Phew.
A very cool week and a very nutty week all at the same time. Lots and lots of goings on of all different sorts.
We explored Dubliners via Literary 3x3s and crafting thesis statements. We are doing much more deliberate work around thesis statements next week alongside our work with our Frankliners project that begins in earnest next week as well. We will be balancing the analytical and the creative, the prose and the verse.
We've also given blogging an overhaul with revised expectations, a new rubric, and I think a much better all around experience for you folks. To be clear: these changes are not because I'm disappointed in the work you've done on your blogs. Quite to the contrary, I LOVE reading your work. There have been several outstanding, highest of quality posts this fall already. And there are more to come.
No, this change is to put emphasis on that quality and less on quantity.
Now, this week was paved with other good intentions of mine. Let's try to rectify this now that we are at Friday. Though I said in class, I never posted here, so now here it is:
This week Indie Book Projects are due. (Thursday and Friday.) As they come in, I'd love for people to share them. It won't be a graded presentation, but a way to honor the thinking and creating and to also help us collectively experience the texts you are choosing.
Also this week was a How to Read Lit Like a Prof Week. We're a little behind in that regards, so we'll be doing two in a row here. This week and next will both be How to Read Lit Like a Prof Weeks. This week? "Geography Matters."
Next week? "So Does Season."
For next class, and this is just stupid degrees of important, read Joyce's "The Dead", the last story in Dubliners. We will see how well that one story functions as the end result of the others we have read, to see if the circuit holds true, to see if folk tales continue, to see if that one word (ssshhhh still a secret until end of the day on Friday)
Friday, November 6, 2015
Humanities: Test Driving the New Blog
Friday in Humanities . . .
We'll open with DreamTime.
Fill an index card with titles of movies that have never been made that you would love to see.
Fill the other side of the index card with titles of movies that have never been made that you NEVER want to see.
That'll warm up our brains to dive further into blogging today. Your goal is to get a blog post up and choose which standards you'd like assessed. Remember, you must also self assess before I will assess your work.
Here's the new blogging rubric.
Here's your creative blog post challenge for the week: Casting Call.
Soledad Pictures has announced a new version of Of Mice and Men to come out in the damn hot summer of 2017. They are still casting. Who should be in it? Amplify your thinking by including clips to prove your casting choices are up to the task. Amplify your demonstration of the reading by including a line of dialogue from the book that captures the character. Consider how images and links can help demonstrate your thinking.
In addition to your class blog, you may want to start your own passion-driven blog. This may be entries from your current blog. I recommend starting a new one, however, so you may try to build an audience.
We'll open with DreamTime.
Fill an index card with titles of movies that have never been made that you would love to see.
Fill the other side of the index card with titles of movies that have never been made that you NEVER want to see.
That'll warm up our brains to dive further into blogging today. Your goal is to get a blog post up and choose which standards you'd like assessed. Remember, you must also self assess before I will assess your work.
Here's the new blogging rubric.
Here's your creative blog post challenge for the week: Casting Call.
Soledad Pictures has announced a new version of Of Mice and Men to come out in the damn hot summer of 2017. They are still casting. Who should be in it? Amplify your thinking by including clips to prove your casting choices are up to the task. Amplify your demonstration of the reading by including a line of dialogue from the book that captures the character. Consider how images and links can help demonstrate your thinking.
In addition to your class blog, you may want to start your own passion-driven blog. This may be entries from your current blog. I recommend starting a new one, however, so you may try to build an audience.
SHOW YOUR LEARNING.
Blogging.
Due. Friday. 11.6.2015.
Study. Roots Quiz 1-4.
Due. Thursday. 11.12.2015
Optional. Roots-Based Word Product.
Due. Thursday. 11.12.2015
Star Wars Episode IV: Analysis & Connections
After we finish watching the film, use these Padlets to collect your thinking. Use Google Image and Video search to find visuals to support your observations.
CHARACTER.
PLOT.
SETTING.
After we analyze and break the film down, we want to make connections between the plot, the characters, and the setting of the film and other contexts in our world right now.
Those connections you can make in this Padlet here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRIUiyF0N4
Alternative Star Wars Saga Cast
CHARACTER.
PLOT.
SETTING.
After we analyze and break the film down, we want to make connections between the plot, the characters, and the setting of the film and other contexts in our world right now.
Those connections you can make in this Padlet here.
SHOW YOUR LEARNING.
Blog.
Posts Due. 11.6.15.
Option 1. Create a Star Wars themed logo for something you care about. Or mash-up something you care about with a logo.
Examples:
Option 2. Create a scrolling narrative describing your day (or week). Mimic the tone/language of the Star Wars opening.
Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDI9c-15c00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRIUiyF0N4
Option 3. Make an original cast list for Star Wars. Choose from people you know or another theme. (Hip-Hop Star Wars, NFL Star Wars, etc.)
Examples:Alternative Star Wars Saga Cast
Links for This Week's Blogging
Monday, November 2, 2015
Pop Culture: A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . .
