This week we begin our work with Hamlet. I'm currently trying out my iPad to type this so apologies for wonky formatting. I bought a keyboard case for it but it is sorely lacking.
Monday we explored some of Shakespeare's thematic ideas that emerge in Hamlet: trust, knowledge, discomfort, awareness, observation, power, control. Of course these are just ideas and topics, not themes unto themselves -- what Hamlet forces us to consider, those will be the true themes of the play.
I didn't take any pics of our staring at one another, but that's a great deal of what we did. And then discussed how we felt, what we experienced; we also did an exercise in observation.
And just barely started the play.
Wednesday, we dig further into the play. We will read a great deal of the text in class and do some close readings.
Friday, you will present your True Grit as poetry presentations and explore various productions of Hamlet.
Show Your Thinking.
Read: Hamlet Act I. Due Friday.
Blog: Analytical and Design. Potent Quotable. Choose a line from the act I you believe captures the essential TONE of the play so far. The attitude Shakespeare as author, creator, intent driven artist is bringing to the words of the play. Playful? Pedantic? Satiric? Doleful?
Then take that one line and illustrate with either an original photograph of your own or an image from Unsplash.com. Use fonts and your design skills to create a visual. Post it along with a written or recorded explanation of your intentions behind your design. Posting your intentions is necessary to meeting the standards for media and reading.
Blog: Critical Creativity. Color Palette. Use ColourLovers.com to create a three to five color color palette for Hamlet Act I. Give each color a unique name that reveals your understanding of the characters thus far. Explain your intentions to meet the reading standard.
Independent Book Project: design a solution to a problem posed by your free choice work and present that prototype next Tuesday. Be certain to justify your prototype intentions based on the text evidence you uncover. Empathize with your user, consider what truly meets the needs and how you know. Present to class next Tuesday.
True Grit as Poetry. Make the case that True Grit follows the structure, form, qualities of an epic, ballad, or sonnet. Design a visually effective presentation to make your case. Think about the aesthetic qualities of those poetic forms, consider the devices that best define them, consider tone, subject matter, associated with each. This should be a challenging question to answers, case to make.
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Pop Culture: And the Oscar Goes to . . .
Sunday night was a big evening for the movie industry as the Academy Awards were doled out. The event pretty much caps the awards season after the Golden Globes (film & TV) and the Grammys (music) and some important but lesser known awards (SAG -- movies).
Today we'll take a look at the winners and the nominees and take a look the extent to which these awards reflect our tastes and interests as movie watchers.
We'll be using the movie ballot at Fansided.com
We won't use every category for our work -- only the following.
Best Picture
Director
Actor
Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Visual Effects
Animated Feature
You'll code the ballot with the following.
H. Heard of It.
S. Seen It.
N. Never Heard of It.
We'll take your codes, collect the data, and see what trends merge. Then we'll explore ways of visualizing these understandings. Different ways to show the data. Especially using http://memebase.cheezburger.com/graphjam as our inspiration -- because that will help us head into our comedy unit.
We'll develop questions from our data as well as we uncover the sorts of questions we should be asking for the rest of this semester as we explore pop culture.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. Design Your Own Pop Culture Related Awards Show.
What would it be called?
What would be the categories?
Who would be the nominees this year? The winner?
Explain your choices for the above and then . . .
Create a logo or promotional poster for the awards as well.
Today we'll take a look at the winners and the nominees and take a look the extent to which these awards reflect our tastes and interests as movie watchers.
We'll be using the movie ballot at Fansided.com
We won't use every category for our work -- only the following.
Best Picture
Director
Actor
Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Visual Effects
Animated Feature
You'll code the ballot with the following.
H. Heard of It.
S. Seen It.
N. Never Heard of It.
We'll take your codes, collect the data, and see what trends merge. Then we'll explore ways of visualizing these understandings. Different ways to show the data. Especially using http://memebase.cheezburger.com/graphjam as our inspiration -- because that will help us head into our comedy unit.
