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Grade 9 Integrated Media-Language Arts

Reading Interest Inventory -- Grade 9 | Blogging Survey -- Grade 9

KC3: Kids Creating Community Content
Check out videos of the winning videoconferences from our very own MeneMAC 2008!
MMC3: MeneMAC Creates Community Content! Check out our websites!
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Resource Links on Hawaiian Issues: Environment, History, Culture
a starting point for your research
  • NEW! CNN: Planet in Peril
  • Rare Hawaii
  • Renewable Energy in Honolulu
  • Iolani Palace
    the only official state residence of royalty in the United States
  • Hawaii's Plantation Village
    an outdoor museum that showcases the lifestyles and experience of Hawaii's plantation workers.
  • Hawaii's Endangered Species
    Hawaii is the Endangered Species Capital of the World....there are more endangered species per square mile on these islands than any other place on the planet
  • Loko i'a Hawaiina Fishponds
    Only in Hawai'i was there such an intensive effort to utilize practically every body of water, from seashore to upland forests, as a source of food, for either agriculture or aquaculture (Apple & Kikuchi, 1975).
  • Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve
    Not a “beach park” for beach sport, but a Nature Preserve dedicated to safeguarding the fragile marine life in the Bay, Hanauma is the first Marine Life Conservation District in the State.
  • Hawaiian Food Then and Now
    The Hawaiian word for health is ola. It also means life. Thus, the word health and life was one and same. Hawaiians obviously believed you could not have health without life, nor life without health.

Sample Group Website, PowerPoints, & Surveys -- Spring, 2009
Some websites for our upcoming VC with Maine!

Maine Clams and some questions to answer:
  1. Where is the best location off the coast of Maine to fish for clams?
  2. What do clams eat?
  3. What is the law for dams in Maine?
  4. After being in the ocean alone, and after gaining skills and survival instincts, where do the salmon return to spawn?
Maine Blueberries and some questions to answer:
  1. Describe what a blueberry looks like.
  2. Name two recipes you can make with blueberries.

Roots and Recipes: Oral History, Research, and the Story of Our Lives and Identities

Youth Speaks Hawaii: "Other" from Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Vimeo.

Sense of Place: Querencia

Digital Storytelling: City Stories

Resource Links -- Grammar & Vocabulary Exercises
Our Brainy Flix Videos on SchoolTube!
check out the vocabulary prowess of the MeneMAC Class of 2012!
Brainy Flix Video Contest!
Brainy Flix Word List!

click on the links below to see the completed videos, courtesy of MeneMAC 2013!
Words from MeneMAC c/o 2012
  1. abhor: Amber & Cynthia
  2. aloof and serendipity: Angela, Niki, Austin
  3. altercation: Desha & Marissa
  4. cognizantCynthia & Kirsten
  5. collusion: Micah & Kaimi
  6. concede: Michelle & Samara
  7. juvenile: Justin & Cody
  8. melancholy: Alexis & Kellyann
  9. mimic: Raena & Daryenne
  10. tranquil: Destrie & Thea
  11. vivacious: Charina & Daphne
Words from MeneMAC c/o 2013
  1. abdicate: Kiana & Alex
  2. abduct: CJ, Joseph, Jarrett
  3. audacious: Jordie & Darian
  4. benign: Shaneika & Maddie
  5. beseech: Desiree & Traci
  6. diminutive: Czarina & Kristen
  7. fastidious: Jody, Kiyo, & Kai
  8. fortuitous: Isabelle & Janelle
  9. locquacious: Kevin & Brittany
  10. prescient: Rebekah & Korie
  11. sophomoric: Leo & Angela
  12. vex: Shannel & Sharmaine
and More Words from MeneMAC '12
  1. apathy: Charina & Daphne
  2. harry: Daryenne & Kelly
  3. negligence: Kelvin, Jonas, Kaimi
  4. appease: Kirsten & Kiara
  5. copious: Cody & Justin
  6. gregarious: Destrie & Michelle
  7. irsacible: Ciarah & Amber
  8. incognito: Cynthai & Kiana
  9. banter: Jisel & Thea
  10. collaborate: Marissa & Desha
  11. demur: Samara & Austin
  12. cliche: Niki & Lexi
  13. avid: Micah & Raena
  14. motley: Angela & Arleen
Brainyflix 2010!
Still want more more??? No problem! We're running our annual Brainyflix Video Contest starting JANUARY 1, 2010. We'll be awarding a Grand Prize of $600 to the video that receives the most number of votes. Half will go to the maker(s) of the video and the other half will go to his or her school. And to make this viral, we'll give out 1 free iTunes download for every 3 videos you submit or referrals you provide. (iTunes downloads available for first 900 videos only).

