Today some folks will present their Culture & Composition slide decks.
Then we'll do an activity and discussion around the slide show Mr. Brackett sends you regarding Baltimore and talk about what's happening there. You'll write an explanation of the story the images tell and then there will be a discussion following.
ASSESSMENTS.
BLOG. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1. Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities. Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist. Be intentional.
This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.
Req'd Post 2. Composition & Culture. Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience. Post it on your blog. Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.
Due. Friday, May 1st.
Culture & Composition.
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.
ROOTS 12. Quiz.
Due. Thursday, May 7
WRITE. Baltimore story.
Based on slideshow
Due. Today, April 29
LITTLE THINGS ESSAY.
Discover Phase: Brainstorm, Rose/Bud/Thorn.
Post to Blog.
Due. Wednesday, April 29.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Brit Lit: Discovery Phase: Design Challenge
Today . . .
1. Find an article/video/podcast/website related to your design challenge: mudding signage or thermostat car starter
2. Use EasyBib.com to create a proper MLA formatted citation for your article/video/podcast/website.
3. Complete one of the four literacy strategies to show that you understand the text.
Notice/Wish/Wonder.
Text Connections.
Sketchnotes.
Soundtracking.
4. Put your work in your Brit Lit IN folder.
1. Find an article/video/podcast/website related to your design challenge: mudding signage or thermostat car starter
2. Use EasyBib.com to create a proper MLA formatted citation for your article/video/podcast/website.
3. Complete one of the four literacy strategies to show that you understand the text.
Notice/Wish/Wonder.
Text Connections.
Sketchnotes.
Soundtracking.
4. Put your work in your Brit Lit IN folder.
Humanities: Feedback and Little Things Essay Intro
We'll start with our last few Composition & Culture presentations and some feedback for those presenters.
From there we'll break into our four stations because TUESDAY!
STATION 1. FRANKENWORD with BOISELLE. You'll be using Roots 12 to have a FrankenWord experience with Ms. Boiselle.
STATION 2. FEEDBACK TRENDS. (Production Phase of DEEP dt) Go through the feedback you've received on your Composition & Culture presentation. Answer the following two questions in either a blog post OR an email to Ryder/Brackett
A. What trends do you notice across the feedback? Things people noticed OR things people seemed to overlook that you noticed?
B. How might you apply this feedback to a revision/next iteration of your presentation? What's your action plan?
Haven't finished your presentation? Use this time to work on it.
STATION 3. FEEDBACK with BRACKETT. Have a conversation with Mr. Brackett about the presentations and how a next iteration could improve the situation.
STATION 4. BRAINSTORMING and ROSE/BUD/THORN with RYDER.
Today you are being assigned your next essay. The first submission draft will be due early next week. Exact date TBA.
Little Things Essay
How might we design essays in which we share experiences of our own, or those of others, where a little thing had a significant (big) impact? Consider objects, moments in time, single experiences, interactions . . .
In this station you will first brainstorm and spidea (word association) and then sort those ideas into Roses (gorgeous ideas), Buds (neat thoughts but not sure where to go with them), and Thorns (stay away from these ideas OR wrangle them carefully)
We will be using Post-Its. Lots of Post-Its.
ASSESSMENTS.
BLOG. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1. Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities. Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist. Be intentional.
This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.
Req'd Post 2. Composition & Culture. Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience. Post it on your blog. Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.
Due. Friday, May 1st.
Culture & Composition.
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.
ROOTS 12. Quiz.
Due. Thursday, May 7
LITTLE THINGS ESSAY.
Discover Phase: Brainstorm, Rose/Bud/Thorn.
Post to Blog.
Due. Wednesday, April 29.
From there we'll break into our four stations because TUESDAY!
STATION 1. FRANKENWORD with BOISELLE. You'll be using Roots 12 to have a FrankenWord experience with Ms. Boiselle.
STATION 2. FEEDBACK TRENDS. (Production Phase of DEEP dt) Go through the feedback you've received on your Composition & Culture presentation. Answer the following two questions in either a blog post OR an email to Ryder/Brackett
A. What trends do you notice across the feedback? Things people noticed OR things people seemed to overlook that you noticed?
B. How might you apply this feedback to a revision/next iteration of your presentation? What's your action plan?
Haven't finished your presentation? Use this time to work on it.
STATION 3. FEEDBACK with BRACKETT. Have a conversation with Mr. Brackett about the presentations and how a next iteration could improve the situation.
STATION 4. BRAINSTORMING and ROSE/BUD/THORN with RYDER.
Today you are being assigned your next essay. The first submission draft will be due early next week. Exact date TBA.
