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Please enjoy this video lesson on spanish weather terms.

Link to Video

And here's a video of a spanish weather channel!

This is ment for some who is trying to figure out there friends birthday. 
Below is the chart is a chart to teach you all the Months in a year and the dates. 
Example-  

 English- My birthday is June 24 
 Spanish- Mi cumpleaños es junio de veinte y cuatro 

Chart of months: found at http://www.montessoriforeveryone.com/Spanish-Days-Months-and-Seasons-_p_291.html
Chart of dates: http://jmelendezsla.blogspot.com/2010/10/months-and-dates-in-spanish.html
*Please note 
31 is Treint y uno
Below is a video on how two friends ask each other when there birthday is so they will  know when they should get them a a present. 

The difference between tú and usted is that Tú is informal (for talking to your friends) and Usted is formal (for talking to an adult). 

- the way you use the words can change the whole meaning of the sentence

• you dont always have to say tú or usted after you ask a question
• you only have to say it when the word is not in parenthesis 

These are some examples of how to use the words

click here for a real life situation of how to use tu vs usted.  

This picture explains the months. Just double check your spelling for the months, and the accents.
Also, a very important rule for las mesas: Make sure you don't capitalize any of the letters in the month's names.

For example:
May = mayo
June = junio

See? NO capitals!!

Other than that just have fun and memorize your months!

​When being polite in spanish, there are a lot of things to remember
There are three ways to say excuse me in Español: Disculpe, perdon, and con permiso. They all mean different things, as well. 
There are three ways to say thank you: Gracías, muchas gracías, and muy amable gracías. 
Finally, there are three ways to say you're welcome: De nada, por nada, and no hay de qué

Use these flashcards to learn how to be polite in spanish.
Click HERE for a video of a real life situation of when to use courtesy phrases. 

​Today you're going to learn about the days of the week in Spanish. 
Remember: 
-Don't capitalize the days of the week in spanish
-the week starts with Monday, not Sunday. 

Click here to see our set of flashcards. 

In this video you will see two friends who are planning a trip. 

Click here to see that video. 

  My Internet service provider is comcast. My modem is connected to comcast and then my router. There are many electronic devices connected to my router. I have laptops, phones, and television connected to it. I also have a airport express connected from the router and that connects my printer. 

   Something that I learned was if a document, picture, video, etc. leaves your hard drive, it is no longer yours. Also, I found out that something that you post on a website or somewhere on the internet can be taken offensively. That happens at times because you can't see that they're joking around or one could just interpret it in a different way than you meant to say. 

    I would tell other people that they should know more about how the internet works and as well as information about the ISP. Also, it is quite expensive so I would warn them to choose the right price amount to not to be so worried about the price.

I have a TV, multiple laptops, multiple phones, multiple ipads, multiple ipods, Printer, and a Xbox 360 . I learned that networks are much more complicated than most people think. There is much more work and process that goes on to give us our internet. I feel networks are more boring and confusing after learning all of this. If I were to tell someone something important about having a home network would tell people that it costs money but its very important so its worth the cash.

Imagine you are taking a trip to a Spanish speaking country, and you trying to figure out what to wear. But you can not understand what the weather person is saying. If you are trying to figure how to say simple weather then look at the chart below:
Example- 
English- Its raining 
Spanish- Está lloviendo

Below is a video on how a weather man predicts the weather in a spanish speaking country.

This video will be showing a girl in Mexico meeting one of her professors for the first time. She asks some questions using Udsted. 

I get my internet through cable, which uses wires to connetto peoples homes. The devices in my household that are connected to the internet are the family Nintendo Wii, and P.C. My parents i-phones, and my cell phone are connected to the internet. My dad's, and my laptop a connected, along with my  i-pod touch. 

I didn't really know about how internet connection worked until know. I didn't know that it worked in multipal ways. i learned about modems and I.S.Ps. I learned more about how the internet works. I would tell how an I.S.P home network works to people who needed to know because it is important. I would explain how internet connection works.

On my local network I have the internet provided by Comcast then my iPhone, my mac, and two dells. Off of my dells we have our television and speakers. When I finally figured out what the network was and how everything connected it was a very happy moment. I felt extremely smart, people had been talking about things that I had never heard about when when I finally got it I felt smart. You should be careful about how much you have hooked up because it will slow down your internet speed. 

Polite, August, home network



-This is a diagram of my L.A.N. network (local area network) is provided by verizon, but not FIOS. The internet signal is channeled through my router and my wireless apple airport extreme. From there it is broadcasted to the rest of my computers including our main Imac. The Imac has a port mapping software on it that can direct data from the minecraft server  to other people. 

