Jo Ann Nash

"I do."  ~Royal Wedding

Facebook Fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug

...and yet another fun video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTLVMKtn0Ew

...how about one more?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SqJz0NgnnE&feature=player_embedded

Where will ahhh-mA-ZING happen next?

“Reading is the skill. Teaching students to unlock the full meaning of the texts they read is the single most powerful outcome a teacher can foster. If your students can read well, they can essentially do anything.”

Doug Lemov in Teach Like a Champion (Jossey-Bass, 2010, p. 249)

Shout Out to LL

Read p 120 of Hip-Hop High School

Find examples in your poetic lyrics of “elevating your mind”

(sans drugs)

http://www.values.com/inspirational-stories-tv-spots/70-Everyday-Heroes

Teaching by Example

“What hurts more, the pain of hard work or the pain of regret?”

- Boston Celtics Weight Room sign

30 Days on Minimum Wage

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/videos/30-days-minimum-wage.html

Based on the 30-day concept from SuperSizeMe

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1787560217/
 

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/10/war-on-the-weak.html

“I paced my cell with a book in one hand and a knife under my mattress.  I knew I could have a long and happy life with a book in my hand or I could have a miserable short life with the shank that was in the mattress.” Jimmy Santiago Baca

Adolescents on the Edge

“The Journey to be Loved” intro to Stories from the Edge

Think of a Number

Big Bang clip # 73

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIYMmbHik08

“Children raised in poor households often fail to learn appropriate emotional responses, to the detriment of their school performance.  For example, students with emotional dysregulation may get so easily frustrated that they give up a task when success was moments away.” (18)

~Eric Jensen Teaching With Poverty in Mind

“How much will you be paid for attending class today?”

Practice Blackout Poetry

http://www.ehow.com/how_4763764_write-blackout-poem.html

“Reading Well is Financially Rewarding”

Source: U.S. Census

The story of my shirt…

Students took a piece of hate-filled text …

Created a “poem” (see link below)…

CHANGE HATE

A few words

Can

Weigh

A

Lot

=

Day of Silence 2011

http://www.austinkleon.com/category/newspaper-blackout-poems/

"Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North's lynch mobs."  ~Ann Pety

"Just as prison strips many Crips of life and time, it saves lives in an odd, preverse way.  Consripting to the Crips is pledging participation in a game of Russian roulette.  It's not an occupation where you end up dying of old age.  Who knows how long you'll survive?  No one truly knows.  But if you're a Crip, there's a a bullet--or a prison term--with your name on it looming in your future."  ~Ice T Foreword Inside the Crips
 
Continue annotations for La Vida Loca.

Writing ideas:
1.  Imagine you are writing your son a letter to convince him not to participate in a gang. 
2. Remember a group you joined as a teenager- any group that made you feel a member?