My Restaurant

My Restaurant
Yesterday each of you had the opportunity to develop the first step of creating your own restaurant. You selected the theme of your restaurant (Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Sports Restaurant, etc), you named it, you selected a picture that will describe the best of your restaurant and finally you added some contact information.

Today, you will be working on the actual menu. First you need to have 5 appetizers, then you need 10 entrees, you will also need 3 different desserts and finally 5 different drinks (non-alcoholic). You may research real restaurants to find ideas for your appetizers, entrees and desserts. Remember that most restaurants serve juice and/or coca-cola products or Pepsi products. Research online for what products are included in each category.

When you are done, make sure you send Mrs. Velez a copy of your final product. Presentations will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, April 14th, 2010.

Bonus points!
Once you are done, print a copy of your menu, and have it signed by our substitute teacher. His signature on your paper will give you 10 bonus points.

Reflection on Mid-Term Project

Publishers/Editors have a lot of time in their hands and many task to accomplish. Answer the following questions:
1. What is the key to success for these professionals?

2. Were you able to use your time wisely? Why? (explain)

3. What was the easiest part of this project for you?

4. What was the hardest part of this project for you?

5. Would you like to work in the publishing business one day?

Phase III Sending Reporters to the Field

You are now about to send your reporters to the field. But before you do that its important to do one last task as an Editor: Give your reporters an idea of the stories you will be working on so that they have an idea of what pictures to take. Today your teacher will give you a short list of possible articles to use depending on your magazine. Create today a plan of action for tomorrow's activity.

Phase II - Finding Articles

Phase II
Yesterday you created 8 titles for the stories you will be creating for your publication. Now, out of the 8 stories you have to write, five of them will be from your own creation/imagination/prior knowledge and, three of them will be taken from the internet. Today, you will be working on the three articles you will be taking from the internet. Go on Google.com and type key words for these articles. Once you find the articles you want, make sure you get the website address where you found them, then copy and paste both, the article and the name of the website to a Word document. Now find a picture that goes along with those articles, copy and paste them to your document as well. Save the document. As soon as you are done, and if you don’t owe anything in class, you can use your time to have some fun on the computer.

Publication Project Phase I

Publication Project
The purpose of this project is to explore careers related to the field of publications; Photography, Editing, Graphic Designer, Writer, Journalism.

Phase I
Instructions: Today you will receive a copy of a sample newsletter/publication. After selecting your type of publication (there are six options on the board) then you will assign stories between your partners. Each sample has space for about 8 stories; If you are working alone you will only have to do 4 stories instead of 8. Go over the sample and change each heading for a possible title of your own articles. At this point all of these headings will be just ideas; tomorrow you’ll work on developing them.

Also make sure you develop at least two ads for your publication.

By the end of today; You will turn in your copy of the roughdraft of your publication with the titles of the 8 stories you will create and the two products you are planning on promoting on this newsletter.

Noticing Changes!

After watching the video "Its not your parents' world" and "Where does this stuff come from?", in your opinion, how is the world changing? (three sentences minimum)

A typical Workday

Answer the following questions on your email. Copy all the questions on a Word document and then answer each question. Copy your answers to your email and send it to Ms. Velez.

1. How do you think a typical workday looks for someone? Describe it from start to end.

2. Have you considered working at night? Why?

3. Have you considered spending part of all of your time outside? Why?

4. Have you considered speding part of all of your time driving or traveling? Why?

5. Have you considered working more than 8 hours in a day (or night)? Why?

6. Have you considered working with a team or alone? Why?

7. Have you considered standing all day on the job?

8. Have you considered doing the same thing all day, every day?