Agendas

Mon-Tues 10/8-9

• • Final Letter & Rubric

• The Sting

• Watch Movies

• Exhibition Day Forms due Monday 

  • small room/auditorium/whole class/option

• Writing Conferences

10/2-5

• Final Movie Work Time 

• Final Pitch

• Rubric

Check IC

Trailers and Mini Movies?

Conferences on Write Your Own Mystery or Sherlock Paper

Mon 10/1

Links Page

Find good stories

Post them here

Thursday-Friday 9/27-28

 Write your own Mystery 

Screenplay Adaptation--meet with me.

Work on Mini Movies--1-2 minutes

Mon 9/24

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into additional authors and look into additional mysteries.

Agenda: 

• Tues/Thurs Lunch help

• "Retrieved Reformation" 

  • ending/predictions/let's talk

  • read the real ending

• Donald Westlake, "Too Many Crooks"

  • Film it?

• Micro Fiction

• Mini-movie or Trailer

• Mystery Writing Prompts & Planning

• Thursday & Friday: Write your own Mystery  and make your movie.

Due Monday: Mini Movie and your story.

Next Week Final Movies and Writing Conferences

Mon 9/24

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into additional authors and look into additional mysteries.

Agenda: 

• IC Check--stuff back

  • Tues/Thurs Lunch help

• "A Poisoned Tale"

  • groups:  characters/facts

• Some Safe-Cracking Capers "Retrieved Reformation" O Henry

• Donald Westlake, "Too Many Crooks"

Friday 9/21

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into additional authors and look into additional mysteries.

Agenda: 

Copycats?

--Writing Questions on the "Perfect Crime" (in five minutes)

    When did Dr. Trevor know?  Consider the possibilities and defend your answer.

    How do you interpret the title?

--Watch the Hitchcock version--consider how they film the dialogue, zoom in, cut aways

--"#8" & "You Can't Blame Me"  with a partner.

--Homework:

"A Poisoned Tale" read for Monday.  

        -character list

        -facts list

Thurs 9/20

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into additional authors and look into additional mysteries.

Agenda: 

• IC Check 

• CopyCat Grades?

• Fiona's comment--my grading speed

• A look ahead--Screenplay or your own mystery

• Writing Conferences and revisions

• The Blue Cross in groups--then whole class

Tue 9/18 

Content-Language Objectives: Students will close out the Agatha Christie unit and move on to some other authors.

Agenda: 

Are you done with Agatha Christie.  Favorite story?

Roald Dahl: "Lamb to the Slaughter" "

audio

G.K. Chesterton: "The Blue Cross"

audio

Thurs-Fri 9/13-14

Accident Ending

"The Affair at the Bungalow" questions:

 What do we know?

What questions do you have?

How do you explain what Miss Marple did?

How would you adapt it?

• Agatha Christie Project read at least one choice story--depends on length and reading speed. (Talk about Sherlock Holmes Choices)

  • Chose a Movie: ABC Murders, Body in the Library, Witness for the Prosecution, Murder on the Orient Express, Hickory Dickory Dock, or propose something else.

  • Find Movies that might interest you: Agatha Christie @ IMDB

• One page paper on Agatha Christie.

  • Think back over our texts/movies 

  •  "Accident,"The Affair at the Bungalow"

  • Poriot: The Adventure of Clapham Cook

  • The story you chose

  • The Movie/shows you watched

You can finish all this by Friday and not have home work--or it's all due Tuesday.

Tues 9/11

Finish Poriot

Editing and observations

Miss Marple: "The Affair at the Bungalow"

Group questions:

 What do we know?

What questions do you have?

How do you explain what Miss Marple did?

How would you adapt it?

Agatha Christie Project

Mon 9/10

Content-Language Objectives: Students will dive into their Agatha Christie unit.

Agenda: 

• Lunch Help? Papers?

• Cuts and Transitions

• Watch Copy Cat Videos

• "Accident" endings

  • Student Video

  • Read the real

• Agatha Christie Web Search

  • three fun facts

• Poirot

  • watch from season one--we vote which one

• Miss Marple "Affair at the Bungalow"

Agatha Christie Project

Thurs/Fri

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap-up the Sherlock Holmes Unit and take the next steps in developing their video skills through The CopyCat Video.

Agenda: 

• IC Check All Sherlock Holmes work

  • Deadline Today

• Paper Due Thursday

  • Deadline next Thursday

Fri: Vision and hearing at 9:30

CopyCat Videos

• Choose a group--or work alone

• Pick a scene

• Get your scene into a WeVideo Project

  • Youtube to mp4 converter?

