Mr. Fajardo's Notes

Karina Cárdenas, Mención Honorífica en fotografía.

2011-11-18T14:15:00.000-08:00

Karina Cárdenas, estudiante de Área IV de la Escuela Tomás Alva Edison, ganó una mención honorífica en el concurso: Instantáneas Sin Humo, organizado por la DGACU, UNAM. El concurso está abierto a estudiantes de todas las preparatorias de la UNAM, CCH, Sisitema Incorporado y Facultades. ¡Felicidades!

Karina Cárdenas Manrique, "Más vale prevenir que lamentar"

Concurso de Fotografía Universidad Panamericana

2011-10-21T10:35:00.001-07:00

La Universidad Panamericana nos envía la siguiente convocatoria:

Concurso de fotografía contra el tabaquismo

2011-10-11T15:51:00.001-07:00

Chicos, llamé por teléfono a la DGACU, y me informaron lo siguiente. Es necesario quemar sólo un CD por participante, por lo tanto, sólo será necesario un sobre. Cuando vayan, les van a asignar un número de registro por cada una de las fotos. ¡Suerte!

Lady of Shalott

2011-09-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

Extra point (valid for the exam grade)

2011-09-12T14:00:00.000-07:00

Watch the movie Fahrenheit 911 by Michael Moore, then carefully read the poem Somebody Blew Up America by Amiri Baraka. On the comment section of this post, write a 500 word opinion about the 9/11 memorial. Link your statements to each work, and provide a number of examples that show a critical perspective of the 2001 attacks as well as understanding of both, the poem and the movie.

Due date: Wednesday September 14, 2011

Somebody Blew up America

2011-09-11T23:02:00.000-07:00

SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA
(All thinking people
oppose terrorism
both domestic
& international…
But one should not
be used
To cover the other)
They say its some terrorist, some
barbaric
A Rab, in
Afghanistan
It wasn't our American terrorists
It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads
Or the them that blows up nigger
Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row
It wasn't Trent Lott
Or David Duke or Giuliani
Or Schundler, Helms retiring
It wasn't
the gonorrhea in costume
the white sheet diseases
That have murdered black people
Terrorized reason and sanity
Most of humanity, as they pleases
They say (who say? Who do the saying
Who is them paying
Who tell the lies
Who in disguise
Who had the slaves
Who got the bux out the Bucks
Who got fat from plantations
Who genocided Indians
Tried to waste the Black nation
Who live on Wall Street
The first plantation
Who cut your nuts off
Who rape your ma
Who lynched your pa
Who got the tar, who got the feathers
Who had the match, who set the fires
Who killed and hired
Who say they God & still be the Devil
Who the biggest only
Who the most goodest
Who do Jesus resemble
Who created everything
Who the smartest
Who the greatest
Who the richest
Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest
Who define art
Who define science
Who made the bombs
Who made the guns
Who bought the slaves, who sold them
Who called you them names
Who say Dahmer wasn't insane

Who/ Who / Who/
Who stole Puerto Rico
Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan
Australia & The Hebrides
Who forced opium on the Chinese
Who own them buildings
Who got the money
Who think you funny
Who locked you up
Who own the papers
Who owned the slave ship
Who run the army
Who the fake president
Who the ruler
Who the banker

Who/ Who/ Who/
Who own the mine
Who twist your mind
Who got bread
Who need peace
Who you think need war
Who own the oil
Who do no toil
Who own the soil
Who is not a nigger
Who is so great ain't nobody bigger
Who own this city
Who own the air
Who own the water
Who own your crib
Who rob and steal and cheat and murder
and make lies the truth
Who call you uncouth
Who live in the biggest house
Who do the biggest crime
Who go on vacation anytime
Who killed the most niggers
Who killed the most Jews
Who killed the most Italians
Who killed the most Irish
Who killed the most Africans
Who killed the most Japanese
Who killed the most Latinos
Who/Who/Who
Who own the ocean
Who own the airplanes
Who own the malls
Who own television
Who own radio
Who own what ain't even known to be owned
Who own the owners that ain't the real owners
Who own the suburbs
Who suck the cities
Who make the laws
Who made Bush president
Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying
Who talk about democracy and be lying
WHO/ WHO/ WHOWHO/
Who the Beast in Revelations
Who 666
Who decide
Jesus get crucified
Who the Devil on the real side
Who got rich from Armenian genocide
Who the biggest terrorist
Who change the bible
Who killed the most people
Who do the most evil
Who don't worry about survival
Who have the colonies
Who stole the most land
Who rule the world
Who say they good but only do evil
Who the biggest executioner
Who/Who/Who ^^^
Who own the oil
Who want more oil
Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
Who/ Who/ ???
Who fount Bin Laden, maybe they Satan
Who pay the CIA,
Who knew the bomb was gonna blow
Who know why the terrorists
Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego
Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
And cracking they sides at the notion
Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere
Who make the credit cards
Who get the biggest tax cut
Who walked out of the Conference
Against Racism
Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother
Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?
Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
Who invaded Grenada
Who made money from apartheid
Who keep the Irish a colony
Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later
Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani,
the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,
Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,
Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane , Betty Shabazz, Princess Margaret, Ralph Featherstone, Little Bobby
Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,
Assata, Mumia,Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton
Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,
MedgarEvers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,
Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel
Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed
Who put a price on Lenin's head
Who put the Jews in ovens,
and who helped them do it
Who said "America First"
and ok'd the yellow stars
WHO/WHO/ ^^

Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt
Who murdered the Rosenbergs
And all the good people iced,
tortured , assassinated, vanished
Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,
Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,
Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo
Who invented Aids Who put the germs
In the Indians' blankets
Who thought up "The Trail of Tears"
Who blew up the Maine
& started the Spanish American War
Who got Sharon back in Power
Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,
Chiang kai Chek who WHO W H O/
Who decided Affirmative Action had to go
Reconstruction, The New Deal, The New
Frontier, The Great Society,
Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for
Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth
Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza
Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro
Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus
Subsidere
Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,
Who poison Robeson,
who try to put DuBois in Jail
Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs, Garvey,
The Scottsboro Boys, The Hollywood Ten

Who set the Reichstag Fire
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away ?
/
Who,Who, Who/
explosion of Owl the newspaper say
the devil face cd be seen Who WHO Who WHO
Who make money from war
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is
Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror
violence, and hunger and poverty.
Who is the ruler of Hell?
Who is the most powerful

Who you know ever
Seen God?
But everybody seen
The Devil

Like an Owl exploding
In your life in your brain in your self
Like an Owl who know the devil
All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl
Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise
In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell
Who and Who and WHO (+) who who ^
Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!

Amiri Baraka

When I have fears that my students may not do their homework

2011-08-31T13:52:00.000-07:00

Dear students, It has been brought to my attention that you need to write on your reading journals about the poem we saw in class today. Nevertheless, since you do not have your books yet, it may be hard for you to read it again before posting something on your blogs. That is why I am telling you to look for the sonnet.
When I Have Fears that I May Cesas to Be, by John Keats.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19378

Art Project

2011-08-22T09:33:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen, as you all know you are requiere to present three amazings works of art during the year. Following the link, you will find a format that needs to be turn in before everyone of your Art Projects. Remember that you need to get a grade equal or higher than an 8, in order to be able to proceed with your project, else, you will have to fill it in again until your teacher approves it.

The sections of the format that are typed in red are explanations for you, please delete them before turning in.

Now, the link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5100083/Art_Project_Form.doc

Also, keep in mind the following list of due dates.

Art Project 1: Stage A- Monday, September 5, 2011

Stage B- Monday, October 10, 2011

Art Project 2: Stage A- Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Stage B- Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Art Project 3: Stage A- Monday, February 27, 2012

Stage B- Monday, April 23, 2012

Should you need extra help or have questions feel free to contact your teacher.

Welcome to British Literature for Area IV Course

2011-08-15T08:46:00.000-07:00

The main aims of this class are to provide you with elements to improve your reading skills, broaden your intellectual horizons, give you opportunity for mature conversation and develop your ability to create, imagine and solve esthetic problems while introducing you to the literature, art and culture of a foreign society. As members of the selected group of humanist and artist of our School, you are expected to be hardworking, committed, creative and mature learners. Feel free of adding to our course any material or content that you think that may enrich our experience.

I can assure you my willingness to show all the time a positive attitude that makes you fill comfortable in our lessons, openness to your comments and feedback, respect (if you consider that my way of treating you is not appropriate, please warn me so we can discuss about it), and a compromise to foster your development and autonomy. It is one of my objectives that you learn how to make decisions and compel with their consequences. I can also guarantee that this is not an easy class. A lot of working needs to be done, a lot of thinking is required and often, students get frustrated because in this course, there are no easy answers. I invite you to relax and enjoy the ride; there are several things that you may learn about creative processes, literature, and life if instead of becoming obsessed about results and grades you focus on your own growth.

In order to make the best of this school year, there are a number of things that you should keep in mind. Therefore, I am providing you with a set of rules and guidelines that you can also find at www.mrfajardosnotes.blogspot.com.

1.-As you may guess, school rules are to be followed all the time.

2.- Take into account that students are required to compel with 80% of assistance in order to have the right to sit the final exam. Besides being absent, there is a number of things that can make you get an absence mark.

a) Not being in the classroom on time

b) Not bringing your book or the material required

c) Sleeping

d) Failing to wear your uniform complete and in a proper manner

e) Behaving in a way that obstructs the development of the class

3- Discipline is to be observed in order to keep an adequate environment. If we all talk at the same time, it is impossible to communicate, thus, avoiding us of getting to our goal: your learning. The same rule applies with the use of cell phones, ipods, games, gadgets or anything that keeps you from paying attention or that shows the teacher that you do not care.

4.- Wait for your teacher inside the classroom and make sure that it is clean and the benches properly arranged for the lesson. Each lesson is designed to last 40 minutes; therefore if everything is ready, we may go through the program on time. Else, we will have to stay after the bell rings until we finish with the class content.

5.- In case you need it, it is easy to reach me for questions, further information, o extra help your projects. Remember you can always find me in my office.

6.- For this course you are required to keep a reading journal that is evaluated with the 20% of your monthly grade. It should be hosted on a Blogger blog, and I need to have your URL. To make sure that I am following your updates, check the “Class Blogs” list on the sidebar of http://mrfajardosnotes.blogspot.com. If your blog is listed there, it means that I am aware of it. You should have a new post for each reading of the course. And your journal must be updated after every lesson. The comments that you make on your classmates’ blogs are also taken into account for your evaluation. They do not have a concrete value, but they show your interest and that may be useful in case you are a couple of decimals short from your monthly goal.

7.-Another 20% of the monthly grade is your Art Project. With it, you are expected to show your ability to react to a literary text, to ask yourself a number of questions and to find a creative way of answering them throughout a concrete product that makes you proud. The characteristics of this project are going to be provided to you in a different document.

8.- Written homework and projects should be in every case hand in on time, typed and following the APA style manual protocol. An electronic copy should also be delivered to my email before the deadline’s lesson.

9.- Should you have any questions or comments throughout the course, do not hesitate to contact me at meanmrteacher@gmail.com