Homecoming Week Continues and We Talk About 1984.
The week plods on.
The Bonfire/Pep Rally was held last night, starting at 7:45 p.m. I had run home for dinner and came back at 8:30 p.m. When we left the house (Shannon and the kids were with me) it was clear. By the time we got to Ault for the bonfire, it was dumping rain. Cars were streaming out and we could see the firemen hosing down the remains of a soggy bonfire. We turned around and headed home.
In class today, we did a writing assignment. I put forth two different assignments for the two different classes. In the Technology Classes, we analyzed the shopping experiences at two different Web sites, jaguar.com and mini-usa.com. At the Jaguar site, you can order a model and a color and they give you the price. At the Mini Cooper site, you can get lost for hours, customizing every little piece of your car, all the way down to the license plate holder and the color of the knobs on the dashboard. The kids had to compare and contrast the site and why the sites looked and acted like they did.
In Web Design, I showed them the 1984 Apple Commercial. Then, they had to research the novel "1984" and the Apple MacIntosh computer and write me a short essay on what the commercial means and why it was so important and influential.
I was pleased that, at least for the 1984 writers, they actually thought about the topic and put some good stuff down on paper.
Tomorrow, we have 1 hour classes and a shortened day. We will be let out at noon so that kids can A) Clean the hallways from the homecoming decorations and B) Work on completing their floats. This is where I come in. I get to try to wrangle a group of 9th Graders and talk them into creating Float Magic from nothing. Wish me luck.
The Bonfire/Pep Rally was held last night, starting at 7:45 p.m. I had run home for dinner and came back at 8:30 p.m. When we left the house (Shannon and the kids were with me) it was clear. By the time we got to Ault for the bonfire, it was dumping rain. Cars were streaming out and we could see the firemen hosing down the remains of a soggy bonfire. We turned around and headed home.
In class today, we did a writing assignment. I put forth two different assignments for the two different classes. In the Technology Classes, we analyzed the shopping experiences at two different Web sites, jaguar.com and mini-usa.com. At the Jaguar site, you can order a model and a color and they give you the price. At the Mini Cooper site, you can get lost for hours, customizing every little piece of your car, all the way down to the license plate holder and the color of the knobs on the dashboard. The kids had to compare and contrast the site and why the sites looked and acted like they did.
In Web Design, I showed them the 1984 Apple Commercial. Then, they had to research the novel "1984" and the Apple MacIntosh computer and write me a short essay on what the commercial means and why it was so important and influential.I was pleased that, at least for the 1984 writers, they actually thought about the topic and put some good stuff down on paper.
Tomorrow, we have 1 hour classes and a shortened day. We will be let out at noon so that kids can A) Clean the hallways from the homecoming decorations and B) Work on completing their floats. This is where I come in. I get to try to wrangle a group of 9th Graders and talk them into creating Float Magic from nothing. Wish me luck.
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