST AN AD, COMERCIAL, OR PUBLIC SERVICE ANOUNCEMENT THAT YOU REALLY LIKE, AND TELL ME WHY. ALSO START BRAINSTORMING IDEAS FOR YOUR OWN AD. IT CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING. YOU MUST PROMOTE AN IDEA, A PRODUCT, OR ANYTHING YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT IN NO MORE THAN 20 SECONDS. YOU CAN USE YOUR OWN IMAGES OR COPY THEM FROM CYBERSPACE.

BLOGWORK, Friday, March 28th

After posting a YouTube version of your favorite English song and the lyrics in the side column, navigate and investigate the net to find out about her/his biography. Post an article entitle "WHO IS your artist's name"

BE SURE to include:

where he or she is from, how they got started in the music world, their first and famous songs, and some interesting or curious anecdotal information.

DO NOT LIMIT YOUR SELF TO THE COPY/PASTE TECHNICQUE. READ THE INFORMATION YOU FIND AND PUT IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

FOUNDATIONS