Art Near You

Good Afternoon Everyone!!

Task 1: 

Click the following and complete Practice 3 - Alternative Energy Cars: The paragraph has errors that you will need to correct. You will see vocabulary words that may be unfamiliar to you so please reference the words with their definitions under the paragraph. 

Scroll down to edit for errors and join clauses when possible.

Read the feedback to better understand your mistakes. 

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/clauses-1.html#practice3

Task 2: 

Research art events in California from San Francisco to San Diego. You can look for events related to the arts, museums or community development projects. 

1. Summarize the event you would like to go to and explain why you chose it. 

Warm Up

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Advanced%20Sentence%20Correction%207.pdf

Gangsta Gardener

Hi!

Click the following link to read the most interesting interview of 2016, by far. 

GangastaGardener

Watch the Video
After reading the GangstaGardener Interview, answer the following questions:

1. Who is Ron Finely?
2. What did Ron Finely do before gardening?
3. Why did he choose that prior career?
4. What happened to his business in 2008?
5. What is the Ron Finley Project?
6. What does 'happenstance' mean?
7. What is Ron Finley's message to those who don't touch soil?
8. What was unique about Ron Finley's Ted Talk audition?
9. What does Ron Finley mean by, "you can't get no more gangsta than mother nature?"
10. What are 10 year old Indian kids now calling themselves because of Ron Finley?
11. What does Ron Finley mean when he says, "We could change the rotation of this fucking planet?"
12. What does Ron Finley mean by, "I'll help you but I'm not the help?"
13. According to Ron Finley, what does simply putting a box of flowers on the corner do to an entire block?
14. What does 'hokey' mean?