Humanities: Cultural Identity as Art

Today, we'll start with a Kahoot! to help us with Roots 10.  Remember Kahoot!?  Yup.

That'll be the quick jump start to the day and then we'll get into the culture wagon.

HMW express our cultural identities through art?

8BOX.

Finish the 8Box you started yesterday with the 8 components of culture (language, government, art, history, economics, daily activities, religion, social groups).  Sketchnote your identity into the respective boxes.  5 min. to finish off this pre-thinking DISCOVERY work.

STATIONS.  You have 4 stations today to flow through.  We will run four rotations HOWEVER you do not need to cycle to all 4.  You simply have to create 3 individual pieces of art.  They might all be poems.  They might all be sculptures.  Why 3?  Good question.  Why do you think I want you to create 3 rapid fire pieces of art?

Absolute Requirement:  Show your work.  Screenshots and photos of your process.  I'll be running a timer every five minutes.  At the bell, you must document your work.

Consider this EXPERIMENT phase.

THIS IS YOUR REQUIRED BLOG POST FOR THE WEEK.  Done all in class.  Today.

STATION 1.  MUSIC.

Using the digital tools available to you, aka GARAGE BAND create a piece of music to represent a component of your cultural identity.  Consider how you might express that through the title as well as the sound.  You may explore using a visualizer or laying it down as a soundtrack over other images.

STATION 2. 3D Art.

LEGO. K'nex. Jenga blocks.  Use the resources here at this table to create 3D art that reflects a component of your cultural identity.  Consider how color, shape, texture can all be used.

Some great LEGO art

Lego Food Art is here, and it's AMAZING! http://t.co/tKN9OomS8U @bruceywan #foodart #lego @lego_group @legoideas pic.twitter.com/CFBDQUmuFQ
— Homemade (@homemade) March 19, 2015

Some great Jenga art here. 


STATION 3. 2D Art.

Use the materials available at this station to create 2D art.  Consider the medium you use to do your drawing as well as the surface.  You may also choose to create digital 2D art and you may use the iPad to create something on Paper.


STATION 4.  Poetry.  Blackout Style.

You'll be using excerpts from Of Mice & Men to create blackout poetry.  Need some examples?  Check out the master of the form, Austin Kleon here.

Finally.  With 10 minutes to go in class, you will document your four pieces of art.  Use the tools available to take not just captures of your art, but see if you can create interest with what you make.

I'll be creating alongside you today, so you'll have my examples to work from.

ASSESSMENT.

BLOG. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post.  SHOW YOUR WORK. PRODUCTION phase. Cultural identity.  Post images of your four art pieces as well as documentation of your creative process.
Due. Friday Mar 20.

REVISE.  Theme Song Essays.
Must also submit a revision submission form so we know what you've changed.

Due. Friday Mar 20.  (We will take them any time before end of the quarter; if you get them in you will have time to revise AGAIN.)

COMPLETE.  Romeo & Juliet PROJECTs.
Well past teacher pace.
Due ASAP.

Brit Lit CPI: No Red Ink and Storytelling

Today you'll be in Ms. Boisselle's capable hands.

You'll start with using NoRedInk.com  There you will find a new pre-quiz.  Take it.

You will also find three new assignments.  If you score less than a 90% on the pre-quiz?  Complete them.

After this, you will be sketchnoting and/or infographic creating.   Your topic?  According to the sources provided,  and others you might look up on your own, what are the vital components of effective storytelling?  

Here's one such source.

Here's the link to the others.  There are many and I don't recommend going through them in order. 

Your sketchnote and/or infographic should include at least three components and no more than six.   The intention there is to really focus on what is key -- rather than every piece of advice out there.

If you want to create an infographic, I recommend using http://piktochart.com/ to do your work.

This is due today in class.

When you complete it, you have the rest of the class to finish your Portland Tale which is due on Thursday.

HOMEWORK.

BLOG.
Req'd Post. 5 Card Flickr.  Go Here.  Use this website and the 5 Card Flickr process to create a 5 Card Flickr about a story from your life that relates one of these emotions: joy, fear, anger, sadness

COMPOSE. Portland Tale.
Due. Thursday, Mar 12.

AP Lit: Eveline & Boarding House Literary 3x3s and Modest Proposal Workshop

Hey folks,

I'm presenting at SXSWEDU right now -- almost spot on accurate as I'll have just finished my presentation when you come to class.

Here's what you'll be doing with Ms. Boisselle.

Start with Literary 3x3s.  Use cards from the cabinet and create your decks for both Eveline and The Boarding House.

Line up a set of seven desks. Each of you gets a desk.

Start with "Eveline."  Lay out your 3x3 on your desk.


Circulate and read one another's 3x3s and use post-its to notice trends and outliers you are seeing across the 3x3s.  Use another table or desk to collect those post-its.

Then affinity map those post-it notes by arranging, organizing and displaying them in a way that reveal the patterns, structures, ideas happening in Joyce's text.

After you make one arrangement and discuss it, do a second arrangement in half as much time.

Repeat the process with "The Boarding House," but using only half as much time as you did before -- ratchet up the intensity and see what that may help you see.

Store your literary 3x3s with your other decks.

Then, Ms. Boisselle will run a writing workshop over your modest proposals.  Follow her lead.

HOMEWORK.

BLOG. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Read How to Read Lit like a Prof: . . . Or the Bible

Show how Foster's thinking applies to any two of the works you've read this year prior to Joyce; use whatever medium you prefer for this work.  Why two?  After reading Foster's chapter, you'll see that one connection has been made and we know that patterns emerge once we have three.

COMPOSE. Modest Proposal.

1st Submission.  Due Thursday, 3.12

READ & LITERARY 3x3.  Joyce's "Araby" and "Clay."

Due. Thursday, 3.12

AP Lit 4G: On Demanding & Scoring

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Humanities: Theme Song Essay Rubric