Agendas

Last Day

• Grades posted--tomorrow is a deadline

• Watch what I have--any changes?

• Watch our projects

• Make clips and minor changes

  • Get clip to Pfouts

  • Decide on what to show/Length of large room

• Flannery O'Connor? too bad

• Slam Poets--favorites? Watch some?

• Final Letters and Final thoughts

Paste Links for Slam Poets here

Last Week

Cutaways? you all bagging on me/the class

• Turn in Round Two Activities

• One Minute Solos

• Final Movie Project

• Author Study Paper postponed 

• One Minute Solo Help

  • http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/2127

  • http://rickygregory.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/1-minute-film-story-boardscriptresearchshot-listtreatment/

  • http://oneminutewonder.tv/

Solo Alternative--A video collage "Success"

Thurs 2/27

Agenda:

• Author Study

  • Another Story

  • Folders back? Abbey?

• Final Movie Project

  • "Happy Endings" Example

  • Critique

• Solos too--come on, it's fun.

• Paper can wait...

Tues 2/25

• Author Study Presentations

• Round Two--Pick a story someone talked about

  • any we want to do as a group?

  • copies?

  • Look at Compiled Activities Page

Fri-Mon 2/21-24

Agenda:

• Author Study

  • Turn in Folders

  • Wrap up Presentation--share with me

  • Give Presentations

  • One minute Solo Movies

  • Round Two

    • Activities compiled

  • Papers

  • Thinking about Final Movies

Agenda:

• Author Study

  • Reading Time

  • Folder Check ins (also check in about papers and missing work)

    • Activities compiled

  • Presentations--watch movies

    • start yours

Keep in mind:

• One Minute Solos

  • http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/2127

  • http://rickygregory.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/1-minute-film-story-boardscriptresearchshot-listtreatment/

Thurs 2/13

Agenda:

• Watch Copy Cats?

• Make-up Work?

• My offerings: Oates/Parker/Cather

• Author Study

  • explained

  • you choose, design, propose

• Next steps

  • Reading

  • Paper

  • Presentations

  • Activities compiled

  • Round Two

• One Minute Solos

Mon-Tues 2/10-11

Agenda:

• Papers?

• Midterms Monday

• "Act of Vengeance" Activities

• Finish Copy Cat? Watch

• "The Other Wife"  "In the Family" Adaptation

  • Screenplay formatting

• Direct TV Scripts

• Tues: 

  • Dorothy Parker Joyce Carol Oates Choices film?

• Thurs: Design your own study

• Weekend--Study

Direct TV

• Next week WCG (2.19.14) is for IBGs to present for 2 min. Get yours ready, please! Next one up (2.26.14) is TCAP Rally with your movie, I hope. Before or after Kirk and I talk?

• Equity 2/19 groups present at Community Gathering

• Netbooks

• Compost

• CSAP/TCAP  (Harper et al)  Plus Positives

Mon-Tues 2/3-4

Content/Language Objectives: Students will advance their video skills by completing a Copy Cat Video and will continue their exploration of famous women writers.

Agenda:

• Turn in First Paper

  • proofreading tricks 

• CopyCat Video

  • Examples

  • Handout

  • Groups?

  • Get clip--learn to screencast

  • Final Cut Overview--I show you and put it on desktop for review

  • "All About Eve" Screenplay

• Tuesday Homework: Margret Atwood "The Sin Eater"--Seminar Thurs

Tues-Friday 1/28-31

Content/Language Objectives: Students will wrap up the first portion of the class by writing their first paper.  They will move on to the next unit: adaptation.  They will read a short story, learn about screenplays

Agenda:

• Paper Questions

  • Friday Peer Edit--that's your homework.

  • I want to coach, and I want your best

• A Few Choices and African Choices Storyboards

  • Wrap it up

  • Recommendations?

• "The Wisdom of Eve"

  • Read--consider making it a film.

• Adaptation & Screenplays--how deep should we go?

  • Screenplay formatting

• All About Eve (138 min)

  • Observations

  • Video Review--what do we know?

• Next Video Unit--Copy Cat Assignment

  • A touch of Final Cut

  • Green Screen one shot?

• Friday:

  • Writing Lessons and Peer Editing

  • Start planning Copy Cat Sequence

• Monday: Work on Copy Cat Video

Thursday-Monday 1/23-27

Content/Language Objectives: Students will come out of their Early American Writers Unit and go into a Survey Unit--to provide some choice and repetition while not overlapping with things students have read.  they will then move towards their first paper and making sense of the first weeks of the class. 

