Prepped for life

Some people feel that the public school system does not adequately prepare students for the real world. Identify one improvement you think schools need to make in order to better prepare students for life after high school. If you can write a letter to the people in charge what would you say?

Think about what your parents or people who are older than you are experiencing. How could high school have better prepared them?

Creating a brochure

Research Stage:

We are going to create a brochure describing a specific place or organization. This may be real or made up.  You can be advertising a product, program or simply give information about something cool that you choose. It could even be on something that you are learning about in class. It must be school cool.

Introduction
One way that people learn about places, people, or things that they do not know is by reading about them. But what if they don’t have time to read a whole book or they just want a quick overview of the subject? Businesses often use brochures to inform, educate, or persuade—quickly. They use a brochure to grab the readers attention and get them interested enough to want to know more.

A brochure for a business can have

a map

list of all the locations 

a brief description of the types of food products it sells. 

A travel brochure may:

show beautiful pictures that make you want to visit that city or country

details about the place

cost of the visit

These types of brochures tell enough about a place or an organization to get your interest and make you want to know more.

Task
Create a brochure about ___________________________________ (place/organization) that informs, educates, or persuades. The brochure is not an in depth study of a topic but it should give enough information to grab and keep the readers interest from start to finish.

A brochure may cover a broad topic but it shouldn’t contain so much information that it overwhelms the reader. Choose 2 to 3 key points about place/organization to describe. If there are other important elements, consider listing them in a simple bullet list or chart somewhere in your brochure.

In addition to what your brochure says, you must decide the best format to present your information. Different formats work best for brochures with lots of text, lots of pictures, small blocks of text, lists, charts, or maps. You’ll need to find the format that works best for your information.

Conferences

What did you think of the conferences with your parents/guardians or representatives yesterday?

Does it help you to meet with teachers and your parents/guardians ? Why do you feel like it doesn't or does help you?

What do you feel like was the best part about meeting yesterday?

What do you feel like could have been better?

Ways to start:

I thought the conferences were_________________ because_________________

I feel like it helped/didn't help me because__________________________.

What went well for me was________________________.

What I think could be improved is___________________________________.

Can't live without

What is something in your live that you feel like you can't live without? Money MIGHT be the first thing you think of but MOST people can't live without money. Pick something specific to you.It can be a physical item or a person. Examples are:

• Your favorite teddy bear
• A family member
• A Friend
• Your headphones
• Music- 2 Pac (get specific)
• iPod

Ways to start:

Something that I know I can't live without is......

I feel like it would be hard to live without because......

It has really been an important part of my life because.......

Mother's Day/ Non Mothers Day

Mother's Day Journal

1) Imagine that you and your mom switched places and you suddenly became "Mom for a Day." What would it be like? How would you feel? How would your life be different? Write about it.

2) You can choose a word or sentence for each letter

M
O
T
H
E
R

3) You can write a non-mothers day response. It might not mean as much to you or you might not celebrate. You may also celebrate one of the mother's days from other cultures which occur different times of the year. What are your thoughts on not celebrating mother's day.

Junior Seau

Some facts about him:
Linebacker for the Chargers, played in the NFL for 20 years
Junior Seau went to the Pro Bowl (where the best players play) 12 times
Was an all-pro starter for 10 years
He ownes his Seau restaurants
He is part owner in some Ruby Tuesday Restaurants
In September he donated $25,000 to Oceanside High School for an obstacle course.

Yesterday:
Police are investigating his suicide.


Write a response to his death. Something tons of money, fame and fortune is dead.
What message do you take away from hearing about his death?
How did you feel when you heard about it?

Ways to start:

I think Seau's death is_________________
I feel that his death_____________________
I feel ________________ about his death
My reaction was______________________.