We'll develop questions from our data as well as we uncover the sorts of questions we should be asking for the rest of this semester as we explore pop culture.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. Design Your Own Pop Culture Related Awards Show.
What would it be called?
What would be the categories?
Who would be the nominees this year? The winner?
Explain your choices for the above and then . . .
Create a logo or promotional poster for the awards as well.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Pop Culture: Sketchnotes & Expectations, Super Bowl Ads
We'll start with finishing our sketchnotes of the guidelines & expectations for this class, sharing them, and getting ourselves on the same page.
From there we'll take a look at this year's Super Bowl commercials, one of the annual pilgrimages most of the US takes into the world of pop culture.
We'll complete this graphic organizer to get a sense of how these ads function and operate, as well as what values they suggest matter to their audience.
This is all leading to our first design challenge: HMW design advertisements for something we love?
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Humanities: Whole New Mind Portfolio Work & Review & Tips on Better Presentations
Hey folks,
WHOLE NEW MIND.
On Monday, we reviewed the Whole New Mind senses by first putting the definitions in our own words (using the 3 second pause to check for understanding), then putting the senses on notecards to create maps that help us connect the dots between the senses we understand and the ones we don't, and then used doodle to think skills to create doodle representations of each sense on the cards. We put those decks in our books for easy access and remembering later. (That was a huge run-on sentence back there. Sorry for that.)
Tuesday, we worked. We also ate sweet blueberry kielbasa from Gavin.
On Tuesday, we forgot to assign Roots List #2. There will be a quiz next Thursday over both Roots #1 & #2. Also, a Roots Product #2. It needs to use at least 5 roots-based words from Roots List #2.
DESIGN.
Here's a GREAT slide deck to help you with your portfolios. Don't feel like you have to read every slide, especially if you don't understand the wording. There are tons of great examples and tons of TERRIBLE examples. Just be sure you know if you are looking at good examples or bad examples.
Here's another one. Each slide pairing is a bad one, then a better one.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Blog Post: #showyourwork. Share some of the images and ideas of your Whole New Mind portfolio as you are working on it. What are you struggling with? What are you proud of so far?
Roots: Roots 2
Study: Quiz Over Roots 1 & 2
Create: Roots Product
Due: Thursday, Oct 16th
Complete: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9th
WHOLE NEW MIND.
On Monday, we reviewed the Whole New Mind senses by first putting the definitions in our own words (using the 3 second pause to check for understanding), then putting the senses on notecards to create maps that help us connect the dots between the senses we understand and the ones we don't, and then used doodle to think skills to create doodle representations of each sense on the cards. We put those decks in our books for easy access and remembering later. (That was a huge run-on sentence back there. Sorry for that.)
Tuesday, we worked. We also ate sweet blueberry kielbasa from Gavin.
On Tuesday, we forgot to assign Roots List #2. There will be a quiz next Thursday over both Roots #1 & #2. Also, a Roots Product #2. It needs to use at least 5 roots-based words from Roots List #2.
DESIGN.
Here's a GREAT slide deck to help you with your portfolios. Don't feel like you have to read every slide, especially if you don't understand the wording. There are tons of great examples and tons of TERRIBLE examples. Just be sure you know if you are looking at good examples or bad examples.
Here's another one. Each slide pairing is a bad one, then a better one.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Blog Post: #showyourwork. Share some of the images and ideas of your Whole New Mind portfolio as you are working on it. What are you struggling with? What are you proud of so far?
Roots: Roots 2
Study: Quiz Over Roots 1 & 2
Create: Roots Product
Due: Thursday, Oct 16th
Complete: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9th
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Humanities: Vocab & Design & Blogging
Today, we start with a roots activity from Mr. Mason.
VOCAB.
Whole New Mind.
This will lead into our first exploration of Design sense from Whole New Mind.