• Storyboard the shots 10-15 shots?

• Film, edit 

• Decide which audio you'll use

• Finish on Friday

Tues 9/4 

Content-Language Objectives: Students will take the next steps in developing their video skills through a mini project.

Agenda: 

• IC Check All Sherlock Holmes work

  • deadline Thurs

• "Revenge"

• Observation

• Film observations

• CopyCat Videos

  • example

• Paper Due Thursday

  • Deadline next Thursday

Thurs-Mon 8/23-27

Content-Language Objectives: Students will dive into the Sherlock Holmes unit through reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Agenda: 

• A Study in Scarlet questions and discussion

• Overview of the Unit

  • Explore Holmes' London

  • "Scandal in Bohemia"

    • audio

  • "The Speckled Band"

    • audio

    • get a crossword puzzle

    • talk about the story in groups

  • Choices  (Read 3 stories for an A, 2 for a B) 

    • See a list of previews

    • Create a preview for a story without one

    • Do an Activity 

    • Fill out a Graphic Organizer

An Index of Stories

The Complete Sherlock Holmes on-line

A Good place for Audio--Lit2Go

• • "The Final Problem"

    • audio

  • Sherlock Episode

    • Observation Form

  • Pre-writing, Writing process, Saying Something,  600 Words about Anything (not saying something)

  • Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Sherlock Paper Due Thurs 9/6

Tue 8/21

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get through their intro to video production and WeVideo and start the Sherlock Holmes unit.

Agenda: 

• Finish "Purloined Letter"

  • questions, discussion turn them in

• Check out WeVideo Academy

• Finish 30 Second Videos--shots and intro to WeVideo.  

  • Share it with me

• Start Sherlock Holmes unit.

  • Vocab Technique

  • Explore Holmes' London

  • Read Chapters 1&2 of A Study in Scarlet for Thursday

Mon 8/20

Agenda: 

Syllabus Questions?

• The Anatomy of a Mystery

•  Poe "The Purloined Letter"

First Video Project: Shotlist Draft

Use your phone or an iPad to put a movie in your Drive which includes:

• all of these shots

• music

• titles/text

• effects 

• transitions

WeVideo--Get it at the Chrome Web Store

                    Check out WeVideo Academy

Thurs- 8/16-17:

10:40 - 11:25

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class--the concepts of mysteries, storyboards and and adaptation.

Agenda: 

• Attendance/Info Sheet

• "Bedtime Story"

  • Storyboards

  • Shot types

  • Student Examples

• "Jeopardy"

  • write an ending

Friday

• “The Man Down the Road”

• "So Lucky"

• "Death by Scrabble"

  • • Student Example

• • Example 2 on YouTube

  • Example 3 on Vimeo

• Storyboards 

• Shot types

• Rule of Thirds and critique student examples

Last Week

Agenda:

• Make-up Work/Check IC

  • Lunch Help Today? Monday?

• Work on Final Movies--Clips

• Final Letter

• Start The Usual Suspects (20:23--recap what we know)

Q3 Exhibition Day is Friday March 10, 2017

- Sign up by Tuesday March 7, 2017 at 3pm

Next time show The Sting

Thurs-Fri 2/3-4

Agenda:

• Make-up Work/Check IC

  • Lunch Help Today? Monday?

• Work on Final Movies

• Final Letter

• Exhibition Day (Examples)

  • options

Mon 2/27

Agenda:

• Have you seen "The Usual Suspects"?

• "The Absence of Emily" 

• Final Project

  • Group up

  • Make your Pitch

  • Start Planning

  • Rubric

• Make -up work?

Fri-2/24

Agenda:

• Papers, grades deadline.

• Screenplays

  • • "Poisoned Tale," Too Many Crooks," "Lamb to the Slaughter" or your own Mystery.

• • Screenplays explained

  • Some Choices, Exploration and Designing your own project

    • Read new story and explain in a paragraph how you would turn it into a film

  • This year's nominations

  • Links Page 

Thursday 2/23

Content/Language Objectives: 

Agenda:

• Papers, grades deadline.

• A Copycat  

• "A Poisoned Tale"

• Screenplays

• Retrieved Reformation? Did I read it to you?

