Humanities: LNG & Sketchnotes

Today in class we will complete an LNG.  Your article choices are available over on Google Classroom and here as well.

After completing the LNG in the way you are accustomed, you'll be creating a sketchnote of this article.

Here are a few resources to help:

First Time Sketchnotes on Sketchnote Army

And...

• how-to-draw-faces.jpg (500×286)
  Austin Kleon's faces in simple shapes
  
  
• drawing-alphabet.jpg (500×286)
  Austin Kleon's simple shapes for anything
  
  
• Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces_large.jpg (3150×2100)
  
  
• Developing Your Core Handwritten Font For Sketchnoting
  
  
• Kleon's visual-elements.jpg (500×286)
  
  
• Inside-Cover-Page-1.jpg (1062×762)
  
  
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  Letters, Bullets, Frames, Connectors, Shadows, Peeps

Homework:  
Roots 6 Quiz & Product Thursday!Quarter closes Friday!Revisions!
Projects!
Get 'Em In!

Pop Culture: Preparing for The End.

Today we took the day to work on final projects and revising/reiterating prior projects.

On Thursday, we will be presenting.  While you will not be assessed on your presentation, you will be expected to share your project, explain your intentions and share your process.  We will be on a bit of a time crunch and we should be able to share them all in the time we have.

Also, make certain you are submitting documentation of all previous projects: film culture, social media culture, and gamification culture on Google Classroom.  4 Corners self assessments must be completed.  Project itself must be completed.

When you come to class on Thursday, grades will be current as of Wednesday night.

AP Lit: To Design or Not to Design . . . (There Is No Question)

This week and beginning of next we are going to complete a mini-design challenge in AP Lit.  

How might we stage "To Be or Not to Be  . . ." in a way congruent with the rest of the play?

We will be doing some fierce analysis through a variety of lenses:

Rose/Bud/Thorn

Notice/Wish/Wonder

SCOUT

We will use our thinking from these lenses to inform a paragraph of written analysis and then catapult us into watching four different iterations of this soliloquy in cinematic form.

They are available in the Google Drive here.  (I recommend watching them on Google Drive.)

And here too.

We'll use analysis of these versions to inform our designing of our own.  And if we are extra awesome, we'll actually produce that version to the best of our abilities & resources.

Homework:
Read two scenes of Hamlet per night.
No req'd blogging this week.  You might want to keep in the habit for your sakes.
Revisions all due by Friday at the latest.

Humanities: Culture & Words & FRANKENWORD!

Today we'll do a quick review of the various dimensions of culture and review our Roots 6 words for a quiz on Thursday.  And we'll accomplish this through the following awesomeness . . .

We'll quickly brainstorm words in our language the reflect our modern culture as well as our modern teen culture.

FRANKENWORD!!!!!!!!! (It's ALIVE!)

Then you will do the following, built upon on the Shakespearean language station from a couple of weeks ago:

1. Choose an aspect/dimension of culture of interest to you.

2. Take any root from 6 and combine it with any other root to make a new word that is relevant to that dimension of culture. 

3. Define the new word including part of speech.

4.  Use the new word in a sentence that shows what the word means and how it would be used.

5.  Create a visual to illustrate the word (sketchnote, LEGO, digital, etc.).

Then you have time to work on your Romeo & Juliet project, revisions of essay paragraphs, and catching up on blogging.

We'll be looking at music and culture for the rest of the week.  Woot.

H/W:
Missing Req'd Blog Posts?
Revisions of Discovery, Empathy and Experiment paragraphs?
Romeo & Juliet projects?
Missing LNGs?
Get your evidence of understanding and skills submitted el pronto fasto.

Roots 6 Quiz & Product:  Due Thursday.   Remember, you can demo your vocab knowledge in two ways.

Pop Culture: Resources for Social Media Design Project

In class:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/table-talk-west-high-bros_n_2455987.html

Additional Sources to Look At:

This Youtube video is from the Case Foundation, which is a foundation that focuses on using social media for good for nonprofit organizations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgf5QIpttRw

The website for the Case Foundation, while focused on nonprofit organizations, has information about how to effectively use Facebook and Twitter, as well as blogging, to make a positive impact.

http://casefoundation.org/

Examples of how social media has been used for good in the past

http://www.reasondigital.com/advice-and-training/five-ways-social-media-has-been-used-for-good/

Using a hashtag to raise awareness

http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2014/02/social-media-can-inspire-social-good-using-hashtag-raise-awareness-modern-day-slavery/

Using social media to raise money for charity

http://mashable.com/2009/04/02/social-media-charity-events/

Negative impacts of social media:

One high school student thinks social media has negative impact, makes a tumblr blog to help

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20140415/ARTICLES/140419801?p=1&tc=pg

Examples of negative impact of social media on society and individuals

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negative-effect-social-media-society-individuals-27617.html

http://socialnetworking.lovetoknow.com/Negative_Impact_of_Social_Networking_Sites

Humanities: LNG Review & Design Challenge Continues

LNG.
Today we start with Mr. Brackett providing some guidance and feedback on LNG responses.

There is now a Google Doc that you will complete each Monday and Wednesday, our designated LNG days.

Then you will put that guidance and feedback to work by completing a LNG using Newsela.com as your source.

DESIGN CHALLENGE.
EMPATHY phase.

Most every group is working on empathy interviews.  These should be completed in time to do empathy mapping on Wednesday.  Your group is still welcome to go to whichever phase works best for your thinking and brain.  Just make sure you are DOCUMENTING what you are doing.

On Google Classroom, I've added graphic organizers to capture your empathy interviews.  You can type notes into them OR add pictures of your notes.

BLOG.

This week's required post is on Google Classroom.  We're going to us that as our consist source of daily work and announcements and use Flight307 here as much as possible to add more information.

This week's blog post is over the totem work.

We never quite connected the dots with our totems, STEAL and symbolism. So this week, we fill in that blank on our blogs. Explain how your totem symbolizes you, how each part of the design is very intentional, and how it your totem reflects any/all of the following: your speech, your thoughts, your effect on others, your actions, your looks. Include a screen shot of your totem design AND hopefully, if the week goes according to plan, a picture of the finished totem printed out.

HOMEWORK.

Blogs: 3+ Posts
Due: Friday, Nov 21st
Req'd Post:  We never quite connected the dots with our totems, STEAL and symbolism. So this week, we fill in that blank on our blogs. Explain how your totem symbolizes you, how each part of the design is very intentional, and how it your totem reflects any/all of the following: your speech, your thoughts, your effect on others, your actions, your looks. Include a screen shot of your totem design AND hopefully, if the week goes according to plan, a picture of the finished totem printed out.

Design Challenge:  3 Phases (Discover, Empathize, Experiment)
Due: Thursday, Nov 20th

Humanities: Design Thinking: Empathy

Hi folks,

Most of you folks will be conducting empathy interviews this week.  Before you go about doing so, take a look at these videos.  A lot of helpful information in here.  You needn't watch all of them.  Jump around.  See which seem to have what you find most helpful.

NOTE: The second one does a great job of explaining empathy vs sympathy.