HW for T/Th 102 class.. this is due on April 2nd...

hey all, here is what we are doing... notice that you need to get a book...(#3 below) 

1.  1. You will interview at least one community member who has knowledge or expertise about your project. You will eventually integrate quotes from their interview into your proposal. So it is important to take notes about what you talk about.... you will be asking questions related to your project choice. If the person is someone you know, or someone from the local community, that is probably best. (We are looking for "local experts")--if you have to interview someone whose job is related to your project, that is ok too.

2.   2. You need to research 3-4 websites or articles that have info about your project. You will write up 4-5 sentence summary about each website or article that you choose.

3.    3. You will be buying "Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells. (its easy to get on-line.) This will be our main text for the rest of the semester. Your beginning reading is pages 1-37—“Cascades.” Once you read these assigned pages, pls write up a 1-2 paragraph summary of what these pages are about. Pls be sure to bring the book to class on Tuesday April 2nd.,.. 

HW for M/W English 102 and 101A classes.. due on Monday April 1st...

HW for M/W English 102 and 101A classes... this is due on Monday April 1st..

hey all, here is what we are doing... notice that you need to get a book...(#3 below) 

1. You will interview at least one community member who has knowledge or expertise about your project. You will eventually integrate quotes from their interview into your proposal. So it is important to take notes about what you talk about.... you will be asking questions related to your project choice. If the person is someone you know, or someone from the local community, that is probably best. (We are looking for "local experts")--if you have to interview someone whose job is related to your project, that is ok too.
2. You need to research 3-4 websites or articles that have info about your project. You will write up 4-5 sentence summary about each website or article that you choose.
3.  You will be buying "Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells. (its easy to get on-line.) This will be our main text for the rest of the semester. Your beginning reading is pages 1-37—“Cascades.” Once you read these assigned pages, pls write up a 1-2 paragraph summary of what these pages are about. Pls be sure to bring the book to class on Monday the 1st... 

HW for Wed nite English 4 class. this is due on Wed April 3rd.

1.      You will interview at least one community member who has knowledge or expertise about your project. You will eventually integrate quotes from their interview into your proposal. So it is important to take notes about what you talk about.... you will be asking questions related to your project choice. If the person is someone you know, or someone from the local community, that is probably best. (We are looking for "local experts")--if you have to interview someone whose job is related to your project, that is ok too.

2. You need to research 3-4 websites or articles that have info about your project. You will write up 4-5 sentence summary about each website or article that you choose.
3.  You will be buying "Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells. (its easy to get on-line.) This will be our main text for the rest of the semester. Your beginning reading is pages 1-37—“Cascades.” Once you read these assigned pages, pls write up a 1-2 paragraph summary of what these pages are about. Pls be sure to bring the book to class on Wed the 3^rd.  
4.  We have been talking about potential projects for you to do in the Chabot Knowledge Garden. What I would like you to do is to type up 2-3 paragraphs that answer these questions:
   
   
   1. Please describe in detail, what exactly is your project? (I realize you may not be exactly certain what you want to do, but now is the time to begin to explore that.)
   2. What makes your project innovative? Why did you make the choices you made?
   3. What need is being filled, or what problem is being addressed by your project? What is the issue that you are addressing and why does it matter?

HW for the Wed nite AND Thurs Nite English 4 classes.....

hey all,  You had HW to turn in. I will get it from you next week. Here is a link to the HW if you didn't do it yet. 

https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2019/03/hw-for-wed-nite-english-4-and-for-thurs.html

In addition, we are starting on a new project. I will give you the actual assignment next week. the focus on the work will be out in our Chabot Student Knowledge Garden. 

To prepare for next week, I would like you to imagine that you are doing a project out in the garden. What would you like to do? (you will be working in groups BTW.) below is a list, and I realize that it is kind of mysterious, and you may not know what every thing means. ...

the goal here is for you to write up 1-2 paras on what you might like to do as a garden related project... google ideas to get started if you need to.... here is a list of possible ideas.... 

Wind power

Solar power

Pond

Worms

Cultural plot

Mushrooms- mycleum for climate

Plastic greenhouse

Native plants

Art piece

Meta-cognition about garden ...fear for example

Butterfly habitat--

Flowers for the garden

Trellis gardening

Haybale gardening

Chicken coop

Landscape design

Fruit trees

Composting

Soil improvement

Seed capture

Irrigation for gardens-water management

Milpa

Sunflowers --how to grow

entrepeneur ship in the garden

Linking to FRESH

Reclaimed furniture

Improve the outdoor schoolhouse

Oak tree

Link to indigenous cultures

Pesticides vs organic..

Planting to limit pests

Better strawberries.

HW for the T/TH 102 class... this is due on Tues March 19th.

hey there, nice Brainstorm today!
Here is the HW for the weekend..

1. Watch Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard . Here are a couple of question for you to write a 2-3 paras about: What is something in the video that you did not know? What do you think of her strategy of explaining things by analyzing "systems"?

2. We have been talking about potential projects for you to do in the Chabot Knowledge Garden. What I would like you to do is to type up 2-3 paragraphs that answer these questions:

1. Please describe in detail, what exactly is your project? (I realize you may not be exactly certain what you want to do, but now is the time to begin to explore that.)
2. What makes your project innovative? Why did you make the choices you made?
3. What need is being filled, or what problem is being addressed by your project? What is the issue that you are addressing and why does it matter?
   
