Fat Americans?? Fat World!

If you’re cool (and I think you are), check out this link. It’s a TIME Photo Essay illustrating the food families will eat in one week according to which part of the world they live in. Check it out!

Seriously!??!

Wow. Do you REALLY think I am that mean? Turn in your homework on a day we don't even have school??? No, you do not have anything due on community service day. On Monday, however, your final photo from OB (or wherever you chose) is due (although you should email me by then your THREE photos I asked of you from OB)- bring it either printed, or put it on your blog, and your creative writing from MOPA should be posted on your blog. If you are in honors, you need to have your book report due by Monday(it is only ever due on Mondays). Furthermore, we will work on the FBI project at school - but if you want to do research to make your life easier, feel free to do so. Hope everyone has a great community service day and an amazing weekend.

All my love,
Elika :)

FBI Project Sign-Ups

Below, find the dossier assignments for the FBI project (since this is first come, first serve, these are who have responded with their options):

Period 1/2:

Zoli: Thomas Paine
Zach: St. George Tucker
Alina: Catherine Macaulay Graham
Anthony: James Monroe
Paris: Aaron Burr
Xochil: Richard Henry Lee
Daniel: Daniel Shays
Mason: Lord Cornwallis
Viktor: Marquis de Lafayette
Nikolai: Philip Mazzei
Matt: Thomas Jefferson
Alex: Sam Adams
Colleen: George Washington
JeRevien: Phillis Wheatley
Nathan: John Locke
Maryross: Benedict Arnold
Anna: Anne Hutchinson
Sophia: King George
Molly: Ben Franklin
Minh: James Madison
Ethan: Alexander Hamilton
Jordan: Patrick Henry
Myles: John Jay



Period 3/5:

Eli: Adam Smith
Cori: King George III
Alejandra: Thomas Jefferson
Hilary: James Monroe
Jackie: John Jay
Ellis: Daniel Shays
Sandra: Richard Henry Lee
Veronica: Aaron Burr
Mayra: Ben Franklin
Mya: Marquis de Lafayette
Chris: Lord Cornwallis
Garrett: Benedict Arnold
Giselle: George Washington
Danielle: John Locke
Michael: Sam Adams
Yura: Governor Morris
Addilene: Catherine Macauley Graham
Enrique: Alexander Hamilton
Haidee: Patrick Henry
Bree: Thomas Paine

Welcome Novice Agents...

Colonial F.B.I. Project

Create an FBI file on one of the following explorers, scientists, or leaders who played a pivotal role during the American Revolution.

King George III; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; Patrick Henry; Marquis de Lafayette; John Jay; Sam Adams; Richard Henry Lee; Benjamin Franklin; Alexander Hamilton; St. George Tucker; William Franklin; George Mason; John Locke; Aaron Burr; Samuel Chase; Robert Morris; Richard Dobbs Spaight; Daniel Shays; Philip Mazzei; Benedict Arnold; Edmund Randolph; Gouverneur Morris; Catherine Macaulay Graham; Phillis Wheatley; Thomas Paine; Lord Cornwallis; Jonathon Mayhew; Anne Hutchinson

It should include, at the very least, all of the following information:

· Name

· Brief history (family, personal, significant dates/events)

· Known contacts

· Stats – height, weight, clothes size, hairstyle

· Financial statements (bank accounts, investments, and the like)

· Favorite foods

· Favorite drink

· Jewelry preference

· Embarrassing moments

· Naughty facts – taste in women/men; affairs with other(s)

· Secret conversations

Dossier must also have:

Image:

· Digitally modified to represent the person twenty years older or younger than actual age

· Aim to resemble F.B.I. aesthetics

Works Cited

Written component:

· Three to four page mini research paper. What has your individual contributed to our world? What do you imagine we would be like without their existence? (SIGNIFICANCE) Is there someone similar from society today or modern history you can compare this individual to? You must utilize the following source:

Trial Research Site:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sand07018

Password:

peace

Due:

Digital Bit: December 20

Fact Sheet: December 20

Essay Outline: December 20

Final Product: January8

E:prompt - Thomson's Violin

Please take some time to reflect on the following classical ethical dilemma.

Thomson’s Violin

One day, you wake up in hospital. In the nearby bed lies a world famous violinist who is connected to you with various tubes and machines.

To your horror, you discover that you have been kidnapped by the Music Appreciation Society. Aware of the maestro’s impending death, they hooked you up to the violinist.

If you stay in the hospital bed, connected to the violinist, he will be totally cured in nine months. You are unlikely to suffer harm. No one else can save him. Do you have an obligation to stay connected?

Make sure to explain your reasoning thoroughly. Note what assumptions your choices make about your ethical value system. Is one life ever worth more than another? Is saving one life worth a terrible inconvenience to someone else - even a random stranger? Are there certain conditions under which you might agree to remain hooked up to the violinist, but not others? What if it weren’t a violinist (how dated is that?), but instead your favorite musician or artist? What if it were me...better yet, what if it were ROSS!?!

I’m also asking that you reflect and comment on at least two of your classmates posts on this topic. Thoughtfully challenge their thinking! We’ll be doing E:prompts like this regularly now. Sometimes we will use classic ethical dilemmas - which moral philosophers make careers out of debating and thinking about - and sometimes we will use ethical dilemmas from my own personal life. Eventually I’ll be inviting you to offer different dilemmas you’ve encountered in your life, and as a class we’ll wrestle with the ramifications.

Barder and the Flying Turban - Creative Reflection

Assuming the dog in your story is named Barder, and that the orange turban gives him the power of flight, anyway…

Your assignment is to respond to the above visual prompt. Write something you’ll be proud to share and display.

Charity Event - Thursday, December 14th

Vocabulary.Week.13.

Back to another round of fresh vocabulary words this week. The set has several closely related words, so pay attention to the connections and use them as cues to help you study.

You also have a set of photovocabulary due Thursday. I’d like you to choose FOUR words to respond to, with explanations. Bonus if you take any of the pictures yourself. About the picture above (by Rene Gagon) I might say the following:

There is clearly a blatant parallel to the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, pictured below. But there’s something more subtle happening here too; almost a power hand-off between the traditional ‘arts’ (indicated by the paint brush), to the more modern, often marginalized forms of art such as tagging (indicated by the aerosol spray paint).

Your words for the week below. Study!

subtle -
vehement -
zealous -
adverse -
averse -
blatant -
alleged -
aggravate -
discreet -
factoid -
flout -
forte -
disinterested -