When I was a kid, I couldn’t stop playing this game called Mad Libs.  My sister Lisette would ask me for a noun, verb, adjective, or some other type of word and I’d give her the most random and crazy answers I could think of.   She would use my answers to fill in the missing words in a story.   When we were done, she would read back the story about Michael Jackson marrying a bagel or whatever and we’d fall on the floor laughing.   Anyhow, I found an online version.  Click HERE to play Mad Libs and paste your story into your blog for points!

** PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE.

Now, using XtraNormal, IMovie, or Photoshop create an advertisement for a healthy food.  Please use at least 2 of the strategies listed in the chart below.  Post your advertisement on your blog along with the advertisement techniques you used.

Click BELOW for examples:

Click HERE to watch Part 4 of Super Size Me

1. In your blog make a list of 10 foods you believe would make up a healthy meal (include some pictures please).

1.   Click HERE to watch Part 3 of Super Size Me

2. Click HERE to go to McDonald’s Bag a McMeal page.  Order enough food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Now, answer the following questions in your blog:

1) How many calories did your McDonald’s meals add up to? How much fat?

2) Look at the chart below.  Did your McDonald’s meal add up to more calories and fat than is recommended for your age?  If so, how much more?

3) Did the results surprise you? Why or why not?

1. Click on the video below to learn more about this:

2.  Now, find out more about advertising by playing the game below:

3.  Now, create an advertisement for TAP WATER using Photoshop, Imovie, or XtraNormal.  Your advertisement must use at least 2 of the techniques below.  Post your advertisement on your blog along with the advertisement techniques you used.

Oh, and Class 8C made a list of the pros and cons of Bottled Water.  You might want to think about them when you’re making your advertisement.  Click below to check it out:

Click Below for Examples:

Damning Dirty Water Animations and Posts

BTan, GCalcano, KAlcantara, MHassan

Fabulous Five Secrets of the Meatrix

MFortune, AOrtega,  LFlorentino

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Radical Random Posts

JLopez, JMatos, ASanchez, BPena, DSim, HArriza, TSerrano, LHernandez, SGreen

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Tantalizing Tech Issues- War

AGivens, CVega, GCalcano, TSerrano, THarris, TCedeno

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Gorgeous Google Entries

TCarter, ASebelen, RContreras

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Freaky Photoshop Face-Offs

AThomas, GCalcano, JiSalcedo, SColon, SMarte, Sponce

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Dynamic Distraction Test Results

TCarter, SSabah, EBourdier, JGuzman, TCarter, THarris

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Arresting Poetry
DHill, ATorres, JLeeTineo, JLopez, JTlatenchi, LHernandez, LHernandez

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Absorbing  Internet Addiction Posts

DHill, DSim, FSimon, KAlcantara, TSerrano, MTucker, NRodriguez, PMei, SStPhard, THarris

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Irresistible Inventions

BCastillo, ElColon, GCalcano, JiSalcedo

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Engaging Profile Interviews

SSabah, CMarquez, LBruno, MHassan, NRodriguez

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Powerful Piercing Posts

MHassan, EBourdier

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Brilliant Banning Bottle Water Posts

MTucker, SSabah, GCalcano, JiSalcedo, KAlcantara, MMendoza, SColon

Watch Part 2 of Super Size Me by clicking HERE (ask for password).  Now, answer the following questions in your blog:

1. Do you think consumers (people who buy things) have the right to sue McDonalds for selling unhealthy food? Why or why not?

2. McDonalds is the largest owner of private playgrounds in the world. What other ways  does McDonalds use to market their food to children?

3.  How many calories do you think a healthy kid should eat in a day (click here for a clue)?  According to the movie, how many calories are in a Super Size fries?  How about a Double Gulp soda?

Last month we watched a cool animation about how bottled water harms the environment, tastes the same as tap water (because it’s made from tap water), and isn’t even cleaner then tap (maybe even dirtier!).  But that was an animation.  Now, lets meet some real people who are going up against the bottled water companies.  See, these bottled water companies come into communities and pump out their tap water (called “municipal water”) without even paying for it.  Then, they sell it for 1900 times the amount of tap!  Do they care if the community is going through a drought (water shortage)?  No!  They keep on pumping out the water.  Check out the video below:

Now, create a comic using Comic Life that re-tells the story you just watched.  Here’s how:

1.  Watch the tutorial below:

2. Go to the flickr page below to get some images.  Feel free to use your own.

3.  Create your comic and post it on your blog.  Click HERE for an example by GCalcano.

Watch part 1 of Supersize Me by clicking HERE (ask me for password).  Please answer these questions in your blog:

1. How many times a week do you eat at McDonalds or other fast food restaurants? Do you ever think about whether what you are eating is healthy? Why or why not?

2. What do you predict will happen to Morgan’s health at the end of the month? Do you think he will remain in perfect health?

3. In one scene there is a shot of a McDonalds inside of a hospital. What do you think about that? Do you find it normal, funny, strange, or sad?

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What does “organic” mean?  What does “vegan” mean (use your own words)?