Tues. Sept. 30 University of Georgia CCC, 100-B
Wed. Oct. 1 Berry College CCC, 100-B
Mon. Oct. 6 US Navy Main Street
Tues. Oct. 7 GA. Southwestern Main Street
Wed. Oct. 8 Samford Main Street
Thurs.Oct. 9th Georgia Tech Main Street
All visits are during 4th period.
Here is a list of colleges and Universities making visits to Harrison this week:
Tues. 23- Georgia Perimeter/ Main Street
Wed. 24- US Navy Main Street
Thurs. 25 Emory/ Oxford CCC
Mississippi State /Main Street
Fri. 26 Auburn University / CCC
Want to listen to your readings online for free?
Check out Project Gutenberg! You can read books online or download them and listen to them!
Mornings:
7 a.m. to 7:45
Monday: Peyten Dobbs, room 114
Tuesday: Johnny Jackson, room 109
Wednesday and Thursday: Jasenda Thompson, room 110
Afternoons:
3:45-4:45
Monday and Tuesday: Peyten Dobbs, room 114Wednesday: Darcy Cearley, room 111
Thursday: Lyn Wooten, room 106
Want to help? Got some extra cash?
Kiva.org is an online organization that lends money to hopeful entrepreneuers in Third World Countries. These people start up companies and then pay the loans back. So, if you donate 25 dollars, eventually, you'll get that 25 dollars back either to keep for yourself or to reinvest in another person.
Invest in LIFE!!!!
Want to make a difference? Need a resume builder?
Come to the Harrison High School Community Service Day!
Meet in the bus port of Harrison High School
Saturday, April 26, 2008
8:00 am- 12:00 pm
Wear clothes you can work and play in!
You get:
- A free t-shirt!
- Free breakfast!
- The satisfaction of knowing that you've done your part to make the world a better place..... at least for one day!
- AND... a great resume addition!
You pay:
NOTHING!
Who says you can't get something for nothing! Come out and GIVE, and you'll GET a lot!
You need this permission form to turn in to Mrs. Moulton in room 104, or bring the signed form to the event.
Form:Download file
Hope everyone is having a wonderful final few days of Spring Break 08. I hope that NONE of you read this post until Monday, but I didn't want to forget while I had this info on my mind, so here is a post for future reference:
1. You can still bring in Phones for Darfur. I was mistaken about the deadline, so bring em in babies! I'll be sending them off on Friday the 25, so you have plenty of time! ;) I only have 9 phones so far (including one of my old ones. I know you all have more unused phones sitting around, so donate for Darfur and recycle!)
2. Brit lit kids: I probably will not have all your tests / research papers graded by Monday. I know you probably expected that I would, since I had 7 days and I am a genius ;), note the sarcasm, but even this genius needed a break. That break enabled me to look at your work with a fresh and un-jaded eye. I promise to work on them with all due speed and enter grades as soon as possible. Please don't ask me whether I have them ready when we get back on Monday.
3. Seniors, we have 5 weeks left until Summer-- that glorious time when the only work you have to do would be for a job, and you actually have time to lay out by the pool. I KNOW some of you will have gotten bit by the deadly senioritis bug over spring break..... but don't forget my story of the B-to-F-in-five-weeks-senior. Please don't fail my class because you are lazy! Push through for 25 days! THAT'S LESS THAN A MONTH! Give yourself some cushion room so that if you do happen to "forget" a paper, or score badly on one test, you won't drop into below 70 range. Remember, I just call the shots. YOU earn your grades, I don't GIVE you anything! Get ready to EARN your way through life by EARNING your passing grade!
4. I caught my first Bone fish this past week! Hope you all had as memorable and exciting a time on your days off!
This is a hilarious article about dating and reading....makes you want to improve your literary tastes and provides real life reasons for reading! Even if you're not a fan of reading, if you haven't read Shakespeare, you better look for someone who likes to read Run, Spot, Run!
