Year end reflections

When we come back to school, it will be 2012. Reflect on the quarter here at Tech Academy and year. Think of both your academic progress and personally how your year went.  What are your goals for the following year? Do you have any new years resolutions or goals for the upcoming year?

Saving holiday dollars

We all know the economy is bad and money is tight. How do you, your family, people in your circle save money during the holidays? What's your secret?

Also, If you won the lottery or even found $100 bill somewhere right before Christmas who would you spend it on and why?

Holidays

Everyone's holiday looks a little different. For example, as a young adult my family never celebrated Christmas.  This time of year is a regular time for my family, where the stores happen to be totally full of shoppers or completely closed on Christmas. It has changed little as an adult.

What is your holiday usually like? What is unique about the way they people around you (family, friends, guardians) celebrate Christmas or the holidays?

Be as descriptive but appropriate as possible.

Ms. L.

My Weekend

Reflect on your weekend. 

What went great?

What could you have done better?

What could have gone better?

Did you dare go to the store and be part of the chaos that comes with Christmas shopping.

Was there anything interesting that happened?

Guided Imagery

Guided Imagery is a technique where you use positive thoughts or visualizations to promote a positive outcome or vision of something.

So...if you think positive thoughts about something like a meeting with your P.O or outcome of a test, you can get positive results.

Another example is using guided imagery to help you visualize something. For example you want to draw an orange. You close your eyes and really visualized an orange, how it looked and tasted and felt in your hands, you can really see it.

Tell about a time when you used guided imagery to visualize something or get positive results.


Tell a story but keep it appropriate.

Your Most Recent Book

What is the last book or novel you read? If there are a few, pick one that you really liked. 

Pretend the person reading this knows nothing about the book.

Tell them in a two paragraph blog what it is about.

What did you like about it?

Do you recommend it to someone else? Why?

Lunch with a famous person

If you could have lunch with any famous person who would it be? 


What would you talk about with this person?


Why did you choose them?

Worst Thing You Ever Ate

If you were here yesterday, you got to see a mammoth sandwich made by Sandra that included every ingredient we had in the classroom. Our fellow classmate took a bite.

Was it the worst thing he's ever eaten?

What's the worst thing you have ever eaten?

Use imagery (details that help the reader imagine what you are writing about) and sensory details (what you feel, taste, smell, hear, see) to describe the worst food you've ever eaten.

Have fun with your writing but keep it class appropriate.

Your weekend

I know Monday's can be hard, especially when you've had a fabulous weekend. 

Write a summary of your weekend.

• Did you meet someone new?
• Did you catch up with an old friend?
• Did you do something you have been really wanting to do?

Keep it real but keep it clean!

The Best Gift Ever (keep it appropriate)

What is the best gift you ever received?
Give some details about the gift?
Who gave the gift to you?
What made it so special?

Sweatshops

We will continue to discuss China and our country's import of goods from there. One problem that arises from our importing of goods is the conditions the workers face who produce them.


Write a blog about what your understanding is of "sweatshops." What countries can you find them? What is their purpose? How do you think we benefit as a country?

A walk through your 'hood

Walk someone through your neighborhood who has never been there. Write an accurate description of your 'hood that gives someone a real sense of what it's like if they stepped out of your house and walked down the street or took the bus. 

Describe some of the sights, sounds and smells. What does it feel like? What is a great neighborhood place to eat where the food is amazing? What kind of food would you order when you go there and what does it taste like?

Let's see how detailed you can be. This post should be a minimum of  FIVE full sentences for the maximum 10 points. Your blogs are pretty awesome. KEEP it appropriate and keep it going.

Wrong First Impression

Write about a time when you made a wrong first impression about someone. Meaning, you made a judgement about them without getting to know them and realized later that it was not correct. Have you ever had a time when that person you misjudged ended up being cool or being a friend?

Tell a story but be appropriate, remember you are at school.

My Weekend

Write about your weekend.

What was good about it?

What could have been better?

Did something surprising happen?

Tell a story but keep it appropriate.

Morning Motivation

What motivates you to go to school in the morning?

Is it something you eat or drink?

Is is someone in your life?

Is it the alarm clock?

Is it so you don't have to stay after school to make up time if you're late?

Keep it appropriate!

My Role Model

Prompt #1

Who is your role model in your life? Who is the person that has the most POSITIVE influence on you? Why are they such an important factor in your life?


Prompt#2
What are your thoughts on the Interrupters? Can you relate the documentaries' topic of how violence that destroys neighborhoods to something that is going on in your neighborhood? Who would be "interrupters" in your neighborhood? What organizations (it's not necessarily going to be the police) do you know of that work to improve your neighborhood?

Here is the link to it if you want to watch it again.


http://interrupters.kartemquin.com/