LAST Assignments for English 1A summer class

Hey all!
Everything below will be due on Wednesday, July 31st. (some of the work needs to be emailed to me and some needs to be posted to the web, and some needs to do both, lol)

1. RECIPE --this assignment was assigned on July 17 on the blog (here is link to it ...https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-knowledge-garden-recipe-cook-book.html
You should send this assignment to me in a word doc (or share on google doc)--also post to the web site.... be sure to include the recipe, and the 4Qs, and any pictures  to add to the assignment in the word doc.

2. 3 QUESTIONS about your plot --this assignment was assigned on July 18. here is link to it
https://seanchabot.blogspot.com/2019/07/3-questions-about-your-plot-this-is-due.html
You should send your 3 Qs to me in a word doc AND post all of your teams' questions in an FAQ on your web site.

3.  FINAL GARDEN EVAL-- You have 3 questions. Post the answers on your  website. Please do 3 paras for each. For Q1 and Q2 please add in quotes for each para. (you dont need quotes for the 3rd question.) here are the 3 Qs:
      1. What did you learn while working on the garden project?
      2. What are 3 highlights for you while doing the garden?
      3. What advice / directions do you have for any one taking over your plot?

4. PALMA CEIA EVAL-- For this assignment, please email to me in a word doc. here is the question: What was it like preparing for and doing the Palma Ceia Fest? Please do 3 paras for this Q.

3 Questions about YOUR plot. --this is due on Monday, July 22.

Hey all,  You recently worked together to create 10-15 questions about YOUR own plot. Now is the time to answer the questions. 

You should each take 3 Questions. (Be sure to pick different questions--dont all do the same). you will need to contact each other to decide on who is doing which question.
For each question, you will do the needed research and then write up the answer. Try to be as specific and detailed as possible.

Then you should post your questions on your Tab. (next week we will talk about combining all your questions on a FAQ tab on your web site. but for now you can post to your tab.)

You can come up with new questions if you arent happy with some of the questions that your group created.

Preparing to create your poster for Palma Ceia Fest

Hi!
You should each have an activity or food that you will be doing at the Palma Ceia Fest.
We now need to create posters for each activity or food so that when people come up to you they know what is happening.
The poster size is 20 inches x 30 inches.
You will be making the poster on MONDAY.
To prepare to make the poster you need to BRING:

1. ---Pictures of your food or activity to go on your poster. You can print these at home or cut out pictures from magazines... 
2. ---4-5  "Did you know" facts about your activity or food. (you should have this printed out in large font so people can read it). If your food or activity has a cultural connection, pls be sure to make this part of your presentation.  If you can translate this info into other languages, that would be awesome! 
3. Any other art or design elements that you want to put on the poster. (We will supply some of these, but you may want to bring some that you personally like.)

The Knowledge Garden Recipe Cook Book

Hey! ... So, each of you is going to be writing about a recipe that is important to you/your family/your culture. The key here is that you should pick a recipe that uses at least one ingredient from our Knowledge Garden. (Of course if you can use more than one, that is great!)

For this assignment you will of course include the recipe--in other words, what are the ingredients and how is it prepared, etc. Look on line for how recipes should look.
IN ADDITION, you have some questions to answer that will make this more than just a recipe. Try to write 2 paras for each question.

1. Why is this recipe important to you/your family/your culture?
2. What memories does this food bring back to you? 
3. Why did you pick THIS recipe?
4. What advice would you give to anyone who tries out your recipe? 

For sure you will want to include pics of the food, ingredients, people in your family who cook the dish, etc. ---make your post look like a cool cultural cookbook.

This assignment is due on July 30... however, you should start on this very  very soon, because it will take a while to find time to cook the food (so you can take pics)--and it may take time to interview people in your family who can tell you more about the recipe.

This is the Stuff in the Knowledge Garden---Use this list to help decide which Recipe you want to write about

Corn (there are lots of other varities in the garden)

Mayan Corn

Sunny Corn

Tomatoes (there are lots of other varities in the garden)

Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Tomatoes

Beans/Peas

Marvel Pea

Scarlet Runner

Stringless Bush Bean

Carrots

Danver Carrots

Fruits

Watermelon

Dwarf Tangerine

Grapes

Asian Melon

Green Apple

Mandarin

Herbs

Thyme

Lemon Thyme

Basil

Sage

Lime Thyme

Rosemary

Silver Sage

Curled Moss Parsley

Oregano

Marjoram

French Tarragon

Yerba Buena

Black Sage

Chiapensis Sage

Salvia Guaranitica

Salvia gesneriiflora

White Sage

Jerusalem Sage

Fennel

Pineapple Sage

Chamomile

Cabbage

Bok Choy

Onion

Red Onion

Green Onion

Onion Chives

Leek

Peppers (there are lots of other varities in the garden)

California Wonder Bell Peppers

Jalapeno

Banana Peppers

Ginger

Lettuces

Collard Greens

Frisée Lettuce

Romaine

Freedom Mix

Butter Lettuce

Cucurbits

Zucchini

Yellow Squash

Butternut Squash

Crookneck Squash

Eggplant

Lemon Cucumbers

Radish

Sparkler Radish

Cherry Radish

French Breakfast Radish

Detroit Dark Red Beets

Flowers/Plants

Sunflowers

Coneflowers

Marigolds

Salvia --many kinds

Purple Sage

Shasta Daisy

Zinnia

Whipplevine

Lavender

Pincushion

Delphinium

Succulents

Aloe

Poppys

Milk Weed

Creatures

Worms

lotta birds

butterflies

God damn Squirrel

writing about your neighbor's plot... part 2--this is due on Thurs 7/18

hey all,

we talked in class about some techniques for coming up with good open-ended questions. (We are trying to avoid Yes/No style questions.)

