11.30-12. wRite and Record

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2009

11.30-12. wRite and Record

Warm-Up (15min)

POTD
SOTD (UD only)
Questions of the day:
If you finished:
What was it like to draw a storyboard over the break? How did you work on this? What helped you work? About how long did it take you to complete it?

If you didn’t finish:
What happened? What did you do instead of your storyboard? When are you going to complete it to get caught up?

Vocabulary for the week:

1. pacing- to walk slowly or watching your step. Klyde paced his way down the street

2. exaggeration- extreme motion. She swung over her arms screaming and yelling at her friend exaggerating the fact she was late to her show and made her look bad.

3. repetition- to do it over and over. and over... and over.... and over... and over

4. volume- how loud or quite. Turn the volume of your computer to 10 so that I can hear it volume 3 isn't loud enough.

5. comic relief

6. atmosphere- surroundings. Her atmosphere was filled with daisies and apple trees galloping along the moring meadows smelling the fresh rained on dirt.

7. aside- to be on the left or right of something. She was sitting beside me.

8. anecdote-

9. first person- the character in the story is telling the story

10. rhythm- a beat

11.18-19 - characters and storyboards

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009

11.18-19 - characters and storyboards

In order to write our scripts, we need to pump the brakes, slow down and develop our characters and the scenes that will make writing the in-between parts easy.

Part 1 - Character Biographies (40 min)

Here are the questions for your character bios. Answer all the questions for AT LEAST 3 characters. Post to your blog and save to your student server when complete:

Nov 16-17 - Project 2 Ready to Launch

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Nov 16-17 - Project 2 Ready to Launch

Warm up (15min)

SOTD (UD only)
QOTD: What is our strength in creating an exhibition/portfolio worthy project? What is your growth area? What is one thing you could do to improve on your growth area?
POTD
Vocabulary:

1. narrator- the person who is telling a story about someone else
2. tone- to get the reader or looker to feel what the character(s) are feeling
3. emphasis- to make it more important by highlighting it or making it bold. Pat hair was HELLA red. 
4. persona- to tell a story about a object in a perception as if it was a person. The cat loved to play guitar.
5. point of view- to tell a story in 1st second or 3rd person. 1st- the character telling the story. 2nd- omniscience. 3rd- narration.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009

11.12-13 - 17, 12, 7

Warm Up - 15min
Story of The Day (UD only)
REVIEW YOUR VOCAB!
Question of the Day: Who is you favorite hero in a story (movie, book, tv show, bedtime/campfire, etc.)? Why? Which archetype does this character fall into?
P.O.T.D. Goku because is better than any cartoon in the world! He is innocent, and he is retatrded and he can't count.

Innocent
Quest: To remain in safety.
Fear: Being abandoned.
Dragon: Will deny it or seek outside rescue from it.
Task: To gain fidelity and discernment.
Virtue: Trust and optimism.

Luigi Victory

Luigi is Mario's brother. And they were in the mushroom kingdom in princess peach's castle. But Mario kept on jumping over Luigi's head and passing the ball to toad and scoring. The score is 0-4 and Luigi only needs two shots to catch up. Then he comes up with an idea. He jumps into the snow picture and ran Mario off of the icy hill and he quit the level and went back into the lobby and passed the ball to the red flying turtle he flew over mario and made the score 2-4. Then Daisy took the ball and tried to pass it to Luigi, but Peach stole the ball and passed it to bomb-omb. When toadette tried to get the ball it exploded and Mario's team was disqualified. Until Mario snitched and told that Luigi through him off of the Snow hill level. So the game went on. With only 2 more lives left on each team. The game now had two ways to win. The first team to loose all of their lives and they die. Or they score more than the other team in 5 minutes. So Since Luigi didn't want to die he told himself he must win. So he kicked the red turtle and killed him and threw it at toad and toad died. Now the life chart read 1-2. So Peach retaliated and she picked up the red bomb-omb and she threw it at toadette. So toadette died. The life chart now read 1-1. So Mario and Luigi leaped into the Bowser level with shooting fire balls and lava shooting at them. Then Luigi heard Mario say Mama-Mia. So he assumed Mario died and a=he left the level. Luigi's team won. Game Over. 

11.9/10 - Archetypes and You

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009

11.9/10 - Archetypes and You

Warm-up (15min)

POTD

QOTD: Use google or another search engine to find another system of HJ steps. How many steps are there? What are the steps? What steps did they “leave out”?

Part 1 - 7 common archetypes (15 min)

Use interweb search engine to find the SEVEN common archetypes of the heroic journey. Identify the basic traits and, for extra credits, identify characters in a movie or story you have seen. Post on your blog at the 15 minute mark.

7%20Archetypes%20of%20the%20HJ.pages

Part 2 - Construction Activity - (30min)

Use an example character and that character them through the steps. Identify archetypes along the way.

Example - High School Basketball Player

Departure

1. Call to Adventure - Basketball team
2. Refusal - Fear of not performing well
3. Supernatural Aid - Shoes gifted from grandpa
4. First Threshold - Tryouts
5. Belly of the Whale - Posting of players who made it (name is last)
   Initiation
6. Road of Trials - Making a shot with crowd, winning a game, playing with team
7. Meeting with the Goddess - Letter from Mother
8. Temptation - Invitation to a street game, fight breaks out; friends invite to play games all night before game
9. Atonement with Father - playing against another team, coach is an uncle; Step-father is accepted
10. Apotheosis - injury to star player; coach in peril/health
11. Ultimate Boon - making the game winning free-throw
    Return
12. Refusal of the return - not playing at the old outdoor court
13. Magic Flight - on the court someone pulls out weapon, hero uses secret path to escape
14. Rescue from Without - teammates retrieve player in car.
15. Crossing of the Return Threshold - Finding a Summer Job
16. Master of Two Worlds - Working with elementary kids at camp on old outdoor court
17. Freedom to Live - joined by girlfriend
On the very last movie made of Drognball GT, Goku Jr. fonds out that he needs to become
brave because he is the one that has to protect the earth from now on. And the name of the movie was a Hero's Journey.

