Our Final Exam will begin at 6 pm and will be administered until 8 pm in OUR room C216
Good Luck to All!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
agenda for 7/23/08
At First Sight
Compare and Contrast Exercise Part 2
Final Exam Review
Student Evaluations
agenda for 7/22/08
Student Presentations
Day Three of Presentations 7/22/08
L. Abdullayeva
D. Huseinovic
O. Morgan
P. Rebizant
C. Toussaint
At First Sight
Compare and Contrast Exercise
Agenda for 7/21/08
Student Presentations
Day Two of Presentations 7/21/08
M. Bennet
A. Lau
L. Pechena
E. Sorkin
Z. Yunusmukhanedova
E. Zhang
agenda for 7/17/08- FINAL PRESENTATIONS BEGIN
Student Presentations
Day One of Presentations 7/17/08
M. Ash
J. Klein
S. Pearson
D. Rodriguez
D. Wynter
Agenda for 7/14/08- FINAL PROJECT
Attendance
Review of Wednesday and Thursday's Assignments
Wednesday, 7/9/08: Finding the Controlling Idea Between Chapters
Thursday, 7/10/08: Reading Comprehension Quiz
Watershed Events: What are they and why are they important?
Oliver Sacks Biography
Final Project: Distribution and Review
Choices for Presentations from Oliver Sacks' An Anthropologist on Mars
"The Case of the Colorblind Painter" p. 3
"To See and Not See" p. 108
"The Landscape of His Dreams" p. 153
"An Anthropologist on Mars" p. 244
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Day One of Presentations 7/17/08
M. Ash
J. Klein
S. Pearson
D. Rodriguez
D. Wynter
Day Two of Presentations 7/21/08
M. Bennet
A. Lau
L. Pechena
E. Sorkin
Z. Yunusmukhanedova
E. Zhang
Day Three of Presentations 7/22/08
L. Abdullayeva
D. Huseinovic
O. Morgan
P. Rebizant
C. Toussaint
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The Presentation
Part I: Answer the following short answer questions in a brief summary regarding the chapter you chose from An Anthropologist on Mars (60 points) Chapter choices will be announced in class.
- What is this chapter about?
- Who are the main characters?
- Where geographically does it take place?
- When did the event or events occur?
- Why did this event happen?
- Why was it important then?
- Why is it important now?
Part II: Create a presentation about the chapter you chose from An Anthropologist on Mars. This presentation can encompass your summary, but must also include your personal reaction to this event or events and their importance to the world today. (30 points)
Part III: Create a visual aid to accompany your presentation. (30 points) This visual aid could be as simple as a series of photographs related to your topic pasted to a piece of oak tag or chart paper.
* You will have the next three evenings to prepare for your presentation. Additionally, we will be meeting in the computer labs for the next TWO sessions.
Tuesday, 7/15/08 M-125
Wednesday, 7/16/08 M- 322
************************************** Some Hints for your presentation
Be able to speak about your chapter intelligently
Showcase your knowledge of the chapter during your presentation
Make eye contact with your audience
Dress for the occasion
Be on time!
Type your brief summary
Don't forget to include your personal reaction in your presentation!
Don't forget your visual aid
If you are planning on using your laptop or any other electronic devices, come early on your day and and set up
Good Luck!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
agenda for 7/8/08
Attendance
Student Photo Projects
Camera Dyad Project: Create a photograph or illustration that speaks "A Thousand Words"
agenda for 7/7/08-
Attendance
Distribution of Student Work
Review of Midterm Examination
"The Mirror with a Memory" Summaries:
Carousel Questions on Chart paper
Share Out
Photo or Illustration Project HW:
Choose ONE of the assignments below...
Photo Assignment Workshop: Write a one page typed essay (Writing Assignment #1) describing a situation from your life where a disagreement or misunderstanding resulted from an extreme difference in in perspective or opinion between you or someone else. Due TOMORROW.
OR...
Look through your photographs and select one which “outsiders” might misinterpret or assign wrong meanings to. Write two paragraphs: one explaining what was really happening and the other explaining what others might mistakenly think when seeing it. Mount the photograph on a piece of construction paper or small oaktag so that it may be shared with the class TOMORROW.
Tomorrow's class will be a celebration of student work. Do not forget your assignment for it is worth 25 points...
Agenda for 7/2/08
Attendance
Free write and Discussion about the Iraq War- Is there an end in sight and why?
Review for Midterm Exam:
1. "The Decision to Drop the Bomb" from After the Fact
2. Literary Elements such as Conflict, Irony, Theme, Setting, Characterization, etc.
3. General Groves and Dr. Oppenheimer
4. Day One Review
3 long answer questions...
Part III of Day One
Day One Agenda 7/1/08
Characterization can be defined the way in which a writer, or possibly an actor, conveys his or her characters through dialogue, physicality and description. List 3 major characters from the film and discuss their characterizations. This should be at least 1 page.
