HW due Wednesday:
1. Histogram Timeline
a. Read the "Cosnequences of Climate Change" handout
b. Part 1 - Find 10 of the 14 dates on your Histogram timeline (mark them with a "F")
c. You are done!
SPIRIT WEEK
Wednesday = Crazy Hair/Hat (bonus points to anyone who wears some Professor Jansa ear flaps!!!!!!!)
Thursday = Decades ('50s, '80s, etc.)
Friday = Character (cartoon, book, superhero, etc.)
Thursday, April 20th - Term 3 Service Reflection Due:
Service Reflection Rubric and Expectations Handout
Garden Day - Saturday, April 30th - 9:00 - 1:00
...Every student needs to get 2 hours of garden service at Sunnyside (we will get our third hour together on a field study this spring). If you come for the entire time and go beyond your 2 hours, the rest can count towards school or community service
Service Opportunities:
School OR Community Opportunity
Hello! I'm Violet Kennedy from Tara's class. In Library we're doing a project based on the Google 20% Project, called Genius Hour, where we get to work on something we're passionate about. My project is to collect Sunnyside student's short stories (from all grades) and make them into a book called Stories For The School. I will sell copies of the book to raise money for Sunnyside's arts program. I'm writing to ask if any of you know students who like writing stories and would submit a story to be published. If so, please let them know and I would be so grateful!! I will need lots of stories and this will benefit our school. Thank you!
Here is a link to the story expectations:
Thank you so much for your help!
PTSA Babysitting, Wednesday, April 26th 6:00 - 8:30
Community Opportunities
https://www.handsonportland.org/
A message from Jan
Hi Wonderful SES teachers,
Thank you for your enthusiastic welcome of our Flash Mob today! We especially enjoyed the students' advice and the 5th grade dancers!!!
I am sending you the schedule of upcoming opportunities to perform and we sincerely hope that SES students and families will join in. Watch your emails closely, though, because plans change and we most likely will add performances.
It's important that we are familiar with PGE/Carty Gas issue.
Bystanders and media can readily ask, "What's this all about?" or "Use any electricity today?" Talking Points are
HERE.
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Although we are NOT performing at the Fracking Forum next Tuesday, (4/18) evening, however, I plan to go and recommend it. It's
FREE. Details HERE.
🚩If possible---no stress---Wear a RED top and an interestingHAT.
- Attached is the latest version of lyrics from Melanie. Note-new flashy finish.
- Also attached is the flier that we will distribute post-performances.
- We'll also collect comment card signatures directed at stopping the gas plants.
Upcoming Gigs--Please carpool, if possible.
Tuesday, April 18. 10:45am. PGE Earth Fair. Meet up at the
Salmon Street Fountain for a rehearsal
MAP.
If rain is torrential, we'll meet at the site of our performance @ Two World Trade Center, 25 SW Salmon. Downtown--1 block from the fountain. **
Saturday, April 22nd. Earth Day Celebration @ Normandale Park.
I am coordinating this one--My# is 503-481-7033. We will perform a few times. Times to be determined.
Details HERE.
Saturday, April 29th.
We are still investigating performance times and I will let you know once we figure them out.
People's Climate Mobilization/Portland
Hosted by OPAL--Organizing People/Activating Leaders
Thanks Everybody!
Jan
Cultural Exchange Opportunities:
Spiritrials
Written and performed by Dahlak Brathwaite
Musical accompaniment by Dion Decibels
Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Sean San Jose
Produced by Youth Speaks and Ictus
April 21-22 & 27-30, 2017, 7:30pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N. Interstate Ave Portland, OR 97217
Tickets $30 Reserved/$20 General/$12 Students
Reserve online at www.boomarts.org Box Office 866-811-4111
Hip Hop and theatre. Two powerful performance forms. Two amazing ways to tell stories. What happens when you put them together? In Spiritrials, Def Poetry Jam alum Dahlak Brathwaite does just that, touching on issues like racial profiling, religion and faith, addiction and drug policy, criminal justice, and human imperfection through his own personal story. This virtuosic creator/performer, past winner of the Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam, flows seamlessly between rap, song, and storytelling, accompanied by beats and samples spun live from the turntable by DJ Dion Decibels and performing against a backdrop of lush projections by Joan Osato. Mr. Brathwaite’s funny, insightful, poignant, fiercely original creation is a do-not-miss performance experience.