​ My home network is made up of a combination modem and router which connects through an ethernet cable to my airport express, my TV, and my desktop. The Airport Express connects to three laptops, my Nintendo Wii, and an Ipad.
I use Xfinity Wireless. It costs me approximately $800 a year.
I learned about how networks work. I learned that only a small amount of information can pass through the firewall, so multiple copies are sent out. I now know how to examine and organize a home network. The OMG moment I had was when I learned that the internet was being designed as early as the fifties.
When learning about the home network, people need to understand what a service provider is, what routers and modems are, and how the internet works.

​Monologue #1: Teenage highschool student.
Finally after all these years of searching and searching for oil on american lands, we found it.
This could be the greatest discovery, or it could be the worst.
There’s many things this could bring to our country.
Both positive and negative.
American jobs, american oil, and american money
It all sounds so sweet and wonderful.
But then you have to think about all of the risks.
What if, the pipeline has a leak
What if, it covers the entire east coast in a greasy slime killing all of our plant life and animals
What if, there's an oil spill worse than the gulf of mexico.
What if, the giant lakes of waste leak into our drinking water. What if.
In some aspects I can understand why people think it’s such a good idea, and in others I am totally against everything they stand for.
The whole american land, american money part i'm totally down for.
But the environmental damage that it's going to cause i'm not too excited about.
Ninety percent of the water used for this pipeline is going to turn into toxic sludge that is going to be stored in giant ponds around the country potentially damaging our drinking water.
So before you go and encourage this pipeline, think about the harm that it could do to our environment first.


Monologue #2 The ocean
I’m so scared, I don’t know how to feel. They say this pipeline is gonna be a good thing, but how can I trust any pipeline after what happened down the gulf of mexico a year or two ago. That spill caused me to lose tons of my children, and to think that this could possibly happen again if this pipeline is put in completely and utterly terrifies me. I mean they say that it’s safe and with all the money they’re putting into it there’s no possible way that it could even leak, crack, or break for at least a century. But when your children are at risk you have to be especially cautious.

Monologue #3 Man living in the territory of the pipeline
Hello all. My name is John Damien and I live in Lincoln Nebraska. I’ve lived here for all 48 years of my life. I have a wife, two young daughters, and a baby boy on the way. Just last week I received a letter in the mail stating that my family and I have 6 months to evacuate from our land. Said they’re buildin’ some type of pipeline that transport oils all the way from Canada down to Texas. What I care bout some stupid pipeline? This is my home, my land, my life. From the brief bit of research i've done on the pipeline it seems quite harmful to the environment. God I beg you to please not let the president pass this and potentially harm my life, job, and kids childhood.


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Appendix: 

-Create lots of american jobs. Around 600 thousand. (Fox News Keystone Pipeline)

-Help part ways from the dangerous middle east (fox news keystone pipeline)

-It’s clean. Better than importing dirty, expensive crude. (fox news keystone pipeline)

-Better for the environment because we don’t have to transport all that oil from the middle east and cause all the air pollution from the planes. (mixture of different websites)

-Tailing will ruin the water ponds (dirtyoilsand.org)

-“The people downstream from the toxic tailing ponds have high rates of rare cancers, renal failure, lupus, and hyperthyroidism” (KeystoneXL new york times)

-90 percent of the water used will turn into toxic waste and not be able to used again (foe.org)

-The destruction of the land is going to threaten the caribou and destroy forest (dirtyoilsand.org)



Bibliography:

- http://www.nrdc.org/energy/keystone-pipeline/?gclid=COmMnrX2mbMCFYZM4AodqnIAfg

- http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html

-  http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline

- http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm

- http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm

- http://www.tarsandsaction.org/?gclid=COWcn_mEmrMCFQZnOgodg3QAug

This is the network I used to have. It is my Isp connected to my modem by wire. The modem goes through my wireless router and they both give internet to my system.Through either net my computer is hooked up.

Thick arrows are wires, thin arrows are wireless.

Tech Reflection

1. My internet comes into my home through my wireless router
2. My ISP is Verizon
3. My internet is paired with my phone and TV. Together they cost $150 a month and costs $1800
4. On my home network is my iPod, my phone, my laptop, my dad's phone, iPad and laptop, my mom's phone iPad and laptop, our phone service, our TV, and our Wii.
5. All of these objects are connected wirelessly.

I learned a lot about networks from this experience. I found out that most people get their internet from a router. I also learned that internet falls down, so the best place for a router to go for the strongest network connection is the top floor of the house. Networks can have a lot of different various things on them at once. Also, a lot more things use the internet than I thought at first. Most of the time, people don't want to share their internet so it is password guarded.

What other people need to know about having their own home network provided by an ISP is there are a lot of bad things out in the inter-world that they need to be aware of and protected against.

