LEVEL 4 & 5 Projects for May

LEVEL 5 - Click here to see Rules and details.

LEVEL 4 - Click here to see what you will do.

TED talks for the week

This week you'll be watching some TED Talks to answer the material for pages 115 to 118. You will answer these pages on your book, then transfer them to your notebook. 

How Food Shapes Our Cities

The other links are here to help you with your essay which is to be turned in on Monday (March 5th) to my brother Federico, no later than 7 AM.

• "Free is not sustainable. The funny thing about sustainability, you have to sustain it." A Guerilla Gardner in South Central LA (I really like this one.)
• "We are all part of the local food jigsaw. We are all part of a solution". "If you eat, you're in". How Can We Eat Our Landscapes.
• Window farms have been evolving. A Garden In My Apartment. 
• My plots are about creation and openness. In fact my plot can only work if I share it with as many people as possible. Subversive (garden) Plot. 
• The western diet and the environment. "Back in those days there was no philosophy of food. You just ate. You didn't claim to be anything." What's Wrong With What We Eat.
• "I believe that power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life. Teach Every Child About Food. 
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Coloring your diet

For this session we are going to look at nutition. 

Your first assignment, before class is to find the names of all the vegetables in the picture both in English and Spanish. You need to do this before class.

You need go to Fitness Magazine to read the article THEN you have to print this PDF, to bring to class. This document will be used during class.

BONO gives us some good news

This is BONO, singer of the Irish band U2, giving us some good news about poverty. Watch his TED Talk and answer all the pages in your book.

PROPS in Presentations

As you know, this time we are giving presentations with the help of props. I am including a post from IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING. Read the blog carefully and consider your options. You can also watch Davis Hynder to get tips.
I am also including the TED talks by JJ ABRAMS and Hans Roslin so you can revisit them and get some ideas for your presentation, 

Who Has Time to Read?

I certainly hope you do. Technology has brought on different ways to have access to story telling. I must admit that I was a critic of reading from an iPad, or a Kindle; however I have come to embrace it. I still prefer paper, traditional books. Romantic reasons I suppose. Audio Books came about years ago to help people with poor eyesight, or people looking to beat the stress of traffic jams. Now we have podcasts. Here is a podcast from The New Yorker. The Burglar was written by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, and it is here read by her. The audio 40 minutes long, including the interview, so take your time.  

Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

It is time to read a bit of science fiction. This is a short story by the great Douglas Adams. Click HERE to download the seven-page PDF.