Shep's Class
Monday, April 18, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Inside/Out at Venture
Socrative Will Astound You
Room: 424939
Agenda
Intro - 5
Ibby's Heart - 15
Practice - 20
Mastery Check - 10
Feedback & Questions - 10
Ibby's Heart
Do You Trust Mr. Cooper?
#1-5
Mastery Check
Section 2, Paragraph 3
Room: 424939
Agenda
Intro - 5
Ibby's Heart - 15
Practice - 20
Mastery Check - 10
Feedback & Questions - 10
Ibby's Heart
Do You Trust Mr. Cooper?
#1-5
4. Visitors may not realize this is the nerve center of Nationstar, one of the country’s biggest nonbank mortgage servicers. And odds are that even if they do, their feelings about an institution like Nationstar — vaguely bankish, closely associated with the mortgage crisis that shattered the economy — won’t be positive.
5. But will they like Mr. Cooper?
6. Not Mr. Cooper, as in, “Hangin’ with …” or the guy in “High Noon.”
7. It’s “Mr. Cooper,” as in Nationstar’s exhaustively researched, head-turning-by-design new identity.
8. Executives at Nationstar have spent more than a year and roughly $5 million on the branding overhaul in hopes that consumers will see the new name as an extension of the company’s new ethos: Personable, customer-focused and easily navigable online.
Section 2, Paragraph 3
The rebranding comes as the company, which grew into a niche borne of the massive rise in distressed mortgages, adapts to a shifting industry.
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Star Spangled Reading Wars!
THE POEM
Star Spangled Banner
Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
THE STORY
BY Isaac Asimov
In 1812, the United States went to war with Great Britain, primarily over freedom of the seas. We were in the right. For two years, we held off the British, even though we were still a rather weak country.
Great Britain launched a three-pronged attack. The Northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York, and seize parts of New England. The Southern prong was to go up the Mississippi, take New Orleans and paralyze the West. The Central prong was to head for the Mid-Atlantic states, and then attack Baltimore, the greatest port South of New York. If Baltimore was taken, the nation, which still hugged the Atlantic coast, could be split in two. The fate of the United States, then, rested, to a large extent, on the success or failure of the Central prong. The British reached the American coast, and on August 24, 1814, took Washington, D.C. Then they moved up the Chesapeake Bay, toward Baltimore. On September 12, they arrived and found 1,000 men in Fort McHenry, whose guns controlled the harbor. If the British wished to take Baltimore, they would have to take the Fort. On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland, and brought along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend of the physician, had come to the ship to negotiate his release. The British Captain was willing, but the two Americans would have to wait. It was now the night of Tuesday, September 13, 1814, and the bombardment of Fort McHenry was about to start. As twilight deepened, Key and Beanes saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry. Through the night, they heard bombs bursting, and saw the red glare of rockets. They knew the Fort was resisting, and the American flag was still flying. But, toward morning, the bombardment ceased, and a dreaded silence fell. Either Fort McHenry had surrendered, and the British flag flew above it; or the bombardment had failed, and the American flag still flew. As dawn began to brighten the Eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the Fort, tyring to see which flag flew over it. He and the physician must have asked each other, over and over, "Can you see the flag?" After it was all finished, Key wrote a four-stanza poem telling the events of the night. He called it The Defence of Fort McHenry, and it was published in newspapers, and swept the nation. Someone noted that the words fit an old English tune called To Anacreon in Heaven - a difficult melody, with an uncomfortably large vocal range. For obvious reasons, Key's work became known as The Star Spangled Banner, and in 1931, Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States. Now that you know the story, here are the words. Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key: | |||
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I hope you will look at the national anthem with new eyes. Listen to it, the next time you have a chance, with new ears. And, don't let them ever take it away |
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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