The academic word list (AWL) and your lists:
Vocabulary from the final episode of Chernobyl!
Steps for making flash cards (there are 10ish):
Week 4, class 7: technical vocabulary and trip to NYPL
Control rods + video explanation*
Humiliation/ate/ed (V3/past participle)
Naive (look for the noun form)
Pointlessness (check the adjective form)
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ takes the limited series category.
More evidence that reading is good for you!
"What is the cost of lies?" - Valeri Lagosov
What happens when the hot nuclear material melts into the Earth below?
Does this article look familiar? It should...
Board pics (remembrances of class 2 [9/10]):
Vocabulary from the homework and the series
Chemicals from the miniseries.
Board pics (remembrances of class 1):
For a better character list, (with accurate spellings) check here*:
We began watching the miniseries Chernobyl from HBO.
We saw episode 1: 1:23:45 (the time of the explosion)
Here is the first episode of the podcast:
All of the episodes can be found on the resources subpage
You can listen with subtitles and read along!
Please also refer to the syllabus for the importance of extensive reading!
Please refer to this part of the site when working on your websites. PBL is more than projects:
The elements of project design
Use this checklist as you make your websites
The logistics should be as follows:
1. MC's set up with a short video explainer that the students and I will make. It will be along the lines of the trailer, but with Ss’ involvement. We’ll shoot footage for that on Thursday.
(10 min at most in 602)
2. The break out sessions where each group has 15 min (45 total in the lounge):
a. 3 to spare for shuffling
b. 4 per student to show off their research, which can include interaction with media or with the guests.
3. The mingle (in 602/ the lounge):
The final part of our class will be 20 minutes of mingling and interacting with the sites and students.
So: I set aside from 2:30 until 3:40-50 (roughly the class’ end time). That should be an hour and ten (to fifteen) minute long event give or take.
4. Do not forget about vocabulary. Let one of your reading partners record words to ask Christopher and words to add to your spreadsheet.
Possible words:
Reality: Juri, Emma, Cayla, Jung Bae
Fantasy: Haitao, Esther, Camille, Chan
Alternatives: Alex, David, Kelly , Chelsea
that you can all work on!
Designers and Meeting managers are fixed. Choose Editor/Project manager
For much, much more on this, check here: tinyurl.com/tech10gs
This is for the vocabulary of void and exit, transit, orbit
Also: Onieda (see this podcast!)
Your three choices: Reality, Fantasy and Alternatives
Also, alternatives and fantasies are listed in this picture
A longer view of the board. It reminds us:
Here are some historical and current pollution problems:
The choices:
Make sure that there are only 3 columns: word | translation| definition
If you want your answers to be the translation, make the second column the translation column:
3. Name your cards
4. Access Google Drive (see below)
5. Confirm your new school account! (see below)
Or it won't work
Choose your TEST copy
Your google sheets should be automatically linked as long as you signed in twice!
1: whoops! THIS IS BAD. Go back to your test copy and make sure there are only 3 columns:
word | translation | definition
2: The second error is fine. Just push ok. No worries.
Make sure that your 3 columns look ok, check that there are 50 words, then click IMPORT DATA.
If there are only 10 words, make sure you are signed in
Make sure that your 2 cards show the English and your language OR the definition
Remember column 2 from your TEST copy sheet = the answer card (right side)
When you click Create Set, you will be done (see below for the final results) DO NOT CANCEL!
Note: If there are extra or mistaken cards you can delete them like this:
*The video is complex. Watch at 3/4 speed! Also it starts when the control rods are explained. For a more detailed explanation see this: more complex video.
We checked in with the calendar to see what is going on. Here are some dates that are important:
In the [best] limited series category, HBO’s “Chernobyl,” about the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster in the Soviet Union, edged [beat] Netflix’s “When They See Us,” a series from the filmmaker Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five, who were wrongfully convicted and sent to prison as teenagers for the 1989 rape and assault of a jogger in New York City.
“Chernobyl,” which appeared on HBO last spring without much fanfare, became an unlikely critical darling. It won a total of three Emmys on Sunday: Craig Mazin, the show’s creator, took the award for best writing, and it was honored for directing as well.
With the Emmys’ habit of rewarding the same shows in drama, variety and comedy year after year, the limited series category has become the ceremony’s most intriguing. With little chance of winning in other major series categories, Netflix was holding out hope that it would prevail with DuVernay’s show...
...Beneath the competition between “When They See Us” and “Chernobyl” in the limited series category was the heated Emmys rivalry between HBO and Netflix. HBO took the crown this year, earning 34 Emmy wins compared to Netflix’s 27.
She sent on these interesting photos, related to our class, and an article about reading's amazing benefits:
Brothers? Did one get cancer while one was spared?
This is a photo taken in 1996. Did this child get to grow up?
And please remember to bring your books to every class!
We visited two stores:
Don't forget about the fashion section! There are plenty of beautiful and interesting books there!
This is a very large graphic novel section, and the Young Adult section. Both are on F2 of The Strand.
The children's section is HUGE! Plus there are books here that would suit any level of student!
If you would like to add these words to your spreadsheet, do it! And see the board pics here.
These, and other, medical terms do not need to be perfectly understood! Even the character from the comic doesn't understand what the doctor is saying in the shot from this phone! (see below):
Remember what I said in class about my listening to Japanese podcasts: "I may not understand everything, but I know the topics because of proper nouns." The weather is about place names. Politicians names signal political news. Proper nouns, like the names in the picture, tell you the who and where of what's happening in the book. They are not "vocabulary" per se, but they are still important.
On materials: see diamond for more on carbon forms.
Here the cost is lives lost to cancer as the evacuation (or exclusion) zone should be 200km, whereas the Soviet Russian government only evacuated 30km of area at first. Why did they lie?
They need to dig a tunnel (see diagram) under the Chernobyl power plant. They need a heat exchanger. Hence the miners.
It turns out, if you followed the links, that the never needed the heat exchanger. Here is an image of what is left inside Chernobyl.
If these [masks] worked, you'd be wearing them.
Here 'd = would. Whereas it equaled had below.
From p.12 of Springtime in Chernobyl
We went over some vocabulary building using roots combinations.
-icide can actually be thought of as a productive suffix in English, as we saw.
Pellets: small pieces of... material
EX: Pellets of nuclear material are dangerous.Inaugurated (correct spelling)
EX: Pripyat was inaugurated in 1970.Hydrogen = the water making atom
In reality it is just a proton.Springtime in Chernobyl and Nausicaä of the Valley of The Wind (vol.1)