GREAT CONFINO TOUR AT TENEMENT BUILDING 5-2-11 + Final 6 Weeks as JUNIORS

While 37 scholars were signed up to go on today's Tenement "Living" Museum Tour, only 20 remembered to go?

Congratulations to those 20 who joined Ms. Ruth Biton and "Victoria Confino" http://www.museumtix.com/venue/venueinfo.aspx?vid=781&tab=E&evw=2&pvt=let

from 1916

Great questions and notes from:

Jahziel James*****

Rinchen Dolma**

Allison Li

Roxanne Coleman*

Ashley Lopez**

Emily Chen

Sukamol Chonpatawat

Ricky Dundi

Shakif Awsaf

Yomiuri Ortiz**

Debbie Veras****

Valentin Castillo****

Rosemarie Reyes

Mandy Zhao**

Hana Lee****

Mike Linn**

Stephanie Garcia**

Whom am I forgetting?

Scoring Trips

Showing up 50 

Interviewing/Questioning-Responding appropriately = 25

Photos = 25

Max = 100, however, it is always possible to score more, the more participation offered.

Updates:

Bring ONLY IRB for next three Fridays, as they will be the focus of Friday Quizzes = 15 minutes reading, 15 minutes discussing correlations between Ragtime and "Iron Jawed Angels", notes from both field trips and those from History and Lit classes to whichever IRB chosen.

Take these last 16 days to finalize Portfolios

No real writing assignments as long as all scholars are doing the reading.

That last Coulombe-Finn Essay was NOT planned, it was only assigned when scholars failed to do their bare minimum reading 15 pages/day during the course of 18-30 days. 

You dictate the course of the class. Read, rent the movie, work in Study Groups during Advisory, stop by L&L or SOS to any of the 8 Humanities teachers, any of the four GCs, and GET 'ER DONE!

Ragtime must be completed by Friday, May 6 [the latest Tuesday, May 9], so that scholars have ample time to read IRB.

IRBs must be completed no later than Friday, May 19, in order to fully integrate themes of Corruption, Betrayal, Hierarchy, Transformation, Manipulations of "Dreams" and/or The American Dream, Escape, Women's Liberation, Race Relations, Multiple Perspectives, Altering History, Loss of Self, Identity, Loss of Faith, Overcoming Adversities, Goals, Othering and "Passing" [for White]. 

Final Projects for Harlem Unit Week of May 27th

Blog Updates, brief written reflections,

Monopoly Game

Poetry Salon--dress up like the Ragtime Era

May 18 - Portfolios Due

Conferences happen May 20 - June 3

Possible Movies that correlate:  

Memento, the 2000, Christopher Nolan  

The Changeling Clint Eastwood's 2008 movie about 

Inception, recent film by Christopher Nolan

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman, 2004)

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Must buy, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie by May 31, in order to read it by June 10.

Improv Week June 13-15 (combining Langston Hughes, Jazz and excerpt from Tina Fey's Memoir, Bossypants for a lighter fun last week!

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste," United Negro College Fund Slogan