Pop Culture Curation Rubric
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Pop Culture: Curation & Comedy Culture Projects
Today we'll share our comedy projects & discuss what we learned from exploring comedy culture.
We'll also add more to our collection of pop culture resources, look at criteria/expectations for maintaining our collection, and discuss the social media projects due at the end of this week.
Below check out the Symbaloo I set up to act as our home base for our curating work. All of our agreed upon feeds will be here as well as a link to the Pinterest board and our #flight307pc tagboard.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Humanities: To Kill a Mockingbird Continues
Monday we continued watching To Kill a Mockingbird as we uncover another way of looking a culture -- this time through the lens of filmmaking.
To Kill a Mockingbird is an interesting example because it is widely considered one of the best films ever made, it portrays the Depression era south of the 1930s BUT was made in the Civil Rights Era 1960s. It is a film that could have been made in color, but was made in black and white. It is a film that could have focused on several of the subplots of the original novel, but focuses on only a few.
Last week we examined the opening credits and made predictions about the symbolic meaning within.
Friday we examined a single frame and the meaning conveyed in that single frame.
On Tuesday, we will be finishing the film. We will likely start by revisiting our predictions about the credits and seeing how those surfaced in what we've watched of the film thus far.
Where's all of this going? We'll be doing a final project around the eight components of culture as they relate to our individual cultural identities. And we'll be practicing that knowledge by identifying how the components of culture surface in Of Mice & Men and To Kill a Mockingbird.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. No Req'd Blog Posts This Week. Complete Missing Req'd Posts. Remember, best collection of evidence
ASAP.
Revise. Theme Song Essays & Complete Revision Submission Form.
ASAP.
Complete. Romeo & Juliet Projects.
ASAP.
Complete. To Kill a Mockingbird trailer foreshadowing Graphic Organizer. Of Mice & Men foreshadowing Graphic Organizer.
ASAP.
To Kill a Mockingbird is an interesting example because it is widely considered one of the best films ever made, it portrays the Depression era south of the 1930s BUT was made in the Civil Rights Era 1960s. It is a film that could have been made in color, but was made in black and white. It is a film that could have focused on several of the subplots of the original novel, but focuses on only a few.
Last week we examined the opening credits and made predictions about the symbolic meaning within.
Friday we examined a single frame and the meaning conveyed in that single frame.
On Tuesday, we will be finishing the film. We will likely start by revisiting our predictions about the credits and seeing how those surfaced in what we've watched of the film thus far.
Where's all of this going? We'll be doing a final project around the eight components of culture as they relate to our individual cultural identities. And we'll be practicing that knowledge by identifying how the components of culture surface in Of Mice & Men and To Kill a Mockingbird.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. No Req'd Blog Posts This Week. Complete Missing Req'd Posts. Remember, best collection of evidence
ASAP.
Revise. Theme Song Essays & Complete Revision Submission Form.
ASAP.
Complete. Romeo & Juliet Projects.
ASAP.
Complete. To Kill a Mockingbird trailer foreshadowing Graphic Organizer. Of Mice & Men foreshadowing Graphic Organizer.
ASAP.
AP Lit: Poetry as Design: Design Thinking Challenge: DISCOVERY Continues
Monday, we continued our work with our poetry as design challenge: DISCOVERY.
Where we are at so far:
How might we increase . . .
Period 3B. Connectedness
Period 4G. Happiness
at Mt. Blue Campus through our understanding of poetry and design?
We have been ideating/brainstorming around possible installation features and experiences as well as starting to look at the sonnet form.
Today, 3B came up with four strong experiential installation features:
Where we are at so far:
How might we increase . . .
Period 3B. Connectedness
Period 4G. Happiness
at Mt. Blue Campus through our understanding of poetry and design?
We have been ideating/brainstorming around possible installation features and experiences as well as starting to look at the sonnet form.
Today, 3B came up with four strong experiential installation features:
- hide-a-poem/find-a-poem (find parts of a poem around the building)
- suggest-aiku (suggestion box that receives only haiku)
- poet-trees (metaphorical & literal trees built of poetry)
- poet scale (to which poet do you most align?)
