Eng. 3: Map Assignment Clarifications

Students,

I have received some email, and I have chatted with a few of you in the hallways over the last day or so.  So, I want to clarify a few points regarding the HF "map assignment.

For all of the ACTUAL towns (the places on the front side of the handout), you should type a short description that includes the town's relevance to HF for Hannibal, Florida, and Cairo.  When describing the other cities, you do not need to make an overt reference to HF. 

Take a look at my example entry as a starting point but find the best info. for your description in our school databases (try "US History in Context" and/or the "Literature Resource Center" and/or "Encyclopedia Britannica").  Once you have skimmed through the database resources, you may refer to Wikipedia.

For the fictional places, underlined on the back side of the handout, do your best, using the zooming power of Google Maps, to "pin" the location.  I expect a short description of the relevance of Jackson's Island to HF, but -- at this point -- you need only "pin" the other spots.  You will add descriptions to these later as you encounter each in the text.

Finally, one important goal is to demonstrate your "creativity" with this small project.  What photos might you add?  What is the best description, given your research, you might write?  My intention with your investigations is to have you go beyond the typical "first hits" in Google.

English 3: Help with "The Experts" for BORN TO TROUBLE

One of the questions for your notes on viewing Born to Trouble is: "Tell me about one of the experts in the film that impressed you.  Who was it?  Why did you remember what they said?"  I've posted these "screenshots" from the video copy we saw in class last week so you may keep up with who is who.  Think of this as your "scorecard."

Rachael Pantone and her mother, Kathy Monteiro

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

David Bradley

James Miller

Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua or "Sister Joshua"

Adv. Comp.: Setting Up Pulse for News Reading

Pulse.me is pretty cool, and I have had many students over the last two years tell me that they really enjoyed it's graphic interface.  Pulse.me is also very forward-leaning with respect to current web technologies.  Here's a paragraph, written by Seth Rosenblatt at Cnet and posted about a year ago:

Pulse's Web app at Pulse.me is built entirely from HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, and indicates that the future-Web technologies are rapidly approaching a state where they can easily re-create native app experiences in the browser. The site is accessible from most major browsers on traditional PCs and mobile devices. With the touch-focused Windows 8 and its associated touch screen hardware coming at the end of October, the site has been specifically designed to be touch-friendly.

Also, I found that Pulse's core mission is agreeable to the modern writing class and very much agreeable to me personally.

In class we discussed the way to set-up your pulse.me account and feed, and I encouraged you to download the app corresponding to your smart phone and/or tablet.

Once logged in, you are to include "News" as a category and add five feeds that I require: The Daily Beast, Salon, Slate, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.  When you click on your news category the feeds should look like this:

After setting up "News" then you should add seven of these "required" feed-categories:

Your final list should look something like this:

Now, finally for this first step, add two articles for future reading from all eight categories or at least 16 total (for now at least).