Assignment #8: PLS cyber bullying

We have been seeing reports about Cyber-bullying on Channel One this week. Please post your thoughts in the PLS and see who else in the community can relate to your post? Remember to enter at least three keywords! i.e. cyber, bully, Internet, crime, ...

Assignment #7: Haiku Poetry

April is Poetry month, so we will be ready when it arrives! We will create beautiful Haiku poetry to publish in the first WJPS book of poetry!
Each of you will create and revise 3 Haiku poems and 3 art compositions to communicate your words in visual form also.
Click HERE to see the rubric for our Haiku project.
Here are some poetry resources, of course you can go to wikipedia and look up Haiku too:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry
   
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_device

American Revolution Portfolio Requirements

Students have been provided with a checklist to aid them in compiling their portfolios. This checklist, along with a cover letter, and projects from the interdisciplinary unit will comprise the complete portfolio. Items collected by teachers will be returned along with rubric sheets containing grade received.

Here is the list of Portfolio contents:
1. Checklist ________
2. Coverletter ________
3. Research Articles (ELA) ________
4. Written Interview, Final Draft, Typed (ELA) ________
5. Rubric for written interview (ELA) ________
6. 10 facts on your person, typed (SS) ________
7. Exam from Social Studies (SS) ________
8. Who am I writing entry (Tech) ________
9. Digital Collage (Tech) ________
10. Rubric for Collage and who am I (Tech) ________
11. Performance/Audience Rubric ________
12. Quicktime Movie ________
13. Rubric for movie ________

Project #6; The American Revolution, Who Am I?

Full Project requirements and grading rubrics
Objective: Students research 1 historical figure from the period surrounding the American Revolution and share their findings with classmates.
Activities: Photo shop collage, Writing
Writing Assignment:

1. Pretend that you are the person that you have researched. State as many facts about yourself as you can without telling the reader your name. We will leave this in question to see if others can figure out 'who are you?' from the details that you have given.
2. Put this writing in your PLS.
   
3. Place a link after your writing that will show the reader the photo shop collage that you have made about your person

Photo shop Assignment:

1. do a search for images of your person
2. find about 8 pictures that demonstrate why this person was so important that they made it into the history books.
3. Use Photo shop to combine all these images into a collage.
4. Use lots of Photo shop tools and the elements of design to create a nice composition.
5. save your collage as a .jpg file and post it to photo bucket
6. get the URL link and lace the link in your PLS writing assignment.
   

Podcast#1: Attitudes and Assumptions 2/6/07

Objective: Students participate in an online conference call with another middle school to be edited and broadcast from the school website.

Topic: When friends move away or change schools.
Listen here:

http://teachers.bsge.org/mbrownstone/streaming/Podcast%20with%20Rene's%20Kids%2020070206%201523%201.mp3

Project #5: Reflective writing on your Dream place

Objective: Students create a photoshop collage and write a reflective essay on the dream place that they selected.

Activity:

Describe your creation and the steps you used to make it. All projects will include the finished piece and a brief statement of the process involved. What tech tools(hardware an software) did you need to complete the project?

Please use photobucket.com, or imageshack.us to upload your photo to the internet and use the insert image tool to post your photo here. If you don't have a webphoto space, join! it's free!

Project #4: Digital Phoyography and artist statements

Objective: students learn how to use several tools in Adobe Photoshop and how to use layers to control their compositions.

Activity:

Describe your creation and the steps you used to make it. All projects will include the finished piece and a brief statement of the process involved. What tech tools(hardware an software) did you need to complete the project?

Please use photobucket.com, or imageshack.us to upload your photo to the internet and use the insert image tool to post your photo here. If you don't have a webphoto space, join! it's free!