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For some reason, it seems as though you can not read a portion of the trial requirements... However, it's a magic trick! :)

The text is all there...you just need to highlight the text that isn't showing, and it will show up.

Good luck! :)

Elika

I am sorry...

So coming back to school on Thursday was apparently a bit of my high hopes. But know that I did not come back early out of love...I don't wish upon ANYONE what I feel like right now...But please know that I have missed you, and I wanted to get closer to moving forward on this project and your preparing for Exhibition.

I have a doctor's appointment for 5:15 today...if I can even get out of bed long enough to make it there safely. Please know that it absolutely KILLS me to know that I am not at school supporting you...I am very proud of all the work you have done. I really wish I could be there with you.

Don't forget that we will have a vocabulary quiz tomorrow - if you have any questions, please contact me!! Also, we will be doing current events...

Again, please forgive me for not being around this week. I would give anything to get out of bed and be with all of you.

Miss and love you,
(And very proud of all the work you’re doing. Seriously, I really am!)

Elika :)

Good job, Garrett and Darnell!!! :)

They did SUCH a good job that night! The show ran sooo smoothly, thanks to Garrett, and Darnell was hilarious! Great job, gentlemen! :)

Mindmaps...

In case you want to do a mindmap instead of a traditional outline...

mind42.com

Have fun!

Additional Resources...

http://www.debate-central.org/research/

http://www.ncpa.org/

Let's support our team! :)

Garrett Palensky has been interning at the San Diego Rep Theater this semester. For his final project, he was asked to create his own comedy show, “Common Sense” featuring four San Diego comics (including our very own Darnell Price). Garrett has been responsible for producing this show, planning the event, and marketing it to the community. All proceeds will go to the San Diego Rep Theater in Horton Plaza, long time mentors to our students. Please plan to come out and support both our students and internships!! The event is on Monday, May 19^th from 7-8PM. Tickets are $12/ Students $7 - Let me know who is in and we can plan to go together!

Check this beauty out!!!

Look at the success some of our classmates have had already!!!! :)

Read the emails below from bottom to top...Congrats guys! I am so proud of you! I acknowledge you all for your hard work, and for creating such amazing possibilities for these people! I am so excited to see what comes out of this! :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Gauthier Dieudonne [mailto:gdieudonne@fonkoze.org]
Sent: Sat 4/26/2008 11:32 PM
To: Fonkoze@aol.com; Danielle Nisan
Subject: RE: Seed Donations

Hi guys

This is exciting. As I am reading this, it seems like you heard my call. I
have been asking for seeds such as carrots, cabbage, eggplant, beats,onions,
tomatoes and okra to provide to the 150 families who are part of the CLM
program at Fonkoze. The rainy season has started and we already have them
preparing the ground for them to have a vegetable garden. Seeds right would
come in pretty handy. I got some promise from some people but we haven't
received anything yet. It is very commendable what you guys are doing. There
are very few 11th graders who bother thinking about world hunger or even
consider doing something about it. I wish you courage and continuity in your
endeavor.

Thank you in advance in the name of our CLM members.

Gauthier Dieudonne

CLM/Tikredi Director
at Fonkoze.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fonkoze@aol.com [mailto:Fonkoze@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:41 AM
To: dnisan@hightechhigh.org
Cc: gdieudonne@fonkoze.org
Subject: Re: Seed Donations


Dear Danielle, Alejandra, Mya and Eli,

Thanks to all of you for your foresight and the action you have taken to
start up CEED. It is a wonderful concept and will be a wonderful
contribution to the food problem in Haiti.

It also comes as a gift from heaven for Fonkoze. We have a program for the
"ultra-poor" (that means the poorest of the poor), those who have absolutely
no assets whatsoever. We select them through a process in which we get a
village of about 50 families to help us map out the village and classify
everyone in it according to their wealth or lack of wealth. Then we do home
studies of those in the poorest categories so that we can be sure we are
selecting only those families that could not make it in any of our regular
microcredit programs. Then we work with these very poorest families for an
18-month period to help them build their confidence, start some kind of
enterprise (like raising chickens), and help them to grow the enterprise
until they can feed their families. During the 18 months we make sure all
the kids are in school, that everyone has access to health care, that they
have a house that doesn't leak, that they have a latrine, etc. One of the
things we are trying to do with them now is help them learn to plant food
that would be healthy for the families -- and we desperately need seeds! All
we have been able to find is seeds for trees, but we want seed for
vegetables or small fruit trees like lime trees or avocado trees.