My internet provider is Comcast. The internet comes in through a cable from the ground into my modem. The modem is connected to a router. The router provides a wireless signal to all of the devices in my house. This includes computers, mobile devices, and other internet devices such as an Apple Airport which is connected to speakers. 

​ For the past two weeks, our class has been devoted to learning about the Keystone Pipeline Proposal.  The Keystone Pipeline will run from Canada to Texas, using Canadian Tar-sands as the new North American resource for energy.  The pipeline has brought controversy and conflict between politicians and environmentalists.  The pipeline has become such a big deal that it has come up in the Presidential Election.  The politicians in support of the pipeline say that because Canada is an ally and the fact that the tar-sands do not have to travel overseas, that oil will be cheaper, there will be more jobs and that the economy will be better.  Environmentalists that are not in support of the pipeline say that the Tar-sands will create a "game-over" situation for the environment.  My project, was to create three monologues, with three different opinons on the tar-sands and Americans and their relationship with the environment in general.  I wrote as a teenager against the pipeline, a politician at a press conference endorsing the pipeline, and Mother Earth herself.  Before you watch this video I strongly suggest looking over some facts that I have provided, I hope you enjoy.

It’s politics
Hello, I would like thank the everyone at this press conference for allowing me to endorse the pipelines.  We, the American people have been in an economic downfall for the past 4 years.  Pipeline creates plenty of jobs for our American people.  We deserve to spend no more than 3 dollars a gallon on oil for our cars, our homes, and our stoves.  This is our chance to get back to greatness.  This is clean energy, cheap energy, job creating energy to power our country back on top of the economic food chain.  For those fearing that this too new and too risky, there are over 200,000 similar smaller pipelines all throughout the U.S. of A.  
TransCanada seems to agree with the plan that will create thousands and possibly millions of jobs that will bring the unemployment rate down.  Canada has also been using similar pipes for more than 50 years.  This new possible project will be powered by the 0.1%.  0.1% meaning that 0.1% of Canada’s forests will be affected by mining.  0.1% pollution will be created by the Canadian tarsands.  This is an incredible opprotunity!  I will open up the field to questions from the press now.  Fire away!

Well good question sir, for those of us who are on the fence about the tarsands and the enviornment, this is a clean american energy, to heat our american homes and to create american jobs.  This is will solve our issues with the middle east, this will bring less conflict and less dependence on other countries.  
Another good question, this is AMERICAN ENERGY.  Not as much travel as foreign energy, it all makes sense.  This energy is clea-.  
How is it clean you ask? Well the tarsands are accessed through drilling, then they are watered down and fed throughout the 17,000 mile long pipe.  No, no, no, no, no, the chance of the pipes leaking fluid are slim to none.  As I stated before, there are over 200,000 similar smaller pipelines all throughout the U.S.
I am not familiar to that study, no it will not be game over for the U. S. environment.  Hell, China is so polluted that its hard to see through the smog.  The tarsands aren't an awful air pollutant.  Look how well China is doing.  
*phone buzzes, from rep*
I would like to thank the press, and God bless america

Mother nature

I have been pulled apart, drilled, pounded and stomped on.  I've been bombed and beaten, driven on and through and now, just when I thought I was paved down, smoothed and filed the most.  I'm getting drilled into again, near my head this time.  Its like humans are performing surgery on my brain.  Taking away my lifeblood, they are are forming an artificial artery that will go from my neck to my stomach, because they are tired of giving me blood transfusions from my arms to my chest.  

Its not cleansing me its dirty I'm sick and tired of coughing, the air that surrounds me cloudy and muddy and I'm grasping for fresh air. Its funny to think that what you created is destroying you.  Well what I created is destroying me, taking advantage of me.  I made a monster.  These humans are monsters.

Permission slip.

Mom! Mom!
I really need to tell you something! Mom listen.
I need to go to this rally tomorrow, like I NEED TO GO TO THIS RALLY !
Its about these tarsands, you know the ones that we heard Mitt Romney endorse, you see its going to be game over for our environment if President Obama supports it.  My teacher is from Canada and they use tarsands there too, its not as clean as you think it is.  
Mom, just because it will create jobs doesn't mean its the right thing to do.  I know this won't affect you, but it will effect me and my kids, and my kid's kid's.  We, as people have destroyed this earth with every innovation we have made since the beginning of time.  I want our country to treat the earth as kind as the earth has treated us.  Mom, mom I need to go to this rally.  Mom I don't give a damn about class tomorrow, how am I supposed to care.  Mom you're in denial about the fact that the pipeline is running through our town.  They, they didn't tell you yet? Mom, this town is small, one  piece of the pipe breaks and our town, the streets, the shops and the roads are gone.  I need to help strengthen the voice of my generation.  Like I said before it doesn't affect you, it affects me.  My kids, and my kids kids.  Just sign the slip.

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