Help relieve hunger by clicking on this site. For every vocabulary word you get right, the website will donate 20 grains of rice to fight hunger. After you visit the site write a blog entry explaining:
1) How does this site work?
2) How well did you do on the vocabulary test? Did you learn some words you didn’t know? What were they?
3) Do you think this site is a good idea? Why or why not? Do you have a better idea?
So…did you hear that 16 year old Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant? Read this article in People Magazine and answer the following question in your blog:
1) What is the article about?
2) Do you think Nickolodeon was wrong for canceling the show?
3) What would your advice be to Jamie Lynn Spears?
Take a photo of a random person (that you DON’T know) or object. Tell its story:
1. Who is he/she/it?
2. Where are they from?
3. Why are they here?
4. Tell about an important event that happened in the life of this person or object.
Please include LOTS of details…colors…dialogue…tastes….smells….humor….sadness….
–> Make sure to post the picture with your entry (Ask Mr. Lahana for a camera).
Did you know the media (tv, the internet, magazines, radio, etc.) is full of advertisements that trick you into buying things? Find out how by going to PBS’s Website.
Once you play around on this website answer the following questions in your blog:
1. Describe 3 things you learned about how advertisements are made to trick you into buying things.
2. How did this website change the way you look at advertisements?
Write a letter to a company expressing your feelings about something you bought or a service you received. It can be positive, negative, or both. Don’t know what to write about? Think McDonald’s Hamburger, Playstation game, a yucky cereal, your cable service, delicious cough medicine, a movie theater with sticky floors and bad seats….get the idea?
Click HERE to see a letter I wrote to Apple.
Your post should include:
1. A picture of what you’re writing about.
2. A description of the product (the thing you bought) or service (the thing done for you).
3. Why you disliked or appreciated it.
4. If you DIDN’T like it, your advice to the company to make it better.