I am copying the director of the program -- Gauthier Dieudonne -- on this
email so that he will know of your program and can communicate with you
exactly what he needs in terms of seeds. He is a wonderful Haitian man, and
I am sure he would be happy to email you. Although both of us are right now
on our way to India where there is going to be a meeting of the four
institutions from around the world that are all trying programs like this.
Actually the program was started by a institution called BRAC (Bangladesh
Rural Advancement Committee) in Bangladesh. The program is now being
replicated in Haiti, India, Pakistan and Ethiopia.

I thought you might like to see a picture of one of the families as we
found them. I am also sending you a picture of Gauthier. By the way, if you
go on our website and look at the recent newsletters, you will find an
article about this program. It's called Chemen Lavi Miyo, which means in
Creole "The Pathway to a Better Life". It's the Fall 2007 issue.

Again, thank you so much for the action you have taken!
Anne Hastings


Anne H. Hastings
Director, Fonkoze
Ave Christophe, #119
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Tel: (509) 2-513-9082; 2-221-7631
Fax: (509) 2-245-7254
Cell: (509) 3-701-3910 or (509) 3-556-3910
From the US: 1-800-293-0308


Please see our website at www.fonkoze.org




In a message dated 4/25/2008 11:26:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
dnisan@hightechhigh.org writes:
Dear Ms. Hasting;

I am an 11th grader at High Tech High International in San Diego.
Recently, in my humanities class, we have been talking about the global
food crisis and we are looking for ways to help. I am trying to
incorporate another project I am doing right now. A group of three
other students and myself are starting a non-profit called Community
Environmental Education and Development (C.E.E.D).

My plan is to ask people within our community to help send seeds to
Haiti in a program called "Send CEEDs". I would love to start up the
program but we still need a base in Haiti to send our donations. Let me
know if you think you can help and if there is any changes you may have.

If you could please contact me as soon as possible that would be very
helpful.

Thank you,
Danielle Nisan
Email: dnisan@hightechhigh.org
Phone: (619)916-8606

Other co-founders of C.E.E.D:
Alejandra Torrero
Mya Clausius-Davis
Eli Parzen

Internship Reminders

Internship:

Your DP must be updated immediately. Erin has been kind enough to be flexible with you, but if you do not have your photojournalism site up and ready FRIDAY, April 25th, then you will get a ZERO. Get it done!!!!!

Your DP must be updated, and must include the following:

1. A link to your internship
2. Site name - description of work/mission
3. Link to mentor interview
   
4. Link to project proposal/summary of their site/project
5. Picture of you from your internship

Also, May 7th is the Internship Exhibition!!!

California Association for High-Speed Trains

Here is some more information if you wanted to learn more about the rail proposal:

http://mmiller81.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/california-high-speed-rail-proposal/

If you are interested, I can send you the mindmap I created for it (although not very detailed).

READ ME...

I hope you all have a great weekend - I will be enjoying myself in Boston as the Red Sox devour the dreaded Yankees. :)

Your only homework for the weekend is to make sure your Hall of Icons project is finished to showcase and present on Monday.

Also, I want you all to brainstorm for your nonprofits. Feel free to comment below on what genre you want to work on. Use this information to help you determine who is in the nonprofit, etc.

Also, we will have vocabulary for the week, as well as current events.

Don't roll your eyes at me Maryross.

I will miss you all!

Elika :)

Reminders

College Day:

1. Permission slips due
2. Dress Professionally
3. You MUST go to internship on time
1. If you are taking public transportation FROM there, make sure you have mapquested beforehand, so you do not get lost!!!
   

For more information: nacacnet.org


Internship:

Your DP must be updated by next Monday, April 14th...It must include the following:

1. A link to your internship
2. Site name - description of work/mission
3. Link to mentor interview
   
4. Link to project proposal/summary of their site/project
5. Picture of you from your internship

April - Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Friends,

Many people don't know that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Well if ya don't know, now ya know!!

Current statistics are that an American is raped every 2 minutes. In case you don't feel like doing the math that's 30 every hour, 720 every day, and 262,800 every year.

Worldwide the numbers are 1 in 3 girls under the age of 18 and 1 in 4 boys under the age of 18. For adults it's 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men.

How many of these survivors do you know? How many of these survivors are our own loved ones? How many of us are survivors of sexual assault ourselves?

Stop the violence! Spread the knowledge!