There were others as well; these four simply emerged as the strongest contenders from our 8 Box into Storyboards ideating protocol.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will determine how best to practice empathy and identify user needs this week. We will also start populating the DEEP board with this project so we can see who is working on what elements of the installation and making certain we hold ourselves accountable for the process. (Tuesday, Period 4G will also be doing a fast paced version of 8 Box & Storyboard.)
In the meantime . . .
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. NO REQ'D BLOGGING! Fill in any req'd posts you might be missing.
Read & Close Read. Sonnet work for Wednesday/Thursday
Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate.
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great. We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures. There are poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page. (The English, Petrarchan and Italian examples) There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well, ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
Annotate/sketchnote three of the above sonnets. (Suggest SCOUT and CRAPify lenses.) Your choice.
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate.
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great. We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures. There are poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page. (The English, Petrarchan and Italian examples) There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well, ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
Annotate/sketchnote three of the above sonnets. (Suggest SCOUT and CRAPify lenses.) Your choice.
Poetry as Design Challenge.
a. Design an original poem (must employ at least 7 poetic devices) and one page self-analysis
b. Design an interpretation of a poem (visual, audio, dramatic) and one page self-analysis (identifies poetic devices at play in poem)
c. Collaborate with classmates on interactive poetry infused installations to increase happiness/connectedness at Mt. Blue Campus.
d. Portfolio of collected poetry for use in interactive installations and accompanying SCOUT & CRAPify analysis for three of those pieces.
Due. Installations & interactives. Wed April 14. Portfolio, SCOUT/CRAPify, and self-analysis due Fri. April 16. Documenting of design process. Fri. April 16.
Looking ahead.
Indie Book Projects.
Due End of Week After April Break.
Watchman installation.
Due end of May.
Final Synthesis.
Final due at end of class in May.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Pop Culture. How Might We Curate Our Content: Discover/Empathy Phase
Today we will continue our design challenge: How Might We Curate Our Content for Pop Culture?
Thursday was all about the Empathy phase, finding out what we liked and didn't like. What inspired us and what bugged us about apps and organizational tools.
Today we go back to Discover phase and start playing around with the tools we brainstormed initially.
Those Post-Its are on the carts toward the back of the room. We can use them to help guide the searching and discovery today.
In the Google Drive shared with you is a shared Google doc. Go digging. Play and explore. And then share your findings with the rest of the class on that Google doc. Add more lines to explore more tools.
At the bottom, make recommendations for action. Based on the above, what should we use? What should we incorporate into our work?
Next class, we figure out how to make them all work together and move into experiment phase of our design challenge.
ASSESSMENT
Blog: 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: Explore Brain Pickings, Studio 360, Monkey See, Boing Boing, and 99 Percent Invisible. These are all dynamic places full of content related to pop culture and more -- often much much more. You'll find videos, audio, articles, photos, all sorts of neat things.
Curate a collection of three items from across any combination of those sources. Consider exploring an interest or passion of yours, or perhaps an angle we've been talking about in class (comedy, social media) Provide a brief summary of the content of each and finally explain why you selected these three. ALSO consider how you can use this work to set you up for your Social Media Product due next Thursday.
Blog. Due Friday. March 27.
Comedy Culture Product.
Due. Today.
Social Media Culture Product.
What Impact Does Social Media
Due. Next Thursday, April 2.
Thursday was all about the Empathy phase, finding out what we liked and didn't like. What inspired us and what bugged us about apps and organizational tools.
Today we go back to Discover phase and start playing around with the tools we brainstormed initially.
Those Post-Its are on the carts toward the back of the room. We can use them to help guide the searching and discovery today.
In the Google Drive shared with you is a shared Google doc. Go digging. Play and explore. And then share your findings with the rest of the class on that Google doc. Add more lines to explore more tools.
At the bottom, make recommendations for action. Based on the above, what should we use? What should we incorporate into our work?
Next class, we figure out how to make them all work together and move into experiment phase of our design challenge.
ASSESSMENT
Blog: 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: Explore Brain Pickings, Studio 360, Monkey See, Boing Boing, and 99 Percent Invisible. These are all dynamic places full of content related to pop culture and more -- often much much more. You'll find videos, audio, articles, photos, all sorts of neat things.
Curate a collection of three items from across any combination of those sources. Consider exploring an interest or passion of yours, or perhaps an angle we've been talking about in class (comedy, social media) Provide a brief summary of the content of each and finally explain why you selected these three. ALSO consider how you can use this work to set you up for your Social Media Product due next Thursday.
