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11 October 2013 – Aim and Assignments

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"I am the anger, the just anger of the people, and that is why they listen to me and believe in me." - Jean Paul Marat (L'Ami du peuple) Aim: What impact did the Reign of Terror have on France? Make sure you bring in your copy of the French Revolution DBQ tuesday if you have not given it to me yet. http://web001.greece.k12.ny.us/files/filesystem/GHG_DBQs/GHG_DBQ_01.07.pdf … [Read more...]

Mini project: My dream home (El hogar de mis sueños)

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Aim: How to describe an apartment or house? Due date: 10/15/13   Assignment: Make a small poster of your dream home. Options: *Draw it (blue print style) *Cut out magazines images or print them out. (Appropriate images!) Label each room in Spanish. E.g.: la cocina Then write a parragraph using the following template: Mi casa es (adjective). Está cerca de (place). Tiene (# of rooms total) cuartos. Tiene (#) baños y (#) habitaciones. La cocina es (adjective). El comedor es (adjective). La sala de estar es (adjective). ADD 3 or more sentences about your dream home.  On the back of your poster attached a clean copy of your paragraph description or re-write it on the poster itself. … [Read more...]

WHSAD Students Beautify the Community

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Through a partnership with Elaine Brodsky, The Greenpoint CCI and the Williamsburg HS for Architecture and Design, Groundswell Artists will facilitate the collaborative research, design and creation of a large scale work of public art to be installed in Greenpoint Brooklyn (location TBD) based on the theme “The History and Future of Greenpoint” with emphasis on the immigrant experience. Groundswell Artists will work with an apprentice team (TEMA Wednesdays) made up of Groundswell youth and youth from the Greenpoint CCI and the Williamsburg HS of Architecture and Design to create a mural on parachute cloth. The program will run from Oct. 23, 2013 – May 7, 2014; Wednesdays, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm. 6 WHSAD students were selected to … [Read more...]

WHSAD Students Attend a Performance of Wicked

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On October 9, 2013 50 WHSAD students attended a special performance of the Tony Award winning musical Wicked. This opportunity was made available to WHSAD through the support of  Early Stages at CEI. If you would like to take part on the next Broadway show see Mr. DAmato in Room 204 or send him an email at damato@whsad.org. … [Read more...]

Senior ELA Assignment and News

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This week we have worked on how to conduct a Socratic Seminar. Thank you all very much for participating and showing a willingness to discuss literature with your classmates and the world-related questions that the world of fictional dystopia can bring us. You all did phenomenally. If you missed class Monday, yesterday, or today, there is an assignment due for Friday. Directions: In 6-8 COMPLETE sentences, explain what you would be willing to die for. However, you cannot choose friends, family, goldfish, hamsters or anything that breathes. NO PEOPLE! What would you be willing to die for? This is not a light-hearted question. And here is some food for thought: "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." -Dr. Martin … [Read more...]

Tarea 10/9

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Aim:  How to describe an apartment or house?   Due: 10/10/13   Write six complete sentences in Spanish describing your room. Follow the guiding questions. (Remember: These are guiding questions, if they don't apply to you or you would like to add something else, you can do that.)   1.¿Es grande o pequeña? 2.¿Dónde está en tu apartamento o casa? 3.¿Cuántas ventanas tiene? 4.¿Dónde esta la cama? 5.¿La mesita de noche está al lado de la cama? 6.¿Hay un televisor o una computadora?   … [Read more...]

End of MP1

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Don't forget Marking Period 1 ends Friday, October 11. Make sure you are up-to-date and have turned in the following assignments: - Document Packet ~ Pds 2 & 7 - Writing Assignment #3 (9/30) - DBQ Packet, Summary, and Essay (10/4) … [Read more...]