8 Picture Books You Don't Have To Be A Kid To Love

Check these out now and when we get to poetry.  Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   8 Picture Books You Don't Have To Be A Kid To Love NPR - Here at NPR Books, we may be grown-ups, but every now and then we still enjoy channeling our inner 7-year-olds. And this week, we have the perfect excuse: Monday's Randolph Caldecott Medal announcement for picture book artistry. We've tried (and failed) to predict winners in the past, but right or wrong, we still like looking at pretty picture books and wildly speculating about what could win. Available on the App Store.

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Oculus rift movie!

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/26/7919177/oculus-lost-virtual-reality-film-sundance

 

Super cool oculus technology is going to be here before you know it!

 

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Interview: Frances Jensen on The Teenage Brain : Shots - Health News : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/28/381622350/why-teens-are-impulsive-addiction-prone-and-should-protect-their-brains?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150128

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What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning?

Here's a great description of our class projects! Oh, I miss them! Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning? Edutopia - You know the hardest thing about teaching with project-based learning? Explaining it to someone. It seems to me that whenever I asked someone the definition of PBL, the description was always so complicated that my eyes would begin to glaze over immediately. So to help you in your own musings, I've devised an elevator speech to help you clearly see what's it all about. Available on the App Store.

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Putin Said to Shrink Inner Circle as Hawks Beat Billionaires

To my kids: Start thinking about regional history in Russia a lot more to get prepared for Animal Farm.  Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Putin Said to Shrink Inner Circle as Hawks Beat Billionaires Bloomberg - Vladimir Putin isn't just angering leaders from Berlin to Washington. He's irking some of his richest friends, too, by snubbing their pleas to end the conflict in Ukraine and ostracizing all but a handful of hardliners. Available on the App Store.

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How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift

If you sit down to study a load of material, "of course you're not going to remember most of it the next day," Carey said. You do have to go back and build your knowledge. "But it's not that you don't remember well, or you're not a good learner. It's that forgetting is a critical part of learning."

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-does-the-brain-learn-best-smart-studying-strategies/

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Article: Minimalist Poster Series Depicts the Serious Symptoms of Depression with Geometric Designs

For any of you studying mental health, this might be an interesting tangent. Striking visuals attempt to convey states of depression and other kinds of mental health issues. 

Minimalist Poster Series Depicts the Serious Symptoms of Depression with Geometric Designs
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/nick-barclay-depression-posters

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Time for some grammar and punctuation review

Review and practice commas with introductory phrases and clauses and apostrophes to show possession.

 

Review introductory clauses and phrases followed by a comma. I’m seeing far too many of these.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/03/

Practice:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/print/3/5/53/

More Practice:

https://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_placement_ex2.htm

 

 

Review Apostrophes:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/1/

Practice:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/3/3/10

More Practice:

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/apostrophes_1.asp

 

 

 

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Spain Park High School

 

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Article: Listening to the Star Wars Soundtrack in a Pygmy Village

Who was thinking about researching the effect of music on people? This may be a starting point. 

Listening to the Star Wars Soundtrack in a Pygmy Village
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/listening-to-the-star-wars-soundtrack-in-a-pygmy-village/384402/

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Jose Miguel Sokoloff: How we used Christmas lights to fight a war - YouTube

Think big, kids. 

Look at this problem and all the solutions they continue to try. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?safe=active&v=0Fi83BHQsMA

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Amazing invention and great vocabulary use

How This Stronger-Than-Steel Material Could Change the World Entrepreneur - Graphene is just one atom thick, but it's poised to cast a wide shadow over the future of business. Some 200 times stronger than steel yet lighter than paper and more flexible than a contortionist, graphene is hailed as a miracle material with the potential to revolutionize products and processes across industries from consumer electronics to biomedicine.   Available on the App Store.

 

 

Tosha Caston-Smith

Pre-AP English 9

Spain Park High School

 

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Odyssey PowerPoint - take notes

Complete pages 1-3 of your Odyssey packet.

 

https://docs.google.com/a/hcs-students.net/presentation/d/1TvgDp9GAD09aMcyATw7TEtLaUeWTYPTFibG18EjiqBI/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

Tosha Caston-Smith

Pre-AP English 9

Spain Park High School

 

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