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It's Not You, It's Your Books
By RACHEL DONADIO
March 30, 2008
The New York Times
Some years ago, I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from a friend. She had just broken up with a boyfriend she still loved and was desperate to justify her decision. "Can you believe it!" she shouted into the phone. "He hadn't even heard of Pushkin!"
We've all been there. Or some of us have. Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed — or misguided — literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast. At least since Dante's Paolo and Francesca fell in love over tales of Lancelot, literary taste has been a good shorthand for gauging compatibility. These days, thanks to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, listing your favorite books and authors is a crucial, if risky, part of self-branding. When it comes to online dating, even casual references can turn into deal breakers. Sussing out a date's taste in books is "actually a pretty good way — as a sort of first pass — of getting a sense of someone," said Anna Fels, a Manhattan psychiatrist and the author of "Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives." "It's a bit of a Rorschach test." To Fels (who happens to be married to the literary publisher and writer James Atlas), reading habits can be a rough indicator of other qualities. "It tells something about ... their level of intellectual curiosity, what their style is," Fels said. "It speaks to class, educational level."
Pity the would-be Romeo who earnestly confesses middlebrow tastes: sometimes, it's the Howard Roark problem as much as the Pushkin one. "I did have to break up with one guy because he was very keen on Ayn Rand," said Laura Miller, a book critic for Salon. "He was sweet and incredibly decent despite all the grandiosely heartless 'philosophy' he espoused, but it wasn't even the ideology that did it. I just thought Rand was a hilariously bad writer, and past a certain point I couldn't hide my amusement." (Members of theatlasphere.com, a dating and fan site for devotees of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead," might disagree.)
Judy Heiblum, a literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, shudders at the memory of some attempted date-talk about Robert Pirsig's 1974 cult classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," beloved of searching young men. "When a guy tells me it changed his life, I wish he'd saved us both the embarrassment," Heiblum said, adding that "life-changing experiences" are a "tedious conversational topic at best."
Let's face it — this may be a gender issue. Brainy women are probably more sensitive to literary deal breakers than are brainy men. (Rare is the guy who'd throw a pretty girl out of bed for revealing her imperfect taste in books.) After all, women read more, especially when it comes to fiction. "It's really great if you find a guy that reads, period," said Beverly West, an author of "Bibliotherapy: The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives." Jessa Crispin, a blogger at the literary site Bookslut.com, agrees. "Most of my friends and men in my life are nonreaders," she said, but "now that you mention it, if I went over to a man's house and there were those books about life's lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my clothes on."
Still, to some reading men, literary taste does matter. "I've broken up with girls saying, 'She doesn't read, we had nothing to talk about,'" said Christian Lorentzen, an editor at Harper's. Lorentzen recalls giving one girlfriend Nabokov's "Ada" — since it's "funny and long and very heterosexual, even though I guess incest is at its core." The relationship didn't last, but now, he added, "I think it's on her Friendster profile as her favorite book."
James Collins, whose new novel, "Beginner's Greek," is about a man who falls for a woman he sees reading "The Magic Mountain" on a plane, recalled that after college, he was "infatuated" with a woman who had a copy of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" on her bedside table. "I basically knew nothing about Kundera, but I remember thinking, 'Uh-oh; trendy, bogus metaphysics, sex involving a bowler hat,' and I never did think about the person the same way (and nothing ever happened)," he wrote in an e-mail message. "I know there were occasions when I just wrote people off completely because of what they were reading long before it ever got near the point of falling in or out of love: Baudrillard (way too pretentious), John Irving (way too middlebrow), Virginia Woolf (way too Virginia Woolf)." Come to think of it, Collins added, "I do know people who almost broke up" over "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen: "'Overrated!' 'Brilliant!' 'Overrated!' 'Brilliant!'"