Official Rules

  • Make a video about any SAT/ACT vocabulary word of your choosing from this list. Please pick a word without any videos submissions! :)
  • 1 video for 1 word, but you can make as many videos as you want.
  • In your video, you MUST use the word & use the word correctly. In fact, the more times you use the word, the better the video.
  • Anyone can enter the competition! Just remember that part of the prize money has to go to a U.S. high school or middle school of your choosing.
  • All voting will happen at BrainyFlix.com, so make sure your video includes the following Vote for this video at www.BrainyFlix.com/words/. And substitute with your vocab word.
  • Be fun! But please be cool and not submit anything that will get us busted by your teachers. That said, we reserve the right to remove videos for any reason, stated here or not.
  • Important contest dates:
    • Video submission opens: 1/1/2010
    • Video submission ends: 3/15/2010
    • Voting opens: 3/16/2010
    • Voting ends: 3/29/2010
    • Winners announced: 3/31/2010
Video Submission Suggestions
  • The ideal video length is about 1 minute or less. Viewers tend to lose their attention for anything longer.
  • For uploading your video, use SchoolTube.
  • Start and end the video with the word, its part of speech, definition, and the url where it can be voted on - http://www.BrainyFlix.com/words/xxxxx and replace with your vocab word.
  • For the information you fill out when uploading a video, enter the following:
    1. For the Title, and replace with your vocab word.
    2. For the Description, write the vocab word, its part of speech, definition, the sample sentence (if you have one), and the Vote for this video at http://www.BrainyFlix.com/words/ and replace with your vocab word.
    3. The Tags BrainyFlix, SAT, ACT, vocab, contest, reading, writing, memorize, MIT, and replace with your vocab word.

Exercises at Grammar Bytes
Parallel Structure at Grammar Bytes
Big Dog's Grammar
SAT Vocabulary
Free Rice.Com
now, put your SAT smarts to work...get the words right and donate rice to the United Nations World Food Program!
Resource Links -- Book Lists
Fantasy & Science Fiction for Teens
from the Plymouth Library, Michigan
Science Fiction Book List
from Cerritos Library, California
Humanities Interactive
Click on Bonfire of the Liberties. The bonfire was a very efficient form of censorship in an age when books were handwritten and existed in very few copies. But in the era of printing and mass markets, censors have had to devise other methods of restricting access to publications.
Interdependence -- How do you figure in your interdependence quotient?
Earth Day -- April 22!
Coming Soon! To a planet near you...check out what YOU can do!
Green Living
Ideas...green hair and skin care...green recipes...even green pet care!
Your Ecological Footprint
About the Ecological Footprint
Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz and complete the following in a Word document. When you have completed the assignment, print out the document and also post your reflection on the "Ecological Footprint" forum in our Media Central online forum, under science fiction.
  1. Click on the USA map and select English. Then answer the questions to the best of your ability. Be sure to answer in complete sentences.
  2. What is your total ecological footprint? How much larger is it than the number of bilogically productive acres per person on Earth?
  3. How many Earths would it take to sustain our population if everyone lived like you?
  4. Click on Take Action! to make your pledge for reducing your ecological footprint. Record your total footprint reduction and explain how you would be able to achieve it.
  5. Read the "What You Can Do" section. If you lose the link, click on the Word document and read it here. Describe some of the ideas from the document that you think you or your family would be able to implement to reduce their ecological footprints.
  6. Click on the Care 2 Make a Difference site to see what else is going on in our world to make a difference in our environment. Describe ideas for activism there that you could take to make a difference for yourself.