Revision.

The title of my project is, “Top Five Technologies” The purpose of this assignment was to see what we thought was the five most influential technologies in our lives. I chose my most influential technologies randomly because I believe they are too many to name. So I chose the first five that popped in my head. One of the images I chose was of soap. I think soap is important because without soap people would stank, perfume wouldn't help people and dishes and clothes would never be washed. Anther one I chose was plastic and silver-wear because silver is good for cooking and eating food without having to use your hands. And plastic-wear is for taking outside the house, not having to wash dishes and for parties. These are just two of the five technologies I chose. I chose to design my prezi in the shape of a circle because it was simple and plain, but not too simple. Through this design, I was able to better communicate what my most influential technologies are. I was inspired by no one but myself when I was making my prezi. This shows I don't really look up to other people's art if it doesn't exceed something I couldn't do. Through the use of prezi people able to better see who I am. I used prezi techniques to make my presentation. I use to use imovie to make my presentation. I also used to use keynote and photoshop too. I used garage band to help make my prezi. When the audience saw my prezi they thought it was okay. I had a number of benchmarks goals to reach as steps to completing my project. First I started the prezi. Next I tried asking for help, but Morgan is not a very good teacher so he barely helped me. So I got help from other students like Marcel. Then I was finished but I knew it could be better so I changed it around a little. Finally I was done and I tried helping other people with their prezi. No one said anything about my project could be better. My teacher also wasn't there. But I did well so it should matter. Through the completion of this project I learned that I am slow of learning how to use computer and I love to make beats. I learned my greatest strength was music because I am very good composing it. My greatest weakness was being retarded and not knowing how to use prezi at all. At first I was lost and the teacher did not help. If I could do this project again I would choose a different song.

11.4-5 The Mono-myth continued

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009

11.4-5 The Mono-myth continued

Below are the agenda's for the UD and LD classes respectively. There is some overlap however there are differences as well...

For UD

Warm-up: 15 min

Story of the day

POTD

Vocab

Part 1 - Adding a ring around the 17 stages: 30 min

Matrix (watch video)

then

Personal Pick

then

12 stages

then

?

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009

11.4-5 The Mono-myth continued

Below are the agenda's for the UD and LD classes respectively. There is some overlap however there are differences as well...

For UD

Warm-up: 15 min

Story of the day

POTD

Vocab

Part 1 - Adding a ring around the 17 stages: 30 min

Matrix (watch video)

then

Personal Pick

then

12 stages

then

?

Joseph Campbell － Hero’s Journey: 35min

Video + Quesitons

For LD

Warm-up: 15min

POTD

Vocab

Part 1 - Revisions to artist statement + reflection: 35min

Add new questions + changes

Hand back corrected to people done on time.

Revised draft to be posted on your blog by end of day. Come after school if not done!

Part 1 - Adding a ring around the 17 stages: 30 min

Star Wars

then

Personal Pick

then

12 stages

then

?

Erica Holloway

Block M

11/2/09

Influence of Technology

The title of my project is, “Top Five Technologies” The purpose of this assignment was to see what we thought was the five most influential technologies in our lives. I chose my most influential technologies randomly because I believe they are too many to name. So I chose the first five that popped in my head. One of the images I chose was of soap. I think soap is important because without soap people would stank, perfume wouldn't help people and dishes and clothes would never be washed. Anther one I chose was plastic and silver-wear because silver is good for cooking and eating food without having to use your hands. And plastic-wear is for taking outside the house, not having to wash dishes and for parties. These are just two of the five technologies I chose. I chose to design my prezi in the shape of a circle because it was simple and plain, but not too simple. Through this design, I was able to better communicate what my most influential technologies are.

I was inspired by no one but myself when I was making my prezi. This shows I don't really look up to other people's art if it doesn't exceed something I couldn't do. Through the use of prezi people able to better see who I am. I used prezi techniques to make my presentation. I use to use imovie to make my presentation. I also used to use keynote and photoshop too. I used garage band to help make my prezi. When the audience saw my prezi they thought it was okay.

I had a number of benchmarks goals to reach as steps to completing my project. First I started the prezi. Next I tried asking for help, but Morgan is not a very good teacher so he barely helped me. So I got help from other students like Marcel. Then I was finished but I knew it could be better so I changed it around a little. Finally I was done and I tried helping other people with their prezi. No one said anything about my project could be better. My teacher also wasn't there. But I did well so it should matter.

Through the completion of this project I learned that I am slow of learning how to use computer and I love to make beats. I learned my greatest strength was music because I am very good composing it. My greatest weakness was being retarded and not knowing how to use prezi at all. At first I was lost and the teacher did not help. If I could do this project again I would choose a different song.

Reflecting for BGP/GP

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Reflecting for BGP/GP

Warm - Up (20 min)

1. Vocabulary:

1. narrative- talking from the authors' point of view. Heather then realized that her family came for her.
2. myth- a unproven story. When it rains it means God is crying.
3. motif-a theme or idea. Today, we are focusing on all the good things in life.
4. archetype-an original pattern. Mon. Do hair, wash face, brush teeth Tues. Do hair wash face brush teeth. Wed........
5. apotheosis-a worshipped person. That little girl in this one counrty was worshipped for being a princess and they actually sacrificed people for her.
6. threshold-still of doorway.
7. atonement-satisfied
8. boon-something to be thankful for
9. mundane-a routine