• Homework: "Too Many Crooks" (do your paper first)

Explanations of formatting:

http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Formatting/formatting.html

http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/howtoformatascreenplay

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/screenplay.pdf

My example and Celtx

Tue 2/21

Content/Language Objectives: Students 

Agenda:

• A Copycat  (watch others?)

• Trailer work time

• Show them

• "A Poisoned Tale"

• Screenplays

• Write one for "A Poisoned Tale"

• Write a scene from your own mystery--storyboard too.

Fri 2/17

Agenda: 

Turn-in/Share your Mystery--Make sure I have it and mark it turned in.

• Two Hour Video Challenge:

  • create a trailer for your movie

  • Need an example?

• Any make up work? (I feel another deadline coming--Next Thursday)

• Next Week: Writing/Revising/Screenplays/Reading Choices

Thurs 2/16

Agenda: 

• Make up work?

• "Good for the Soul" (Worksheet) or "To Live and Die in Midland Texas" (Activities)

• Post Stories Here

  • Go 'Round: what 's your mystery?

  • Work until Break--After Break Peer Edit. 

• Work on your Paper: Write Your Own Mystery (Due Friday)

  • Tips for Writing

  • Peer edit--and the Writing Process.

Video Challenge:  Make a trailer for your story by the end of class tomorrow.  Start planning after Peer Edit.

• Tues: Choices 

• O. Henry "Retrieved Reformation"

  • I'll read, then you predict

Mon 2/13

Content/Language Objectives: Students will search the web for micro fiction and online writing.  They will work on their own mystery stories. 

Elements of a Mystery

Links Page

Post Stories Here

Paper: Write Your Own Mystery (Due Friday)

Tips for Writing

Tues 2/14

Content/Language Objectives: Students will search the web for micro fiction and online writing.  They will work on their own mystery stories. 

Agenda: 

• "Good for the Soul" (Worksheet) or "To Live and Die in Midland Texas" (Activities)

• Storytime "Memento Mori"

• Post Stories Here

• Work on your Paper: Write Your Own Mystery (Due Friday)

  • Tips for Writing

Mon 2/13

Content/Language Objectives: Students will search the web for micro fiction and online writing.  They will work on their own mystery stories. 

Elements of a Mystery

Links Page

Post Stories Here

Paper: Write Your Own Mystery (Due Friday)

Tips for Writing

Homework: Read "Good for the Soul" or "To Live and Die in Midland Texas"

Tues-Thurs 2/7-9:

Students will advance video skills through finishing the CopyCat video and move on to further stories and Micro-Fiction and online writing.

Elements of a Mystery

Links Page

Post Stories Here

Paper: Write Your Own Mystery

Tips for Writing

Agenda: 

• Turn in Jeopardy/Blame/#8 Sheet 

• "The Perfect Crime"

  • another type of detective

• Micro Fiction

• O.Henry

• Films to critique

• Choices

• Finish CopyCats (Feel free to come in at lunch)

• Paper: Write Your Own Mystery

• Cop and the Anthem

  • Movie

Mon 2/6

Students will advance video skills through the CopyCat video and move on to Father Brown Stories.

Agenda: 

• Five minute mysteries

• Three stories to Review and Storyboard

• Agatha Christie make up work

• Father Brown 

• "The Blue Cross"

  • audio

  • Writing Questions

• CopyCat Video

  • Wevideo App?

Thurs.-Fri 2/2-3

Students will advance video skills through the CopyCat video and move on to Father Brown Stories.

Agenda: 

• Sherlock Holmes Paper?

• Father Brown 

• "The Blue Cross"

  • audio

• Writing Questions

• CopyCat Video

  • Wevideo App

Thurs/Fri/Mon 1/26-27-30

Content-Language Objectives: Students will work through the Agatha Christie Unit.  They will explore the short stories she wrote, watch and critique films and think about adaptation.

Agenda: 

• • Finish the Movie--write a prediction

• Agatha Christie Choices Assignment

• Agatha Christie Write-up--and choices. 

  • Explain how you would adapt the stories you read. 

• Think about Copycat Scenes

  • Watch examples

• "The Blue Cross"

CopyCat Resources:

Witness on-line

ABC Murders--Netflix Series Four Epidode One

Hitchcock: "Revenge" @ Hulu or use my DVD

Sherlock Netflix Series 2 Episode 3

Thurs/Fri/Mon 1/26-27-30

Content-Language Objectives: Students will work through the Agatha Christie Unit.  They will explore the short stories she wrote, watch and critique films and think about adaptation.