Naming a favorite book or author can be fraught. Go too low, and you risk looking dumb. Go too high, and you risk looking like a bore — or a phony. "Manhattan dating is a highly competitive, ruthlessly selective sport," Augusten Burroughs, the author of "Running With Scissors" and other vivid memoirs, said. "Generally, if a guy had read a book in the last year, or ever, that was good enough." The author recalled a date with one Michael, a "robust blond from Germany." As he walked to meet him outside Dean & DeLuca, "I saw, to my horror, an artfully worn, older-than-me copy of 'Proust' by Samuel Beckett." That, Burroughs claims, was a deal breaker. "If there existed a more hackneyed, achingly obvious method of telegraphing one's education, literary standards and general intelligence, I couldn't imagine it."
But how much of all this agonizing is really about the books? Often, divergent literary taste is a shorthand for other problems or defenses. "I had a boyfriend I was crazy about, and it didn't work out," Nora Ephron said. "Twenty-five years later he accused me of not having laughed while reading 'Candy' by Terry Southern. This was not the reason it didn't work out, I promise you." Sloane Crosley, a publicist at Vintage/Anchor Books and the author of "I Was Told There'd Be Cake," essays about single life in New York, put it this way: "If you're a person who loves Alice Munro and you're going out with someone whose favorite book is 'The Da Vinci Code,' perhaps the flags of incompatibility were there prior to the big reveal."
Some people just prefer to compartmentalize. "As a writer, the last thing I want in my personal life is somebody who is overly focused on the whole literary world in general," said Ariel Levy, the author of "Female Chauvinist Pigs" and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her partner, a green-building consultant, "doesn't like to read," Levy said. When she wants to talk about books, she goes to her book group. Compatibility in reading taste is a "luxury" and kind of irrelevant, Levy said. The goal, she added, is "to find somebody where your perversions match and who you can stand."
Marco Roth, an editor at the magazine n+1, said: "I think sometimes it's better if books are just books. It's part of the romantic tragedy of our age that our partners must be seen as compatible on every level." Besides, he added, "sometimes people can end up liking the same things for vastly different reasons, and they build up these whole private fantasy lives around the meaning of these supposedly shared books, only to discover, too late, that the other person had a different fantasy completely." After all, a couple may love "The Portrait of a Lady," but if one half identifies with Gilbert Osmond and the other with Isabel Archer, they may have radically different ideas about the relationship.
For most people, love conquers literary taste. "Most of my friends are indeed quite shallow, but not so shallow as to break up with someone over a literary difference," said Ben Karlin, a former executive producer of "The Daily Show" and the editor of the new anthology "Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me." "If that person slept with the novelist in question, that would probably be a deal breaker — more than, 'I don't like Don DeLillo, therefore we're not dating anymore.'"
Rachel Donadio is a writer and editor at the Book Review.
This is a comment that Ms. Chilla made on the Save Darfur Wiki. I think that this is amazing, and I will be collecting OLD PHONES that you would like to donate. Please bring them to 109 and put them in the box there! Thanks! Keep saving the world. ;)
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Improving the life of someone in Darfur is as simple as recycling an old cell phone. ECO-CELL, an environmental cell phone recycling and green fund raising company, has issued a challenge to the entire nation. Remember that old, unused cell phone you tucked in the back of the drawer when you upgraded to the newest model? On April 13, 2008, World Darfur Day, ECO-CELL wants you to help recycle to raise dollars for Darfur by sending in that phone to be recycled.
The company is encouraging everyone to collect as many unused cell phones as possible and send them in to be recycled. Any phones mailed during the month of April will be counted toward the Dollars for Darfur initiative and proceeds will be donated to SaveDarfur Coalition (www.savedarfur.org) and the United Nations World Food Programme (www.wfp.org.)
Why recycle that old phone? Besides protecting the environment from toxins found in cell phones such as lead and arsenic, by recycling your phone through ECO-CELL, you can also help raise funds for the crisis in Darfur. Giving just a little can provide so much:
$25 can buy 3 donkey plows for 3 displaced families.