The good news is that there has been a 35% increase in rapes reported to the police. Let's keep this trend going! Let's support our fellow community members by creating safe spaces for people to share their experiences, by educating ourselves on the facts about rape, and by sharing this information with our loved ones and the generations to come.

Check out these links and educate yourself!

http://www.ncjrs.gov/notices/ovw/saam/

http://www.sa.psu.edu/UHS/sexassault/assault.cfm

http://www.rainn.org/

And a helpful site for anyone going through (or about to go through) legalities:

http://criminal.findlaw.com/?DCMP=KWC-G-PUBLIC

Is this true???

So my brother just moved to Beijing to teach English until next November...As he was on gmail chat letting me know he cannot check our blog out from China (banned), he sent me this link...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wbody25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixworld.html

25 Reasons Why I Support Barack Obama

It really is as easy as this...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/8/152147/6944/588/472335%5C

Princeton - Early Year Abroad

February 19, 2008

Princeton Plans for an Early Year Abroad

By KAREN W. ARENSON

Seizing on students’ desire for a year off before college, Princeton University is working to create a program to send a tenth or more of its newly admitted students to a year of social service work in a foreign country before they set foot on campus as freshmen.

Princeton’s president, Shirley M. Tilghman, said in an interview that such a program would give students a more international perspective, add to their maturity and give them a break from academic pressures. She called it a year of “cleansing the palate of high school, giving them a year to regroup.”

Dr. Tilghman, speaking ahead of an announcement Tuesday, said that she hoped to begin the program in 2009 and that Princeton would not charge tuition for the year abroad, and would even offer financial assistance to those who needed it. A committee of faculty and staff members, as well as students, is to work out other details.

Growing numbers of high school students have opted to take a “gap year” before entering college, and many colleges offer one-year deferrals to students they admit. A small industry has developed to place some of them in work or travel experiences in other countries that often cost thousands of dollars. But experts say they believe that Princeton will be the first university to formalize such a program for entering freshmen, though many institutions offer study-abroad programs for students already on campus.

Proponents of the year off say it allows students to discover themselves and the world before they enter college.

“People are too young when they start college,” said Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education. “This way, they would have a year to mature, and they can do something constructive.”

Dr. Goodman said most programs sending high school students to study in other countries placed the students with host families. And, he said, college students who enter study-abroad programs usually go after a couple of years of college, so they have had more experience living independently.

As for Princeton’s idea, he said: “I can imagine the lawyers having some hesitation about this. The kids are young. The university doesn’t know them yet. And it is not safe in every country in the world.”

But, he added, “I still think it’s neat, and that it’s very doable.”

The university said it expected to start with a smaller group of students and expand to 10 percent or more of its entering class.

Dr. Tilghman said that she recognized that not all families would be interested in the program, but that she expected it to appeal to many. She said that the university had enough money to run the program for a couple of years and that she expected to raise more to pay for it on a permanent basis.

The committee to be announced Tuesday will work out details including what the program will cost, the legal issues, how students are to be selected and what organizations they may work with abroad.

MoPA's 3rd Annual Youth Exhibition - Writing with Light

MoPA’s 3^rd Annual Youth Exhibition

Writing with Light:

Call for Entries!

As part of the Museum of Photographic Arts’ new vision to become an institution for visual learning and to support the museum’s education programs, MoPA is proud to present this year’s third youth exhibition entitled Writing with Light on view from September 13 to December 4, 2008. The exhibition will illustrate the connections between photography and literacy using the photographic arts as inspiration. San Diego students in grades K-12 are invited to submit photographs to the exhibition.

Inspired by the exhibition, A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall & the Art of Photography, which will be on view concurrently, the youth exhibition, serves as a great opportunity to recognize talented students across San Diego County. By linking the subject of photography with writing, Writing with Light provides students an opportunity for expression through both a visual and narrative connection. A jury of museum staff, docents, and field professionals will select the final photographs to be exhibited in September 2008. The exhibition will hang alongside A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall & the Art of Photography and will bring together the significance of viewing photography fundamentally through writing, while offering a new way of looking at the medium.

If you have any questions or would like more information about the exhibition, please feel free to contact me. A submission packet with entry forms is enclosed in this email. All entries must be received by June 1, 2008.

Best,

Marisa

Marisa Scheinfeld

Educator and Docent Programs Manager

Museum of Photographic Arts

1649 El Prado

San Diego, CA 92101

(619) 238-7559 ext.235

(619) 238-8777 (Fax)

scheinfeld@mopa.org

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 :)