EUROPE! Countries, Cities, Nationalities and Dishes

Welcome, San Pablo high school. 
Vocabulary is very important. In this activity we are going to learn vocabulary for counties and languages IN ENGLISH. 
How many countries in Europe can you name? What is the capital of Denmark? What is the official currency in Turkey? What is the official language of Finland? You may, or may not agree with me, but there things you (we) have to know. I know some people feel that learning a lot of information might actually be useless. Knowledge can never be useless.

• You will first test your memory by taking a quiz on Europe and its geography, just for fun.
• After that, complete this chart in English. 
• When you finish, email the document to ralfortiz@gmail.com; The subject and the name of the attachment should be YOUR_NAME_Europe.
• All the information you gather you will use in another project. 
• And that is all for San Pablo.
• In addition, you will go to this link after class and study the parts of speech. This information is VERY important for you to understand how English works; http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/parts-of-speech.html

Have fun!

Final Presentations

For your final project you have to convince people your age, people like you to visit, and continue visiting, museums. For your presentation think about these questions:

• Did you find beauty in museums and art?
• Would you go back?
• Can you attract people to experiment the sensation of going to museums?
• Can you really capture a young person's attention?
• Can you be convincing?
• Can you be AUTHENTIC, HONEST and ORIGINAL?

You might want to write some more questions for yourself.

Also, remember that it is very important for you to express your well thought out ideas. Do not just go to the cliches, the empty words that everyone repeats. Speak from your heart. Go back to the previous posts and look at the speaking an presentation tips. Be yourself. Use different intonations, use your body, look at people in the eye. Show everybody that you know what you are talking about.

1. BE PROFESSIONAL. 
2. You can present in anyway you like; PowerPoint or with other material.
3. Executive uniforms must be worn as specified in your rule book.
4. Use example and arguments that are clear. 
5. There is NO reading.
6. If you present in a team (pairs), BOTH member must speak equally.
7. Projects will be presented on Tuesday, June 2nd. The class starts at 7 and you are expected to be there, fully prepared. ON TIME!
8. Late arrivals will be counted as absences, and may lose points if they are disruptive.
9. If i call your team and you or your partner are not there, you lose your opportunity.
10. You must turn in a written document containing the detailed arguments and points of you presentation. If the material has been copied and pasted and/or translated literally your grade will be severely affected. If you do not turn in a document you will not be allowed to present.

Success is yours

An Artist Like Me

We all have, or have had, an artistic vein. Your job for your last presentation before the final project, is to find an artist like you.
Yes. You read right, an artist like you. (1) Go the entry on museum virtual tours. (2) Choose an artist, and (3) make a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation about how YOU and the artist are similar and two ways in which you are different. (4) Include specific examples of the painting or scupture or photograph that highlight these similarities or differences. 
(5) You will also read this and PAY ATTENTION. You might also want to watch the video I had shared with you, in order to organize your presentation as I broke it down for you last Monday. Finally (6) you must include notes in the presentation so that I may see them as you are presenting without reading.
THIS presentation, as well as last week's MAC presentation are the most important ones.
Presentations MUST BE sent to my email (ralfortiz@gmail.com) by today at midnight.

MIDTERM Project

For your midterm project you will give a presentation where you have to answer ONE question; "How can you incorporate art to your everyday life?"

Your challenge is (1) to be completely creative. Think about what YOU would like to see in a presentation. Re-read the post on cretivity and what not to do. (2) Do not copy anybody's words. Use your own. (3) You must include a document where you [a] describe how you built your presntation, and how it challanged you; [b] the questions you asked yourself; [c] mention wichi of the tips from The Toastmasters page you will be using; [d] make sure you that use the correct format to cite your bibliography. (4) Make sure visual support is NOT boring or ordinary. (5) You must speak for no less than 3 minutes, and NO more than 4 minutes [which will be timed]. (6) There is no reading. (7) Projects will be presented on Monday, April 13th.

On the right side of the screen there is a section called Documents, at the bottom there is one called GLIO III Porject Rubric. That is the rubirc that I will use to grade your project.

I am mainly asking you to challange yourself, and do something that is different from what you regularly do. 

An essay

From The New York Times

Being confident

Guys, we need to improve our research skills, preparations, re-writing, and our speaking skills

So I leave these links fot you to read, see, lear from, and apply.

1. Some tips.  
2. Something to think about. 
3. Sounding smart.

LEAVE a comment on what you got from this.
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The Digestive Siystem

For the next class please print the digestive system document, BUT only the first 12 pages.