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.
Monday, February 23, 2015
AP Lit: Anchors Await & Modest Proposals
Big Project Week. Thursday and Friday, we get to see To Be or Not Be. This is exciting stuff.
Monday and Tuesday, we'll be following up with "The Century Quilt" on demand by examining some anchor papers and comparing them to our own writing and thinking. We'll be doing a tremendous amount of mark up on the anchor packets and busting out serious degrees of Post It notes.
From there we will conduct a close reading of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" right in class. We'll be using our SCOUT/NWW/RBT triple lens. And this will lead us to our next writing product (not the synthesis essay yet!).
We also have a collaboration with other seniors not from around these parts that is about to happen. It involves redefining senioritis. We'll look at this more closely on Wednesday and Thursday.
Here's the blog prompt due NEXT FRIDAY. March 6. Use words/video/audio to define your now more accurately than "senioritis." We'll be connecting with seniors in a HS in Northern Illinois around this very idea -- and perhaps elsewhere as well. Here's an example of how one student tackled it.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: From A to To Be. Stack that blog full of images and explanation of your process. Show how you got there.
Due. Friday. Feb 27.
Blog Prompt for NEXT WEEK.
Use words/video/audio to define your now more accurately than "senioritis." We'll be connecting with seniors in a HS in Northern Illinois around this very idea -- and perhaps elsewhere as well. Here's an example of how one student tackled it.
Due. Friday. Mar 6.
Literary 3x3: Modest Proposal. Bring it to your next class.
Due. Wed & Thurs. Feb 25 & 26.
Complete the Design. To Be or Not to Be.
Due Thursday/Friday Feb 25 & 26.
Monday and Tuesday, we'll be following up with "The Century Quilt" on demand by examining some anchor papers and comparing them to our own writing and thinking. We'll be doing a tremendous amount of mark up on the anchor packets and busting out serious degrees of Post It notes.
From there we will conduct a close reading of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" right in class. We'll be using our SCOUT/NWW/RBT triple lens. And this will lead us to our next writing product (not the synthesis essay yet!).
We also have a collaboration with other seniors not from around these parts that is about to happen. It involves redefining senioritis. We'll look at this more closely on Wednesday and Thursday.
Here's the blog prompt due NEXT FRIDAY. March 6. Use words/video/audio to define your now more accurately than "senioritis." We'll be connecting with seniors in a HS in Northern Illinois around this very idea -- and perhaps elsewhere as well. Here's an example of how one student tackled it.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: From A to To Be. Stack that blog full of images and explanation of your process. Show how you got there.
Due. Friday. Feb 27.
Blog Prompt for NEXT WEEK.
Use words/video/audio to define your now more accurately than "senioritis." We'll be connecting with seniors in a HS in Northern Illinois around this very idea -- and perhaps elsewhere as well. Here's an example of how one student tackled it.
Due. Friday. Mar 6.
Literary 3x3: Modest Proposal. Bring it to your next class.
Due. Wed & Thurs. Feb 25 & 26.
Complete the Design. To Be or Not to Be.
Due Thursday/Friday Feb 25 & 26.
Humanities: Firing Up & Making Happiness. DT Flashlab.
This week we revisit two projects that are unresolved: fidgets and Romeo & Juliet. To do so, we've got to re-familiarize ourselves with the DEEP design thinking process and today's class is intended to do just that.
LNG.
We'll start with a quick LNG. We want to have a nice collection of evidence from all of you that you are understanding these texts and demonstrating those understandings. It's why we keep hitting on this. It is also how we tackle our current events portion of the curriculum.
During this time, we'll be circulating around and giving you lengths of blue painters tape. We want you to make your desk into quadrants.
DEEP DT. DESIGN THINKING FLASHLAB. HAPPINESS IS A MANILLA FOLDER.
Materials. You will each be given a manila folder, 4 paper clips, and a length of tape. You may also access your design kits and the two drawers of markers, pencils, glue and scissors in the design cabinet.
Your challenge is: HMW increase happiness at Mt. Blue Campus?
