Friday, Jan 9th

Homework....
1. Finish Reading ABC (American Born Chinese)
a. be sure to have each Character's web fully filled out
b. Write a 1pg reflection on one character....what was the problem/conflict, how did he change over time and how did he engage with the 4 agreements as the story progressed?
~Speak your truth
~ Expect/accept non-closure
~ Experience Discomfort
~ Stay engaged


6th graders - Khan Academy for 30 mins (Asa's class)
8th GRADERS - Cohort HW due Monday! - find a local organization that is doing the same thing as your cohort. And, what is one way that you can teach others about your organization other than(morning meeting, jars, posters etc)
7th - Speech HW...gold sheet and 1pg reflection of your service - what you did, interactions you had, your impressions, did you like it etc... due Mon.

THURS JAN 8TH

Homework:
1. Waving Flag - If your flag needs more than 15min...please take it home and finish! Tomorrow we will have a few minutes to add any last details before we share.


2. MAKE YOUR PROPANE EXPORT STATEMENT - Should Portland allow Propane Exports? Why/Why not? Use your evidence to back your statement and include why it is important to you, today's youth.




FLAPJACK TICKETSSSSSSSS :)

Wed, Jan 7, 2015

Homework

1. Waving Flag Project: Gather supplies, symbols, material, stickers, things that represent you!


Reminder - 1 illustrated example of one of the 4 agreements...

9th Grade Forecasting: Marshall

Franklin High School is inviting all incoming 9th graders to a forecasting event at the Marshall building. They will be giving tours of the building, eating lunch together, and completing the forecasting process at this event.
 

Details of Event:

• Date: January 20, 2015
• Time: 12:00—2:30pm
• Location: Marshall Building [3905 SE 91st Ave]

This event is for STUDENTS ONLY. Parents will not be attending the event with their students.
 

Event Agenda:

• 12:00 pm Welcome Presentation (Auditorium)
• 12:30 pm Lunch (provided)
• 1:00 pm Tour of Building
• 1:30 pm Forecasting in Break-Out Rooms
• 2:30 pm Buses return students to middle schools

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Benson High School presentation at SES

Benson High School will be here at Sunnyside to present to 8th grade students next Wednesday, January 14. Students will get a general overview of Benson's unique offerings and timeline, as well as meet one of the school counselors. This presentation is for students only. Keep an eye out for handouts and counselor contact information they may receive January 14.

For more information about your student's transition to high school, please refer to this document.

Waving Flag

Waving Flags

WAVING FLAGS PROJECT:

Step 1: Reading Sara Rahbar's bio
Step 2: Look through all of the Waving Flags she created... Pay attention to what she is representing in her different flags (symbology) and how she created each flag (composition)
Step 3: Read artist statement (on bottom of blog)
Step 4: Put computer to sleep, plug back in, come see Cori... Tell him 1 thing you though about the identity symbology and 1 thing about the composition (how she created the flags).

SARA RAHBAR - bio

Is a contemporary mixed media artist born in Tehran in 1976 and lives and works in New York

Rahbar pursued an interdisciplinary study program in New York and also studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and design in London.

Her work ranges from photography to sculpture to installation and always stems from her personal experiences and is largely autobiographical. The first body of work that created international recognition for the artist was the flag series (2005-2013), in which traditional fabrics and objects are reworked as collages that form various incarnations of the American and Iranian flag, exploring ideas of national belonging, as well as the conflicting role of flags as symbols of ideological and nationalistic violence.

By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the present state, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibriums. Her work references the avant-garde and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist system that we live in today. It demonstrates how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own cannibal and civilized selves. Cultural memory, and ideological symbols are remixed with a very direct, physical approach, deconstructing personal history and historic momentum alike, crossing the borders of imagination and the imagined, raw and honest. The material itself gets to speak: there is no mediation or transition, but a direct dialogue, reflecting on aspiration and tragedy, the battlefields of mankind and human nature itself. –

Waving Flag Examples:

http://www.sararahbar.com/index.php?page=20

SARA RAHBAR  - ARTIST STATEMENT

In the end we are all just visiting

and we all come to this world alone and we leave alone.

But while we are here we try so desperately to belong to something,

to someone and to somewhere.

Metamorphosing and transforming for the means of surviving it all,

our foundations lay, but our houses have burned to the ground.

Building castles in the sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down.


WHEN DONE... PUT COMPUTER TO SLEEP, PLUG BACK IN, COME SEE CORI AND SHARE WITH HER 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM AND 1 THING YOU THOUGT ABOUT THE COMPOSITION

Tues, Jan 6th

Hi Folks....
Remember to sell Applebees!!!
Signed Permission Slips by Friday!

Homework:
1. Read Article on Dian and write 2 questions to ask her. - Due Wed
2. Illustrated Example of 1 of the 4 agreements - Due Thurs
**Be sure to have your 15 Things poem tomorrow for sharing**

Monday January 5th, 2015!!!!

Greetings Sunnysiders,
Thanks for  making our first day of 2015 pretty fun and chill! I am really looking forward to our upcoming unit on REFUGEEs. It will be intense, sad, uplifting, powerful and we will all grow individually and collectively. This week we are reconnecting with each other and exploring some guidelines that we will use forever-more!

SELL APPLEBEES TICKETS!!!!

Homework DUE TOMORROW
1. Complete your 15 Things of Winter Break Poem - be ready to share tomorrow!

2. Spend 15 minutes talking to your family about your heritage:
~ what is your Race?
~ What Ethnicity are you?
~ What is your culture? (all the things that make you, you!)