Tues and Wed nite classes.... HW to get started on the last essay assignment.

HW to get started on the last essay assignment. 

As you know this essay assignment has 4 questions. For next Tues, pls bring Q1 and Q2 finished. (Many of you have already done Q1. You may just want to go back and revise it, bring in quotes, etc.--make the para longer.)

The goal is to bring 6 paras to class on the 10th for the Tues class, and on the 11th for the Wed class....

In addition, you should watch this short video about the guy from India who helps the homeless in his community. It can give you some quotes you can pull for the paper. ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiC_9RHTvsA

Here is a link to the SIC website... the tab that has a LOT of info related to our work with Tennyson Initiative. I encourage you to read through the different documents. It will give you lots of ideas for the 4 questions that you are doing for the essay. 
https://sicchabot.wixsite.com/thesic/tennyson-thrives

Last essay assignment for English---

For this last paper you will be answering these questions. For sure you should do Rule of 3 for each question.

1. Why don't people get more involved in the issues that impact their lives?
2. Why don’t cities more effectively engage their citizens?
3. What can a city do to more effectively engage their citizens?
4. What has been your feelings/attitudes about doing Projects that impact community (such as the garden project, or the (cancelled) culture fest project.)

In order to support your points, you need to use ideas found in the essays and other materials I provide you, your own research, interviews you can do, and in any other handouts, books, etc. that you have access to.

You should  average a minimum of 2 short quotes per paragraph. Quote length in a paper of this length should be no more than 1-2 lines. s

The essay’s page minimum is 6 full pages…(BNDJTM…)

Paragraph topic sentences should start with concepts. Paragraph topic sentences should also feature KEYWORDS, taken from the essay assignment questions.

The paper is due via email on Dec 2​3--Monday.

Draft day will be the day of you final.

HW for the Wed nite English class... one thing is due by the 27th, the rest is due on Dec 4th...

You have 5 different things to do for HW ...some of the work is practical (like planning for the Culture Fest) and some of the work is theoretical, to give you some background about why we are doing this work in Hayward. 

1. We are starting to plan what we would like to do for the Longwood Culture Fest.
Here are possible categories of activities/events that could take place:

1. Fun activities/ events for Kids
2. Holiday Related activities/ events
3. Food (this can have a cultural feel, or a holiday feel, or a "make it at the Fest" feel)
4. Your Community Garden projects 
5. Community Projects  (these can be projects that previous students have done, or they could be new project that you  come up with)
6. Plastic Pollution (deWit class)
7. Longwood Parents projects (we dont know yet what these will be)

Your HW that is due on Wednesday, the 27th is to pick one  possible thing you would like to do at the Culture Fest. Pls write up a 2-3 paragraph summary of what you think you want to do. Try to be as specific as you can about what you want to do. Include materials you think you might need, and directions about how you would DO the activity.  You will be emailing this to me by Wed the 27th.... I will get back to you about the project... it is likely I will say "great, do this!" ---but I might also offer some revisions to the project, or even perhaps ask you to consider doing something different.

The rest of this HW below is due on  Dec 4th when we come back to class. 

2. This is a link to a great article about this thing called Placemaking. Please read the article and answer these 2 questions:  In your own words, What is Placemaking? What do you think about it as a way to build community?
https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking

3. What song comes to mind when you think of Hayward ? Why? Write 1-2 paras about Why...

4.  This is the link to the Asset Maps that Chabot students created. Browse through all 4 categories. (Stories / Histories / Assets / Aspiriations What is a trend that you see in each category? (A trend is an idea or concept that you see occurring in more than one place)
https://hayward.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=b2aecf95c3bd443ba2122a4ee825cd1a

5. Please read this short article about social capital (which simply means assets or strengths that a society has...) ... there are 6 types of capitals discussed. Once you read this, rank the 6 types in order of importance. There is no right answer, but you should write up your reasons for why you rank them in the order that you do.
Yasso article about Capital

HW for Tues nite Eng 1 class.. you have 4 different assignments to do ... this is due next Tues the 26th

You have 4 different things to do for HW this week...some of the work is practical (like planning for the Culture Fest) and some of the work is theoretical, to give you some background about why we are doing this work in Hayward. 