   You need to be detailed in answering these questions. For example if you say you want to plant things, you need to be detailed about WHAT and WHY... or if you want to build something, you need to be detailed about the purpose of it, and why you want to build it....To give detailed answers, you will need to do research NOW to learn more about your project.

HW for M/W English classes.... due on Monday, March 18th...

hey all, sorry I had to leave campus on Wed.
Here is the HW for the weekend..


1. Watch Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard . Here are a couple of question for you to write a 2-3 paras about: What is something in the video that you did not know? What do you think of her strategy of explaining things by analyzing "systems"?

2. We have been talking about potential projects for you to do in the Chabot Knowledge Garden. What I would like you to do is to type up 2-3 paragraphs that answer these questions:

1. Please describe in detail, what exactly is your project? (I realize you may not be exactly certain what you want to do, but now is the time to begin to explore that.)
2. What makes your project innovative? Why did you make the choices you made?
3. What need is being filled, or what problem is being addressed by your project? What is the issue that you are addressing and why does it matter?
   
   You need to be detailed in answering these questions. For example if you say you want to plant things, you need to be detailed about WHAT and WHY... or if you want to build something, you need to be detailed about the purpose of it, and why you want to build it....To give detailed answers, you will need to do research NOW to learn more about your project.

HW for the Wed nite English 4 and for the Thurs nite English 4

1. This HW assignment is a little different. You are being asked to go out to nature  / Spend at least 2 hours….notice what you notice…you will answer these 2 questions...
A. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…
B. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 2 with this question)
the goal is 1-2 pages of writing...typed up...
how to do this:   dont bring your phone…. you can go to a back yard, you can sit under a small bush, or climb a tall tree... you can stare at ants for 2 hours, you can hop in a car and go to Yosemite, you can go to the bay, you can find a lost river in Hayward, ---find the nature where you find it... dont bring your phone…. spend some quality time with yourself in nature...turn off your phone

2. Find an article or statistics that offer insight into the state of Nature in the Bay Area. You can focus on a system, like the Bay, or a river. You can investigate some  development, like maybe an organization that is addressing issues in Nature.      Briefly summarize the article and give a link to it

3. pls go to this website--Chris Jordan--
and spend about 30 minutes or more looking at his work.
Then pls answer these questions... these should be typed
A.  Which work of art is your favorite and why? (one para minimum)
B.  What is one thing that you learned from his art that surprised you?  (one para minimum)
C. What is Jordan trying to say with his art?  (one para minimum)

4. Watch Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard . Here are a couple of question for you to write a 2-3 paras about: What is something in the video that you did not know? What do you think of her strategy of explaining things by analyzing "systems"?

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HW for M/W English classes.... due on Monday, March 11th...

1. We talked about how we will be doing Project Based Learning in our class for this next assignment. This video gives some background on PBL. Please watch it, and then answer this question:   What are 2-3 things that you like about this school?  (one para minimum)
Project Based Learning at High Tech High


2. This next HW assignment is a little different. You are being asked to go out to nature …. Spend at least 2 hours….notice what you notice…you will answer these 2 questions...

A. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…
B. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 2 with this question)

the goal is 1-2 pages of writing...typed up...
how to do this:   dont bring your phone…. you can go to a back yard, you can sit under a small bush, or climb a tall tree... you can stare at ants for 2 hours, you can hop in a car and go to Yosemite, you can go to the bay, you can find a lost river in Hayward, ---find the nature where you find it... dont bring your phone…. spend some quality time with yourself in nature...turn off your phone

HW for the T/TH 102 class... this is due next tuesday the 12th....

hey there, You have  3 things to do for HW. This is all due next Tuesday.

1. pls go to this website--Chris Jordan--
and spend about 30 minutes or more looking at his work.
Then pls answer these questions... these should be typed

A.  Which work of art is your favorite and why? (one para minimum)
B.  What is one thing that you learned from his art that surprised you?  (one para minimum)
C. What is Jordan trying to say with his art?  (one para minimum)


2. We talked about how we will be doing Project Based Learning in our class for this next assignment. This video gives some background on PBL. Please watch it, and then answer this question:   What are 2-3 things that you like about this school?  (one para minimum)
Project Based Learning at High Tech High


3. This next HW assignment is a little different. You are being asked to go out to nature …. Spend at least 2 hours….notice what you notice…you will answer these 2 questions...

A. write about what you notice… use your 5 senses…smell, hear, see, touch, taste…
B. What does it feel like to be out there….(do rule of 2 with this question)

the goal is 1-2 pages of writing...typed up...
how to do this:   dont bring your phone…. you can go to a back yard, you can sit under a small bush, or climb a tall tree... you can stare at ants for 2 hours, you can hop in a car and go to Yosemite, you can go to the bay, you can find a lost river in Hayward, ---find the nature where you find it... dont bring your phone…. spend some quality time with yourself in nature...

HW for M/W 102 class and M/W 101A class.... this is due on this Wed....

hey there,

pls go to this website--Chris Jordan--
and spend about 30 minutes or more looking at his work.

then pls answer these questions... these should be typed and brought to class on Wed, the 6th.


1. Which work of art is your favorite and why? (one para minimum)
2. What is one thing that you learned from his art that surprised you?  (one para minimum)
3. What is Jordan trying to say with his art?  (one para minimum)