Plus, join us for these Special Programs
Adapting HIstory: Hip Hop History for Kids
Family-friendly Performance - age recommendation 7+
Sunday, April 23, 2pm at Disjecta
Tickets as above + $8 for 17 & under/ Reserve online at www.boomarts.org
Life as Primary Text with Hip Hop Theatre Artist Dahlak Brathwaite
Free Public Workshop
Tuesday, April 25, 6:30-8pm
North Portland Library, 512 N Killingsworth St. Portland OR 97217
Hey all. Below is information about Spiritrials, an amazing show I am helping to promote and doing outreach for, coming to Portland April 20-30th. If you as a person who works with young people would be interested in any of the students you work with attending the Youth Show on April 23 at 2pm or in buying a block of tickets for students at a discounted rate, please do inform me.
More Information about Spirituals from Mic Crenshaw
A month from now, Boom Arts will be bringing our first work of Hip Hop theatre to Portland. The piece, called "Spiritrials," is by Def Poetry Jam alum Dahlak Brathwaite. It was commissioned and produced by
Youth Speaks of Oakland, which also runs the Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam (which Dahlak has won), and is co-directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Spiritrials is personal, political, powerful, and insightful, and it offers a unique and fresh perspective on timely issues (see below). Hip Hop artist/activist
MicCrenshaw is working with Boom Arts as Youth and Community Liaison on this project, and he and I are both available to respond to your questions about the piece-- please do reach out to either of us.
I'm writing with a few suggestions of ways you might be able to connect your students/apprentices with this very special artist and his work:
--We are presenting 6 evening performances of "Spiritrials" at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in North Portland. There will be pre-show open mics showcasing young local talent (April 27 and 29), post-show discussions with community guests (after most performances) and afterparties (April 21 and 29); details soon. Also please note if you are working with high school students that "Spiritrials" includes some expressive swearing and that the story revolves around Dahlak's own experience being sent to court-mandated drug rehab after being arrested, so some of the characters Dahlak portrays are drug addicts.
--We're presenting one performance of Dahlak's piece for younger audiences (7 and up- great for adolescents too, and I loved it) which narrates a history of African-American music leading up to and including Hip Hop. April 23 at 2pm.
-- Dahlak is also giving a free workshop for teens and adults at North Portland Library. April 25 at 6:30pm.
I hope that you and your students/apprentices will consider plugging into Dahlak's Boom Arts residency in multiple ways, and that you'll share this opportunity with colleagues.
2017 VERSELANDIA!
Join Literary Arts for our annual citywide youth poetry slam.
Oregon Trail Card holders can purchase up to two $5 tickets at the dooras part of the Arts for All program.
Come celebrate Portland’s creative youth during our sixth annual Verselandia! poetry slam. This city-wide event features students from Parkrose, Roosevelt, Metropolitan Learning Center, Benson, Lincoln, Gresham, Sam Barlow, Franklin, Madison, Wilson, Jefferson, Grant, and Cleveland high schools competing for poetic glory. Verselandia! is the Grand Slam for the winners from individual school slams hosted by public high school library media specialists.
Following the same rules as national poetry slams, students must perform original work without props, costumes, or music in front of a panel of judges and a live audience. Using a scale of one to ten, Verselandia judges will rate both the performance and the writing of each student. Five students with the top scores will walk away with great prizes, but only one will be a champion.
Please note that high school students may use adult language and explore adult themes.
Term 4 Community Opportunity - Young Leaders in Action:
The World Affairs Council’s Young Leaders in Action brings together 20 high school students from across the Portland area for global issue workshops, leadership training, and community service projects with an international impact. Any Portland-area high school student with a graduation year of 2018 or later is eligible to apply and the program is FREE!
Young Leaders in Action meets the second Saturday and fourth Sunday of each month from June 2017 to April 2018, taking part in:
Workshops on global issues shaping our world like climate change, poverty, women’s empowerment, international conflict, and more.
Leadership training focused on skills to take action in the community, including fundraising, project planning, and political advocacy.
Community service activities with the World Affairs Council and other nonprofit organizations addressing local and international issues.
Networking opportunities with leaders from Portland and around the world.
Young Leaders in Action also receive:
Free admission to World Affairs Council lectures and events.
Mentorship and advising on study abroad scholarships, and college and career opportunities in the field of international affairs.
Guidance in creating an action project on a global issue.
All applications are due Monday, May 1st!
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