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Browse this list of photographers. Create a list of the ones you like best. Choose at least five and post your list and critique of your favorite one to your Youth Voices blog.

Choose a quote that resonates with you from Act 2, scene 2. Write the quote at the top of a page in your writer’s notebook. Then write a 300-word essay making a connection between the quote and something you’ve experienced, observed, or read.

Choose a quote that resonates with you from Act 2, scene 1. Write the quote at the top of a page in your writer’s notebook. Then write a 300-word essay making a connection between the quote and something you’ve experienced, observed, or read.

For Monday, 2/11, write a news story of about 150 words about a recent event at Judge. Instead of printing the story, email it to judgemedia.post@blogger.com

Choose a quote that resonates with you from Act 1, scenes 3-5.  Write the quote at the top of a page in your writer’s notebook.  Then write a 300-word essay making a connection between the quote and something you’ve experienced, observed, or read.

Choose a quote that resonates with you from Act 1, scenes 1 & 2.  Write the quote at the top of a page in your writer’s notebook.  Then write a 300-word essay making a connection between the quote and something you’ve experienced, observed, or read.

Critique the following sites according to this criteria: ease of use, quality of images, fair use explanation, and appropriateness of images.

• Flickr’s Creative Commons Pool: Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license
• openphoto: Free stock images. Use categories on the right to browse or click on search in the top bar
• US Government Photos and Multimedia Most materials is in the public domain, but read the disclaimers.
• Wikimedia Commons: a database of 1,815,754 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
• Common Content an open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content
• Creative Commons Search Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, OWL Music Search, SpinXpress, and BlipTV to “find Creative Commons-licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free”
• Fotogenika
• Yotophoto: indexes over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and other copyleft images
• Free Digital Photos
• Pics4Learning Copyright friendly images for education
• GetMedia
• MorgueFile “provides the public and creative community with free raw photo materials”
• Free Pixels:images may be used for both personal and commercial purposes under the limitations of this license
• Free Photos Bank
• stock.xchng
• PD Photo
• FreeFoto.com
• Free Photo 1
• OurMedia
• FreeMediaGoo
• Picsearch

Homework for our next class: Go to the Poetry Out Loud web site, and read eight poems. List those eight poems on a piece of paper. Then choose the three you liked best and explain why you liked them in a sentence or two.  Also read through the judging criteria to see how you’ll be graded on your presentation.

In class Friday, we read various kinds of reviews. For Monday 2/4, type a 300-word review of a book, movie, CD, etc.

Here’s a link to information about the April 17-20 national journalism convention.