Writing Task: Travel Writing

Have you visited New York?? I live there, so I can talk to you about it. The first thing that I can say is that New York is a very cosmopolitan city. You can meet different cultures, and the people here is very nice (although there are of course some phonies). Well, it has a lot of attractions, and I don't know where to start.
You can go to Central Park, it's located in the middle of Manhattan, and you can do a lot of things there, like going to the lagoon to see the ducks, walk around and relax. Inside the park, you can also visit the Central Park Zoo. Near the park you can visit the Museum of Natural History, one of the largest in the world. You can also go to the Empire State, one of the tallest buildings in the world!  During the winter you can go ice skating on the frozen lake of Central Park. Going to the theatres is a very nice activity. You can go to Broadway and see different plays (some better than the other). At night you can visit different clubs and have a drink with your friends, and then walk in the Central Park.
Visit this city in winter is better, because the view of the snow-covered town is very beautiful, the only problem is that it's too cold, and you will have to wear many clothes. It is a perfect city to go with friends and family.

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The Cathcer in the Rye video

Link: http://youtu.be/lcHVd0xXxgY

Week summary (29 july-2 august)

1.- I honestly did not have any knowledge of modernism (in art, literature and architecture), so this week's classes helped me understand it better.
2.- This week I've learnt about different aspects of modernism (in architecture, arts and literature), making different presentations about it. We also learnt the definitions of some literary terms, like theme, symbol and motif, in the content of modernism in literature. We also did some activities related to The Catcher in the Rye, and read some chapters of it (12-14).
3.- I need to review modernism, because because they were points that I did not understood very well.

Writing task

Hi Jane

Long time since we saw last time. How are you? hope you are fine. I have bad news: I've been expelled from Pency, because I flunked all the subjects, except English. Now I'm leaving this goddam school, and going to New York, but I'm not going to my home, I'm staying in a cheap hotel till the day I'm supposed to go home.

Any way, Pency wasn't such a great school. They post it like a great school, with horses all around, but I've never seen some goddam horse any where near the school. when it's cold, either you freeze or die of the hot.

one of the subjects I failed was history. I went to talk to my teacher and he told me that life was a game and all. Game my ass. He also read my essay. I have to admit it was a shame, and the worst thing was that I knew it, but I didn't care.

Now that I'm in New York I can go and visit you, and play checkers maybe? I hope we can. I'm going down to the hotel bar for a drink.

See you soon

Holden

 

Podcast

Radio commercial

The link of our radio commercial: https://voicethread.com/share/4448305/
(If the link doesn't work, copy and paste it in the browser) 

Detail Explanation of techniques used

Detail Explanation of techniques used in the creation of the interactive poster

The techniques used in our poster are: fear, shock advertising and the problem benefit one. Now we are going to explain the techniques, and put some quotes (of the poster):

Fear: this technique is about taking a dangerous and fearful approach to persuade a customer that they need to buy a product. We wanted to create fear to our audience, saying that the world is ending, and that we needed to do something about it. Quote: "each day less people care about the place where their children will live"
Shock advertising: Occurs when the ad appeals to move the audience by presenting shocking images or situations. We used this technique to shock people, and to raise the awareness of what is happening in our planet, so they can take action in this problem. Quote: "We all know that the world it`s in trouble"
Problem- Benefit: The ad  shows what kinds of problems can arise when people do not use the product, or service. We showed some ways to improve the environmental issue. The problem= global warming.  Benefit= the palace where your children will live. Quotes "we will give you some tips to save the world, for the future generations." "Save the world at your home"

Description of the Adversting Campaing

Description of the Advertising Campaign

This campaign is important because it is necessary to raise awareness of the environment  to prevent some disasters in the future. The campaign is directed for all types of audience because we all need to be aware about the environment, especially the kids and young people, because they are going to be the future of our planet. The objectives of our campaing are: get the attention of the people, and tell them how they can save the planet (and also save some money), and how we can make this better. The mass media used in this campaign was: print media (the pamphlet), internet (the glogster), and broadcast media (podcast). The steps we followed to make our campaign were:  we started with the pamphlet (due date march 28), then we made an interactive poster, using glogster, (due date April 11), we need to do a podcast of the campaign (due date April 18), and the last stage is an oral presentation for the 23 of April.

Here are some pictures of the pamphlet:

The link of our poster (in glogster): http://carlanga9816.edu.glogster.com/lets-go-green