Blog. Due Friday. March 27.
Comedy Culture Product.
Due. Today.
Social Media Culture Product.
What Impact Does Social Media
Due. Next Thursday, April 2.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Humanities: Foreshadowing & Symbolism: Of Mice & Men and To Kill a Mockingbird
LNG.
Today we'll start as we do every Monday with an LNG.
FORESHADOWING. OF MICE & MEN.
From there, we'll discuss the results of your foreshadowing work from Friday, connecting the dots between Steinbeck's first chapter of Of Mice & Men and what follows in the rest of the novel.
Remember, Steinbeck was a designer. He wanted his users to have very specific reactions to his worked with intention.
In fact, take a look at these 6 tips on writing from the man himself. How do these tips help us better understand what he intended to do with Of Mice & Men? How can you see them reflected in the novel he wrote?
FORESHADOWING & SYMBOLISM. TO KILL a MOCKINGBIRD.
We are going to study the film To Kill a Mockingbird at the end of this week. To help us, we are going to tune up our symbolism lens, as well as our photography and videography skills.
Today we will watch just the first three minutes of the film. Just like a Of Mice & Men, the opening tells us a great deal about the end. We will be making predictions of what we believe this film will be about, what will happen, and what sorts of symbolism we will encounter. How can we do this? Because we've uncovered Speak and Of Mice & Men. We can do this. We're ready for the challenge of making some evidence & pattern-based predictions.
The clip is the Humanities OUT folder.
You'll need to grab screencaps from the film and put them in the graphic organizer I've placed there as well.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Foreshadowing with Pictures. Tell a 3 to 5 picture story in images that uses at least one instance of foreshadowing in the first image. How can you hint at what will happen in the end by hinting in the first image? You may take photos or draw this story. Explain your thinking at the end.
Due. Friday, Mar 27. Last Req'd Post of the Quarter.
Of Mice & Men Foreshadowing Graphic Organizer.
Due. Today. Mar 23.
To Kill a Mockingbird Foreshadowing Graphic Organizer.
Due. Tuesday. Mar 24.
Romeo & Juliet Projects. Due ASAP.
Theme Song Essay Revisions. Due ASAP.
Today we'll start as we do every Monday with an LNG.
FORESHADOWING. OF MICE & MEN.
From there, we'll discuss the results of your foreshadowing work from Friday, connecting the dots between Steinbeck's first chapter of Of Mice & Men and what follows in the rest of the novel.
Remember, Steinbeck was a designer. He wanted his users to have very specific reactions to his worked with intention.
In fact, take a look at these 6 tips on writing from the man himself. How do these tips help us better understand what he intended to do with Of Mice & Men? How can you see them reflected in the novel he wrote?
FORESHADOWING & SYMBOLISM. TO KILL a MOCKINGBIRD.
We are going to study the film To Kill a Mockingbird at the end of this week. To help us, we are going to tune up our symbolism lens, as well as our photography and videography skills.
Today we will watch just the first three minutes of the film. Just like a Of Mice & Men, the opening tells us a great deal about the end. We will be making predictions of what we believe this film will be about, what will happen, and what sorts of symbolism we will encounter. How can we do this? Because we've uncovered Speak and Of Mice & Men. We can do this. We're ready for the challenge of making some evidence & pattern-based predictions.
The clip is the Humanities OUT folder.
You'll need to grab screencaps from the film and put them in the graphic organizer I've placed there as well.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Foreshadowing with Pictures. Tell a 3 to 5 picture story in images that uses at least one instance of foreshadowing in the first image. How can you hint at what will happen in the end by hinting in the first image? You may take photos or draw this story. Explain your thinking at the end.
Due. Friday, Mar 27. Last Req'd Post of the Quarter.
Of Mice & Men Foreshadowing Graphic Organizer.
Due. Today. Mar 23.
To Kill a Mockingbird Foreshadowing Graphic Organizer.
Due. Tuesday. Mar 24.
Romeo & Juliet Projects. Due ASAP.
Theme Song Essay Revisions. Due ASAP.
AP Lit: The Ultimate Joycean Story & Test Prep
TEST PREP. MULTIPLE CHOICE. MARVELL.
We'll start the day with some test prep. Rather than an on demand, however, it will be the first of our multiple choice.