Agenda: 

• • Go through the first two stories: "The Accident" " The Affair of the Bungalow"  Writing Questions

  • "Accident" student example--Critique Notes

• Agatha Christie Choices Assignment

  • A Poirot Movie--Critique Notes

• Monday: Witness for the Prosecution--Critique Notes

• Tues: Explain how you would adapt the stories you read.  Think about Copycat Scenes

Mon-Tues  1/24-25

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up The Sherlock Holmes Unit and begin Agatha Christie Unit. 

Agenda: 

• Proofreading tricks

• Turn in paper and missing work

• Stories/Copies back

• Lunch Help?

• Read "The Accident"

  • write an ending

  • read the ending

• http://www.agathachristie.com/

Mon 1/23

• Watch an episode of Sherlock

• Sherlock Holmes Paper (Due Tuesday)

• All sherlock Holmes Unit work due Tuesday--it's a deadline.

Thurs-Fri. 1/19-20

Content-Language Objectives: Students will move through the Sherlock Holmes Unit and finish their first movie projects.  

Agenda: 

• • • • Watch our movies?

      • Speckled Band Group Discussion--turn it in.

      • Choice Story--turn it in.

• Final Problem Audio

  • Pre-writing Sheet

  • Discuss the whole--series what Doyle wanted, what England wanted

• Sherlock Holmes Paper (Due Tuesday)

  • • Writing Process

    • Saying Something

    • Writing Time

Watch an Episode (Monday)

• • Tues 1/17

    • • Content-Language Objectives: Students will move through the Sherlock Holmes Unit and finish their first movie projects.  

• • •  

      • Agenda: 

• • Movies

  • Choice Reviews/storyboards

  • "The Specklede Band"

1/13 

For Thursday and Friday: Read one new story make a one minute movie.

• • Sherlock Holmes Project for now

    • Choose one (or two?) Write a review or storyboard the ending)

  • Movie Project--what to do? You Propose

    • iPads, Cameras, Lab Computers, WeVideo

Old Sherlock Holmes Index--check out previews 

Tues.-Thurs  1/10-12

Content-Language Objectives: Students will move through the Sherlock Holmes Unit and begin their first movie projects.  

Agenda: 

• A Study in Scarlet

  • • Talk about chapters 1 & 2

• "Scandal in Bohemia"

  • • Turn in writing questions--discussion

For Thursday and Friday: Read one new story make a one minute movie.

• • Sherlock Holmes Project for now

    • Choose one (or two?) Write a review or storyboard the ending)

  • Movie Project--what to do? You Propose

    • iPads, Cameras, Lab Computers, WeVideo

Old Sherlock Holmes Index--check out previews 

Mon 1/9 

Content-Language Objectives: Students will explore the concepts of mysteries and begin their Sherlock Holmes Unit.

Agenda: 

Mindful Moment

Deal with Poe's "The Purloined Letter"

• The Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Hitchcock "Revenge" Read it online

• Start Sherlock Holmes Unit

• Vocab Technique

• Holmes' London Take the tour.

• A Study in Scarlet

  • • Read chapters 1 & 2

Thurs 1/5 :-)

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class--the concepts of mysteries, storyboards and and adaptation.

Agenda: 

• Attendance/Info Sheet

• "Bedtime Story"

  • Student Examples

• “The Man Down the Road”

• "So Lucky"

• "Death by Scrabble"

  • • Student Example

  • Example 2 on YouTube

  • Example 3 on Vimeo

• Storyboards

• Rule of Thirds and critique student examples

• Syllabus

  Homework: Read Poe "The Purloined Letter"

• Monday:

• Deal with Poe

• The Anatomy of a Mystery

• Start Sherlock Holmes Unit

• Vocab Technique

• Holmes' London Take the tour.

Week of 3/9

Content-Language Objectives: Students will finish up their final movies and check in with Pfouts about missing work and final grades.

Agenda:  

• Hitchcock Intro

• Final Movies

  • Rubric?

  • Clips

  • Small Room?

• Missing Work

• Check-ins with each of you

• Thurs:

  • Get me a clip

  • Final Letter

Week of 3/2

Content-Language Objectives: Students will work towards writing their own mysteries individually and begin filming and editing their final movie projects in groups.