Little Things Essay
How might we design essays in which we share experiences of our own, or those of others, where a little thing had a significant (big) impact? Consider objects, moments in time, single experiences, interactions . . .
In this station you will first brainstorm and spidea (word association) and then sort those ideas into Roses (gorgeous ideas), Buds (neat thoughts but not sure where to go with them), and Thorns (stay away from these ideas OR wrangle them carefully)
We will be using Post-Its. Lots of Post-Its.
ASSESSMENTS.
BLOG. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1. Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities. Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist. Be intentional.
This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.
Req'd Post 2. Composition & Culture. Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience. Post it on your blog. Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.
Due. Friday, May 1st.
Culture & Composition.
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.
ROOTS 12. Quiz.
Due. Thursday, May 7
LITTLE THINGS ESSAY.
Discover Phase: Brainstorm, Rose/Bud/Thorn.
Post to Blog.
Due. Wednesday, April 29.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Pop Culture: Music Supervision
As we continue down the path with our Create-a-Band bands, we're gearing for our transition into our next mini-units: film and television cultures.
Today we'll look at music supervision and Wednesday we will explore film scoring.
Head to our Pinterest boards and take a look at the series of articles I've pinned related to music supervision. Pick one article and complete the Notice Wish Wonder graphic organizer shared with you in Google Drive. (You'll need to make a copy that you can edit.) We'll do a row together as a class to get you started.
OR
You may choose to sketchnote the article instead. The goal is to demonstrate your understanding of the article.
Then we'll play around with music supervising a couple of different clips and discuss which of our bands would create music suited for which genres of films and television.
And we'll talk about possibilities for your music culture projects, due next Thursday, May 7.
BLOG. 3+ Posts.
CURATION. 2+ Items.
PIN. on Flight307 Pop Culture Pinterest.
REQ'D POST. Music Supervision and Inspiration.
OPTION ONE.
1. Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.
2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.
3. Carefully select three pieces of music to use in that film or episode in very specific moments.
4. Explain your reasons for each choice.
5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article. Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.
OPTION TWO.
1. Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.
2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.
3. Carefully and specifically describe, and title, three songs created by your Create-a-Band that you would use for that film or episode.
4. Explain your reasons for each choice.
5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article. Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.
Due: Friday, May 1st.
Today we'll look at music supervision and Wednesday we will explore film scoring.
Head to our Pinterest boards and take a look at the series of articles I've pinned related to music supervision. Pick one article and complete the Notice Wish Wonder graphic organizer shared with you in Google Drive. (You'll need to make a copy that you can edit.) We'll do a row together as a class to get you started.
OR
You may choose to sketchnote the article instead. The goal is to demonstrate your understanding of the article.
Then we'll play around with music supervising a couple of different clips and discuss which of our bands would create music suited for which genres of films and television.
And we'll talk about possibilities for your music culture projects, due next Thursday, May 7.
BLOG. 3+ Posts.
CURATION. 2+ Items.
PIN. on Flight307 Pop Culture Pinterest.
REQ'D POST. Music Supervision and Inspiration.
OPTION ONE.
1. Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.
2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.
3. Carefully select three pieces of music to use in that film or episode in very specific moments.
4. Explain your reasons for each choice.
5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article. Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.
OPTION TWO.
1. Read through the articles provided on Pinterest about music supervision.
2. Select a film or episode of a TV series.
3. Carefully and specifically describe, and title, three songs created by your Create-a-Band that you would use for that film or episode.
4. Explain your reasons for each choice.
5. Here's the most challenging part: connect your reasoning and decisions to the thinking of one of the music supervisors you read about in the article. Show how you use a professional's process and reasoning to inform your own decisions.
Due: Friday, May 1st.
Humanities: Composition & Culture Presentations
Today we will present the rest of our Composition & Culture presentations -- pecha kucha style.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1. Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities. Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist. Be intentional.
This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.
Req'd Post 2. Composition & Culture. Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience. Post it on your blog. Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.
Due. Friday, May 1st.
Culture & Composition.
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post 1. Students Making a Difference Playlist.
Create a playlist of three videos showing students making a difference in their local, national or global communities. Post these videos on your blog and explain what the student did and why you chose to include it in your playlist. Be intentional.
This playlist is only one of your posts for the week and will be our pre-work for our final project of the year.
Req'd Post 2. Composition & Culture. Create a slideshow or video of your presentation that can be shared with a wider audience. Post it on your blog. Include voice over or typed commentary and music -- the qualities that you know will appeal to your users based on our empathy conversations.
Due. Friday, May 1st.