Agenda
Attendance
Cllection of assignments
Characterization review
Part II of "Day One"
Sunday, June 22, 2008
- Dramatizations of the Indianapolis sinking and aftermath have been adapted to film, stage, and television. The most famous fictional reference to the Indianapolis occurs in the movieJaws in a monologue by actor Robert Shaw.
| “ | Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsalto the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: Shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away...but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark...he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they...rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bo'sun's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us...he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened...waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. | ” |
—Quint from Steven Spielberg's 1975 film Jaws. [1] | ||
The USS Indianapolis
Loss of the Indianapolis
[edit]A secret mission, and destruction
After repairs and overhaul, The Indianapolis received orders to proceed to Tinian island, carrying necessary parts and the uranium projectile of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" which was going to be dropped on Hiroshima. Due to the importance of her mission, The Indianapolis departed San Francisco on July 16. Arriving at Pearl Harbor July 19, she raced on unaccompanied and arrived in Tinian on July 26. After delivering hertop secret cargo to Tinian, The Indianapolis was sent to Guam where she let soldiers off. From Guam she set sail to Leyte. From there she was to report to Vice Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf. Leaving Guam on July 28, Indianapolis continued on a direct route, unaccompanied. Early in the morning, at 12:14 on July 30, 1945, two heavy explosions (some say three) occurred against her starboard side, and she sank in twelve minutes. The Indianapolis was hit by two torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58, commanded by Mochitsura Hashimoto.
[edit]Delayed rescue: Four days in the water
At the Headquarters of Commander Marianas on Guam and of the Commander Philippine Sea Frontier on Leyte, operations plotting boards were kept. On these boards was kept a graphic plot of the positions at sea of all vessels in which the headquarters concerned was interested. In the case of the Indianapolis, the departure of the vessel from Guam on July 28 was recorded on the plotting boards in each of these headquarters. Her estimated position was plotted on each board daily. On July 31, the date on which the vessel was scheduled to have arrived at Leyte, the Indianapolis was removed from the board in the headquarters of Commander Marianas and was recorded on the board at the headquarters of Commander Philippine Sea Frontier as having arrived at Leyte. This was the routine method of handling the plot of combatant vessels. Since, in accordance with orders standard throughout the Southwest Pacific Area, the Pacific Ocean Areas, and the Atlantic, the arrival of combatant vessels was not reported, vessels of this class were assumed to have arrived at their destinations on the date and at approximately the time scheduled in the absence of information to the contrary. Lieutenant Stuart B. Gibson, U.S.N.R., the Operations Officer under the Port Director, Tacloban, was the officer who was immediately concerned with the movements of the Indianapolis. The non-arrival of that vessel on schedule was known at once to Lieutenant Gibson who not only failed to investigate the matter but made no immediate report of the fact to his superiors.[2]
While the Indianapolis sent distress calls before sinking, the Navy long claimed that they were never received because the ship was operating under a policy of radio silence; declassified records show that three SOS messages were received separately, but none were acted upon because one commander was drunk, another had ordered his men not to disturb him and a third thought it was a Japanese prank.[3] (no longer available)
The subsequent delay of the rescue mission led to the loss of hundreds of sailors. About 300 of the 1,196 men on board died in the attack. The rest of the crew, 880 men, floated in the water without lifeboats until the rescue was completed four days later. Three hundred and twenty-one crew came out of the water alive, with 317 ultimately surviving. They suffered from lack of food and water, exposure to the elements, severe desquamation, and shark attacks. The Discovery Channel has stated that the Indianapolis sinking resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history, and attributes the attacks to the oceanic whitetip shark species. The same show attributed most of the deaths on the Indianapolis to exposure, salt poisoning and thirst, with the dead being dragged off by sharks.
Immediately prior to the attack, the seas had been moderate; the visibility fluctuating but poor in general; Indianapolis had been steaming at 17 knots (31 km/h). When the ship did not reach Leyte on the 31st, as scheduled, no report was made that she was overdue. This omission was due to a misunderstanding of the Movement Report System. Thus it was not until 10:25 onAugust 2 that the survivors were accidentally sighted by pilot Lieutenant Wilber (Chuck) Gwinn and copilot Lieutenant Warren Colwell on a routine patrol flight. The survivors were mostly held afloat by life jackets, although there were a few rafts which had been cut loose before the ship went down. Gwinn immediately dropped a life raft and a radio transmitter. All air and surface units capable of rescue operations were dispatched to the scene at once.
A PBY seaplane under the command of LT. R. Adrian Marks was dispatched to lend assistance and report. Enroute to the scene, Marks overflew the destroyer escort USS Cecil J. Doyle (DE-368) and alerted her captain, future U.S. Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor, Jr., of the emergency. On his own authority, Claytor decided to divert to the scene.
Arriving hours ahead of the Doyle, Marks' crew began dropping rubber rafts and supplies. While so engaged, they observed men being attacked by sharks. Disregarding standing orders not to land at sea, Marks landed and began taxiing to pick up the stragglers and lone swimmers who were at greatest risk of shark attack. Learning the men were the crew of the Indianapolis, he radioed the news, requesting immediate assistance. The Doyle responded she was enroute. When the plane's fuselage was full, survivors were tied to the wings with parachute cord, damaging the wings so that the plane would never fly again and had to be sunk. Marks and his crew rescued 56 men that day.
