Monday 12/19

LAST DAY OF FLOCAB

Finish up i-Movie

upload to Youtube

Share link

Complete Reflection sheet

Read independently
What do I do now?
Try this

Friday 12/16

Friday 12/16:
Continue recording and laying out iMovie work.  

• Title slide needs to contain:
• Title of song centered and capitalized
• Your names under the title and smaller font

When iMovie is complete (don’t forget a title slide) do the following:

• Pull down the Share Menu and select export movie using QuickTime (save it to the desktop)
• Allow the movie to export (this will take a bit)
• Log into your drive and open youtube
• Click on the upload symbol in the upper right  
• Drag and drop your QuickTime movie into here
• Change settings so it is unlisted
• Email me the link

Complete reflection sheet with lots of details.

Read your IR book
HW: Enjoy the weekend :)

Thursday 12/15

BLOCK ONE:
Finish up work on frames--see yesterday's post for directions on how to do this in google on any computer (it's way easier than our original directions).
Recording Sign up
BLOCK TWO:
Recording begins. Practice and slide work continues. i movies get started.

Wednesday 12/14

Wednesday 12/14

BLOCK A:  

Work with the music and with the lyrics--make adjustments

Make individual frames for each stanza

• See our outline of steps if you do not know how to create the frame set-up required (picture on the left, lyrics on the right)

BLOCK B: Continuation of frame and screenshot work. Recording time sign up.

The expectaion is that tomorrow you will walk in with the following:

• Screenshots of all frames for your i-Movie saved in your drive
• Lyrics in hand (one for each of you)
• A very practiced song in your head
• Earbuds!

Tuesday 12/13

Tuesday, 12/13

BLOCK A:  

1. Use the checklist to be sure everything is done correctly. Use this time to make it right if it is not.

2. Additionally, use this time to bring your lyrics alive. Remember this is not an essay--your song should be rich with images and sensory detail. Where you end your lines matters.

3. Read through your lyrics out loud with the music playing and listen for where the breaks need to be and put them in by ending the line. This will make your recording loads better. Make changes now

BLOCK B:

1. I-movie mini lesson/example
2. Begin placing pictures and lyrics in I-movie

HW: Practice reading through lines with music playing

Monday 12/12

Monday 12/12

BLOCK A:

Find pictures and include links to the pictures used on your Flocab final document.

Finalize song choice. Be sure Final Draft is final--that means:

•       CATCHY TITLE 
•       spell checked/edited
•       history underlined
•       each poetic device highlighted a different color (see Friday's handout for specifics)
•      legend made to identify what each color represents  

BLOCK B: WORK BEGINS WITH PLACEMENT OF PHOTOS IN i-MOVIE

CRUCIAL HOMEWORK:
1. Lyrics completed
2. Song (beat) choice ready
3. Three photos linked and ready to go

Friday 12/8

FRIDAY 12/8

Requirements laid out for everyone

REQUIREMENTS:

Students must have a minimum of TEN examples of ELA skills as listed below.  
These need to be highlighted in the final draft.  

Students should underline examples of historical content in the final draft

Tools:

sophisticated vocabulary (must have 2)

alliteration

assonance

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

personification

allusion

sensory imagery (vivid and active verbs and adjectives)

onomatopoeia

Exposure to beats

Work Time: Move from rough draft to final draft

HW:

Final draft due Monday--TYPED and SHARED
Here is an example of how final draft should look

Beat must be chosen and shared with Ms. C by mid break Monday (including beats not from our folder)

NOTE: Bring headphones to class daily from here forward

Thursday 12/8

Playing with Language:

Slideshow

Boring Flocabs Say:	Awesome, Yoda Flocabs Might Say:
The Model T went 45 miles per hour	Speeding 45, the Model T did go
Upton Sinclair exposed that sausage had rat dung in it	Rat dung in sausage Upton did expose
The city streets are overcrowded	Overcrowded are the city streets

BLOCK A:  

Yodish and Show Don’t Tell mini lesson

STORY BOARD CHECK

WORK ON WRITING STANZAS DISREGARD RHYMES FOR

BLOCK B: WORK PERIOD-ROUGH DRAFT

HW: Rough draft due tomorrow

Wednesday 12/7

Wednesday 12/7

Block A:

           Intro

1. Large group share
   Topic

Read sentence

share creative masterpiece

2.  Perspective choices--who could tell the story? Which perspective would be most effective for the story we want to tell.

3.  DRAW STORYBOARD WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH PIC—EACH LINE OF PICTURES    

    REPRESENTS A STANZA

BLOCK B: WORK PERIOD STORYBOARD

HW:1) Storyboard DONE and in hand tomorrow

      2) 1-2 frames worked into rough draft of a song

Tuesday 12/6

Tuesday 12/6

BLOCK A:  

Model Research/Playing with words

FIND ARTICLE ---GET APPROVED BY TEACHER

paste link on form

        Print article

Research/Playing with words with chosen article:

• History -Highlight the key terms in the article that COULD be in the song
• ELA skills - For each paragraph “play” with your ELA tools (4-7 times each paragraph)

BLOCK B:

Continue playing with words

HW: Complete the highlighting activity and be sure each and every paragraph has 4-7 creative word-plays in the margins
This is due tomorrow
Graded tomorrow--done or not done DO NOT regularly annotate see our example linked above

Monday 12/5

Monday, 12/5

BLOCK A:

1st → INTRODUCTION OF PROJECT - First Cabinet Meeting

2nd → DISTRIBUTE ASSIGNMENT - Mr. Clark and Ms. Carlisto explain assignment

3rd → Student Examples (child labor)

BLOCK B:

1st → BRAINSTORM SONG TOPIC CHOICES “Post-it Activity”

2nd → CHOOSE PARTNER (GOOGLE DOC)

3rd → COLLABORATE ON SONG TOPIC (GOOGLE DOC FORM)
Here is the link to textbook page#s and to the list of topic choices
started in class

4th → WORK ON  TOPIC/KTN/INVESTIGATE

HW:
Be sure topic and partnerships are completed on form
Complete KTN worksheet

Friday 12/2

I collected LW # 4 and 5--you told me which one you wanted me to grade and why.
We completed status of the class and then finished the station rotations we started on Wednesday.
HW: read 20 minutes and keep post its.

Thursday 12/1

Thursday:
Double SS session. Don't forget to read and complete LW #5