Constraint: these materials, graphic organizers, and 45 minutes on the clock
Process. You may follow the DEEP DT process in whatever order you like. If you already want to experiment, go for it. If you want to jump right into empathy, that's okay as well. If you want to go in order, that's why it's called a process.
Why the quadrants? To help us track your progress through the 45 minutes, you will be putting evidence of each phase in the boxes as you complete the phase. This way we can observe your process, offer guidance, ask questions, and generally assist you to the end.
If you would like a larger space to work, we've the tables in the room at your disposal or you may double up two desks.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
LNG.
We'll start with a quick LNG. We want to have a nice collection of evidence from all of you that you are understanding these texts and demonstrating those understandings. It's why we keep hitting on this. It is also how we tackle our current events portion of the curriculum.
During this time, we'll be circulating around and giving you lengths of blue painters tape. We want you to make your desk into quadrants.
DEEP DT. DESIGN THINKING FLASHLAB. HAPPINESS IS A MANILLA FOLDER.
Materials. You will each be given a manila folder, 4 paper clips, and a length of tape. You may also access your design kits and the two drawers of markers, pencils, glue and scissors in the design cabinet.
Your challenge is: HMW increase happiness at Mt. Blue Campus?
Constraint: these materials, graphic organizers, and 45 minutes on the clock
Process. You may follow the DEEP DT process in whatever order you like. If you already want to experiment, go for it. If you want to jump right into empathy, that's okay as well. If you want to go in order, that's why it's called a process.
Why the quadrants? To help us track your progress through the 45 minutes, you will be putting evidence of each phase in the boxes as you complete the phase. This way we can observe your process, offer guidance, ask questions, and generally assist you to the end.
If you would like a larger space to work, we've the tables in the room at your disposal or you may double up two desks.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Blog Post. Choose any of the TED Talks posted here and on Google Classroom. (I've got a list going of three/four choices.)
Explain how your folder challenge product relates to the ideas presented in that TED Talk OR how it doesn't connect at all. Prove your case with specifics. (NOTE. That last part is important. We are stepping up the blog posts. These should be demonstrating more and more evidence of your thinking and understanding moving forward.)
Some thinking prompts.
How would your product be similar or different had you watched this TED Talk first?
How does your product reflect the spirit of that TED Talk?
What might that speaker say about your product?
What kind of feedback would you expect from that speaker?
How would your product be similar or different had you watched this TED Talk first?
How does your product reflect the spirit of that TED Talk?
What might that speaker say about your product?
What kind of feedback would you expect from that speaker?
Due. Friday, Feb 27.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Humanities: Work the Essay.
Today we finish the work we've be wrangling with all week.
Complete the theme song essay.
Put up your blog post.
Finish LNGs.
Stick the landing.
After break? Fidgets revisited. Romeo & Juliet project revisited. Everything is a process in the service of making exceptional product.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article. Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.
Feel like doing others? Go for it!
Due. Today.
Complete. LNGs.
Due. Overdue.
Design. Production Phase. Theme song essay.
Due. Today.
Submi
Complete the theme song essay.
Put up your blog post.
Finish LNGs.
Stick the landing.
After break? Fidgets revisited. Romeo & Juliet project revisited. Everything is a process in the service of making exceptional product.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article. Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.
Feel like doing others? Go for it!
Due. Today.
Complete. LNGs.
Due. Overdue.
Design. Production Phase. Theme song essay.
Due. Today.
Submi
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Pop Culture: Work Session: Ads & Blogs & More
Today we are going to take care of a bunch of housekeeping needs:
How to turn in blog posts on the blog tracker.
Expectations for blogging and the blogging rubric.
How to submit work on Google Classroom.
Information on design kits & Remind.
And finally, I want us to talk about what unit we'd like to do next. We're a small class so let's see if our interests intersect.
Then there will be time to work and design. We aren't going to pile on any more work today than you already have.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. Design a Grammy performance that people will talk about.
How to turn in blog posts on the blog tracker.
Expectations for blogging and the blogging rubric.
How to submit work on Google Classroom.
Information on design kits & Remind.
And finally, I want us to talk about what unit we'd like to do next. We're a small class so let's see if our interests intersect.