Today we start looking at Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
We'll be doing a number activities with this over the week, built around watching the complete first film and exploring how a phenomenon is made.
Today we start looking at Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
We'll be doing a number activities with this over the week, built around watching the complete first film and exploring how a phenomenon is made.
SHOW YOUR LEARNING.
Blog.
Posts Due. 11.6.15.
Option 1. Create a Star Wars themed logo for something you care about. Or mash-up something you care about with a logo.
Examples:
Option 2. Create a scrolling narrative describing your day (or week). Mimic the tone/language of the Star Wars opening.
Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDI9c-15c00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRIUiyF0N4
Option 3. Make an original cast list for Star Wars. Choose from people you know or another theme. (Hip-Hop Star Wars, NFL Star Wars, etc.)
Examples:Alternative Star Wars Saga Cast
Links for This Week's Blogging
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Humanities: Tuesday's Station Work
On Tuesday, I read another chunk of Of Mice and Men aloud and then we worked through four stations.
Everything is described in this sketchnote of my plans.
Everything is described in this sketchnote of my plans.
SHOW YOUR LEARNING.
No New Blogs This Week.
Demonstrate Your Best Evidence in Req'd Posts of the Past
Revise. Submit. Multigenre. Cardboard Challenge.
Study. Roots Quiz 3 (1-3)
Due. Thursday. 10.29.15
Optional Evidence. Roots-Based Product.
AP Lit: Joyce & Dubliners
For this week, we are exploring James Joyce and his short story collection, Dubliners.
We are looking to Joyce's style to help us explore the relationship between setting, character and plot structure.
Key features of Joyce's style include:
Fusion of Fiction w Reality
Epiphany
Free Indirect Discourse
Manipulation of Language and Aesthetics
We are looking to Joyce's style to help us explore the relationship between setting, character and plot structure.
Key features of Joyce's style include:
- Real places, real buildings, even real people appear amongst the fiction
- awakening/understanding
- appeals to all 5 senses
- a particular style of stream of consciousness
- fluid movement between narrator and character
- experiments with word play, structure, linguistics, genre
We started our work with a close read of "Araby" together to have a collective experience with Joyce's style.
The readings for night one were then, "Eveline" and "The Boarding House." Sketchnote/annotate and literary 3x3 each of the short stories.
The readings for night two, "Clay" and "A Mother." Again, sketchnote/annotate and literary 3x3 each.
We'll be looking for trends across the collections of stories in terms of character, setting, structure, and style as means to understanding and to applying to our own thinking. But not yet, one step at a time. . .
Pop Culture: HMW Design a Film Festival
How might we design a film festival? How might we demonstrate our listening & speaking skills via a film festival?
We'll use these for DISCOVERY phase. 15 min
http://www.sundance.org/pdf/film-guide/SFF14-FilmGuide.pdf
http://fantasticfest.com/
http://www.miff.org/
http://allsportslafilmfest.com/
http://iffboston.org/
http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html
You might Notice/Wish/Wonder:
What do you notice about these film festivals?
What do you wish about film festivals?
What do you wonder about these film festivals?
OR
Rose/Bud/Thorn:
What are the roses (cool aspects) of these film festivals?
What are the buds (opportunities/ideas you have) based on these film festivals?
What are the thorns (things you don't like/find ineffective) in these film festivals?
EMPATHY phase. 15
Interview at least 2 people from another design team.
Ask these three Qs
Which genres of film do you enjoy the most?
Would you rather watch a film you love again or watch something new?
What
Ask at least one follow up question in each interview to help you program your festival.
Record the answers.
EXPERIMENT phase. 15 min.
Craft it! Design it. What are the films you would show? What would it be called? Where would it be held? Why? Use your empathy knowledge and your discovery to help you.
PRODUCTION phase. 15 min.
Four corners feedback. (More on this in class.)
We'll use these for DISCOVERY phase. 15 min
http://www.sundance.org/pdf/film-guide/SFF14-FilmGuide.pdf
http://fantasticfest.com/
http://www.miff.org/
http://allsportslafilmfest.com/
http://iffboston.org/
http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html
You might Notice/Wish/Wonder:
What do you notice about these film festivals?
What do you wish about film festivals?
What do you wonder about these film festivals?
OR
Rose/Bud/Thorn:
What are the roses (cool aspects) of these film festivals?
What are the buds (opportunities/ideas you have) based on these film festivals?
What are the thorns (things you don't like/find ineffective) in these film festivals?
EMPATHY phase. 15
Interview at least 2 people from another design team.
Ask these three Qs
Which genres of film do you enjoy the most?
Would you rather watch a film you love again or watch something new?
What
Ask at least one follow up question in each interview to help you program your festival.
Record the answers.
EXPERIMENT phase. 15 min.
Craft it! Design it. What are the films you would show? What would it be called? Where would it be held? Why? Use your empathy knowledge and your discovery to help you.
PRODUCTION phase. 15 min.
Four corners feedback. (More on this in class.)
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