the end of the road
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
#8 the survival stories..
baffin island polar bear..the grizzly man....the elevator story....the andes survivors...aron ralston...shackleton and the endurance...and christopher mccandless...which one interested you the most and why...explain
#7 Into the Wild ...comment on the comment
here's the first comment under on this trailer:
"Some people will idolize him. Some people will demonize him. Like all men, he is neither idol nor demon. Any intelligent person can, however,take many lessons from his story."
comment on this comment....agree with it, disagree with it, expand on it, whatever...just respond to it with your own opinion in a minimum of five sentences
Monday, September 15, 2014
"fix" personal essay
put in appropriate hand in folder (no need to print this time)
and put your name in the file name
looking for a survival story
as long as it is not Christopher McCandless, Shackleton or the elevator story, it's yours
let me know
Friday, September 12, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
5. the Andes Survivors
how should they have been treated upon their return to civilization....five sentence answer
Thur Sept 11
1. personal essay complete, print and place in folder (put in hand in folder too wehn it's available)
2. blogs up to date
3. in folder, should be:
- grade 12 and all that...
- grammar 'quiz"
- college programs research (could be in hand in folder if done electronically)
- the great discovery
- seven effective habits (on back of great discovery handout)
- terror on baffin island (one question)
- 5 things: (who are you, where did you come from, where are you going, what will you need, what will success look like
- Andes survivors repsonse(s) and grizzly story comment
4. can begin reading story and completing task on Aron Ralston (the 127 hours guy)
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Tuesday Sept 9th
1. complete college research task
responses must be hard copy and handed in or in hand in folder
2. blogs updated....you follow me, I follow you
3. begin personal essay (time today and Thursday...due Monday)
Friday, September 5, 2014
Fri Sept 5th
1. Make sure "the Great Discovery" is in folder to be marked
2. Blog up and running.....3 posts (hopefully)
3. College program research....2 programs ...complete handout
4. if finished, first 'survival' story is "Baffin Island'....read and answer questions
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
no. 3 - a survival story
in a minimum of five sentences, re-tell a `survival story` that happened to you. It doesn`t need to be a lost in the wilderness kind of story (though it could be)...just a story in which there was some degree of danger (physical or otherwise)that you overcame
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