Agenda:  

• Working on Movie or Your Mystery

  • • homework: either movie or writing--depends what you do in class

• Tues: Peer edit Mysteries 

• Thurs: 

• • BIFF Plans

  • Hitchcock Trial

    • Walk in greenscreen then I'll desaturate two people at a time

• Fri: We watch Far from Home (BIFF)

• • Mysteries due 

Fri 2/27 

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue with some video aspects while looking into some new authors.

Agenda:  

• Stuff Back-- are you caught up?

• A story from Roald Dahl "Lamb to the Slaughter"

• Rubric and "Bedtime Story"

  • Watch/critique the films

  • Feel free to scroll down and look for other stories

• Nominate your story here: 2015 Previews

• Use the Links Page as a resource

• Scroll down this page to review all we've read

• Final Movie

  • Who is doing what, with whom for final movies

  • Assignment Sheet/Rubric

• Next week: working on Movie or Your Mystery

  • homework: either movie or writing--depends what you do in class

Thurs 2/26

• West Lab: Work on paper #2 

  • Write Your Own Mystery.

  • Review the formula(s) and The Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Writing process

• Mystery Scouting Mission--find us stories 

  • Find a good story to share. Look through my links

  • Nominate your story here: 2015 Previews

• Hopefully by Friday we know who is doing what, with whom for final movies

Tues 2/24

• Watch last two Marco Trailers

• Mystery Warm-up #2

People have different needs after that

• Make up work--grades posted

• Certain people finish papers

• Activities--for Midland TX and Bugsy

• Mystery Scouting Mission--find us stories 

Thurs:

• West Lab: We'll write our own mysteries.

  • Review the formula(s) and The Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Writing process

• Find a good story to share. Look through my links

• Hopefully by Friday we know who is doing what, with whom for final movies

Mon 2/23

Agenda:  

• Finish Marco Trailers

  • watch them?

• Activities--for Midland TX and Bugsy

• Mystery Scouting Mission--find us stories (certain people finish papers)

• Mystery Warm-ups

• We'll write our own mysteries.

  • Review the formula(s) and The Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Writing process

Thurs-Fri 2/19-20

Agenda:  

• Finish Thomas Crowne Affair

  • fill in those who missed it

• "A Poisoned Tale"

  • Seminar 

• Movie Trailer Contest

• Homework: "To Live and Die in Midland Texas" or "Bugsey Segal was a Friend of Mine"

  • Activities on Monday

• Did you do "Retrieved Reformation" & "Good for the Soul"?

Next Week:  Finish Marco Trailer, Activities.

    Write your own mystery/find a good one for us

Tues 2/17

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue with some video aspects while looking into some new authors.

Agenda:  

• Stuff Back-- are you caught up?

  • Papers?  No higher than a C after today.

• O. Henry "Retrieved Reformation"

  • I'll read, then you predict

• Movie Trailer Contest

• Homework: "A Poisoned Tale"

  • Seminar Thursday

Upcoming:

"Uncle Meleaguer" "Bugsey Segal" 

Hitchcock "Perfect Crime" Other options

Thurs 2/12

Agenda: 

Father Brown movie

(got to 1:05:52)

• Stuff back--grades updated and make a To Do List 

• "Good for the Soul" 

  • questions with a partner

• Watch our CopyCats

• Movie Trailer Contest

Mon.-Tues, 2/9-10

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue with Agatha Christie through the choices project and their Copy Cat Videos.

Agenda:  

• • Father Brown and "The Blue Cross"

    • "The Flying Stars"

    • My fav but do you want others?

  • Five Minute Mysteries

  • Tues: "Good for the Soul"  "Uncle Meleaguer" "Bugsey Segal" Other options.

  • Hitchcock next week

Father Brown movie

(got to 1:05:52)

Fri. 2/6

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue with Agatha Christie through the choices project and their Copy Cat Videos.

Agenda: 

• Sherlock Holmes Papers?

• Agatha Christie Choices

  • at least two

  • recommendations?

  • any movie possibilities?

• Copy Cat Groups: 

  • Finish

  • If you need it:  Witness for the Prosecution

Tues-Thurs 2/3-5

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue with Agatha Christie through the choices project and their Copy Cat Videos.

Agenda: 

• Sherlock Holmes Papers?

• Agatha Christie Choices

  • at least two

  • recommendations?

  • any movie possibilities?

• Copy Cat Groups

• Screencasting--get your clip

• Final Cut

  • tutorials

  • give it a try

  • decide if you want to use it

Fri. 1/30

Turn in Sherlock Holmes Paper

• Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution

  • no plot spoiling if you watched

  • what do we know? what do we think?

