Day 27

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 27

1. Last of 1030 essays back.
   
2. Bonus points—this week.
   
3. Quiz
   
4. Correct Quiz
   
5. Too Sick
   
   1. HIV-AIDS, malaria, TB, polio (and Gates)
      
   2. Pandemic (have you seen 28 days later? You get the picture)
      
6. Too Disempowered
   
   1. Half-flat world—in India high tech is .2 percent of employment.
      
   2. Rural voters
      
7. Too Frustrated
   
   1. Cultures feel threatened, frustrated, humiliated
      
   2. Differences coming into contact, including online.
      
   3. Threat of openness
      
   4. Abandon religion to join advances or retreat to fundamentalism
      
8. Too Many Toyotas
   
   1. natural resources, oil, timber, etc
      
   2. environmental destruction
      
9. Homework—go to YHR and search for an article about your topic.
   
   1. If you find one
      
      1. print it out and bring it to class tomorrow
         
      2. and send me the link
         
   2. Do the same process with Google
      
      1. print
         
      2. send me the link
         
   3. And with college library's "One Search" feature (not sure you can email link for this, so bring print out.)
      
   4. We'll use a bounty system to score this assignment:
      
      1. YHRepublic articles worth 2 pts each.
         
      2. Google and "One Search" articles worth 1 pt each.
         
      3. You must bring in five points worth of articles by tomorrow.
         
         1. Up to five bonus points available.
            
         2. articles not related to your topic will not be accepted

Day 26

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 26

1. Bonus points—many, many this week.
   
   1. Forgot to do this last week. If you commented on links in January, copy and paste them and number them and turn them in to me by tomorrow. If you didn't start doing it for February posts.
      
2. How Companies Cope
   
   1. Write definition at top of paper
      
   2. List essay topics that fit the rule
      
      1. Put them in order of closest to match.
         
3. And narrow your interests down to a broad category:
   
   1. Agriculture
      
   2. Immigration/Guest Workers
      
   3. New Businesses in Yakima Valley
      
   4. Green People
      
4. I am interested in _________________ because _________________________.
   
5. I am also interested in __________________ because _____________________.
   
6. Discuss at your own tables.
   
7. Discuss within interest groups.
   
8. Let me push a few of these—not in any order:
   
   1. Green Jobs in the Yakima Valley all work well.
      
      1. I'd suggest narrowing it down to one form.
         
   2. Tourism works well.
      
   3. Distribution centers work well.
      
   4. The medical school works well.
      
   5. Agribots work well.
      
   6. Plan for Treetop works well
      
9. These are a bit harder
   

• Plan for the Sawmill Site works well, but takes some creativity.
  
• Guest worker program works well, but is complex and sensitive.
  
• Andean Free Trade Agreement
  
• Organics
  
• Vertical Farms
  
• Jail beds
  
• Vertical farms
  
• Localvores
  
• Bi-lingual population—here's my plan: Immersive Language Schools with "Homestays" close to home.
  

1. Homework:
   
   1. Pick a topic (you still have time to switch, but not much)
      
   2. Find 3 quotes from The Untouchables and 3 quotes from How Companies Cope that address your subject.
      

Write them down with page numbers.

Links for Flat Valley Business Essay

This is the site many of you will be interested in:
New Visions--Medical School, Distribution Centers, Food Processing, and more

Wine Yakima Valley

Downtown Yakima

Downtown Futures Initiative

Pacific Northwest University of Health Science

Education and future business.


Vertical Farms

Immigration Crackdown threatens bumper crop

Crackdowon taking a bite out of apple industry?

H2A Visa

H2A Changes

H2A in Washington State

Zirkle

Zirkle

Global Horizons

Global Horizons

TODAY'S NEWS: Push for guest workers

Foreign Workers for seasonal jobs, recession or not

Economy puts squeeze on Wine Industry

Guest Workers in Yakima (last may)

Editorial on Guest Workers

YHRepublic Editorial on Guest Worker Program

Watch more free documentaries
Anarobic Digestion--Wikipedia link

Anaerobic Digestion videos

Also check out "Cowpower"

WSU's workshops on A/D

Agribots

Wikipedia on Agribots

Video of Agribots

Agribots, uav's and self-steered tractors

Wired Article

Discover

Gizmodo

Chines Apple Juice Concentrate Dumping

A video

Shift Happens

Does School Kill Creativity (and a solution?)

