Yoga Homework Week one Cycle 3

Greetings Yogi's

Here is this week's homework assignments for Yoga. Homework is worth 20% of your grade. It can make up for days when you are absent, or sit out. Homework is required in this class. There is not enough time to cover all of the Yoga Information and practice during school time.

Monday December 7th 2009

Click on benefits of yoga

What are the physical and mental benefits of yoga? list and write in your own words. Do not copy

a. What is yoga? Give a description. What are the different kinds?

b. What are the benefits of yoga? How can it help your physical body?

How can it help you improve your mental and spiritual self?

What do you hope to gain from your Yoga practice in this cycle?

Tuesday December 8th, 2009

Click On Yoga Teens for help researching the answers.

What is Hatha Yoga?

What are the different types? List them and give a one sentence description of each type of Hatha Yoga

Weds December 9th, 2009

Email me the answers to the following questions. nicolewestside@gmail.com

The subject is .........your name (Nicole Riley), the period that you are in Yoga 2 or 5

I want us to start practicing our emails as we were writing to a professor or to the boss at our job?

Example : Nicole Riley HW assignment 1/1 period 5

1. Your full name
2. Advisor/ Family Group/ Fourth Period Teacher
3. Parent/// Guardian
4. Who do you live with? List all people in the house?
5. Where do you live?
6. Last school attended
7. Reason for coming to West Side?
8. List all of the classes you passed last cycle

• • AM/PM_________
  • 2nd
  • 3rd
  • 4th FG
  • 5th and so on. What do your grades look like? What gets in your way of passing classes? What helps you to pass classes?9Do you have a current Physical to evaluate your heath for physical exercise in your class folder?

The subject is .........your name (Nicole Riley), the period that you are in Yoga 2 or 5

Dating abuse quiz

1.  Take the Quiz Dating Abuse Fact or Fiction  How did you score?  What did you learn?  What did you agree with?  What did you disagree with?

2.  Read Healthy vs unhealthy relationships.  What is the difference? Compare and Contrast the two.  Give a real life example. 

3.  From the same website give three statistics that you learned.

4.  Go to teen dating facts.  Which five statistics are the most shocking and alarming to you?

5.  What numbers can a teen call for help if they are victims of sexual abuse?  Dating violence?  physical abuse?  Crisis Hotline  Put those numbers in your cell phone if you have one. 

Teen Dating Violence

What is dating violence? Have you ever experienced it? What does it look like? What does it sound like?

These are the questions we will be investigating over the next week. Today each of you will post comments on my blog instead of writing on your own blogs.

We only have ten days of school left. Make sure you get all of your work turned in, and make up your sexual anatomy test if you have not taken it yet.

1. Go to Love is Respect and watch the video by clicking on the triangle in the pink graffitti on the top left side of the page. Answer the question.. What is love?
2. On the same page sign the petition "Moms and Dads for education to stop teen dating abuse."
3. What does abuse look like and sound like to be abused? Go to Is This Abuse? and answer the f0llowing questions in your own words. After you answer each question in your own words based on the information from the website tell the reader whether you agree or disagree and why.
a. Are you being abused?
b. Are you an abuser ?
c. Which "real life" story is the most realistic?
d. What makes a healthy relationship?
e. What facts about dating abuse surprised you the most?
f. Based on everything you learned what does dating abuse look like, sound like, and feel like?

Why Do Girls Have Sex?

1.  Read the different stories about why girls have sex in your packet, Why do Girls Have Sex? from the book called Virgin Sex for Girls.

2.  Which story did you like the best?  Why?

3.  What are the names of the characters?  

4.  Write a four sentence summary of what happened in the story.

5.  What would you have done if you were the girl in this story?  Why?

Post your answers to these questions on your blog.  You should write in complete sentences so that the reader knows what you are talking about without reading the questions above.  Start your story with a sentence similar to, "I read the chapter Why Do Girls Have Sex? in the book titled, Virgin Sex for Girls.  My favorite story was........."

If you did not finish the assignment about female anatomy do so now.  You may also use it to review for your test on Friday.  

Women's Wellness Class Assignment Dec. 18th

Greetings Ladies!  Happy Thursday.  I am sick today, therefore you have the opportunity to earn double credit if you complete the assignment and turn it in to Indra.  Use this time to review for retest on the female sexual anatomy tomorrow. 

Go to each website, and write a half of a page of information in your own words about what you learned/studied.  Draw pictures as well.

1.  pelvic inflammatory disease

2.  female anatomy

3. Period

4. female reproductive system

5. Menstruation

Do your best.  Write in your own words.  Learn, and take good notes because you never know when you will be able to use them again. I will see you all in class tomorrow...Nicole 

Yoga Class

YOGA CLASS assignment Dec. 18th

Greetings Yogis. Happy Thursday to each of you. I hope this blog is finding you with a smile on your face and in your heart. I am sick today. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to earn double credit if you complete the assignment. Take this opportunity to learn and improve your yoga class.

Creating your own yoga practice. Today you will create your own yoga practice. You must write everything down on paper and turn it into Mary the librarian. Follow all of the directions, learn, and do your best work.

1. Go to the following websites and learn about yoga. Watch the videos, read, and find information for you to use in your own practice.

Yoga About

Yoga Teens

Yoga video

Yoga Journal

2. Create your own yoga practice with the following parts. Imagine you are the teacher and you are teaching a class.

a. What is yoga? Give a description. What are the different kinds?

b. What are the benefits of yoga? What do you hope to gain from your practice?

c. What will your mantra be?

e. How will you open the class?

f. What music will you play? (bring in a cd for extra credit and make-up work.)

g. What breathing practice will you do?

h. What will your warm up be?

i. What poses will you have in your practice? Write 10 poses...english name and sandscript name of the pose. What are the benefits of each pose? Write down the verbal directions you will give to the class for each pose. For example: Mountain Pose: "Stand up straight with feet hip width apart under your body. Abdomen is tucked in, pelvis is tucked under, shoulders back and down, hands to your side, eyes face forward chin is parallel with the floor, feet and toes are spread out with weight balanced evenly on all parts of the feet. " Draw a picture of the pose, and tell its benefits.

j. What will your meditation be?

h. What will your focus be? example: trust. What will you read to the class to inspire them?

Do your best. This will be the rough draft for a final project at the end of the cycle. I will see you all tomorrow dressed out and ready to practice Yoga. Namaste ...Nicole