• Monday/Tuesday: Christie Choices and Copy Cat Video

  • watch our short films

  • watch copy-cat examples

Thurs 1/29

Agenda: 

• Finish Movies

  • Watch them?

• Agatha Christie

• Sherlock Holmes Paper due tomorrow

  • Peer edit?

Mon-Tues 1/26-27

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get caught up with the LA portion of the class and continue progressing through the video curriculum.  

Agenda: 

• Stuff Back/Grades Updated

  • Holmes Activities? What's the problem?

  • to do list

  • make up work--my theories

• Sherlock Holmes Paper--Peer Edit Tuesday

• Second Video

  • work time

  • goals

  • roles in groups

Thurs-Fri 1/22-23

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up the Video Poem and continue the Sherlock Holmes unit with some choices

Agenda: 

• BIFF Video Contest

  • look at what we've done so far

  • Micro-Fiction Options

  • Other Options

  • A little out of order--but can we submit some movies?

•  A couple other nominations "Jeopardy," "#8,"  "Can't Blame Me."

Your homework was:

• Get caught up with Sherlock Holmes

• Look through the Links Page for stories you might want to do for our next movie

• Nominate your choice on this page.

Friday: Film, plan, make up work, Sherlock Holmes Paper

Tues 1/20

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up the Video Poem and continue the Sherlock Holmes unit with some choices

Agenda: 

•  Sherlock Holmes Project

  • look at the list 

  • recommendations?

  • Final Problem Audio

• BIFF Video Contest

  • look at what we've done so far

  • Micro-Fiction Options

  • Other Options

  • A little out of order--but can we submit some movies?

Homework:

• Get caught up with Sherlock Holmes

• Look through the Links Page for stories you might want to do for our next movie

• Nominate your choice on this page.

Thurs. A couple other nominations "Jeopardy", #8,"  "Can't Blame me"

Thurs-Fri 1/15-16

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up the Video Poem and continue the Sherlock Holmes unit with some choices

Agenda: 

• Video Poems

  • • Get them to me

    • Watch them?

•  "Scandal in Bohemia" 

• • questions

•  Sherlock Holmes Project

• • look at the list 

  • choose a story--read it

  • Make a storyboard or write about how you would adapt it

  • Use your time today and tomorrow

Mon-Tues 1/12-13

Content-Language Objectives: Students will work on basic video skills through the Video poem and continue the Sherlock Holmes unit.

Agenda: 

• • PSA Contest/BIFF Teen Contest

• iMovie Tutorial, intro and questions

• "The Speckled Band"  (start reading--finish for tomorrow)

• Video Poems--cover all the shots

  • cameras vs iPads

• Tues: "Scandal in Bohemia" (Read for Thursday)

• Thurs: Sherlock Holmes Project

Thurs-Fri 1/8-9

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look at early Detective Fiction and get an introduction to video production.

Agenda: 

Fri:

• Holmes: Vocab and First Impressions

  • Magic Square and questions

  • Discussion--what surprised you?

• Holmes' London Take an iPad tour.

• "Scandal in Bohemia" (for Monday)

After Break:

• Shot List or Crime Video Poem 

• I choose groups--groups choose poem or task

• Storyboard you project

• Start shooting

• Edit Monday

Feb 1st is the Deadline for BIFF Student Contest

• "The Purloined Letter"

  • e

  • Do these stories fit the model?

  • Discussion

• Start Sherlock Holmes Unit

  • Vocab on separate sheet

After Break

• Video

• Shots and Rule of Thirds

• Shotlist Assignment or Crime Video Poem

Crime Poems--creepy video options:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/4870

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/249212

Dream Song 29 text

Youtube of John Berryman reading "Dream Song 29."

"Lemon Colored Gloves"

Youtube version: 

Tues 1/6

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class--the concepts of mysteries, storyboards and and adaptation.

Agenda: 

• Attendance/Info Sheet

• "Death by Scrabble"

• "So Lucky"

• "The Old Man Down the Road"

• Storyboards

• Rule of Thirds and critique student examples

• Syllabus

  Homework: Read Poe "The Purloined Letter"

• Thursday:

• Syllabus?

• Deal with Poe

• The Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Do these stories fit the model?

• Start Sherlock Holmes Unit

• Vocab Techniques

• Holmes' London

Crime Poems

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/4870

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/249212

Tues-Fri 2/26-3/1

Content-Language Objectives: Students will work on their final movie with the goal of diving deep into a story and making the best adaptation possible.

