Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera is a famous Mexican painter.

First, please read about him and write a one or two sentence summary about him, and leave it in the comments section of this post. You can read about him here and here.

After you have left that description, take some time to look at his paintings and murals:

Diego Rivera Web Museum

Diego Rivera in Mexico City

After you have looked at many of his paintings and murals, it will be your turn to paint.

Please use ArtPad to paint a picture in the style of Diego Rivera. Be sure to title it, email it to yourself, and then paste the link in the comments section of this post. (There may be something wrong with ArtPad. If there is, you can try Flashpaint instead)

Natural Disasters PowerPoint Presentations

Please go to Slideshare and register.

Then, click on “Upload” and find your PowerPoint file on the computer.

Next, copy the url of your PowerPoint and paste it in the comments section of this post.

If there is a problem uploading your presentation to Slideshare, please repeat this same process with these alternative sites:

Authorstream

Slideboom

280 Slides

My Brainshark

PowerShow

Slideserve

MyPlick

SlideSix

Exploring Possible Careers

Use the following links to learn about the possible careers that you and your parents have said might be in your future.  Please try these links first.  If you can’t find the information you need there, then search for other sites.

Answer four questions for each career. You only have to write an a sentence or two in response to each question. Share the answers in the comments section. When you do, first list the career and then the answers underneath.

1) What kind of education is required to get this job?

2) What do you do in this job?

3) What is the salary range for the job?

4) Why are you interested in this job?

You can research using these sites.  Some of them also include questions you can answer to help you find other careers that might be good for you:

California Career Zone

Interest Assessment

I Want To Find A Career

Job Outlook

Salary Zone

Salary

BioWorksU

Mindopia

What Happens If The Levees Break In Sacramento?

Go to  Sacramento Flood Maps. Click on the “Rescue” maps for the area you live in (probably either South Sacramento or The Pocket).

The areas in red will flood immediately. People who live in the yellow area will have a little time to escape.

Which color area is your home located in? What would you take with you if you only had a few minutes to escape the flood? Why?

The road in green are the safe ways to leave. Which road would you take?

If members of your family were in different places when the flood began, do you have a place where you would meet?

Watch this animation of Sacramento being flooded.

Getting Answers To Questions About College

Explore these sites to find answers to your questions about college. Write your answers next to the questions on your question sheet. If you need more space, write on the back.

Be sure to make sure you have the volume turned-off on your computer.

Know How 2 Go

College.Gov

California Community Colleges Online Application Center

College Grazing

You’re Going To College

Embark

Fin Aid

Getting Ready For College

Financial Aid and Scholarships for Undocumented Students

eCampus Tours

Using Reading Strategies

Pick a link from Mr. Ferlazzo’s website that has a fair amount of text and use Awesome Highlighter to demonstrate reading strategies with virtual post-it notes. Use Backboard if Awesome Highlighter doesn’t work.

Place the url address of your annotated pages in the comments section of this post.

You might also want to pick a newspaper article on Natural Disasters from any of the following sources:

The Guardian

Science Daily

Earthquake Newspaper Archive

Hurricane Newspaper Archive

Tornado Newspaper Archive

Internet Scavenger Hunt On Natural Disasters

Complete this Internet Scavenger Hunt (the page calls it a Webquest) on Natural Disasters. You can write the answers on a Word document and then upload it to the Internet using File2.ws. Then paste the url address of your answers in the comments section.

After you have completed +this Internet Scavenger Hunt, please pick one natural disaster and create your own Hunt for other students to complete. Use different links and different questions. Create it in a Word document and use File2.ws again.

Highlight Important Words

Go to a webpage (that has a lot of text) under the Natural Disasters section on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Copy the url address of the page.

Then go to Awesome Highlighter and paste the url address of the page you chose.

Highlight no more than three words in each paragraph that you think show the main ideas and most important points from that paragraph. Also show at least two different reading strategies.  Please put the link to your page in the comments section.