Agenda:

• "Fanny Fern"

  • Series One

  • Series Two

• Tuesday's Homework?  Email me a link to your favorite Fanny Fern Text

• Thurs: Surfing Fanny Fern and My Choices. Grades updated.  Get "A Poisoned Tale"--Friday Seminar

• Friday Seminar: "A Poisoned Tale"

• Paper Assignment and Pre-writing

• Friday: 2nd Half African Choices

• Monday: Sub, Wrap Up Choices

• Monday Second half: First Paper/Lab time East Lab

• Monday Homework: Paper and finish up any African Choices Storyboards

• "The Wisdom of Eve"

• Adaptation & Screenplays

• Tuesday: All about Eve Unit--Copy Cat Assignment

• Direct TV Ads? Do we want to do more?

Tuesday 1/21

Content/Language Objectives: Students will wrap up their exploration of early American writers and wrap up the video poem unit.

Agenda:

• Watch Video Poems

  • critiques

  • to do lists

• "The Count and the Cousin"

• "Lucy Nelson"

• "Fanny Fern"

  • Series One

  • Series Two

• Homework:  Email me a link to your favorite Fanny Fern Text

Friday 1/17

• "If I were a Man"

  • Writing question: 

    • What was the most striking thing Mollie learned through this story? Defend your answer.    

• Video Poems

  • Finish them &share them to Finished Movies Folder.

• Homework: root for the Broncos.

Thursday 1/16

Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue their exploration of 19th Century women writers. They will also continue with the Video Poem.

Agenda:

• "Two Friends"

  • draw a picture

• "Story of an Hour"

  • story time

  • Women's Roles

• "If I were a Man" for tomorrow

• Video poems

  • plans/storyboards

  • audio, text or combo

• iMovie vs Final Cut

  • learn the technology/take turns 

Tuesday 1/14

Content/Language Objectives: Students will dig deep into the story through a discussion and consider what it says about women writers. We will then continue with the Video Poem.

Agenda:

• Stuff back/grades

• Discuss: "Miss Grief"

  • Turn in notes

• Video poems

  • plans/storyboards

  • audio, text or combo

  • watch a couple more?

• iMovie vs Final Cut

  • learn the technology/take turns

• Thurs: "Two Friends" Video Poems

Monday:

iMovie Tutorial

Fanny Fern

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sentimnt/snesffa3t.html

• KeepVid/Youtubeinmp4

• Text/Titles

• Transitions

• Audio

• Documentary style

• Help menu

• Explore options/features

iPads

Red: Emma

Orange: Chloe/

Purple: Max

Black: Olivia Mahayla

Light Blue: Erika

Dark Blue: Eden

White: Abbey

last tutorial and how to put them on iMacs

Watching off iPad and its limitations

Final Cut

"Miss Grief" questions as homework

Thurs-Fri 1/9-10

Content/Language Objectives: Students will dig deep into the story through a Socratic Seminar and writing. We will then begin our first poetry unit.

Agenda:

• Seminar: "Since I Died"

  • write up:  What does this story say about life and death? For whom is the message meant?

•  My poems--then Poets and Poetry

  • read aloud and  jot down critiques

  • pick a favorite and explain its merits (1/2 page)

Friday:

• Poetry Search on Assignments Page: one from different country, different era, and one choice

• Friday: bring a poem after break, everything in? 

  • Email pfouts links or give me copies.

  • After break: iPad intro, Shotlist and import to iMacs.

• Weekend: "Miss Grief"

• Monday: seminar and write-up

Tue 1/7

Content/Language Objectives: Students will get a sense of how the class will work, an introduction to the content and a chance to record their expectations.

Agenda:

• Storytime: "The Writers' Model"

  • issues around Women's Lit

  • storyboard/adaptation

  • watch an example

  • critique

  • our goal

  • some examples

• My retirement dream--this size class with these goals.

• Am I allowed to teach this class? My outlook on teaching Women's Lit.

• Syllabus

• What women have written:

• "Phenomenal Woman"

  • How would you do it? Storyboards

  • another version

  • Video Projects Explained

• "Girl Poem"

  • storyboard

  • two video examples

• Read "Since I Died"  for Thursday

  • read with a pen

  • seminar Thursday

• Thurs-Fri: Seminar, my poems--then Poets and Poetry

• Poetry quest: one from different country, different era, and one choice

• Friday: bring a poem after break, everything in? 

  • After break: read poems aloud.

• Weekend: "Miss Grief"

• Monday: seminar and write-up