Academic Reading & Writing

Diego Rivera is a famous Mexican painter.

First, please read about him and write a one or two sentence summary about him, and leave it in the comments section of this post. You can read about him here and here.

After you have left that description, take some time to look at his paintings and murals:

Diego Rivera Web Museum

Diego Rivera in Mexico City

After you have looked at many of his paintings and murals, it will be your turn to paint.

Please use ArtPad to paint a picture in the style of Diego Rivera. Be sure to title it, email it to yourself, and then paste the link in the comments section of this post. (There may be something wrong with ArtPad. If there is, you can try Flashpaint instead)

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Go to PicLits.

You will need to register. After you do that, create a short ode. Email it to yourself and copy and paste the link in the comments section of this post.

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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 you learned.

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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.

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Please go to Slideshare and register.

Then, click on “Upload” and find your PowerPoint file on the computer.

Next, copy the url of your PowerPoint and paste it in the comments section of this post.

If there is a problem uploading your presentation to Slideshare, please repeat this same process with these alternative sites:

Authorstream

Slideboom

280 Slides

My Brainshark

PowerShow

Slideserve

MyPlick

SlideSix

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Use the following links to learn about the possible careers that you and your parents have said might be in your future.  Please try these links first.  If you can’t find the information you need there, then search for other sites.

Answer four questions for each career. You only have to write an a sentence or two in response to each question. Share the answers in the comments section. When you do, first list the career and then the answers underneath.

1) What kind of education is required to get this job?

2) What do you do in this job?

3) What is the salary range for the job?

4) Why are you interested in this job?

You can research using these sites.  Some of them also include questions you can answer to help you find other careers that might be good for you:

California Career Zone

Interest Assessment

I Want To Find A Career

Job Outlook

Salary Zone

Salary

BioWorksU

Mindopia

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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 take with you if you only had a few minutes to escape the flood? Why?

The road in green are the safe ways to leave. Which road would you take?

If members of your family were in different places when the flood began, do you have a place where you would meet?

Watch this animation of Sacramento being flooded.

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Look at these two photos that were taken during the New Orleans Katrina flooding, and their captions. Why do you think they wrote that the couple “found” food, and the man “looted” (stole) it?

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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.

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Explore these sites to find answers to your questions about college. Write your answers next to the questions on your question sheet. If you need more space, write on the back.

Be sure to make sure you have the volume turned-off on your computer.

Know How 2 Go

College.Gov

California Community Colleges Online Application Center

College Grazing

You’re Going To College

Embark

Fin Aid

Getting Ready For College

Financial Aid and Scholarships for Undocumented Students

eCampus Tours

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Pick a link from Mr. Ferlazzo’s website that has a fair amount of text and use Awesome Highlighter to demonstrate reading strategies with virtual post-it notes. Use Backboard if Awesome Highlighter doesn’t work.

Place the url address of your annotated pages in the comments section of this post.

You might also want to pick a newspaper article on Natural Disasters from any of the following sources:

The Guardian

Science Daily

Earthquake Newspaper Archive

Hurricane Newspaper Archive

Tornado Newspaper Archive

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Take these natural disaster quizzes, and share in the comments section how you did and what were the three most interesting things you learned from them and why you found them interesting.

National Geographic Natural Disasters Quiz

Thinkquest Natural Disasters

Fact Monster Great Disasters Quiz

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Play Disaster Watch and Stop Disasters. In the comments section of this post, write four things you learned from playing these games.

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Complete this Internet Scavenger Hunt (the page calls it a Webquest) on Natural Disasters. You can write the answers on a Word document and then upload it to the Internet using File2.ws. Then paste the url address of your answers in the comments section.

After you have completed +this Internet Scavenger Hunt, please pick one natural disaster and create your own Hunt for other students to complete. Use different links and different questions. Create it in a Word document and use File2.ws again.

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Read The Good Side Of Disasters and this book review of The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.

What do you think are the two best things that come out of natural disasters and why did you choose those two?

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Please use either ProProf’s or MyStudiyo to create a quiz of at least five questions related to Natural Disasters and include the link in the comments section.

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We’ll be writing two-or-three essays related to Natural Disasters. After you type each of them, please use File2.ws to upload them to the Internet and include the link in the comments section of this post.

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Please take this quiz — How Prepared Are You If Disaster Strikes?.

How did you do? What was the most surprising piece of information you learned?

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Take several of these Natural Disaster Quizzes.

Which was the hardest? Which was the easiest?

What was the most interesting thing you learned from them?

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Please go to one or all of these websites about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and write a three or four sentence summary of what happened:

The Great Earthquake of 1906

The Great Quake

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

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Go to a webpage (that has a lot of text) under the Natural Disasters section on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Copy the url address of the page.

Then go to Awesome Highlighter and paste the url address of the page you chose.

Highlight no more than three words in each paragraph that you think show the main ideas and most important points from that paragraph. Also show at least two different reading strategies.  Please put the link to your page in the comments section.

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Go to Phreetings. You can search for a photo that would illustrate a short report you would write about a natural disaster. It’s basically a report on a virtual “postcard.”

Post the link in the comments section.

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Choose a few sentences from one of the websites under Natural Disasters on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Then go to one of these online drawing sites:

Flash Paint

Imagination Cubed

Art Pad

Draw a picture of what the text makes you see in your mind. Include the text either in the drawing itself or next to the link you post in the comments section.

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Go to the Natural Disasters section of Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Click on any of the links you find there that look interesting.

In the comments section here, write five things you learned and five questions about things you’d like to learn more about. Also, please include which website or websites you visited.

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Go to Doodle or Yarp and come up with a survey question (and two or more answers) related somehow to Natural Disasters.

Put the link to your survey question in the comments section so other students can respond.

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