The Cecil Doyle was the first vessel on the scene. Homing on Marks' PBY in total darkness, the Doyle halted to avoid killing or further injuring survivors, and began taking Marks' survivors aboard. Disregarding the safety of his own vessel, the Doyle's captain pointed his largest searchlight into the night sky to serve as a beacon for other rescue vessels. This beacon was the first indication to most survivors that their prayers had been answered.
Destroyers USS Helm (DD-388), USS Madison (DD-425) and USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) were ordered from Ulithi, and the destroyer escort USS Dufilho (DE-423) with attack transports USS Bassett (APD-73) and USS Ringness (LPR-100) from the Philippine Frontier to the rescue scene, searching thoroughly for any survivors. On August 8 the search for survivors ended. Of the 900 who made it into the water, only 317 were pulled out alive. After almost five days of constant shark attacks, starvation, terrible thirst, suffering from exposure and their wounds, the men of the Indianapolis were at last rescued from the sea.
[edit]Captain Charles Butler McVay III
Captain Charles Butler McVay III, who had commanded Indianapolis since November 1944, survived the sinking, and was with those rescued days later. In November 1945, he was court-martialed and convicted of "hazarding his ship by failing to zigzag." Several things about the court-martial were controversial. There was evidence that the Navy itself had placed the ship in harm's way, in that McVay's orders were to "zigzag at his discretion, weather permitting." Further, Mochitsura Hashimoto, commander of I-58, testified that zigzagging would have made no difference.[4]
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz remitted McVay's sentence and restored him to active duty. McVay retired in 1949.[5] While many of the Indianapolis survivors said McVay was not to blame for the sinking, the families of some of the men who died did. The guilt that was placed on his shoulders mounted until he committed suicide in 1968.[6]
In October 2000, the United States Congress passed a resolution that Captain McVay's record should state that "he is exonerated for the loss of the USS Indianapolis." President Bill Clintonsigned the resolution.[7]
Of the 700 ships of the U.S. Navy that were lost in combat in World War II, McVay was the only captain to be court-martialed.
[edit]The wreck
The exact location of the Indianapolis is unknown. In July and August 2001 an expedition sought to find the wreckage through the use of side-scan sonar and underwater cameras mounted on a remotely operated vehicle; four Indianapolis survivors accompanied the expedition, which was not successful. In June 2005, a second expedition was led to find the wreck; National Geographic covered the story and released it in July. Submersibles were launched to find any sign of wreckage. The only things ever found—which have not been confirmed to have belonged to the Indianapolis—were many chunks of metal found in the area of the reported sinking position (this was included in the National Geographic program Finding of the USS Indianapolis).
Many have claimed that the Indianapolis cannot be found. She was carrying quite a few explosives on board and was reported to have gone down burning. Many believe that she perhaps exploded after sinking beneath the waves. On top of this, the area in which she sank has some of the deepest spots in the world. The expedition led in 2005 found no actual bulk of the wreck, no deckhouses, turrets, or hull. This has not discouraged some shipwreck hunters who are bent on finding one of World War II's most famous ships.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Agenda for 6/26/08
Agenda
Attendance
Propaganda Mini Lesson
Reefer Madness You Tube Video
Modeling of Posters
Persuasion Posters using Chart PaperShare Outs
Agenda for 6/25
Agenda
Attendance
Photos from CD
"A Sort of Homecoming" by u2
"The Stolen Child"
Poetry Mini Lesson
Imagery
Simile (Nature)
Read Aloud page 337
Share Out
A Sort of Homecoming
And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape
Oh, oh, oh
On borderland, we run
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
A high road
A high road out from here
The city walls are all pulled down
The dust, a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields
That once gave no resistance
And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill
As the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own
Oh come away, oh come away
Oh come, oh come away, say I
Oh come away, oh come away
Oh come, oh come away, say I
Oh, oh, oh
On borderland, we run
And still we run
We run and don't look back
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
Tonight
I'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there, somehow
I'll be there, tonight
Tonight
Oh come away, I say, say oh my
Oh come away, I say
The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream, yeah, oh
Tonight we'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight
And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance
Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape
Oh, oh, oh
On borderland, we run
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
A high road
A high road out from here
The city walls are all pulled down
The dust, a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields
That once gave no resistance
And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill
As the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own
Oh come away, oh come away
Oh come, oh come away, say I
Oh come away, oh come away
Oh come, oh come away, say I
Oh, oh, oh
On borderland, we run
And still we run
We run and don't look back
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
Tonight
I'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there, somehow
I'll be there, tonight
Tonight
Oh come away, I say, say oh my
Oh come away, I say
The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream, yeah, oh
Tonight we'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight
And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance
Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home
Written by Paul Hewson (Bono)
The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats
WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scare could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scare could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.
| Desert Places by: Robert Frost |
| Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it--it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less-- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. |
Persuasion HW
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