The similarities of this clip with the movie is that a lot of the dialogue is word for word. The actor playing Walter is exactly as I envisioned him, the way he uses his mannerisms to show his contempt for his family. The actor makes me hate him more than I did with the book!
In the book, I couldn't visualize some of the characters and this movie helped with my perception. I thought the mom would be more mean like in the book, but she seems more quiet and easy going in the book.

Themes from the 1960s:

Segregation is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.

A Hippie is a person who was raised under the ideological system that came out of the tumultuous 1960's in North America and western Europe. They are either of the flower-child/baby boomer generation or that generations' subsequent offspring. They possess a core belief set revolving around the values of peace and love as being essential in an increasingly globalized society, and they are oftentimes associated with non-violent anti-governmental groups. There is a stigma of drug abuse attached to the hippies that is prevalent to this day, specifically the use and abuse of marijuana and hallucinagens

Free Online Apps Review

The first online app I will be reviewing is Sumo Paint.
Sumo paint was completely new to me. I found it very easy to use and fun as well. It is a free paint tool as well as photo manipulation. The site states that the purpose of this app community is to "create, share, remix, explore, comment, rate and fave the artwork of its members. You could consider it a photoshop someone that does not want to fork out the money of photoshop.

Some features that I noticed Sumo Paint offers are:

• You can open files from your computer, Sumo Paint, or from a URL.
• Includes fun filter features such as kaleidoscope, wave lab, triangle patter, liquid wave, spherical and cylindrical mapping, and a camouflage filter.
• YOu can send and receive messages from other members of Sumo Paint
• You can edit pixels using Sumo Paint.

When I think about how I can use this application in my classroom, the possibilities are endless to add creativity to projects. Students who are at all familiar with paint applications will have no problem using this. 

An example of what can be created with this!

The second app I will be reviewing is Google Docs.

I use Google Docs pretty much every day. It is one of the most useful tools for me in communicating and collaborating with the four teachers I teach with as a coteacher. We post lesson plans, curriculum guides, student assignments, correspondences, and forms created on Google Docs shared on a google drive. I don't know what I would do without it!

Some technical information on Google Docs:

Google Docs features are a word processing suite, spreadsheet suite, presentation suite, and data collection/ form suite. You can easily create a free account with google to have access, which will also include access to tools for email communication, calendar, photo sharing, and personal website hosting.

Collaboration between multiple users is possible and allows each person with access the ability to edit and change the same document on the Web- internet is required to access documents. 

Website!

Here is the website I created for a co-taught English class:
English 10

The Great Depression concept map

This concept map demonstrates an activity I would have 10th graders do in my team taught U.S. History class. I feel this would be a beneficial activity for students because it makes reading the book interactive. I would have them choose a concept (in this case the Great Depression) and highlight the key ideas in the chapter through concept mapping including a time line which I feel is always essential when discussing events in history that occur over a time period.

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Screen Casting- creating an email account

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Community Scavengar Hunt

View My Saved Places in a larger map


 Students in the community based vocational education class at my school do a lot of work with independence and acclimation with mobility within the city.

This assignment allows students to become more comfortable finding destinations within the comfort of the school. This is a good introduction activity before they make their way within the actual community.

Students would be given a list of destinations they need to find and mark them on the Google Map. They would then need to answer (based on the starting point of the school or their home) how many miles it is and the names of the streets from starting point to destination.

This is the example used in the embedded Google Map above.
1. Bus Station
2. Local College
3. Hospital
4. Library
5. Grocery Store
6. Public Utulities
7. Cell Phone Store (use the company that you go with if you have a cell phone)
8. Park