After we did that, you interviewed your neighbors about their plot....

now, pls write 3-4 paras that incorporates what they told you.

This should NOT look like a Q &A type interview. Instead, you should take what you heard, and integrate it into the paragraphs.

One trick is to organize the paras by topic...

there is lots of possible topics: Soil, Weeds, Changes, Team, Attitude about Garden, Advice, What they learned.... etc.

HW due on July 17th, Wed...

hey all, today you went out to the garden and you got introduced to another team's garden plot. I hope that was fun for you. 

For the HW you are each individually  being asked to write about experience. 

You should do 4-5 paras. You can talk about what they have in their garden, what you learned , how your garden is different from yours, what concerns or questions they have about their garden, what you like about their garden, etc. 

If you asked them questions, which i hope you did, you can bring in quotes from them. 

Also, I hope you took pics of their plot. You can include those in your blog post.

pls post this HW to your website under your tab.... 

HW due on Tuesday the 15th...

Hey all!

so it has been a while since we asked you to do a "diary" entry about what has been happening with your garden.
SO, that is what we are having you do. Please write up a garden diary entry that talks about all changes that have happened to your garden in the last week or so. Some topics to write about:

1. You can talk about changes YOU have made.
2. How is the garden growing?
3. How are the plants doing? 
4. How are YOU feeling about the garden? 
5. What questions or uncertainties do you have? 

This should be a LONG post... try to write 2 pages or so....

Update about English class...

hey all, hope you had a good weekend... there was no new HW since last Thurs, but I wanted to remind you that a few things need to be taken care of by Monday (tomorrow)

1. You need to have your soil testing finished, and have your reports written up.
2. You need to have finished your Plot "sign" or map or whatever you want to call it.
3. You need to have a QR code on the sign that links to your team's website.
4. You need to have posted your 4 HW assignments and any other writing you have been doing onto the website...

see you soon! 

HW for English classes... due on Thurs 7/11

hey all.....

here is what we want to have done by tomorrow.

1. Please get all your previous homework (there are 4 so far) posted up on your website under your personal tab. Make it look cool, add pics and video... be sure to write a LOT for each question.
2. Please test your plot's soil by Thursday. After you test it, pls write up the results of what your team discovered.

3. By MONDAY July 15, you should have  created a PDF "map" of your team's plot. Depending on your plot's complexity, you may need to make more than one. The goal of the map is for a visitor to your plot to know what they are looking at. And you should include any interesting facts about the plants if you can.

HW for English classes... due on Wed july 10

hey all, 

first off, before i give you the HW questions,  i want to say a few things about you all. 

I want to say that I am completely blown away by every single one of the 18 groups. You are ALL doing amazing work as teams and individuals out in the garden. It is humbling to see how smart, creative, innovative you all are. You are taking the initiative to make your plots so much better than you found them. It is amazing what you are doing! Some of you inherited plots that have problems--old dirt, or weeds, or shade problems, etc-- but you have all begun to figure out ways to improve things. I am blown away!!!

Lets keep rocking ! 

A couple quick things: 

1. Pls dont put weeds or grasses into the compost bins. Just leave them on the ground in a pile and I will get rid of them. 

2. If you have something that you need done in your plot--like new water lines for example--just send me an email with a request. 

3. Be sure to upload your homework to your website tab. 

meanwhile, here are the newest questions:

1. What have you been doing with your plot? (Pls give a lot of detail. Maybe do Rule of 3 with this question.)

2. What are you learning? (Pls give a lot of detail. Maybe do Rule of 3 with this question.)​

3. What questions or uncertainties do you have?

4. What do you have planned next for your plot?

5. By this Thursday, you and your team need to do a soil test on your plot. (you can buy a soil tester from Home Depot for $17. Or you can do one of the free tests that you read about on line.) 

Be sure to include pictures in your HW that you post on the website... 

HW due on Tues 7/9/19

Hey all,

Here are the questions for you to do. Pls give these to me in word doc (you can email) AND pls post the questions to your website... (remember that for your website you EACH need a tab, where your OWN writing can be posted.)

1. What is Compost? What is Manure? What is Fertilizer?  (para for each)
2. What are the uses of each of these? (short para for each)
3. What are the pros/cons of each? (short para for each)
4. What do you think you would like to plant in your garden plot?
5. What is "bolting?" How do you delay plants from doing it?  (para for each)

Home Work for English class -- Due on July 8

Hey everybody, 

first off, I wanted to say how deeply impressed I was with all 18 garden plot teams! You all really dug right in, literally, lol--and began to understand and even transform your plots. It was so impressive and exciting! Im sure the spring students who planted the garden would feel really happy to know they have left it in your great hands (and green thumbs, lol)

For the Homework we have several things to do: 

1. What are your first impressions of your plot? (pls write 2-3 paragraphs. You can use your 5 senses to giver lots of details about the garden.)

2. What did you do with your plot on the first day? (some groups weeded, some harvested, some observed, some asked questions, some groups did phone research, etc...)

3. What are 2 questions that you have about the garden? (you should each come up with your own questions, so that the group has 2 questions per member if possible.) 

4. Please do research on each of the 2 questions--and write up a 1-2 paragraph response of what you learned about each question. Be sure to put it in your own words......avoid plagiarism.... you can do short quotes of course 

You should  post all of this on your website, along with pictures etc..... ----you should also print a hard copy for me.. or email me link to the website.. 

On Monday, we are going to have each group share their website with the class on the BIG BIG TV....so you should be sure to start populating the site!