Culture & Composition.
Export your slideshows as QuickTime movies OR PDFs and put in your Humanities IN folders along with your rationales and self-assessment (Four Corners).
Due. ASAP.
AP Lit: Test Prep and Watchmen
This is it folks . . . the last sprint to the test.
Here's the work for this week into next.
In Class. Test Prep.
Be prepared to write a 15 minute prompt each day. We'll go through all three types of questions: poetry, prose, and open response.
Also be prepared to do a multiple choice item each day. We'll do two poetry items and two prose items before the test.
We will discuss each item. Discuss approaches to the writing prompt.
And . . .
Watchmen. We start Watchmen this week. We will use our analysis of each chapter to prime our minds for the test.
We'll read just one chapter a night until post-test.
ASSESSMENTS.
Read. Watchmen. Chapter 1.
Due. Next Class. Just read. We'll analyze and sketch note in class.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. AP Review Pinterest Boards.
Create a set of Pinterest boards to aid in your review, and your peers' review, of three texts YOU LOVE from the past four years and want to have mentally ready for the open-ended prompt at the test.
Your set of boards MUST include pins that will help you to remember:
Characters & Narrators
Structure & Point of View
Conflicts & Resolution
Imagery & Symbolism
Items, Objects of Significance
Settings of Significance
Overarching Themes
These categories are based on trends one can see in the open ended response prompts of the past.
Now, how you organize your boards is up to your brain. It may make sense to have one board for each title. It may make sense to have one board for each category of analysis. Set it up in a way that makes sense to your brain and has deliberate intentions. DESIGN it for you the user and for me the observer.
Put links to each of your boards on your blog post.
Here's an example: https://www.pinterest.com/maceeqi/frankenstein/
And another: https://www.pinterest.com/anjanordstrom/frankenstein/
Due. Friday, May 1.
Poetry as Design.
Get your three components completed and in your AP LIT Inbox if not done so already.
Reminder of Expectations.
1. DESIGN a POEM. Craft an original piece that evokes the theme of happiness or connectedness. It must use at least 7 poetic devices from this menu.
Due. April 15. Poem for installation.
Due. April 16. 1 page analysis.
2. DESIGN an INTERPRETATION of a POEM. Craft a visual/audio/tactile interpretation of any poem you feel suits this theme. Consider using Poetry Foundation as a starting point for your search.
Due. April 15. Interpretation for installation
Due. April 16. 1 page analysis. Use poetic devices from this menu as backbone of this analysis.
3. DESIGN an EXPERIENCE with POETRY. Design an interactive experience for students on campus that uses elements of poetry and increases happiness and/or connectedness at Mt. Blue Campus. This is where the crux of our design work occurs.
Due. April 15. Installation.
Due. April 16. Collection of poems explored. Three analyses completed using SCOUT & CRAP.
Due. April 16. Documentation. DEEP. Discovery. Empathy. Experiment. Produce. Req'd Blog Posts for the Week. Have documentation of every phase and explanations ready for viewing.
Due. ASAP.
Here's the work for this week into next.
In Class. Test Prep.
Be prepared to write a 15 minute prompt each day. We'll go through all three types of questions: poetry, prose, and open response.
Also be prepared to do a multiple choice item each day. We'll do two poetry items and two prose items before the test.
We will discuss each item. Discuss approaches to the writing prompt.
And . . .
Watchmen. We start Watchmen this week. We will use our analysis of each chapter to prime our minds for the test.
We'll read just one chapter a night until post-test.
ASSESSMENTS.
Read. Watchmen. Chapter 1.
Due. Next Class. Just read. We'll analyze and sketch note in class.
Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. AP Review Pinterest Boards.
Create a set of Pinterest boards to aid in your review, and your peers' review, of three texts YOU LOVE from the past four years and want to have mentally ready for the open-ended prompt at the test.
Your set of boards MUST include pins that will help you to remember:
Characters & Narrators
Structure & Point of View
Conflicts & Resolution
Imagery & Symbolism
Items, Objects of Significance
Settings of Significance
Overarching Themes
These categories are based on trends one can see in the open ended response prompts of the past.
Now, how you organize your boards is up to your brain. It may make sense to have one board for each title. It may make sense to have one board for each category of analysis. Set it up in a way that makes sense to your brain and has deliberate intentions. DESIGN it for you the user and for me the observer.
Put links to each of your boards on your blog post.
Here's an example: https://www.pinterest.com/maceeqi/frankenstein/
And another: https://www.pinterest.com/anjanordstrom/frankenstein/
Due. Friday, May 1.
Poetry as Design.