Nuturing Creativity:

The Opposite is Also True

Atoms are the New Bits

An article from the latest Wired.

And a video from the same article

Day 25

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 25

1. Bonus points—many, many this week.
   
   1. Forgot to do this last week. If you commented on links in January, copy and paste them and number them and turn them in to me by tomorrow. If you didn't start doing it for February posts.
      
2. Holy Crap.
   
   1. This always happens when I teach this book.
   2. Here, too. Although I'm not sure I like this one.
      
3. How Companies Cope
   
   1. Write definition at top of paper
      
   2. List essay topics that fit the rule
      
      1. Put them in order of closest to match.
         
4. And narrow your interests down to a broad category:
   
   1. Agriculture
      
   2. Immigration/Guest Workers
      
   3. New Businesses in Yakima Valley
      
   4. Green People
      
5. Write for five minutes. I am interested in __________ because…
   
6. Discussion in groups.
   
7. 
   

Rough Drafts Due a week from Tuesday. This means if you want to be on track, spend some time researching the topics on your own. Do some quick google searching. Try to find ones that interest you and that seem like there's enough to say about them in the research side.

Synthesizers and Collaborators

Here's one that will blow your mind.

Leadership and Parenting

and not leadership:

Marshmellow Test

The Secret of Self Control
But you shouldn't read this until you've done all your homework.
No. Really. Don't.

And don't watch this until you've done all your reading, either:

Day 24

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 24

1. YHR from yesterday and the weekend.
2. For Monday: 11/9 v. 9/11
   
3. And one of the nine How Companies Cope.
   
4. And narrow your interests down to a broad category:
   
   1. Agriculture
      
   2. Immigration/Guest Workers
      
   3. New Businesses in Yakima Valley
      
   4. Green People
      
5. Rough Drafts Due a week from Monday. This means if you want to be on track, spend some time this weekend researching the topics on your own. Do some quick google searching. Try to find ones that interest you and that seem like there's enough to say about them in the research side.
   
6. Next week, we'll try to connect the topics to TWIF as we did with the Education section.
   
7. Finish The Untouchables Posters
   
   1. We're going to practice: collaborators, synthesizers and explainers
      
      1. Label and Define the Untouchable
         
      2. Write a good quote from the book.
         
      3. A three panel "Storyboard" of an untouchable example using the enormous sticky notes (itself an example of right brain synthesis)
         
   2. Collaborators and Orchestrators
      
   3. Synthesizers
      
   4. Explainers
      
   5. Adapters
      
   6. Green People
      
   7. Passionate Personalizers
      
   8. Math Lovers
      
   9. Localizers

What to do about the IPad and Books?

Here's an interesting article about the future of books and ereaders.

Is this a way for the small to act big and the big to act small?

Health Care Graph

Day 23

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 23

1. Complete Reading—sorry about this 1030 students
   
2. This is Not a Test notes
   
3. The Untouchables
   
   1. We're going to practice: collaborators, synthesizers and explainers
      
      1. Label and Define the Untouchable
         
      2. Write a good quote from the book.
         
      3. A three panel "Storyboard" of an untouchable example using the enormous sticky notes (itself an example of right brain synthesis)
         
   2. Collaborators and Orchestrators
      
   3. Synthesizers
      
   4. Explainers
      
   5. Adapters
      
   6. Green People
      
   7. Passionate Personalizers
      
   8. Math Lovers
      
   9. Localizers
      
4. For Friday 11/9 v. 9/11
   
5. For tomorrow: How Companies Cope
   
   1. Rules 1-9 in different groups.
      
   2. Be ready tomorrow.

This Is Not A Test Notes

This is Not a Test

The main challenge in the cold war came from extreme communism. The challenge in the flat world is extreme capitalism.

