Ninth-Grade English

Please make your New Orleans/Katrina paragraph into a PowerPoint. Upload it to Slideshare, and then post the link in the comments section of this post.

Please go to The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About New Orleans. Go through the sites and write ten new things you learn and five questions. Write them on a sheet of paper.

Please turn your “Sacramento, My Home” essay into a slideshow. You can either make a PowerPoint, upload it to Slideshare, and copy and paste the link into the comments section of this post, or… You can use Bookr, email the link to yourself, and then copy and paste it into the comments section of this [...]

Use Webklipper and show at least three reading strategies on any webpage. You can use the New Orleans links on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website, or find something else on the Internet.

You can make slideshows for the New Orleans unit while you’re in Mr. Williams’ class. You can make a Bookr slideshow about New Orleans in general, Mardis Gras, or Hurricane Katrina.  Be sure to use links on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website to find information and put it in your own words on your slideshow.

Go to  Sacramento Flood Maps. Click on the “Rescue” maps for the area you live in (probably either South Sacramento or The Pocket). The areas in red will flood immediately. People who live in the yellow area will have a little time to escape. Which color area is your home located in? What would you [...]

Make a short PowerPoint presentation from the postcard you wrote from New Orleans. It should be at least four slides and ideally more. Upload it to  Slideshare and paste it in the comments section of this post.

A.D. New Orleans After The Deluge is the story of Katrina in comic book form. Please read all the parts — you’ll see on the right “A.D. Archives.” Click on and read each section. After you’re done, please write in the comments section of this post two things you liked about it, and one think [...]

Choose three questions from your KWL chart. Research the answers to them. You can either go to Mr. Ferlazzo’s website section on New Orleans to find the answers, or you can search through Google. Please write the questions and answers in the comments section of this post.