Cooking Show News

Congratulations WE'VE MADE SALSA!! 

I was very proud when the shooting wrapped up at the end of the day on Friday.

Except for Sallazzo and Labbe dropping from the shoot, everybody stuck together and we finished the shooting.  The next stage will be EDITING the footage down to 2-5 minutes (this is the hardest part)!

Last Week and Coming Up

Last Week:  We started the book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.  A while the reading was a bit "flat"- I think we'll turn this into a "Story telling" unit- verbally telling a story around in a circle; recreating the cowboys sitting around a fire after the work was done.

Coming Up:  We are going to start the Storytelling Unit.  Everyone will have to tell a story.  We will start with stories that at first are familiar to us, but eventually we will tell stories of things that are possibly less familiar to us.  The idea here is to be able to "jump start" the imagination as quickly as possible.  Concepts that we'll look at: character, climax, "punch line", delivery, and body language.

Homework

Post a media image on your blog and write a little about it telling me why it has an impact

Week in Review

Media :  here we had looked at "Jamie's Kitchen" and looking at the ways that a cooking show is put together.  We have formed groups; 4 per group- each will rotate taking on different roles (Chef, Sous Chef, Taster, and producer- the guy that runs around and makes sure everything is ready to hand).  Filming looks like it can still start on the next day 4- though we might also go to Pius to take a look at their cooking school/kitchen, but it would be good to do a quick run through to see what we may need for the show.

English:  We have been looking at the Outlaw and Western genre; with themes of outlaw, death, justice, fame and the western conventions.  We are looking at the movie Young Guns for the depiction of Billy the Kid; there are a couple of othr movies that I would like to bring in to check out how they show the Billy character.  After this we are going to start to take a look at the book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje.

Cooking show news

Hey everybody- don't forget your recipes for Friday. Talked to Ms. Kelly and she's going to check to see if we can spend some time at Pius looking at their Kitchen and Cooking program in action.

Let's post our recipes- the first to put it on-line will get to sit on the coach for the whole of one class...

This way I'll see whose paying attention!

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Welcome!

We are faced with a changing world that constantly presents new challenges because of this course has been designed to be challenging, not only technically but also in terms of subject matter. We will combine English texts ("1984") and themes (the notion of romance and mystery), current affairs (looking at news and new media) and history (looking at the history of politically conscious poetry, the stereotypes of war) to prepare for the ministry exam and graduation!

The KEY WORD for this Year is FLEXIBILITY

Some themes that we will cover:

* Protest
* War
* Romance
* Mystery
* Current affairs
* Big Brother
* Totalitarian Government/ the Other


The following is a list of class materials that you will need:

* 100 sheets of loose leaf (minimum) in a 1 inch binder.
* Pencils, pens (black, blue), highlighter.
* Red pen
* Dictionary and Thesaurus*
* Internet access (at home and/or local library)
* USB key (1 Gig minimum)

*The Dictionary and the Thesaurus will be stored in class.