Monday in AP Lit, you will be completing an on-demand on an excerpt from "Belinda" and then scoring yourselves using the anchor packet available. Prove the accuracy of your score by pointing to the anchor samples. Use any materials in the room available to you to document this thinking.
The prompt materials are all available from the sub.
HOMEWORK.
BLOG. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. TBA (Likely connecting with a student in another state -- more coming early this week. Do not stress about this.)
DESIGN. Modest Proposal.
1st Submission. Due Friday. Mar 13.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Pop Culture: Cognitive Surplus & Social Media
Start your Monday right with this.
Then look at some others
http://www.lolcats.com/
http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/lolcats
Careful, now. Don't get sucked into the lure of the LOLcats for too long.
Because what you need to watch now is Clay Shirky discussing his big idea: cognitive surplus. And to demonstrate your understanding of his thinking, you need to answer the questions at the TED Ed.
GO HERE. Complete Watch, Think and Dig Deeper. Ignore "And Finally. .. ." because we are not exploring Fahrenheit 451.
HOMEWORK.
BLOG. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: You have the opportunity to use the cognitive surplus of the world to make a lasting change. What do you do? What problem might you solve? What happiness might you bring? What else might you do with it? Play a tremendous game of what if and see what your imagination brings you.
Also, create a LOLcat to illustrate that big idea of yours.
Due. Friday. March 13.
DESIGN. Comedy Culture product.
Answer one or more of the following questions through your product.
How does society affect comedy?
How does comedy affect society?
How do you affect comedy?
How does comedy affect you?
Due. Thursday. March 19.
Then look at some others
http://www.lolcats.com/
http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/lolcats
Careful, now. Don't get sucked into the lure of the LOLcats for too long.
Because what you need to watch now is Clay Shirky discussing his big idea: cognitive surplus. And to demonstrate your understanding of his thinking, you need to answer the questions at the TED Ed.
GO HERE. Complete Watch, Think and Dig Deeper. Ignore "And Finally. .. ." because we are not exploring Fahrenheit 451.
HOMEWORK.
BLOG. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: You have the opportunity to use the cognitive surplus of the world to make a lasting change. What do you do? What problem might you solve? What happiness might you bring? What else might you do with it? Play a tremendous game of what if and see what your imagination brings you.
Also, create a LOLcat to illustrate that big idea of yours.
Due. Friday. March 13.
DESIGN. Comedy Culture product.
Answer one or more of the following questions through your product.
How does society affect comedy?
How does comedy affect society?
How do you affect comedy?
How does comedy affect you?
Due. Thursday. March 19.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Pop Culture: SNL & Comedy Culture
Saturday Night Live has had a tremendous impact on comedy culture over the past 40 years. More importantly, however, has been the impact on pop culture in general.
Today you will be rotating through a variety of experiences to develop an understanding of just how much influence Saturday Night Live has on our sources of entertainment today, as well as the world around us.
Station One. SNL Over the Decades. Trends & Takeaways.
Watch the clips in the Padlet below. Then, on the next Padlet below, post some of the trends and observations you can make about these clips as a collection. Think of the Padlet as covered in sticky notes. Move things around. Write in fragments and ideas. And you might also use images instead of words to represent your thinking.
Today you will be rotating through a variety of experiences to develop an understanding of just how much influence Saturday Night Live has on our sources of entertainment today, as well as the world around us.
Station One. SNL Over the Decades. Trends & Takeaways.
Watch the clips in the Padlet below. Then, on the next Padlet below, post some of the trends and observations you can make about these clips as a collection. Think of the Padlet as covered in sticky notes. Move things around. Write in fragments and ideas. And you might also use images instead of words to represent your thinking.
Station 2. SNL Sketchnoting & Mapping. You'll sit down with me and we'll try and create something of a web between the comedy and entertainment you enjoy and SNL. It will be a little bit of a test of my skills and hopefully a fun conversation as well. Plus, I can spare you a lecture.
Station 3. SNL & Its Impact Beyond SNL. You have a graphic organizer and some research to complete here.
Station 4. What Makes You Laugh on SNL? Go the SNL website and go digging. Look for topics, performers of interest to you.
Share at least one sketch/video that you find funny/hilarious/mindblowing on the Padlet below.
We'll then talk about our Comedy Culture project, the due dates, and what it could possibly look like based what you've just encountered.
HOMEWORK.
Blog: 3+ Posts.
