Tuesday 23 April 2013
Sunday 21 April 2013
Big Yellow Taxi for Earth Day
n't it always seem to go that you don't know what you have got until its gone.
"Big Yellow Taxi"
(feat. Vanessa Carlton)
[Adam Duritz]
They paved paradise and 1 (to put) up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you 2 (to know/neg) what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa Carlton]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they 3 (to charge) the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Listen, late last night, I 4 (to hear) the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam, Vanessa]
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Cos you giving it all away
Hey, hey, givin it all,
givin it all....away
[Vanessa]
Why do you want me?
why do you want me?
[Adam]
because 5 (to give) it all away,
Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and 1 (to put) up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you 2 (to know/neg) what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa Carlton]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they 3 (to charge) the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Listen, late last night, I 4 (to hear) the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam, Vanessa]
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Cos you giving it all away
Hey, hey, givin it all,
givin it all....away
[Vanessa]
Why do you want me?
why do you want me?
[Adam]
because 5 (to give) it all away,
Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Listen to the song @ http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/countingcrows/bigyellowtaxi.html
Monday 8 April 2013
Writing Project Rubric
Writing
Project Rubric
1) Elements
of Fiction diagram 10%
of grade
Excellent: The elements are
covered correctly and developed. A theme exists. The story ideas are clear and
practical.
Acceptable: Elements are covered correctly. Ideas are clear and
practical.
2)
Story Rough Draft 20% of grade AND Final Draft 70%
Excellent: There is a clear structure to the
story: opening, a climax and a closure. Paragraphs are clearly and correctly marked
and there are minimal grammar mistakes. Elements of Fiction are present. The
story is developed: characters, plot, and theme. There is a title page and
author. The story is creative, developed descriptions, and multiple tenses.
Acceptable:
Clear structure to the story. Opening, a climax and closure.. The story has
paragraphs. All elements of fiction are present. There is a title page with
author.
Saturday 6 April 2013
Holocaust Memorial Lesson Plan
1) Choose a picture and describe what do you see in the picture.
a
b
c
d
e
2) How do you think this picture relates to the holocaust?
3) Read the short corresponding passage below to the photo to find out.
a) http://www.channelone.com/resources/news/anne-frank/holocaust_anne.swf
b) http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=nazi_propaganda&lang=en
c) http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kelly-ellsworth.htm
Ellsworth Kelly has been a widely influential force in the post-war art world. He became famous in the 1950 for his presentation of the relationships between shape, form and color. Kelly was one of the first artists to create irregularly shaped canvases. His art challenged viewers' conceptions of space. Kelly influenced the development of Minimalism, Hard-edge painting, color field, and Pop art.
d) http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/nycs-holocaust-survivors-and-liberators-gather-before-march-of-the-living-221859.html
e) http://www.katrinkalden.net/?attachment_id=1103
Known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal) in Berlin for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The architects of this memorial are Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The slates are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m. The memorial is designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere. The sculpture aims to represent something very ordered that is missing a human touch. Interesting that Eisenman did not intend to use any symbolism. However some say it looks like a cemetery.[2][3][4] The memorial presents the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. The memorial was completed on December 15, 2004.
Task 4) Essential Questions
How are decisions made about who belongs and who is excluded? What is community?
What makes it possible for neighbor to turn against neighbor?
What does it mean to be “from” a place? How does where we are from influence who we are?
Under what conditions are most people likely to feel more responsible for helping others?
Task 5)
Dona Dona (original Yiddish words by Aaron Zeitlin and Shalom Secunda)
In a wagon lies a calf; it is tied with a rope
High in the sky a swallow soars, is joyaous, and runs back and forth.
The wind laughs in the cornfields, laughs and laughs and laughs. I
It laughs a whole day and half the night. Dona, Dona, Dona...
The calf cried and the farmer says: Who told you to be a calf? You could have been a bird, you could have been a swallow.
Poor calves are bound and dragged and slaughtered. Whoever has wings flies high and is no one's slave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Donna
music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59Pl8JIJtU
ab 
d
e
2) How do you think this picture relates to the holocaust?
3) Read the short corresponding passage below to the photo to find out.
a) http://www.channelone.com/resources/news/anne-frank/holocaust_anne.swf
Otto, Edith and Margo Franks room. Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (June 1929 – early March 1945) wrote a diary during the Holocaust. It became famous and is the basis for several plays and films.
The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus.
b) http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php?content=nazi_propaganda&lang=en
| |||
| Germany skillfully promoted the Olympics with colorful posters and magazines. Athletic imagery tried to connect Nazi Germany and ancient Greece. These portrayals symbolized the Nazi racial myth that the German civilization were a superior people since antiquity. Propaganda rcontinued well after the Olympics. The Nazis had very clear ideas of who was the perfect person: heroic, blue-eyed blonds with fine features. | |||
c) http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kelly-ellsworth.htm
Ellsworth Kelly has been a widely influential force in the post-war art world. He became famous in the 1950 for his presentation of the relationships between shape, form and color. Kelly was one of the first artists to create irregularly shaped canvases. His art challenged viewers' conceptions of space. Kelly influenced the development of Minimalism, Hard-edge painting, color field, and Pop art.
d) http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/nycs-holocaust-survivors-and-liberators-gather-before-march-of-the-living-221859.html
e) http://www.katrinkalden.net/?attachment_id=1103
Known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal) in Berlin for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The architects of this memorial are Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres covered with 2,711 concrete slabs, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The slates are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m. The memorial is designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere. The sculpture aims to represent something very ordered that is missing a human touch. Interesting that Eisenman did not intend to use any symbolism. However some say it looks like a cemetery.[2][3][4] The memorial presents the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. The memorial was completed on December 15, 2004.
Task 4) Essential Questions
How are decisions made about who belongs and who is excluded? What is community?
What makes it possible for neighbor to turn against neighbor?
What does it mean to be “from” a place? How does where we are from influence who we are?
Under what conditions are most people likely to feel more responsible for helping others?
Task 5)
Dona Dona (original Yiddish words by Aaron Zeitlin and Shalom Secunda)
In a wagon lies a calf; it is tied with a rope
High in the sky a swallow soars, is joyaous, and runs back and forth.
The wind laughs in the cornfields, laughs and laughs and laughs. I
It laughs a whole day and half the night. Dona, Dona, Dona...
The calf cried and the farmer says: Who told you to be a calf? You could have been a bird, you could have been a swallow.
Poor calves are bound and dragged and slaughtered. Whoever has wings flies high and is no one's slave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Donna
music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59Pl8JIJtU
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