Star Trek Enterprise: 4th Season: TV Review (Scripted)

Video version of an old post (as I explained about HERE)
For the original post, see:
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2012/10/star-trek-enterprisenot-that-bad.html

Impact 3 Unit 4 New Words and Reading p.60-62

(Supplementary Materials for Specific Textbooks--Impact 3)

Google Drive Folder HERE
Listen and answer: docs, pub
Board Race: slides, pub
Crossword: drive (Answers)--made with crossword puzzle maker
Crossword (sentence gapfills): drive (answers)--made with crossword puzzle maker
Half a crossword: drive--made with half a crossword

1. What are two practical reasons for choosing clothes?

2. What are three psychological reasons for choosing clothes?

3.  What are two social reasons for choosing clothes?

4.  The clothes that we buy and wear have an impact on the planet.  What is this known as?

5.  What are four examples of natural material that clothing is made out of?

6.  What are two examples of synthetic materials that clothing is made out of?

7.  Many toxic chemicals are used to make what?

8.  What does the manufacture of cotton jeans require an enormous amount of?

Captain America: The First Avenger: Movie Review (Scripted)

Video version of an old post (as I explained about HERE)
For the original post, see:
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2012/10/captain-america-first-avenger.html

The Magicians by Lev Grossman: Book Review (Scripted)

Part 2: The Magicians by Lev Grossman: Book Review (Scripted)

Video version of an old post (as I explained about HERE)
For the original post, see:
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-magicians-by-lev-grossman.html

The AV Club review I mentioned: https://aux.avclub.com/lev-grossman-the-magicians-1798206721

The Salon review I mentioned: https://www.salon.com/2009/08/12/magicians/

The link to the interivew with Lev Grossman I mentioned: https://www.avclub.com/lev-grossman-1798226874

Impact 3 Unit 3 Review

(Supplementary Materials for Specific Textbooks--Impact 3)

Google Drive Folder HERE
Naruto PowerPoint Game: Drive, slides, pub

The Expendables 2: Movie Review (Scripted)

Video version of an old post (as I explained about HERE)
For the original post, see:
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-expendables-2.html

Started: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Video HERE

Weekly Reading Vlog #1: Don Quixote p.226-276



(Weekly Reading Vlog)

Mentioned in the video: 
Don Quixote p.226-276 (50 pages)

All books and podcasts:

Books (74 pages this week)

The Hand of Oberon p.512-536 (24 pages) 

Don Quixote (2nd Reading) p.226-276 (50 pages)

Podcasts:

The History of Rome (2nd Listening) From 160- East vs. West through 167- Exploiting the Opportunity

Revolutions--10.48- The Death of Reform https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2021/03/1048-the-death-of-reform.html

The rest of my reading, listening and watching this week: docs, pub

Despite the title of this video, I actually spend most of the video not talking about my weekly reading, but instead talking about why I'm starting up this series, and what I hope to accomplish with it.

If you can't be bothered to sit through all that, here's the short version:

1) I'm going to start doing weekly reading vlog videos
2) Instead of talking about whole books, I'm just going to talk about the pages that I read this week.  I'm going to be summarizing the story of the pages that I've read, so there will be spoilers.

3) I'm going to be doing this in addition to (and not instead of) my book review video.  The content may overlap.  So if you watch both the weekly reading vlog, and the book review video, expect some repetition.  (Maybe just pick one or the other.)
4). The camera cuts out after 30 minutes, and that's just as well.  (Sorry as always about cutting out in mid-sentence though.)
5). I'm going to put all my reading, listening and watching for that week on a Google Document.  I'll talk about everything I can before the camera cuts out.  Any content I get to, I'll put in the description of the video.  Any content I don't get to will just be in the Google Document.  If I don't get a chance to talk about something, the standard disclaimer is that just because I've read it or listened to it does not mean I endorse it or agree with it.

6). I'm going to keep track of my weekly pages read for my own benefit.

Addendum: April 26, 2021--I've decided to nix point number 5.  I will not be talking about or keeping track of everything I read or listen to.  Only the books and podcasts.

Weekly Reading Vlog #5: Chomsky's Universal Grammar p.90-116, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood,etc

Colonial Cambodia’s “Bad Frenchmen” by Gregor Muller: Book Review (Scripted)

Video version of an old post (as I explained about HERE)
For the original post, see:
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2012/08/colonial-cambodias-bad-frenchmen-rise.html

The full title is "Colonial Cambodia’s “Bad Frenchmen”: The Rise of French Rule and the Life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87 by Gregor Muller"--but Youtube wouldn't let me use this as my title because it was too long.

Q: Skills for Success: Listening and Speaking 5: Unit 3 Listening 1: Animal Camouflage p.62-67

(Supplementary Materials for Specific Textbooks--Q: Skills for Success: Listening and Speaking 5)

Google Drive HERE
90 Second Listening: docs, pub

1. How many forms does the battle for life and death take on?

2. What is the endless struggle in nature?  

3. What has this endless struggle created?

4. What is happening to the balance of power in nature?

5.  What is necessary for survival?

6. What are three examples of conditions that can change?

7.  What are two things that play a part in how animals adapt?

8.  What bird is the ptarmigan similar in size to?  

Where does the ptarmigan live?

9. Besides making it invisible to predators, what other purpose do the ptarmigan’s brown feathers serve?

10. What does the ptarmigan also grow on its feet for winter?

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1. In the ruthless world of survival (00:05--00:07)

2. the battle for life and death takes on infinite forms. (00:07--00:10)

3. The endless struggle to eat and avoid being eaten (00:10--00:14)

4. has created weapon and defense systems (00:14--00:16)

5.  that are continuously changing. (00:16--00:18)

Narrator: In the ruthless world of survival, the battle for life and death takes on infinite forms. The endless struggle to eat and avoid being eaten has created weapon and defense systems that are continuously changing. The balance of power in nature is continually shifting. Sometimes it favors the hunter and sometimes the hunted. Those that are best at the game escape from the very jaws of death. 

Adapting is necessary for survival. As conditions change—availability of food and water, temperatures, the presence of predators both animal and human—animals must change to meet the challenges or die. 

Both weather and landscape play a part in how animals adapt. Those that live must be well suited to the demands of the environment. For example, the brown feathers of the ptarmigan, a bird about the size of a pigeon that lives in Europe and North America, make it almost invisible to predators. But the feathers serve another purpose as well—they protect the bird from the extreme cold by keeping its body heat next to its body, as well as keeping the cold air out. 

The ptarmigan also grows long white feathers on its feet for the winter, which act like built-in snowshoes.