$50 can buy 3 blankets for a displaced family.
$100 can buy a treadle pump for a kitchen garden.
"We wanted to create a way that everyone in the nation could make a positive statement for our brothers and sisters in Darfur. Maybe you want to help but don't have the means to donate cash," said Eric Ronay, ECO-CELL President. "This way everyone can make a contribution with a positive effect for both the planet and its inhabitants. One phone or one hundred—every one you send in not only keeps toxins out of a landfill but also generates valuable dollars for a cause that needs our help."
For those participants that send in ten or more phones, ECO-CELL will pay the shipping. Simply email program@eco-cell.org to request a free shipping label. Provide your name, address, phone number and the number of phones you plan to send in to ECO-CELL. Participants who want to ship their phones directly to ECO-CELL should send them to: 2701 Lindsay Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206.
In addition to the Dollars for Darfur initiative, ECO-CELL is locally sponsoring a tent for Tents of Hope, a journey of compassion and peace with the displaced persons and refugees of Darfur, Sudan. Tents of Hope (www.tentsofhope.org) is a one-year campaign in which people respond as communities to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan by creating tents that are both unique works of art and focal points for learning about, assisting and establishing relationships with the people of Sudan. The project will culminate in October 2008 with the "Gathering of the Tents" in Washington D.C.
About ECO-CELL
ECO-CELL is a cell phone recycling and fundraising company that works with a variety of organizations in the U.S. and Canada, particularly zoos and conservation programs, to collect used cell phones and raise funds for those organizations. ECO-CELL helps keep cell phones out of landfills and provides organizations with a profitable, easy to use, environmentally focused fund-raising program. For more information, visit: www.eco-cell.org.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13129/ - click here for an interactive website and video explaining what is going on in Darfur
http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com : Click here to post on a blog and read other bloggers ideas about Darfur
http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/many-voices-for-darfur-project/#comments - Click here for a brief introduction to the Many Voices for Darfur Project
http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/ -- THE WIKI FOR POSTING
Librivox is a website where you can find many of the works of British Literature that we are reading in class. You can download these songs to Itunes and then listen to the stories on your I-pod or other MP3 player. This might be especially helpful for reading Macbeth for those auditory learners!
Nike Reuse-A-Shoe Project
I will be collecting old sneakers (not cleats, and no metal) of any brand to be delivered to the recycling center in Smyrna. These shoes will be recycled into playground surfaces across the country!
Check out www.nikereuseashoe.com !
"We gotta start makin some changes/ we gotta change the way we eat/ we gotta change the way we live/ we gotta change the way we treat eachother....it's on us to survive." -from "Changes" by Tupac
Alfred Tennyson:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Allan K. Chalmers:
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
And for the cynical few.....
Anais Nin:
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Pick 10 Gallons a Day!
We use about 100 gallons of water a day! Little changes make a difference . Encourage every friend, family member, and colleague to save 10 gallons every day!
Turn off the water when brushing your teeth- 4 Gallons
Don't rinse the dishes betore putting them in the sink- 6 Gallons
Don't use the toilet as a trash can- 3 Gallons
Do only full loads of laundry. Cut back by one laod a week- 5 Gallons a Day!
Keep a pitcher of cold water in the fridge for cold water to drink. - 6 Gallons
Catch shower water as it heats up to use on plants- 10 Gallons
Limit to one full load of dishes a day- 2 Gallons
Take a shorter shower; cut your time by 2 minutes.- 10 Gallons
Use a basin or plug the sink for rinsing when doing dishes by hand- 12 Gallons
Replace high flow showerheads- 3 Gallons a MINUTE!
