Obits and Wedding Announcements!

1. Add your TRIP dining guide to this Google folder: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwZpx_M5DwBefllkNHJQNXlJeGJFM2tBNGEtZlZCdEw5ZHJJV3ByMU85Zjd2aUN6dGJoajA&usp=sharing Make sure all your names are on it.  
2. What language do you already know about Obits and Wedding Announcements?
1. Look at examples and add to your list (Obits in hard copy)
2. Wedding Announcements: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/fashion/weddings/index.html
3. Now...it's time to write! See prompt from Ms. Peterson. 30 mins to write (start at 12:00).
1. Add images as appropriate.
2. Add to folder w/both names: https://drive.google.com/a/rsu5.org/folderview?id=0BwZpx_M5DwBefnB6WDNBdExBbUJlLXY4X1NCQmFrZjNINENoamtSaDU5Y0ptM3A1NE8ycFE&usp=sharing
3. End by -->12:35
4. Group share! 12:35-end share. 

Restaurant Review Drafts!

1. Find a partner or two.

2. Activity #1: PLAN A TRIP! Yup, you heard right.  You and your group are going on a trip to city.  You only have 24 hours, but an unlimited budget.  It is your job to visit YELP to find a perfect place for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the city.  Collect the following information as you go:
1. Name, address, price range.
2. What are diners saying about it?  Collect key information and words that have swayed you to go to this restaurant.
3. Signature dishes.  What will each of you try? (Go see the online menu).
4. How much will your bill be?  Do an approximate total.  
5. Add a visual for each.
6. Add your TRIP dining guide to this Google folder: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwZpx_M5DwBefllkNHJQNXlJeGJFM2tBNGEtZlZCdEw5ZHJJV3ByMU85Zjd2aUN6dGJoajA&usp=sharing Make sure all your names are on it.  

3. Activity #2: Share via google docs your restaurant  review draft  with each other.  Look at each in search of minor typos and the following information (pulled the info in your Restaurant Packet). Use YELP reviews to inspire your language! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1evK6oXdb5UQ3Mi_m3nrAJluyciVUhywyV7m-vRjFyK0/edit?usp=sharing

4. Put your draft in Google Docs and I'll give you feedback before next class.  Final draft of Restaurant Reviews and photos are due next class.

Restaurant Reviews

1. Opening Moment:?
2. Read a Restaurant Review, compile a list of key words and terms.

• http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/pete_wells/index.html

3. Write your own review in class...stay tuned for exact prompt.
4. HW: Write your own restaurant review!  See packet.

Editorial Day #4

• Opening Moment: Hailey
• Record and reflect on your editorial.  Put the final product into your google folder.
• Reading of some student editorials...
• Legality of marijuana
• Are video games art?

Editorial day #3

Opening Moment: Demetrius, Asher
Next time: Hailey

• Collect movie packets from Shattered Glass (if you hadn't passed in last class)
• Writing an editorial interview clip: Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor at The Times, explains in this brief video that a good editorial consists of “a clear position that is strongly and persuasively argued.” 
• I will read and give feedback on all editorials placed in your google folders by this afternoon at 2:30.
• HW: FINAL Draft of Editorial (Approx. 400-450 words)

Editorial Day #2

Opening Moment: Nate S and Demetrius
Next time: Asher

• Collect movie packets from Shattered Glass
• Go over ideas for your own editorials (first draft next class)
• Writing an editorial interview clip: Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor at The Times, explains in this brief video that a good editorial consists of “a clear position that is strongly and persuasively argued.” 
• Choose an editorial to read on your own from the NYT opinion pages. As you read, I would like you to annotate and take notes on the analyzing editorials handout.  Please put in your google folder for this class as "Analyzing Editorials"
  HW: First Draft of Editorial (Approx. 400-450 words)

  
  

  
  

  Editorial ideas--->

  
  

  Demetrius: Pay with credit cards at school! 

  
  

  Ramsey: Technology & social media.  Do your teachers use technology well (divide by subjects--some are harder than others)? How young is too young for an iPhone? 5th grade is too young! 

  
  

  Hannah: Is prom worth it?  YES! 

  
  

  Lilly: Patriarchy at FHS.  Are there unfair advantages to how girls have to dress?  Was the principalship given to a male on purpose? Interview people who interviewed the principals.  Teachers.  Is Freeport sexist? Administrative level. How many females applied for administrative position? Is it strange there are female fewer female administrators?  

  
  

  Sarah: Teachers shouldn't give too much homework? Limit the number of pieces.  

  
  

  Arick: Should marijuana be legal? Full legalization and tobacco.

  
  

  Asher: Should video games be a sport? When is it okay to replace human limbs with technology? Is it okay if it is a choice and you volunteer?  Transcendence: matrix, uploading a human to a computer? AI?

  
  

  Seth: Engineer students should pay less than English majors? 

  
  

  BrIAn: Can a video game be a work of art? What do people already value in art and how do they overlap with video games?

  
  

  Joey:  Should students be offered $ for doing better on tests? Freakanomics (movie).  If you have really bad test scores, you have to pay?  What if you have learning disability...?  

  
  

  Peter: Should marijuana be legal? Full legalization and tobacco.

  
  

  Josh: Should marijuana be legal? Full legalization and tobacco. Or, are some youth sports too intense?  Head injuries that are resulting?  

  
  

  Nate: Is drinking and driving still a problem for teenagers.  Yes. What do you think opposition say...No because...there are more laws, there is more media, officers are strict, cars can practically drive themselves.  Would this be reduced is parents were more "chill"?  Do parents CREATE sneaky kids.  Is it the parents role to educated the kids? If parents don't educate kids, are we creating the problem.  Strict without education= problem? Is it all about moderation?

  
  

  Julia: Should be birth control pills be available to teen girls w/out prescription? Should students get equal space in the yearbook? Yes (if they want it).

  
  

  Nichole: Do bystanders have the responsibility to intervene when there is struggle.  Mr. Mellon as a resource.  Can money buy you happiness? Look at lottery winners.  

  
  

  Hailey: Is dating (as we used to know) a thing of the past?  Could it put young people in danger?  YOU AREN'T DATING THEM! Is it going to lead to the demise of person-to-person communication? Should government limit the size of sugary drink.

  
  

  
  

Starting Opinion Pieces

Opening moment: Make-ups
Next time: Nate S.

-Reading a recording feature #2
-Collect movie packets from Shattered Glass
-Read Ch 9: Opinion Writing & Answer questions
-Thumbnail opinions!

HW: pick a topic for next time, be ready to report out.