What are you bringing to the Magazine?!

Please answer all of the following to help plan the Magazine!

Every student will contribute at least one polished, high quality piece of writing. This could be an article, interview, photo essay, or editorials, personal narratives, reflections, or more.

1. What article(s) would you like to write for the magazine? What photography could you contribute? Art? List three different ideas for your major contribution.

2. Suggest at least one (or more) possible title for the magazine. This could be a title with or without a subtitle. For example, I work for UnBoxed: a Journal of Adult Learning in Schools.

3. Suggest a topic for an article that you were personally like to read in a magazine inspired by the internship semester.

This one is due by 11:59:59 pm on Tuesday March 24.

Honors Blogs

Hey Honors students!

Complete the following blogs before One World Week begins.

History:

In a thoughtfully composed essay, explain whether or not you would have recommended the use of nuclear weapons at the conclusion of WW2 if you were asked by Harry S Truman. Be sure to place this decision in it's proper historical and military contexts. Also, remember that two weapons were used and that there can be many answers in between a simple "yes" or "no". What would your advice have been if you were there?

Literature:

Choose three main characters from your current honors novel.

Find pictures or create pictures of what you believe they look like. You can draw a picture or use a picture from any online source as long as you cite your sources.

Write a character sketch that answers all of the following:

1. What physical presence does the character have? Include height, weight, size, physical fitness, posture, etc.
2. Describe the characters further visual details. Include hair, eyes, face, teeth, scars, tattoos, etc.
3. What distinguishing items does the character wear? Include clothes, jewelery, shoes, and any other physical item the character keeps with him/her.
4. What distinguishing behavior does the character have? Include habits, preferences (music, food, literature, etc.), speech (sayings, stalling words, etc), and demeanor.
5. What is the characters role in society? Include his/her job, hobbies, and uses of time.
6. What is the character's religion or philosophy? What beliefs does he/she hold? How does this create or mitigate internal conflict within his/her psyche?
7. What do others in the book say about the character?
8. What connections does this character have to history, established religion or the world beyond the book?
9. What does the character's name suggest? Authors rarely (if ever) name characters at random. What could the name symbolize? What evidence do you have for this?
10. How does the character develop during the plot? How does he/she change?


Now, look back at your answers to these ten questions. What patterns do you notice about each character? What conclusions does this lead you towards?

PHOTO ESSAY

Please turn in your photo essay in two ways.

First, put your captions (saved as a word doc) and your pictures (saved as yourname1.jpg, yourname2.jpg, and so on) into the appropriate folder on my hard drive.

Second, post all of your pics and captions on your blog. Post a pic, then the caption, and so on. Make it look good. You will probably have to resize your images in photoshop and save them for the web in order to meet blogger's size requirements for pics. Do NOT save over your original pictures! Make sure you have turned in or otherwise organize your pics before you resize anything!

Third, post a link to this blog entry on your DP in both the Humanities and Internship sections.

Fourth, send the blogger link to one or more of the following people: your mentor, your advisor, a great teacher, law, an HTHMA administrator, etc. Include a message inviting him/her/them to view your blog & comment on your immersion experience photo essay. Be sure to cc me on this email!

All of this is due at the end of your last period with me on Thursday 3/26.

Internship Immersion!

Choose one of the following and write a detailed, well-developed, organized blog entry!

1. What did you learn during immersion? How did you learn it?

2. How could immersion impact your experience as a student?

3. How important were the following at your internship site: profit, social welfare, advertising, promotion, industry, markets, economics, politics, information and specialization? You can write about some or all of these--whatever is best for your internship site.

4. What connections did you make between our class and your internship immersion experience?

This blog entry is due at 3:30 pm on 3/18.