Req'd Blog Post: Do a more thorough exploration of Saturday Night Live using the resources available to you: NBC.com and Yahoo.com both have solid collections. If you have Hulu Plus or access to it? You have all 40 years and nearly every sketch from those years.
1. Pick a sketch you believe fully represents a successful example of the comedy theory we've been exploring and explain how so. You may choose the benign violation theory as well.
2. Pick a sketch you believe completely fails the comedy theory and explain how so.
Due. Fri. Mar 6.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Pop Culture. Comedy Culture.
We're starting a new mini unit today: comedy.
Today, you'll start by designing two sketchnotes:
1. What do you find funny?
2. What do you find un-funny?
Consider the following:
People. Movies. TV. Stand up. Social Media. Situations. Circumstances.
After that, watch this TED Talk.
Complete a Notice/Wish/Wonder experience as a class. (Follow Mr. Davis' lead.)
HOMEWORK.
Blog Post. See Tuesday's blog entry for the description.
Ads due Friday! Excited to see them!
Today, you'll start by designing two sketchnotes:
1. What do you find funny?
2. What do you find un-funny?
Consider the following:
People. Movies. TV. Stand up. Social Media. Situations. Circumstances.
After that, watch this TED Talk.
Complete a Notice/Wish/Wonder experience as a class. (Follow Mr. Davis' lead.)
HOMEWORK.
Blog Post. See Tuesday's blog entry for the description.
Ads due Friday! Excited to see them!
Monday, February 23, 2015
Brit Lit: Putting the Team Together & Canterbury Tales
We'll start by reviewing what it means to form a team. Take a look at a handful of these clips. What do you notice as trends across them? What stands out as unique or different?
From there we'll complete an activity called 8Box. It's a way for you to put together some ideas for the mini project around the corner and help me get to know you a bit better for the rest of this semester. This will lead into our next work. . .
There'll be a bit of a pause in the team action as we take a look at No Red Ink and work with To/Too/Two and Then/Than. You can choose to work with one of the teachers in the room or independently based on your needs.
Then it's back to the team . . .
We'll look at one of the oldest "pulling together the team" sequences in the English language: the Canterbury Tales prologue. We'll look at the various characters that were pulled together at that time, see what the people were like when it was written, what they seemed to care about, what their skill sets were, and also some of their less fortunate qualities.
We'll work together through one of the characters and then you'll break into groups of 1, 2 or 3 to tackle the others and analyze each using a Notice/Wish/Wonder Graphic Organizer.
Each one is linked below.
Knight
Squire
Prioress/Nun
Monk
Miller
Doctor
Sailor
What we don't finish in class today, we'll finish up on Thursday. This all leads into our first mini project: Portland Tales.
HOMEWORK.
Blog.
Req'd Post: Putting together a team. If you had to pull together a team of friends and family to solve a problem, what would that problem be and who would you assemble to solve it? Justify each of your choices with specific reasons.
Due. Friday. Feb 27.
No Red Ink.
If You Scored Below 90% on Their/To/Than Pre-Assessment Quiz
Complete All Listed Assignments
To/Too/Two
Their/There/They're
Due. Mon. Mar 2.
From there we'll complete an activity called 8Box. It's a way for you to put together some ideas for the mini project around the corner and help me get to know you a bit better for the rest of this semester. This will lead into our next work. . .
There'll be a bit of a pause in the team action as we take a look at No Red Ink and work with To/Too/Two and Then/Than. You can choose to work with one of the teachers in the room or independently based on your needs.
Then it's back to the team . . .
We'll look at one of the oldest "pulling together the team" sequences in the English language: the Canterbury Tales prologue. We'll look at the various characters that were pulled together at that time, see what the people were like when it was written, what they seemed to care about, what their skill sets were, and also some of their less fortunate qualities.
We'll work together through one of the characters and then you'll break into groups of 1, 2 or 3 to tackle the others and analyze each using a Notice/Wish/Wonder Graphic Organizer.
Each one is linked below.
Knight
Squire
Prioress/Nun
Monk
Miller
Doctor
Sailor
What we don't finish in class today, we'll finish up on Thursday. This all leads into our first mini project: Portland Tales.
HOMEWORK.
Blog.
Req'd Post: Putting together a team. If you had to pull together a team of friends and family to solve a problem, what would that problem be and who would you assemble to solve it? Justify each of your choices with specific reasons.
Due. Friday. Feb 27.
No Red Ink.
If You Scored Below 90% on Their/To/Than Pre-Assessment Quiz
Complete All Listed Assignments
To/Too/Two
Their/There/They're
Due. Mon. Mar 2.
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.
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