More Homework

A2 Students...I'll be checking your classification charts for The Great Gatsby, chapters 4-6, on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Please do these individually. I will notice if you copy. Be well.
Luis

Literary Terms

Students...the following links will take you to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and to the Orange Unified School District of California's respective thoughts and definitions of literary terms. Please refer to these two sources while working on The Great Gatsby...and beyond!
Luis

From El Dorado...

Students,

I hope you guys are doing well, enjoying and learning on your Social Studies field trip. Please take advantage of these moments. They might seem boring, but trust me, after you're enrolled in college(in the near future...for MOST of you)high school life will become a simple, affective memory. I write to you from the airport, waiting for my flight to Ft. Lauderdale. I'm happy...
...to inform you that your Written Tasks (WT) will be due on Tuesday, October 19, 2010. We will engage in a peer review grading session with your classmates on that day. For more information on the WT's, pleas check your notes and pg's. 18-20 of your A2 bible. The bibles were sent to your cyberskoolz accounts.
Your Interactive Orals (IO) will be due on Thursday, October 21, 2010. For more information on the requirements and options of the IO, look at your bibles, pg's. 39-40. If you decide to do group work, no problem, just make sure your groups contain a maximum of 3 people. You may videotape your IO's and show them to the class. I will be videotaping the ones that are not handed in as videos.

Please be serious with your work. These will potentially be the samples of your work sent to the I.B. for external assessment. Both must be on the Cultural Option: "Media and Culture: Advertising, Bias and Media Manipulation".

Lastly, please wish me luck, write me a message on the blog. I will be available during recess week to answer questions. You can email me: lramirez@tvs.edu.co. Or you can just leave me a message on the blog. You know what? Please leave me a message on the blog...pray for me...I am flying AIRES!!!!

Luis

...and how does that make you feel?

The Famous "Emotions Wheel"

Since you all like twilight....

Congratulations to Juan Diego Lahidalga, Javier Ayala, Jorge Lince, Juan David Bonilla, Luis Espejo, Maurico Castillo, Santiago Vasquez and Ana Maria Ortiz (She wasn't even in school today!!!) for handing in the first drafts of your essay. You should be proud. By the time we finish drafting, you'll have the best essays on the planet. The rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves. After giving it much thought, I won't read any other essays until the 2nd draft deadline. Be well. Now go enjoy your Twilight Cake! hahahahahahahaha

Satan?

The following article from the popular business magazine 'Fast Company', criticizes WalMart's pricing practices and their effect on consumers and competition. We will read and analyze this article in tomorrow's (Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010) class. Please familiarize yourself with the text, its themes and structure. Be well.

Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html?page=0%2C0

Write Here!!!

Seniors,

Please leave your thesis statement as a comment to this post by Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 8:00PM. Thank you.

Luis