Replace high flow sink aerators- 1.5 Gallons a minute
Use the load setting on your clothes washer to smaller load- 2 Gallons a day
Pour out pet's water on plants, not down the drain- 1 Gallon
Fill bathtub only half way- 15 Gallons
Fix dripping faucets- 3 Gallons
Turn water off when shaving or washing your face- 4 Gallons
Make a compost pile instead of using the garbage disposal- 4 Gallons
Catch rinse water from washing veggies or draining pasta and use it on your plants- 2 Gallons
Each day you make choices. Make better ones little by little, and pretty soon, you'll be making a world of difference!
Note: All grades will be given points commensurate with their relative importance. Within one particular category, points of assignments may vary.
Teacher Treats:
I give 5 points of credit on ANY assignment
EXCEPT:
1. Midterm or Final Exams
YOU MAY ONLY USE 3 TEACHER TREATS in ONE SEMESTER.
The points added are out of a percentage of 100. So if you add the teacher treat onto a grade of 40/50 --that percentage is an 80, and you will then be bumped up to an 85%.
Each day I watch students make decisions. Decisions not to cheat. Decisions to do the work. Decisions to skip school. Decisions to defy a teacher, or a parent. Decisions to help a friend. Decisions to recycle. Decisions to steal. Decisions to share.
I do not ask for perfection. NO! Rather, I want to encourage students to shun perfection, which is unreachable, and to embrace excellence instead. Many students are afraid of excellence. Afraid of working hard. Afraid of success. I've watched excellent people settle for becoming pretty good, and I think that is a pretty sad state of life. When I read this poem tonight, I found it very applicable.
"Pretty Good" by Charles Osgood, from the Osgood File, 1986
There once was a pretty good student
Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher
Who always let pretty good pass.
He wasn't teriffic at reading,
He wasn't a whiz-bang at math,
But for him, education was leading
Straight down a pretty good path.
He didn't find school too exciting,
But he wanted to do pretty well,
And he did have some trouble with writing,
Since nobody taught him to spell.
When doing arithmatic problems,
Pretty good was regarded as fine.
5+5 needen't always add up to be 10;
A pretty good answer was 9.
The pretty good class that he sat in
Was part of a pretty good school,
And the student was not an exception:
On the contrary, he was the rule.
The pretty good school that he went to
Was there in a pretty good town,
And nobody there seemed to notice
He could not tell a verb from a noun.
The pretty good student in fact was
Part of a pretty good mob.
And the first time he knew what he lacked was
When he looked for a pretty good job.
It was then, when he sought a position,
He discovered that life could be tough,
And he soon had a sneaking suspicion
Pretty good might not be good enough.
The pretty good town in our story
Was part of a pretty good state
Which had pretty good asiprations
And prayed for a pretty good fate.
There once was a pretty good nation
Pretty proud of the greatness it had,
Which learned much too late,
If you want to be great,
Pretty good, is, in fact, pretty bad.
Remember to express gratitude and respect toward everyone you meet! There are people who silently sacrifice for you every day of your life. Thank them, and then work to make this world a better place. Use Dr. King as your inspiration!
When you see a soldier.....
My roommate teaches 6th grade. Her kids are doing some awesome writing and some awesome critical thinking! Use this as inspiration.
Check out her blog:http://trinityweblog.org/sixthteachers/
Check out their wiki on the novel White Lilacs! http://projectsource.wikispaces.com/White+Lilacs
For any of you interested in attending a Technical College in the future, feel free to check out this website! This links to all of the technical collges in GA! ;)
http://www.technicalcollegesystemofgeorgia.org/college_campuses.php
or, if you are interested in the arts, check out this link for the Art Institute of Atlanta!
Practice for the GHSGT:
CRCT/GHSGT Practice
Georgia K - 12 Curriculum Web Links
www.linkstolearning.com
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Password: temp
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The interactive test component uses state released questions to create CRCT and GHSGT quizzes that are graded immediately, providing correct answers, explanations, and web resources for each question.
Click your state, test, and grade level.
The Links to Learning website frames the state curriculum on line and links you to websites that cover each topic on a grade appropriate level.
