Sharks if you hear me…say Lower East Side…
We had a pretty amazing awards ceremony on March 26th, right? Many of you received awards and a bunch of your commercials were shown. Write a post that answers some of these questions:
1. If you received an award did it mean anything to you? If so, why?
2. If your commercial was shown, how did it feel to see it up on the screen?
3. What was your favorite part of the show? What would you like to see more or less of?
Read this article by clicking here. In your blog answer the following questions:
1) Name at least two reasons why people believe it’s o.k. to share music.
2) Name at least two arguments against sharing music
3) What do YOU believe?
…so we’ve been learning about the health effects of eating burgers everyday…lets return back to from The Meatrix. Watch this movie called The Backwards Hamburger Backwards Hamburger
Answer these questions in your blog:
1. How do the bosses of meatpacking factories make sure their workers don’t organize to ask for more money and better working conditions?
2. Supersize Me talks a lot about the negative health effects of fast food. How does Backwards Hamburger explain why burgers are bad for you?
3. What secrets from The Meatrix do you see appearing again in Backwards Hamburger?
So listen: Ms. Pree (our vice principal) asked me write an “Island School rap”. I did it…but it’s only O.K… I need your help. Can you:
a) write a better rap for me
b) make a beat for my rap using GarageBand. Click HERE to download me singing my rap (without the music).
or
c) record yourself singing the rap using GarageBand
-post whatever you come up with on your blog. Here’s my rap:
I-S to the L-A-N-D
Talent ooh the talent bubblin in me
Violin strings, a chorus that sings
A writer so good that her blog blings
Sharks if you hear me…say lower eastside
gimme a paint brush, canvas and I’ll glide
slide down, y’all, the cafeteria bench
I’ll have a hamburger grilled and a fry that is French
I-S to the L-A-N-D
Anyone got a recorder they could lend me?
Got on stage, played loud as I could
Rocked a mike real hard til everyone stood
Good job good work good grades all day
That’s how we role right here at 188
So hate on us and risk get dissed
By kids whose garageband got beats that crisp
Remember the aquarium in blumberg’s room?
And the way the fish swam on spring afternoons?
Well that’s us
Swimmin’ upstream
Drinkin books like coffee and Math like cream
4 floors to climb, but 8 grades in all
we’re the best on the court– sharks basketball…
We rise tall
I-S L-A to the N-D
Went to mom’s on the corner
Came back with plenty
So who wanna test?
And get rocked with a 4
ELA to Science they’ll find sharks that roar
No More! They’ll say…
Y’all are deadly with pencils
Make these cats pay your mentals like rentals
So essential-ly
we’re proud to be
The I-S L-A N to the D
You just finished watching chapters 6-8, answer the following questions in your blog:
1. Do you think consumers have the right to sue McDonalds for selling unhealthy food? Why or why not?
2. The McDonalds corporation is the largest owner of private playgrounds in the world. What other techniques does McDonalds use to market their food to children?
3. Do you think that selling McDonalds food to children is as dangerous as selling cigarettes to kids? Why or why not?
You just finished watching the first 5 chapters of Supersize Me, please answer these questions in your blog:
1. How many times a week do you eat at McDonalds or other fast food restaurants? Do you ever think about whether what you are eating is healthy? Why or why not?
2. What do you predict will happen to Morgan’s health at the end of the month? Do you think he will remain in perfect health?
3. In one scene there is a shot of a McDonalds inside of a hospital. What do you think about that? Do you find it normal, funny, strange, sad, etc?
*B O N U S*
What does “organic” mean? What does “vegan” mean?
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