It requires a president who will push science, math, engineering.

Cold War: Nation at risk.= easy to rally US

Flat World: Individuals at risk= harder to rally US

Being an American, I am most focused on my own country.

Compassionate Flatism- five categories:

1. Leadership
   
2. Muscle building
   
3. Cushioning
   
4. Social Activism
   
5. Parenting
   

 

1. Leadership

• Chinese politicians are all engineers.
  
• We're all lawyers set on making us stupid, disabled
  
• Fix the problem, not the blame.
  
• W cut National Science Foundation $
  
• Short term pay offs are the only ones voters seem to want.
  

 

Replace the idea of lifetime employment with idea of lifetime employability.

Give access to knowledge, but share the responsibility to take advantage of it.

Politicians can make us more fearful or they can inspire us.

Energy Independence is our moon shot.

combines global war on terror with education race/flat world

1. Muscles
   
   1. New kinds of muscles are needed.
      
   2. Portable Benefits
      
      1. Pensions
         
      2. Healthcare—co-ops, portable, state/federal pools, private administration etc. All of this is in the bills.
         
   3. Lifelong learning
      
      1. In house
         
      2. "Tertiary" or K-14
         
         1. Locke/Clinton
            
   4. Immigration should be controlled to protect wages of low wage workers.
      
   5. Subsidize in house training. Internet based training.
      
      1. Education is a process, not a place. (390)
         
   6. Importing muscles. Immigration and PhD's (This would help in DREAM act essays)
      

 

1. Good Fat
   
   1. Wage Insurance, compensates you for your old specific skills for a set period while you take a new job and learn new specific skills.
      
      1. Displaced
         
      2. 2 years on the job
         
      3. Found new job
         
   2. Be compassionate because without it, you are asking for social unrest.
      
   3. AKA: Enlightened Self Interest
      
   4. "If you want to live like a republican, vote like a democrat."
      

 

1. Parenting
   
   1. Time for tough love.
      
   2. Time to teach kids to delay gratification for the future.
      
   3. Ambition comes from the parent
      
   4. COSBY!
      
      1. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
         
      2. Too much protection from hurt/ego/self esteem.
         
      3. Dodge ball? No cut sports? Grades?
         
      4. We need to level the playing field by lifting ourselves up, not pulling others down.
         
      5. I am suggesting that we do more to push our young people to go beyond their comfort zones, to do things right and to be ready to suffer some short term pain for longer gain.
         
      6. The crisis is in slow motion
         
      7. We aren't going to catch up by going slower.
         
   5. I've got LOADS on this topic and I'm just getting started…

Obama and GOP and a lesson in Counter Arguing

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Day 22

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 22

1. Complete Reading
   
   1. if you were absent, but had the work in on time, BP?
      
   2. if you came late with your essay (more than 10 minutes), DNR
      
   3. if you didn't hand in an essay—end of quarter.
      
2. Essays back within 1-2 weeks. (1130 back first)
   
3. Homework: Read "How Companies Cope"
   
4. This might be the place where your last essay got off track. DO THE READING.
   
5. Topics for next essay.
   
6. The Untouchables
   
1. Collaborators and Orchestrators
   
2. Synthesizers
   
3. Explainers
   
4. Adapters
   
5. Green People
   
6. Passionate Personalizers
   
7. Math Lovers
8. Localizers

Education and Obama

Here's a link to a NYTimes Editorial from today.

Short version:

It's not how much we teach, but how we teach.

Day 21

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 21

1. Hand in essay.
   
2. Y/N?
   
3. Y= +2pts
   
4. N= -2 pts
   
5. Essays back within 1-2 weeks. (1130 back first)
   
6. Homework: Read "This is Not a Test" (and read "The Untouchables" if you haven't yet).
   
7. This might be the place where your last essay got off track. DO THE READING.
   
8. Topics for next essay.