I've shared with you the reading and the questions. It's a poem by Andrew Marvell. Refrain from reading it until class, if you can resist. Want a print copy? Print one off when we get to class and it's all yours. Whatever works for you.
I'll be sending the questions along in a Google form as well for you to respond -- it'll let us look at the data afterward.
JOYCEAN 3X3.
Next. We'll be trying to figure the one word Joyce believed captured Dublin at the time of his writing. We'll try to uncover this using our literary 3x3s.
Bust out all of your Dubliners decks. Give yourself plenty of space to work. Lay them out.
Then start remixing. Shuffling. Trading. See what sorts of stories reveal themselves to you. Develop an original 3x3 and quickly note the story you see revealed. You might sketchnote it. You might audio record it. At any rate . . . capture that story.
Then, find a partner. Combine your decks. Repeat the process. Create a story together. Capture that story.
You now have three stories that have revealed themselves to you and your partner (1 from each of you solo, 1 collaboration.)
Revisit your decks together. Identify trends. Consider Joyce's stories. Your original stories. See if you can narrow your own decks down to one three-word-line to capture all of the stories. Use the words from your decks to create that three-word line.
As a class, lay out those three-word lines together.
Identify the trends. Distill. Narrow. Just like the NCAA tourney.
What's the one word? Check it against the stories. Does it work?
Capture all of this work. Document. Put it up on your blogs.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: In How to Read Lit, Read both "Geography Matters" & "Season." Then, using your ingenuity & creative spirits, create a 3 to 5 image photo essay (a sequence of images unified by intention) of where you live that you believe reflects the ideas present in Foster's work. Explain your thinking.
Due. Friday. March 27. Last Blog Post of Q3.
Complete. Frankliners.
Due. Today. March 23.
Submit. Q3 Indie Book Project Self Assessments. Get them in ASAP so I can assess your work from the beginning of the Quarter!
Complete. Revisions. Blog Posts.
Due ASAP. Quarter closes April 3.
Design. Q4 Indie Book Projects.
Due Thursday & Friday Before April Vacation. April16 & 17.
We'll start the day with some test prep. Rather than an on demand, however, it will be the first of our multiple choice.
I've shared with you the reading and the questions. It's a poem by Andrew Marvell. Refrain from reading it until class, if you can resist. Want a print copy? Print one off when we get to class and it's all yours. Whatever works for you.
I'll be sending the questions along in a Google form as well for you to respond -- it'll let us look at the data afterward.
JOYCEAN 3X3.
Next. We'll be trying to figure the one word Joyce believed captured Dublin at the time of his writing. We'll try to uncover this using our literary 3x3s.
Bust out all of your Dubliners decks. Give yourself plenty of space to work. Lay them out.
Then start remixing. Shuffling. Trading. See what sorts of stories reveal themselves to you. Develop an original 3x3 and quickly note the story you see revealed. You might sketchnote it. You might audio record it. At any rate . . . capture that story.
Then, find a partner. Combine your decks. Repeat the process. Create a story together. Capture that story.
You now have three stories that have revealed themselves to you and your partner (1 from each of you solo, 1 collaboration.)
Revisit your decks together. Identify trends. Consider Joyce's stories. Your original stories. See if you can narrow your own decks down to one three-word-line to capture all of the stories. Use the words from your decks to create that three-word line.
As a class, lay out those three-word lines together.
Identify the trends. Distill. Narrow. Just like the NCAA tourney.
What's the one word? Check it against the stories. Does it work?
Capture all of this work. Document. Put it up on your blogs.
ASSESSMENTS.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: In How to Read Lit, Read both "Geography Matters" & "Season." Then, using your ingenuity & creative spirits, create a 3 to 5 image photo essay (a sequence of images unified by intention) of where you live that you believe reflects the ideas present in Foster's work. Explain your thinking.
Due. Friday. March 27. Last Blog Post of Q3.
Complete. Frankliners.
Due. Today. March 23.
Submit. Q3 Indie Book Project Self Assessments. Get them in ASAP so I can assess your work from the beginning of the Quarter!
Complete. Revisions. Blog Posts.
Due ASAP. Quarter closes April 3.
Design. Q4 Indie Book Projects.
Due Thursday & Friday Before April Vacation. April16 & 17.
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