In groups of one, two or three, we will create movie posters and tag lines for root-based words and vocab. This serves a few different purposes.
One. You will better learn your vocab.
Two. You will practice design.
Three. You will have an item to add to your portfolio if you finish it.
Four. You will have great material for a blog post.
You will be using MoviePoster.com as a source of inspiration.
This video helps explain the rule of thirds if I'm not around.
Rule of thirds from Jayne Whitelock on Vimeo.
And Whole New Mind discusses CRAP-ify your design
Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity
Consider each of these elements in your design.
So what do you need to do?
Imagine you want everyone to use your root or root-based word or imagine you are making a movie about your root or root-based word.
1. Choose your root or root-based word.
2. Create a tag line i.e. "This Time It's Personal" or "Who Knows What Happens When the Sun Goes Out?" Look at movie posters. There are tag lines everywhere. Bonus challenge: Use four root-based words in your movie poster and you have your Roots 1 Product for next Thursday DONE.
3. Use the elements of good design and CRAP-ify to design a movie poster.
You'll have 20 minutes or so in class to work on this today and some more time tomorrow. We'd like to share and discuss these on Monday.
BLOGGING.
We want to give you time to post to your blog today and to read others' blog posts, make connections.
HOMEWORK.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Creative Post: Creative Blog Post: Post a Six-Word Memoir & a Six-Image Memoir on your blog. Consider how you present those images, the arrangement, the format, etc.
Due: Friday, 9/26
Complete: I Notice/I Wish/I Wonder chart. Over Story, Empathy, Symphony.
Due: Thursday, Sept 25 (TODAY! Put in your Humanities IN folder on Google Drive.)
Study: Roots Quiz 1
Complete: Roots 1 Product (Use 5+ roots-based words in context.)
Due: Thursday, Oct 2
Start Collecting Evidence and Planning: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9
VOCAB.
Whole New Mind.
This will lead into our first exploration of Design sense from Whole New Mind.
In groups of one, two or three, we will create movie posters and tag lines for root-based words and vocab. This serves a few different purposes.
One. You will better learn your vocab.
Two. You will practice design.
Three. You will have an item to add to your portfolio if you finish it.
Four. You will have great material for a blog post.
You will be using MoviePoster.com as a source of inspiration.
This video helps explain the rule of thirds if I'm not around.
Rule of thirds from Jayne Whitelock on Vimeo.
And Whole New Mind discusses CRAP-ify your design
Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity
 |
| found here: http://howtwosondesign.blogspot.com/2012/03/crap-theory.html |
Consider each of these elements in your design.
So what do you need to do?
Imagine you want everyone to use your root or root-based word or imagine you are making a movie about your root or root-based word.
1. Choose your root or root-based word.
2. Create a tag line i.e. "This Time It's Personal" or "Who Knows What Happens When the Sun Goes Out?" Look at movie posters. There are tag lines everywhere. Bonus challenge: Use four root-based words in your movie poster and you have your Roots 1 Product for next Thursday DONE.
3. Use the elements of good design and CRAP-ify to design a movie poster.
You'll have 20 minutes or so in class to work on this today and some more time tomorrow. We'd like to share and discuss these on Monday.
BLOGGING.
We want to give you time to post to your blog today and to read others' blog posts, make connections.
HOMEWORK.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Creative Post: Creative Blog Post: Post a Six-Word Memoir & a Six-Image Memoir on your blog. Consider how you present those images, the arrangement, the format, etc.
Due: Friday, 9/26
Complete: I Notice/I Wish/I Wonder chart. Over Story, Empathy, Symphony.
Due: Thursday, Sept 25 (TODAY! Put in your Humanities IN folder on Google Drive.)
Study: Roots Quiz 1
Complete: Roots 1 Product (Use 5+ roots-based words in context.)
Due: Thursday, Oct 2
Start Collecting Evidence and Planning: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9
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