FLOCABS

Click the following link to see/hear some of the awesome flocabs from this year!

http://lakeplacidcsd.net/lpcsweb/webdesign/clarklistosite/FLOCABS.html

Tuesday 12/14

We are relaxing and listening to the flocabs in class today.  Overall we are impressed witht the products and the amount of work invested in these.  Great job.  Thanks for being willing ot put yourselves out there. They sound and look great! We will send a few along to Mr. Dodd to post to the website.  No English homework tonight but be sure to be looking for a new IR book--It should have your connections topic as the backdrop. It may be fiction or non-fiction.

Thursday 12/9/10

I am sorry I have neglected to update the last two days.  Tuesday we worked hard on composing our flocabs, Wednesday was demo day--we looked at how to create and i movie, find pictures, create audio for imovie etc... then it was back to work on MLA, picture search and flocab writing. You guys have all been working hard and seem to be taking our suggestions to liven up our songs with emotion and sensory detail to heart awesome.
Thursday: we started recording

Monday 12/6/10

We worked on writing the final draft of our songs today.  Keep working on showing instead of telling and using symbols and other poetic devices.  Remember word choice is important.  Have fun with this. Tomorrow is a day devoted to finalizing the song, finding pictures and completing the MLA citation.

Friday 12/3

Today we spent time moving from notes to storyboards.  Students bounced ideas off one another about the message they were intending to send with their song then drew the song out verse by verse on a storyboard.  The second half of the block was devoted to writing the really rough draft of the song.  This draft does not have to rhyme, be a certain amount of lines or even employ a certain number of vocabulary words.  It is really the first articulation of the theme and can, therefore be very rough.  HW: Finish rough drafts of songs and READING LOGS will be collected on Monday--90 minutes reading for last week and one parent signature are what I expect to find in order to earn a perfect grade! (dates read including Dec 1 30 min worth, page #s,  a rating too!)

Thursday 12/2

It's finally here--Kickoff day for Clarklisto Flocab Project! (click to go to  my locker to see the handout your children received).  We went over expectations today and completed the brainstorming worksheet with partners or solo.  Nice job. We would encourage you to have conversations about your project at home aslo remember  to be reading/logging and taking Cornell Notes! 11 days left.

Wednesday 12/1

Period 1:  Great job with the songs today, it requires getting out of your comfort zone to understand figurative language and several of you were brave enough to "think out loud"  which is always appreciated.  HW: Read/Log/Cornell notes--12 days left!

Period 2,7,8: Most of you remembered your IR books and your Cornell Notes today which is great, HOWEVER, too many of you are WAY behind in reading.  I have been assigning 30 minutes of reading night.  The least amount of time you should have read by now is 120 minutes but many of you are not even past page 30 in your books--12 days left to complete the books and the Cornell Notes.  Stop dragging your heals and get reading!!!  HW: READ/LOG/NOTES