2nd Period Final Grades are posted outside of 103.
4th and 5th period Final Grades will be posted outside of 103 as soon as possible.
Have a GREAT BREAK!!!!!
DO NOT FEAR FAILURE! ONLY STRIVE THAT MUCH MORE PERSISTENTLY TOWARD YOUR GOALS AND DREAMS!
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood
Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.
Sarah J. Hale
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles
I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.
John Keats
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
Publius Syrus
He that is down needs fear no fall.
John Bunyan
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude
It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.
Alfred Mercier
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no failure except in longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.
Sarah J. Hale
Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
Johann C. F. von Schiller
Failure teaches success.
Japanese Saying
As we finish up this hectic semester, I'd like you to do some reflecting back on the semester, the class, yourself, and me as a teacher.
Please fill out the two forms below at your leisure. The first is optional. I'd like your feedback, but this is anonymous, so you do not have to do it if you do not want to. The second is mandatory. I'd like to see your thinking about your work.
Class and Teacher Survey
Download file
Self-Reflection turn in by the time you take your exam.
I will have a manilla folder posted outside of room 109 for you to put each survey into. Thanks! I've really enjoyed this class!
To Access the Wiki
FOLLOW EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE DIRECTIONS OR YOU MAY INADVERTANTLY DELETE YOUR PEERS' WORK!!!!
1.Log in to your email and click the link I sent out to you.
2.Fill in a user name and password at the wikispaces.com website which you should be directed to by the link. Your user name should be your last name. If your last name is already taken, then your last name first initial (ex. Dobbse)
3.Write down your password so you don’t forget it
4.Once you are logged in and can see the webpage britlit24 or worldlit5 (depending on the class you are in), please click in the top right corner at “my account”.
5.In “my account” please change the third thing down (“Use Visual Editor”) from YES to NO.
6.Hit save.
7.Go back to the class page with the instructions by clicking on the link under “my spaces” in the left hand side of the page.
8.To post your commentary, click in the upper left corner on “Edit Page.”
9.Read the instructions. Do not delete any of my words. Make sure you post in the appropriate place in the appropriate way.
10.After you are finished typing, click SAVE! (Not save a draft).
http://www.ajc.com/highschool/content/sports/highschool/index.html
Vote for HHS's video!
Want to save the world.... one grain of rice at a time?
Love addicting computer games?
This website is the site for you!!!!
This will change your life! ;) Ps. I've donated over 2020 grains of rice so far!
The Key Club is collecting money for children in Africa.
Please bring money to give to your favorite/ best Halloween Dressed Teacher tomorrow! That money will go to the key club to help the children in Africa!
Ms. Dobbs will be coming as Ophelia from Hamlet!..... ;)
Monday, October 29- November 3, 2007
CONSERVE WATER!!!
-turn off the water when you brush your teeth or wash your face. Don't let it run while you're not using it! Better yet, brush your teeth in the shower.
- Turn down the water pressure when you're not rinsing off in the shower. Take shorter showers!!!
- Drink bottled water
-Only run full loads in the dish washer and laundry
- Use "grey water" (water that is only minorly used from your sink, or from your gutters) to water household plants
- Don't pre-rinse dishes before you put them in the washer (or if you MUST, don't run the water. Use a dipping bucket and then use that grey water to water plants)
- Only empty out 1/2 or 1/3 of your fish tank when you clean the tank. Use that water to water plants.
Check this out for a laugh!
Got Buddha?
http://www.accessatlanta.com/event/events2/etc/userEventDisplay.jspd?eventStatus=Approved&eventid=140636&cxntnid=elrt101707e
Check this out!!! I'm definitely going to go for the presentation at 4:45!