Agenda:

• • Final Project Rubric

  • Work on your Final Project

  • Be in the Ex. Day Movie

  • Make up work?

  • Act in other people's videos?

(From Tues)

• • Watch some examples of Exhibition Day Stuff

  • Sherlock Soundtrack as resource (others like it)

  • Give me your votes/ideas

Mon  2/25

Agenda:

• Megan's Lesson

• Group check in on planning--brainstorm how to adapt your stories.

• Check out my Video Site

  • Read/Explore

  • Offer suggestions

• Planning your final project

  • Start filming

• Find music and effects

For Friday

• Stuff back and updated grades

  • clarify my mistakes

  • assignments without names

• Make a to do list--catch up this weekend

• Put stories back/turn in activities

• Form final movie groups

  • make a list and discuss options

  • read stories you haven't (get credit for more activities)

  • give me a copy of the stories you choose

  • Start planning/project pitch

Thurs-Fri  2/21-22

Content-Language Objectives: Students will begin the final project by forming groups and exploring all the stories their classmates found. Movie groups will spread out and make a list of potential stories for the final movie.

Agenda:

• Figure out potential groups--these may change but we need to start somewhere

• Look through the previews and commit to reading a couple

• Report back to each other.  Explain/Discuss possibilities.

• Try to have a decision and start planning by end of Friday. 

• Film this weekend? 

• Read Previews Here (if needed)

For Friday

• Update your Project Log

• Give me a one page write up about what you've read so far:

  • Talk about each story--what you liked

  • How did each fit your notions of a mystery or crime story

  • How would adapt them to film?

• Finish compiling previews and activities

  • Look into other people's

  • Make a reading plan for the four day weekend

  • Come back with a list of possible stories to adapt

Thurs-Fri 2/14-2/15:

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue looking for potential stories to adapt to film by exploring anthologies and websites. They will begin compiling their findings to share with classmates.

Agenda:

• Make up work?

• Logs back--update it

• Continue reading

• Post Previews Here

• After break: study center to continue reading but also make copies.

• Fri: Finish compiling previews and activities

  • Look into other people's

  • Make a reading plan for the four day weekend

  • Come back with a list of possible stories to adapt

Tues. 2/12:

Content-Language Objectives: Students will go deeper with a story and then look for potential stories for adaptation.

Agenda:

• Make up work?

• "Good for the Soul" in groups

• Exploration project

Fri-Mon 2/8-11

Content-Language Objectives: Students will push their own detective skills by figuring out some mysteries through writing and discussion. We will increase our movie making skills through observations and critiques.

Agenda:

• Make up work?

• Hitchcock Show/Observation

• Mini-Mysteries

• "A Poisoned Tale"

• Monday: Discuss "A Poisoned Tale"

• "The Killers"

• Write your backstory

• Adaptations

Thurs 2/7

Agenda:

• Make up work?

• Finish Father Brown stories

• Radio Show

• Our goal of finding lots of options

Tues 2/5

Agenda:

• Grades Posted 

  • Homework this week: get caught up

• Watch movies

• Father Brown: "The Blue Cross"

• Choose another Father Brown Story

  • The Queer Feet:  Father Brown has to prevent Flambeau from stealing the ornate silverware of the Twelve Fishers.

  • The Invisible Man:  Father Brown has to solve a murder where no one saw anyone enter or leave an apartment complex.

• Father Brown as a possible project--how we'll go about finding possibilities

Agenda:

• Copy Cat and Advanced iMovie

• Agatha's Christie Stories--read three

• Read a new Agatha story not on the list? Create an activity

Agenda:

• Papers 

  • proofread

  • turn in

• Observation forms?

• Witness?

• "The Case of the Rich Woman"

• Copy Cat and Advanced iMovie

• Find a clip from Witness

• Project possibilities

• Agatha's characters--pick a story

• Read a new Agatha story not on the list.

Fri 1/25

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up Sherlock Holmes through peer editing their paper and transition to Agatha Christie by watching and critiquing some films.

Agenda:

• Grades?--make a to do list

• Peer Edit

  • Title/Intro

  • Say Something

  • Six-traits

  • Sentence Starts

• Agatha Christie intro

• Talk about "The Accident"

  • How would you film it

  • Student example/critique

• Start Witness for the Prosecution

  • debrief "old movie bias"

  • observation form--watch for shot sequencing

Thurs 1/24

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up Sherlock Holmes through writing their paper and transition to Agatha Christie by reading a story and writing an ending for it.