1. We are starting to plan what we would like to do for the Longwood Culture Fest.
Here are possible categories of activities/events that could take place:

1. Fun activities/ events for Kids
2. Holiday Related activities/ events
3. Food (this can have a cultural feel, or a holiday feel, or a "make it at the Fest" feel)
4. Your Community Garden projects 
5. Community Projects  (these can be projects that previous students have done, or they could be new project that you  come up with)
6. Plastic Pollution (deWit class)
7. Longwood Parents projects (we dont know yet what these will be)

Your HW that is due on Tuesday, the 26th is to pick TWO possible things you would like to do at the Culture Fest. For each one, pls write up a 2-3 paragraph summary of what you think you want to do. Try to be as specific as you can about what you want to do. Include materials you think you might need, and directions about how you would DO the activity. 

2. This is a link to a great article about this thing called Placemaking. Please read the article and answer these 2 questions:  In your own words, What is Placemaking? What do you think about it as a way to build community?
https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking

3. What song comes to mind when you think of Hayward ? Why? Write 1-2 paras about Why...

4.  This is the link to the Asset Maps that Chabot students created. Browse through all 4 categories. (Stories / Histories / Assets / Aspiriations What is a trend that you see in each category? (A trend is an idea or concept that you see occurring in more than one place)

https://hayward.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=b2aecf95c3bd443ba2122a4ee825cd1a

HW for M/W English classes... this is due on Wed the 20th.

We are starting to plan what we would like to do for the Longwood Culture Fest.
Here are possible categories of activities/events that could take place:

1. Fun activities/ events for Kids
2. Holiday Related activities/ events
3. Food (this can have a cultural feel, or a holiday feel, or a "make it at the Fest" feel)
4. Your Community Garden projects 
5. Community Projects  (these can be projects that previous students have done, or they could be new project that you  come up with)
6. Plastic Pollution (deWit class)
7. Longwood Parents projects (we dont know yet what these will be)

Your HW that is due on Wednseday, the 20th is to write up a 2-3 paragraph tentative summary of what you think you want to do. Try to be as specific as you can about what you want to do. 

HW for Tues nite English 1 class.... this is due on the 19th.....

To get started thinking about community, you have 5 things you are doing....

1.  Why do  you think people don't get more involved in the issues that are around them, esp. issues that are related to cities?    Pick the best 3 reasons that you came up with that you think you want to write about...

Keep in mind that you should try to avoid picking reasons that are similar to each other. Once you pick the 3 best that you like, write up 3-4-5 sentences for each one, expanding the discussion of each. (You are essentially creating the topics sentences for each reason.)

2 Pls watch this cool video about this concept called "Participatory Budgeting."

https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/what-is-pb/

Once you watch it, go back to the reasons you came up with for why people don't get more involved 

For each of the reasons you came up with, ask yourself  "Does this movie address (and maybe even solve) the reason?  I think you will find that a LOT of the issues you came up with for why people don't get involved are addressed by this movie.... 

3. Pls read this essay: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/community_engagement_matters_now_more_than_ever

A. . What are 2 things about the article that you find interesting?
B.  What is meant by "Patient Urgency?" (in the article) (write a para on this)

4. For this next article, here is the question  to write about:

What are 3 ideas (out of the 101) that you really like? what do you like about them?
here is the link.....
https://www.curbed.com/2016/9/22/13019420/urban-design-community-building-placemaking?cmp=EMC-DSM-NLC-LC-HOMFAM-101916-F3-SmallWays_ImproveYourCity-Text-CTRL-1528727&encparam=F1d6zC4gm6sBLcKgHz+50YoMW1wLj+hWteEl3FLoLVQ%3D

5. Finally,  Pls read this article: 
https://icma.org/articles/pm-magazine/management-empowering-needles-haystack

here is the question to write:  What are 2 things about the article that you find interesting?

HW for M/W English classes (12 to 2 class, and 2 to 4 class)

As we said in class, the final project is due on Nov 6 for the Mon/Wed day classes

however, you should pretend it is due on Monday, so that you get as much done as possible.

You should bring laptops with your work on it on Monday so we can see how things are looking...
Contents of your project:

Cover
Table of Contents
Team page
3 concepts per team member (probably 2 pages per concept)
Q2 what you will grow
Q6 where the garden will be situated
Q9 community members in support of project (one per team member)
Q10 budget