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Access your student email without moongate: 

http://mail.google.com/a/student.cis.edu.hk

[cis login]@student.cis.edu.hk

Password: student (first time only)

 

All Classes (Y7, Y8, Y9, Y12, and Y13) Muddling through H1N1 Week.

 

Current HW for ALL CLASSES

It's not a lot to do, but you have to do it right or it doesn't work. Beyond that, read a book and relax (unless you're in my Y13 A1 class: on-line discussion from yesterday if not done yet, WL, EE, and uni applications).
 
I actually hope to host a functional class tomorrow with my Year 9 and Year 7 classes - and on Friday with Year 12, Year 7 and Year 9. Monday Year 12, Year 8, and Year 13. But this will only happen if people do today what I've instructed below.
 
Also, be sure to check new info on your appropriate class pages. An easy heads-up is to read the email notifications.
 

Relaxing

If you're getting way too much HW, have your parent or guardian contact you HR teacher. On the one hand, we are trying to "do school" this week. On the other hand, the reason we aren't in school is because too many people are sick. If you spend all week working hard and losing sleep, you'll come back fully prepared to get sick, if you hadn't already worked yourself sick. Be bold: sleep, rest. Do only as much HW as fits within the prescribed amout of time per class; DON'T DO HW THAT EXCEEDS THE APPROVED HW AMOUNT (Y7: 20 min per class per night; Y8 and Y9: 30; Y11: 40). Not exceeding this is the right thing to do. Stressing and freaking out will not make you or keep you healthy. Trust your teachers' humanity, and help us to remember how to be humane.
 

Wiki - mpenglish.pbworks.com - Access

 If you don't have access yet and haven't requested access, do so. The "request access" is in the upper right of this page.

 

How to enable the wiki notifications

I know enabling this will mean many useless emails--but not all will be useless. You can quickly tell if the updated page is for your class or not; be sure to scroll through the entire email notification, as several kinds of changes from several users are sometimes included in one message.

 

1. When you create your account, look toward the right of the screen, on one of them there will be a box to check or not.

2. If you already have an account, click ‘account’ in the upper right. 

3. Once on that page, click the ‘home’ tab.

4. On that page, check the box on the right for notifications.

 

Making Gchat Easy--CRITICAL

You've been instructed to email me. The idea is that I can reply and then you'll be in my contacts. However, that has me inviting all of you. Not an efficient thing. And most of you have not done this yet (thanks, those of you who have). So here is what you need to do IMMEDIATELY. Put your email address onto the page linked below; do it in alphabetical order. When all have done this, paste that list into your gmail contacts so that you also can invitepeople to our chats. That way we can actually do something.

 

Y7 emails

Y8 emails

Y9 emails

Y12 emails

Y13 emails

 

Gchatting:

1. Go online a bit before the designated chat time, and log onto your email account given to you for CIS. Or, if you already have a gmail account, you can log onto that instead.

2. Type in Mr. Peterson's gmail address on the Chat – “search, add, or invite” box and invite him to chat: 

mpeter@student.cis.edu.hk

3. Mr. Peterson will accept and start a chat with you.
4. Wait around until the rest of the class is online and included in the group chat (or invite others from the class whose emails you know if you know the steps to do so – this will save Mr. Peterson time). 

5. Begin chatting with Mr. Peterson and your classmates.  Discuss literature while eating breakfast! 

 

 

 


Eng Dept Style Manual - DRAFT.doc (download)


The Writer's Almanac from NPR

12 Oct: Sonia Gernes's "Golden"

 

10 Oct: Dennis Ward Stiles's "Mornings on the Farm"

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5 Oct: Gabrielle Calvocoressi's "Jubilee"

 

4 Oct: Billy Collins' "Water Table"

 

23 Sep: Luci Shaw's "Pink"

 

8 Sep: Ted Kooser's "Splitting an Order"

 

5 Sep: Cortney Davis's "Every Day, the Pregnant Teenagers"

 

1 Sep: Jump to 1:41 to hear R.T. Smith's "In the Night Orchard."

 

1. 5m 47s of your life: Sum

(After it has sufficiently buffered, drag the playhead to 1:03 to get right to it.)

 

 

 

2. 8:38, Hamlet's Death: The Four Groans  

(After it has sufficiently buffered, drag the playhead to 1:00 to get right to it.)

 

 

Ring the bells, the bells that ring

Forget your perfect offering

There's a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in

                    Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

 

 

"Live without fear, and love without reserve."

                     Bobby Ives

 

Go to freerice.com

Go to Shelfari

               Go to Ms. Brubaker's wiki

Go to Ms. Yeo's wiki

Go to Mr. Phan's wiki

 

Remembering George Carlin

Fresh Air from WHYY (NPR), 23 Jun 2008

 

Are you going forward or backward?

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Consider the Irony and Artistry of This Video

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Bacon Radio Article! 

Link to article and photos here.

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