Water Conservation Tips:
1. Drink bottled water if you can, and recycle the bottles!
2. Turn down the shower pressure!!! (or take a bath with less water).
3. Use grey water (used water) to water your trees and bushes
4. Turn off the water when you wash your face or brush your teeth.
5. Flush only when necessary.
6. Use paper plates, and recycle the paper!
7. Stop up any leaks that you have in your water pipes at home!
8. Only run FULL dishwashers and laundry loads.
Reduce your use and keep in mind that conservation is key!!!
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/ODD_Monster_Shark.html?cxntnid=amn101607e
Points: 5 points on a vocabulary quiz PER LETTER. You may submit up to 10 ORIGINAL letters.
Due: before or on Tuesday, October 23
Assignment: We are collecting letters to soldiers in Iraq. We are trying to help the Bert Show (Q-100 radio) with their endeavor to collect 375,000 letters.
Each letter should be heartfelt, handwritten, original, and free of any political statements. The purpose of the letter is to express thanks to the military personnel serving the United States. We reserve the rigth to eliminate those mesages that are political in nature and that do not reflect a positive message in the spirit of Thanksgiving.
All letters must be on 8.5 x 11 paper or smaller. DO not use gloe, tape, staples, cardboard, glitter or otherwise attach anything to the paper. Decorate using crayons, pencil, etc. Use both sides oif you like, but se one page per letter only.
Your letter must follow proper correspondence / letter format. Please see Ms. Dobbs if you have questions about this.
Next Wednesday, October 17 the PSAT test will be given during an extended homeroom.
The schedule for the day is as follows:
Advisement 8:25-8:35 am
Testing (in homeroom): 8:40-12:12
Lunch Period 12:18-1:25 (since we have a shortened lunch period, we will only have three lunches. We encourage students to bring a lunch this day so that they can miss long lunch lines.)
Check out this AWESOME exhibit at the High Museum!
http://www.high.org/experience/exhibitions/exhib_content.aspx?id1=2477
Remember the Sphynx's riddle that Oedipus solved? Now here is another brain buster:
You walk down the road to eternity, confident in the direction of your dreams. Unfortunately, the road forks. Intiutively, you know that one road leads to eternal happiness, and one road leads to eternal sorrow. You don't know which way to go. Happily for you, in the middle of the fork sits a house in which two brothers live. These two brothers are identical in every respect EXCEPT for the fact that one brother ALWAYS lies, and one brother ALWAYS tells the truth. Both of these brothers know which road leads to eternal happiness. You walk up to the door, knock, and one brother opens the door. WHAT IS THE QUESTION THAT YOU ASK THE BROTHER to find out the way to go?
Rules:
-You only get ONE question (no conjunctive questions or questions with semi-colons allowed!)
Benefit: If you can write down the answer to this question, you may receive extra credit and the pride of figuring out this riddle.
www.climatecrisis.net
Tigers,
Because you all are lovely and wonderful, and because I understand what it is like to lead a busy life, I have decided to give you a gift.
IF you have turned in an extra credit assignment so far this year (not including vocabulary note cards), you may choose ONE assignment on which you have a zero (test, project, quiz, homework, etc) and complete it. You MUST fill out a make up form and make up that assignment on TUESDAY AFTERNOON NEXT WEEK IN THE MAKE UP ROOM- which I happen to be in charge of that day. If it is a project or paper, you must turn it in to me by Tuesday afternoon.
In other words:
1. You must have already completed an extra credit assignment this year for this gift to apply.
2. You must fill out a make up form for the assignment you want to get credit for before Tuesday (regardless of whether it is a homework assignment, project, quiz, or test).
3. You must make up the quiz or test on TUESDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 9.
4. The assignments are due before or on Tuesday afternoon, October 9.
If you have questions, please email me at peyten.dobbs@cobbk12.org
You're welcome!!!!! ;)
Cheers,
Ms. D
Amazon.com, Borders Group launch literary contests
Two leading booksellers announced competitions today, continuing the industry's unending search for new talent and the increasing willingness to let others do the searching.
Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and Hewlett-Packard Co. have launched the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, which offers a contract with Penguin and a small advance, $25,000. Meanwhile, Borders Group Inc., Court TV and Gather.com announced "The Next Great Crime Novel" competition, with the winner receiving $5,000 and a publishing deal through Borders, the superstore chain.
More than 200,000 books come out each year and countless others are written and never released.
For the Amazon contest, authors with "an unpublished English-language novel manuscript" can submit their work between today and Nov. 5. There is no entry fee, all applicants can obtain free proof copies of their books through CreateSpace, a self-publishing service.
Manuscripts will first be evaluated by Amazon's leading customer reviewers, then judged by authors and industry professionals. The winner, to be announced April 7, will also receive "an entertainment technology package" from Hewlett-Packard that will include a 50-inch plasma TV and a PhotoSmart Digital camera," according to today's statement.
The Borders contest is also free and entries can be submitted through Nov. 11, days after Court TV starts a new season of "Murder by the Book," featuring interviews with leading crime novelists. Manuscripts will initially be evaluated by members of Gather.com, the online social network, while judges for the finalists include best-selling authors Sandra Brown, David Baldacci and Harlan Coben. The winner will be announced Feb. 4.
Meet, learn from, and discuss today’s parenting issues
with other parents. Hear information on the latest research,
and advice from child experts, educators and school psychologists. Discover ways to start a conversation with your kids
about today’s tough issues.
Harrison Parent Connection, sponsored by the HHS School Council, and Connect with Kids are bringing powerful parenting workshops to the Harrison High School theater. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about and discuss issues facing our families. Stacey DeWitt, CEO and founder of the Connect with Kids Network, will lead our discussions, sharing the latest research, advice from experts, educators and school psychologists, and award-winning Connect with Kids video programs, which you can take home to your DVD library (available to the first 200 guests).
Each FREE session will run in the theater on the first Tuesday of the months of October, November, and December from 7:30-9 p.m. Feel free to invite a friend!
Be sure to mark your calendar for:
Tuesday, Oct. 2 (parents only please; no children)
Topic: The Parenting Paradox: Neither Friend nor Foe
Tuesday, Nov. 6 (a student holiday, but the Series will continue!)
(Students are encouraged to attend with their parents.)
Topic: On the Rocks: The Epidemic of Teen Drinking
and Drug Use
Tuesday, Dec. 4
(Students are encouraged to attend with their parents.)
Topic: The Culture of Cruelty: Today’s Bullying
and Online Realities
About Connect with Kids
At Connect with Kids, our single aim is to help parents and educators help children. Each week we gather the freshest information from experts at universities, research organizations, hospitals, child advocacy groups, and parents and kids themselves. Emmy ® award-winning Connect with Kids programming airs on TV stations around the country and is used in schools nationwide. Visit www.connectwithkids.com to watch weekly new stories, sign up for monthly Teen Trends newsletters, and to share your thoughts on the online parenting community, Parents and Company. For more details, visit the following websites:
CWK’s homepage: http://www.connectwithkids.com/
A biography of the presenter: http://www.connectwithkids.com/content/CWK_Speakers_Flyer.pdf
A brief on Connect with Kids: http://www.connectwithkids.com/aboutus/
CWK documentary to illustrate why parenting can be so challenging:
http://www.connectwithkids.com/products/teenagebrain.shtml
If you need help in English, there is tutoring available:
Monday 6:45-7:45 a.m. Ms. Dobbs room 109
Monday 3:45-4:45 p.m. Ms. Cearley room 111
Tuesday 6:45-7:45 a.m. Mrs. Postema room 108
Wednesday 3:45-4:45 p.m. Mrs. Postema room 108
Friday 6:45-7:45 a.m. Mrs. Postema room 108
Bagging Baggy Pants article:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/08/23/underwear_0824_web.html?cxntnid=amn082407e
Talk about dress code! What do you think about this?!?!?!