Agenda:

• Stuff back/Grades--make a to do list

• Saying Something

• East Lab (Holmes paper) until break

• Agatha Christie's the Accident--write your own ending

• Friday: the real ending/student film version

• Start witness/observation form

• Monday Sub Finish Movie

Tues 1/22

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up Sherlock Holmes and make see what they can say about him and his stories through listening to the Final Problem, talking about the stories they've read and writing about him.

Agenda:

• More Sherlock and Mini-Movie

  • Turn in storyboards or explanations

  • Watch Mini-movies

• The Final Problem

  • radio    http://www.storiesnow.com/24.mp3

  • pre-write

  • discuss

• Sherlock Holmes Paper

  • pre-write

• Tues: new authors: Chesterton's  Father Brown

• Thurs: peer edit & Agatha Christie

• Fri: Agatha Christie

  • start movie--debrief old movie bias

  • observation forms

• Mon: Finish Witness for the Prosecution. (1:41 time) save last 11:00 minutes and have them predict certainly not past 9:49 left

• Tues: Wrap Agatha Christie 

• Copy Cat assignment

Thurs-Fri 1/17-18

Content-Language Objectives: Students will push themselves with movie making as well as their knowledge of Sherlock Holmes through working on the Mini-movie and reading more Sherlock  Adventures.

Agenda:

• Stuff back and grades

  • you guys are impressive--had to give so many 10s

  • make up missing work--Can I? vs. Have to

• More Sherlock and Mini-Movie

  • For each story you read: storyboard or write an explanation of how you could adapt it

  • Shooting for done with movies at end of class Friday.

Tues 1/15

Content-Language Objectives: Students will make sure everyone is up to speed with iMovie and will continue the Sherlock Holmes unit by writing about "Scandal in Bohemia" and exploring other stories.

Agenda:

• Finish Movies and "Speckled Band" Activities

• Do "Scandal in Bohemia" Sheet

• More Sherlock and Mini-Movie

  • See Examples

  • Decide on/Plan Movie

  • Explore more Sherlock Holmes

Mon 1/14

Content-Language Objectives: Students will make sure everyone is up to speed with iMovie and will continue the Sherlock Holmes unit by discussing in groups.

Agenda:

• Turn in Mystery Graphic Organizer

• Video: Edit your footage

• "The Speckled Band"

  • Group notes

  • Crossword

• "Scandal in Bohemia"

Fri 1/11

Content-Language Objectives: Students will consider how "The Purloined Letter" established a genre and to what extent it fits the model of a mystery story.  We will also look at who Sherlock Holmes is from the book rather than our movie/TV notions of him.

Agenda:

• Poe's "Purloined Letter"

  • Read Our "Purloined Translations"

  • Revisit the questions

  • Wrap the story up

• The introduction of Sherlock Holmes

  • In writing consider the following:

    • Describe Holmes and Watson

    • What surprised you?

    • What interested you?

• "The Speckled Band" for Monday

• Intro to Video

  • Lab 

  • Cameras

  • Shotlist

Mon Edit half and half? Deal with the Speckled Band

New people: Tutorials--overview

Veterans? (Start Scandal in Bohemia)

Thurs Fri Tues: Collage or mini mystery/read holmes options

Thurs 1/10

Agenda:

• Thursday Theory

• Older Literature

  • • Gulliver's Travels

    • 19th Century as Second Language

    • Should we dismiss?

    • Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean it's stupid (Hawthorne)

    • We can do difficult things

• "Purloined Letter"

• • questions

  • page translations (using PoeStories.com & other resources

    • Screenplay formatting for the bold

  • Read the story through

  • notes on other pages

  • go back to initial questions

• What makes a mystery?

• Start Sherlock Holmes

• Vocabulary techniques

Tues 1/8

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class--the concepts of mysteries, storyboards and and adaptation.

Agenda: 

• Attendance/Info Sheet

• "Bedtime Story"

• “The Perfect Crime”

• "Death by Scrabble"

• Storyboards

• Rule of Thirds and critique student examples

• Syllabus

• The Anatomy of a Mystery

  • Do these stories fit the model?

  • Graphic Organizer for Poe

  Homework: Read Poe "The Purloined Letter"

•  Thursday:

• Deal with Poe

• Start Sherlock Holmes Unit

• Vocab Techniques

• Holmes' London