SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES

1. OFFICIAL SCHOOLS

- Elementary School

- Middle School

- High School

- College/ University

•    Kindergarten.

Age: 5-6

•    Elementary School.

1st: 6-7
2nd: 7-8
3rd: 8-9
4th: 9-10
5th: 10-11

•    Middle School

6th: 11-12
7th: 12-13
8th: 13-14

•    High School

9th: 14-15
10th: 15-16
11th: 16-17
12th: 17-18

- The teachers in USA have a permanent classroom and they don't move. The students move from classroom to classroom depending on the subjects they have each day.

- In the USA, the marks are: A+, A-, B+, B-, C+, C-, D+, D-, F+, F-

THE DICE'S GAME

This Tuesday, we have played a funny game. It constisted on thowing a dice (which had differect pictures on it) and see what picture it showed. After seing the picture, you had to start a story related to that picture. Everyone in the class had to continue throwing his dice and continue the same story. I liked the game, because at the end, the story we made up was very crazy and funny.

ABANDONED PETS

- Abandoned pets are both exotic pets and companion animals that are either inadvertently or deliberately cast off by their owners.

This commonly occurs when an owner dies, when a pet becomes inconvenient or grows too large, or if the pet was an impulse buy.

The financial crisis has resulted in a number of pets abandoned for economic reasons. 

Typical of this group are pets left behind when the owner's home is foreclosed.

Animals lucky enough to survive until they are discovered are often in poor condition due to lack of resources such as food and water.

^{Many animals left at a shelter are euthanized due to lack of space and financial resources for these animals. Shelters unable to raise additional funds to provide for the increased number of incoming animals have no choice but to euthanize them, sometimes within days.}

Extreme animals

GIRAFFE

• It drools a lot
• It has got a long neck and long legs
• It's tongue is 0.5 meters long

FLY

• It eats feces
• They lie their eggs in dead flesh
• Their "children" are called magots

MAGOTS

• Magots eat the dead flesh and bacteries
• They are often used as medicines

St Patrick´s Day in the United States

St Patrick´s Day, on March 17, remembers one of Ireland´s patron saints, St Patrick. It largely celebrates Irish-American culture in the United States.

CELEBRATION OF ST PATRICK´S DAY

Celebrations concentrate on Irish themed parties, drinks and food. any people get into the spirit by dressing in green clothing and eating green colored food.
Large street parades mark St Patrick´s Day.

SYMBOLS

The most common St Patrick´s Day symbol is the shamrock.
Other symbols are wearing anything green or brands of beer associated with Irish culture

Graffity or Urban Art

GRAFFITY vs URBAN ART

-Graffity: is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a public place.

-Urban art: is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done by artists who live in or have a passion for city life. Urban art combines street art and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or thematizing urban life style.

   Urban Art                                                                                                                               

Graffiti

URBAN ARTISTS

- SAMO

It´s a graffiti tag used on the streets of New York City from 1977 to early 1980. It accompanied short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag is written with a copyright symbol as "SAMO©".

- BANKSY

Banksy is a pseudonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter. Although his identity has not been proven, reliable sources report that he is believed to be Robin Gunningham, a former public schoolboy at Bristol Cathedral Choir School.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world

- JOSE PARLA

José Parlá (born 1973) started painting in the early 1980s, exhibiting his works in the streets of Miami. The Brooklyn based artist has been exhibiting internationally since 2000.

- KEITH HARING

Keith Allen Haring (1958– 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war.

Haring's work was often heavily politicaL] and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.

TYPE OF LETTERS

BLOCK LETTERS

BUBBLE LETTERS

WILDSTYLE

CALLIGRAFFITY

Art and museums in the United States

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

The Smithsonian Institution, established in 1846, is a group of nineteen museums and galleries, nine research centers and a zoo administered by the United States government. The institution is located in Washington, D.C. It´s got 138 million items, and it´s the world´s biggest museum. It attracts annually up to thirty million visitors.

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The Field Museum of Natural History, located in Chicago, is one of the largest natural history museums in the world. It was built in 1921. The diverse, high quality exhibitions, which attract up to 2 million vitiors annually, range form the earliest fossils to past and current cultures from around the world.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (Chicago)

The Museum of Science and Industry is located in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest science museum in the western hemisphere. Among its diverse exhibits, the museum features a full-size replica coal mine, a German submarine from the World War II, a model railroad or the Apollo 8 spacecraft that carried the first humans to orbit the Moon.

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago´s Grant Park,and it was founded in 1866. It features a collection of Impressionisti and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection. 

Its holdings also include Amerian art, Old Masters, European and American decorative arts, Asian art, modern and contemporary art, and architecture and industrial and graphic design. In addition, it houses the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.The museum complex comprises 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, a planetarium and a library.It receives about 5 million visits annually.