Then there will be time to work and design. We aren't going to pile on any more work today than you already have.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. Design a Grammy performance that people will talk about.
Who? One band? Artist? Collaboration? Special guests?
What song is performed? Old? New? Medley?
Stage Design? What does it look like? What happens during the performance?
Finally. Explain it. Justify it. Why did you design it as you did.
And don't feel confined to words. Draw. Sketch.
Due. Friday, Feb 13
Mini Design Challenge. Design an Ad for Something You Love.
Mini Design Challenge: Advertise Something You Love
How Might We Design Advertisements About Things We Love so Others Will Find Interest in Them Too? Create a print, video or audio advertisement of something you love to encourage others to explore that something as well. We'll use a rapid fire DEEP design thinking process flashlab to get us there: discover, empathize, experiment, produce to get us there. Rubric coming soon.
Due. Friday, Feb 27
Humanities: Theme Song Workshop
Today we'll do much as we did on Tuesday, but with a little more time.
THEME SONG ESSAY WORKSHOP.
We'll break right into four work stations.
We'll spend about 15 minutes in each station, rotating through, working on our drafts. There will be a teacher at each table, so ask lots of questions. Advocate for your own needs.
There should be time at the end of the rotations to work independently.
A first submission draft is due tomorrow, Feb 13.
Also due tomorrow? Blogging.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article. Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.
Feel like doing others? Go for it!
Complete. Production phase. Theme song essay.
Due. Friday, Feb 13.
THEME SONG ESSAY WORKSHOP.
We'll break right into four work stations.
- Kahoot. Roots 6, 7, 8
- Introductions.
- Thesis statements.
- Body paragraphs.
We'll spend about 15 minutes in each station, rotating through, working on our drafts. There will be a teacher at each table, so ask lots of questions. Advocate for your own needs.
There should be time at the end of the rotations to work independently.
A first submission draft is due tomorrow, Feb 13.
Also due tomorrow? Blogging.
HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article. Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.
Feel like doing others? Go for it!
Complete. Production phase. Theme song essay.
Due. Friday, Feb 13.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
AP Lit: Hamlet & Power & Character
PROJECT SHARES.
Right out the gate. That's where we'll start on Monday and Tuesday.
HAMLET. POWER & CHARACTER.
Right out the gate. That's where we'll start on Monday and Tuesday.
HAMLET. POWER & CHARACTER.
Then we will carry out an experience to help us wrap our heads around both the power structures and character development in Hamlet.
Using six-index cards, how might we create a model for the power structure within the six central characters of Hamlet? That's your challenge for the day.
Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonious, Gertrude, Laertes
In addition to that design, you must also also identify whether each of the six characters is flat or round, static or dynamic and identify text evidence to prove your case.
All of this is in the service of developing your "To Be or Not to Be." This is a means of exploring congruency -- determining how your soliloquy lines up with the rest of your interpretation of the work.
HOMEWORK.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Color Palette for Hamlet. Using Colourlovers.com, create a color palette for Hamlet. Each color should be given a unique name and a rationale for each. Consider how this can help you with your concept for To Be or Not to Be
Due. Fri, Feb 13.
Design. To Be or Not to Be Design Challenge
Due. Th/Fr Feb 26/27.
Complete. Today's work if not done during class.
Using six-index cards, how might we create a model for the power structure within the six central characters of Hamlet? That's your challenge for the day.
Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonious, Gertrude, Laertes
In addition to that design, you must also also identify whether each of the six characters is flat or round, static or dynamic and identify text evidence to prove your case.
All of this is in the service of developing your "To Be or Not to Be." This is a means of exploring congruency -- determining how your soliloquy lines up with the rest of your interpretation of the work.
HOMEWORK.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Color Palette for Hamlet. Using Colourlovers.com, create a color palette for Hamlet. Each color should be given a unique name and a rationale for each. Consider how this can help you with your concept for To Be or Not to Be
Due. Fri, Feb 13.
Design. To Be or Not to Be Design Challenge
Due. Th/Fr Feb 26/27.
Complete. Today's work if not done during class.
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