Homeroom
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Project Units
1. PSA/Media Campaign
2. Peer Critique
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read poetry
written by your peers
- write a poem/story and submit it via the drop box
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3. Group Discussion|The Wall|Think Tank|Interviews
| Reflect
and write on the following:
* Why are teens incarcerated? (identify
causes/suggest solutions)
* What is music? What is the role of music
in life?
* What is the media? Who controls it?
Read
and post questions/comments to the blog
record audio
clip:
music of life 1, 2
- eugene
music
of life - james
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4. The Rainforest
Pick
and research the essential characteristics of
an animal from the rainforest (habitat, diet,
predators, etc..), then write a story on a day
in the life of your chosen character. Post your
story in the
rainforest.
Student Projects
1. Schiavalias - The Monkey
2. David - The Black Panther
3. Panciano - The Cougar
4 . Marquise - The Anaconda |
5. Creative Narrations
Is
there a significant person, event, story or
topic you've always wanted to tell/write a story
about?
Storytelling is a great
way to get people interested in and attentive
to what they are learning. In the process of
creating your own multimedia creative narrations,
you will learn how to do research online, conduct
interviews, write in a variety of styles, create
a webpage, work collaboratively and more.
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Getting
Started |
Complete the following games/exercises before
our next meeting:
* creative rewrite:
write your own version of the song Hold
by KRS-ONE  or
find a poem/song lyric to remix
* community reporting:
interview 2 peers/staff and find out why they came
to NBJ (interviewing
guidelines). what other questions would you want
to ask them?
* editor's pick:
read/watch a story/article/clip and write a 1-page
review on how it relates to our conversation on life
cycles and the rainforest (resource
links)
* scavenger hunt:
search the web for a picture of the rainforest, 2
media clips (image, sound, video) related to nature,
the rainforest or animals, and 1 rainforest symbol
that has been Americanized
* audiovisual production:
record a creative narration (poem, story, folktale)
and gather illustrations to include with your final
presentation
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Schedule
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The Rainforest
1. Introduction
2. Animal Report
3. Rainforests of the World
4. From Ecosystems to Urban Systems
a. The Amazon
b. Chicago
5. Myths & Folktales
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1- Introduction
![[world map]](images/world-map.jpg)
- The World -
Purpose
If we understand our environment, it can help
us make better choices. How does our environment
impact the choices that we make? Cities can
be hard, fast, concrete jungles. On the other
hand, rainforests are dense, warm, wet forests.
They are havens for millions of plants and
animals. How are we, as residents in one of
America's largest metropolitan centers, connected
to the lives and cycles that make up the rainforest?
Where are tropical rainforests located? What
characteristics do their inhabitants share?
This rainforest unit will help you explore
such questions, as well as raise and pursue
some of your own. As you work through the
assigned tasks and readings, ask yourself
many questions about the ecology of the rainforest
compared to your own self ecology. What are
the elements of your life cycles (time, hobbies,
people, interests. etc)? How are they related?
How are you influenced by these?
The goal of this unit is to become familiar
with general world geography and gain basic
life skills by understanding the composition
of tropical rainforests (strata, animals,
etc).
Each of you will need to have one or more
visuals to show during your presentation.
This is where you can really get creative!
You may try one or more of the following ideas:
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