Mrs. Zana’s Class

I suppose I should answer my own questions as well!

I’ll remember all my students.  You are a terrific bunch. I’ve been bragging about you all year. When people ask me if I’m glad the year is over, I usually say, “Not really. I’m going to miss my students. I’ve got a great class.” Besides all my students, I’ll remember:

The movie at the Skirball. I got just a little bit bored and fell asleep. Oops.

The bird walk in Woodly Park and walking to see the stream at Lake Balboa.

The science field trip. Wading in the stream in the COLD water.

Painting pictures of Ancient Greece.

The Greek Olympics

Working REALLY hard to prepare for the CSTs, especially the contest in room one

All the girls baking cupcakes

Random acts of kindness from so many students

The girls playing violin after school by the bench

All the pillows and blankets for the Daoism activity

Digging in the sand box at the Skirball and all the docents telling me what a nice class I have

The “culminating activity” before winter break. All the food and presents!

Applauding when classmates raised their grades

Teaching. Learning. Becoming a community.

It was a good year!

What advice do you have for my class next year to help them succeed?

How have you changed this year? If you had it all to do over again, what would you do differently?

What have you learned this year? Be specific. What skills or information have you gained? Don’t list every little thing, just the big ideas.

What will you remember about this year? What are your best memories?

What have you learned from this book?

How have your opinions changed?

How have your actions changed?

What book do you want to do your book report on? What format do you want to do?

Due: Thursday, September 4, 2008
You may do this assignment as a comment on the blog. If you do so, you must also turn in a paper and write on it, “I did my homework on the blog.” Please only list your first name and last initial on the blog; no last names.

This homework assignment is perhaps the most important one I will give you all year! Why? Not because it’s hard. The reason why this assignment is so important is because you will be showing me what kind of student you have chosen to be at Mulholland. Will you be responsible and do all your work? Will you do the work, but forget it at home? Maybe you’ll do it, but leave it in that brand new locker of yours. Perhaps you’ll turn in the assignment all crumpled up, since you shoved it to the bottom of your backpack. Or, horror of horrors, will you choose to play video games, talk on the phone, and watch T.V. instead of doing your work? I hope EVERYONE gets a great start and you all manage to turn in this assignment tomorrow.

Copy and complete each question. You do not need to copy the explanations in parentheses.

1. The chapter books that have been read aloud to me are ______  (List the titles. List the authors if you remember them).

2. The chapter books I remember reading on my own are ____  OR I have read too many books to possibly list them all. My five all time favorites are _______ and the last book I read is ______( Again, titles and authors if you remember them. If you have never read a chapter book on your own, don’t worry. You will this year!)

3. I have seen these movies that were adapted from books, AND I also read the books______.

4. I have seen these movies that were adapted from books, BUT I have not read the books________.

Grading:

100% A: Answers written on separate sheet. Correct heading on paper. All questions answered. Paper is neat and not crumpled. No ragged edges from spiral notebook paper. No broken holes from notebook paper.
85% B: Same as A, but paper is messy.
75% C: Same as B, but not all questions answered
50% F: Paper is late. Whether one hour or four months late doesn’t matter.
0%: F: Paper is never turned in.

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Write your reactions to the song and the video

The Flobots - Handlebars lyrics
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars (2 times)

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it’s good to be
ALIVE
and I’m a famous rapper
even when the paths’re all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to “De Colores”
And “I’m Proud to be an American”
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it’s good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won’t stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let’em all die in exasperation
Have’em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have’em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don’t like’em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust (6 times)

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars (2 times)

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Directions:

Spend a minute looking at a modern world map to review your knowledge of the world’s continents and bodies of water.

Look at each of these Roman maps. As you look at them, notice how different they look from modern maps.

Orbis Terrarum According to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (20 CE)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/118.html

World Map According to Pomponius Mela (c. 40 CE)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/116.html

World Map According to Dionysius (124 CE)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/117.html

Use your browser’s Back and Forward buttons to go back and forth between the maps
you’ve just seen. Answer these questions about the maps:

1. What lands existed on the outer edges of the known world in these maps? Provide at least four examples.

2. According to these maps, did the Romans know about these places?

a. the Nile River

b. the British Isles

c. India

d. Japan

e. North America

For questions 3-8 Compare the Orbis Terrarum (the first map) with one of the other maps.

3. Write the name of the second map you’ve chosen here.

4. Where are Rome and the Italian peninsula located (center, left, right, top, etc.):

on the Orbis Terrarum?

on the other map?

5. Why do you think the Italian Peninsula is located in this position on each map?

6. Which map is more detailed, with more place names?

7. Which of the two ancient maps is more accurate in terms of the shape of landforms and bodies of water? (compare the maps to a modern map)

8. Which parts of the maps are the most accurate: the parts closest to Rome or the parts farther from Rome? Why?

9. Our world map today looks very similar to the world map 100 years ago, but the
Roman maps you’ve seen look rather different from each other even though only 104
years passed between the making of the earliest and the latest maps. Why do you
think this difference exists? Why would the Romans have created world maps that
looked this different from each other within such a relatively short time span?