Get your three components completed and in your AP LIT Inbox if not done so already.
Reminder of Expectations.
1. DESIGN a POEM. Craft an original piece that evokes the theme of happiness or connectedness. It must use at least 7 poetic devices from this menu.
Due. April 15. Poem for installation.
Due. April 16. 1 page analysis.
2. DESIGN an INTERPRETATION of a POEM. Craft a visual/audio/tactile interpretation of any poem you feel suits this theme. Consider using Poetry Foundation as a starting point for your search.
Due. April 15. Interpretation for installation
Due. April 16. 1 page analysis. Use poetic devices from this menu as backbone of this analysis.
3. DESIGN an EXPERIENCE with POETRY. Design an interactive experience for students on campus that uses elements of poetry and increases happiness and/or connectedness at Mt. Blue Campus. This is where the crux of our design work occurs.
Due. April 15. Installation.
Due. April 16. Collection of poems explored. Three analyses completed using SCOUT & CRAP.
Due. April 16. Documentation. DEEP. Discovery. Empathy. Experiment. Produce. Req'd Blog Posts for the Week. Have documentation of every phase and explanations ready for viewing.
Due. ASAP.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
AP Lit: Poetry by Design Installation This Week
Hey folks,
Lots happening this week . . .
Hoping this post puts it all in context for you and serve as a schedule/checklist.
I'm going to organize it by component here.
INDIVIDUAL POEMS.
DUE: Wednesday Night.
Dan sent you a template for Pages. (Only change I would make -- and I should've said this to Dan yesterday because he did run it by me first -- is move your name as poet to the bottom of the page.)
Please put your poem in this template, save, and EXPORT as PDF and send it to me. (If you send me a Pages document I won't be able to open it.)
I will print these off on cardstock and we will then put them up in those nooks and crannies in the school where our users may not expect to see them.
We'll keep a map of them so we know where the poems are at in the building.
INTERPRETATIONS.
DUE: Thursday Morning.
Mike sent a Poetry Project tracker. Here you need to post three important pieces of information for the installation process.
1. the poem you are interpreting
2. the type of art you are creating
3. the location where you want it
Anyone with Period 1G free? We could use some help with the installing. We'll use the Theater Workshop as our rally point. Drop off art there.
EXPERIENCES.
DUE: Thursday Morning.
Staging in the Theater Workshop. Then each group should get 'em up as quickly as possible during Period 1.
Poetry Jenga 3x3. Need those 3x3s ASAP from those folks creating them. Everything is cut and assembled. Dan created a cool SketchUp model to help us design it. We are going to go black Sharpie on plain wood. We tried it. Looks good.
Poet-trees. We will be laminating and cutting today. Assembling in the workshop. These are looking great.
Poets Scale. Assembling in the workshop.
RATIONALES.
DUE: Friday.
BLOG: 3+ Posts
Req'd: Document your poetry as design work. This is the stuff.
Due: Friday.
Lots happening this week . . .
Hoping this post puts it all in context for you and serve as a schedule/checklist.
I'm going to organize it by component here.
INDIVIDUAL POEMS.
DUE: Wednesday Night.
Dan sent you a template for Pages. (Only change I would make -- and I should've said this to Dan yesterday because he did run it by me first -- is move your name as poet to the bottom of the page.)
Please put your poem in this template, save, and EXPORT as PDF and send it to me. (If you send me a Pages document I won't be able to open it.)
I will print these off on cardstock and we will then put them up in those nooks and crannies in the school where our users may not expect to see them.
We'll keep a map of them so we know where the poems are at in the building.
INTERPRETATIONS.
DUE: Thursday Morning.
Mike sent a Poetry Project tracker. Here you need to post three important pieces of information for the installation process.
1. the poem you are interpreting
2. the type of art you are creating
3. the location where you want it
Anyone with Period 1G free? We could use some help with the installing. We'll use the Theater Workshop as our rally point. Drop off art there.
EXPERIENCES.
DUE: Thursday Morning.
Staging in the Theater Workshop. Then each group should get 'em up as quickly as possible during Period 1.
Poetry Jenga 3x3. Need those 3x3s ASAP from those folks creating them. Everything is cut and assembled. Dan created a cool SketchUp model to help us design it. We are going to go black Sharpie on plain wood. We tried it. Looks good.
Poet-trees. We will be laminating and cutting today. Assembling in the workshop. These are looking great.
Poets Scale. Assembling in the workshop.
RATIONALES.
DUE: Friday.
BLOG: 3+ Posts
Req'd: Document your poetry as design work. This is the stuff.
Due: Friday.
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