FREIRE ESY 2017

Time For Some Action Click on the link below to watch the video: https://nyti.ms/2mfepJi Respond to following prompt(s): 1.  Do you think that Chance the Rappers donation influenced other companies to do the same? Why or why not? 2.  What actions are you going to take in order to be successful in school this year? 3.  Based on your experience in summer school do you plan on coming back next year? Why or why not? 4.  What advice would you give to incoming Freshman to be successful in high school?

click on the link below to read the article: https://nyti.ms/2rcOyWU Respond to the following questions: 1.  Who is Jeremy Christian? What is known about him? 2.  How did Destinee Mangum, one of the victims of the anti-Muslim rant, react? 3.  What did the Muslim Educational Trust do in response to the murders? 4.  What did you learn about Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche from this article? Rick Best? Micah David-Cole Fletcher? 5.  Do you think these three men are heroes? Why or why not? What lines from the article support your opinion? What Do You Think? 6.  Sadaf Assadi, one of the organizers of a vigil for these men, is quoted here as saying that she was especially touched by their actions since “generally I think people tend to stay quiet and hope someone else will take care of the problem.” 7.  In your experience, is that true? Have you ever been in a situation where you could have stood up, but waited for someon...

Click on the link below to read the article: "Ending the Curse of Remedial Math" https://nyti.ms/2t7fHZ7 Respond to the following questions: 1.  Have you or a friend ever had trouble academically and somehow managed to turn it around? If so, how did you do it, and what sort of support did you get?  2.  How long did it take until things improved, and what are your thoughts now about the experience in retrospect? 3.  What is the CUNY Start program and who is enrolled in it? 4.  How successful is the program? Cite statistics from the article, and include graduation rates. 5.   How does the CUNY Start model differ from old-school college remedial education? What teaching strategies does the teacher Erica Fells use to help her students achieve success? 6.  In addition to their studies, what types of activities do typical CUNY Start students juggle each day?  7.  What does Jessica Mingus, the director of CUNY Start at ...

Click on the link below to read the article, "On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race." https://nyti.ms/2k4G6Cw Respond to the following questions: 1 .  What was it about Margot Lee Shetterly’s background that led her to write the book “Hidden Figures”? What did she find commonplace at first, before realizing the unusual nature of the story in her book? 2.   In the article, Ms. Shetterly said, “It’s just as American a story as if it were John Glenn or Alan Shepard telling it.” In your view, what makes this story “an American story”? 3.  What was it about the time period that  helped open the door for black female mathematicians  (paradoxically and despite Jim Crow laws, segregation and racism )? 4.  What educational credentials do Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden have? To what extent do you think those degrees helped them push back against the racism and sexism that was prevalent in Virginia in the e...

Click on the link and watch the trailer. https://youtu.be/RK8xHq6dfAo Tell us what you think.  Respond to the following question: What Do You Think? 1.  What is your reaction to this story that honors a previously hidden part of American history? 2.   What other stories can you think of that need to be told, or are just now being told, to honor those who have excelled or succeeded in obscurity because of racism, sexism or other prejudice?

Click on the link and watch the video: https://nyti.ms/2m9gY1J Respond to the following questions: 1.  Why does Kendrick Lamar make music? 2.  Who do you think Kendrick Lamar is giving a voice? 3. Is there a particular artist that you think gives your generation a voice? Who is it and why did you pick them?

How to Keep Your College Admission Offer: Start With Digital Literacy 点击查看本文中文版 Luvvie Ajayi ON CAMPUS   JUNE 7, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, gave the commencement address at Harvard University in May. A month earlier, Harvard rescinded admissions offers to at least 10 prospective members of the Class of 2021 for offensive postings in a private Facebook group.   Credit Steven Senne/Associated Press Harvard has  rescinded acceptance offers  to at least 10 incoming freshmen who posted offensive jokes about school shootings, the Holocaust, bestiality and the death of children and minorities — among other obscene topics — to a private Facebook group. The jokes were posted in the form of memes, those photographs or images overlaid with captions that you see everywhere on the internet. That young people post offensive memes on Fac...

Jack O’Neill, Surfer Who Made the Wetsuit Famous, Dies at 94 By  SAM ROBERTS JUNE 5, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Jack O’Neill before windsurfing off Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1982. He revolutionized the surfing industry through the sale of wetsuits. Credit Dan Coyro/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press Jack O’Neill, who popularized the neoprene wetsuits that defied the cold, the calendar and the continents to create an endless summer for surfers around the world, died on Friday at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 94. His death was announced by his company,  O’Neill Inc. , which he started in 1952 in a converted garage in that city. He coined and trademarked the name Surf Shop and transformed it into the most successful maker of surfing wetsuits. It still sells them through an O’Neill Surf Shop in Santa Cruz and globally under the O’Neill name. O’Neill Inc. delivered on th...