107: Facebook Ads

OBJ: SWBAT examine targeted advertising.
VOCAB:
Algorithm
Text mining
Keywords
real-time
WORKTIME
1. Read Aloud article
2. Define words above
3. Do you like real-time targeted ads on Facebook?
4. Table Share
CLO: Reflection
HW: Look for targeted ads online.

Langston Hughes "Weary Blues" (1923)

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to analyze poetry as a form of historical research for planning a film.

VOCAB: Langston Hughes– Harlem Renaissance poet during the 1920s-1950s. (3 min in journal)

OPENING:1. Describe renaissance and why African Americans moved to Harlem. Unfair treatment in the southern United States (2-3 min)

2. View/Listen to poet Langston Hughes recite “Weary Blues” (0:00-5:55)

MINI-LESSON: Model how to create a storyboard. Utilizing jigsaw method groups will design a storyboard for production based on this poem. (2 min)

WORKTIME: Create storyboards for 4 lines from "Weary Blues" (20 min)

CLOSING:1. Tables share and describe choices (5 min)

2. Based on this poem what do you think the world like in 1923? (5 min silent)

HW: Google “Langston Hughes Poems” and read two more. What is similar?


107: Poetry, Mood and Mind Maps

OBJ: SWBAT design moods for media using sound, movement and pacing.
TASK: How does the mood show through your job (director, camera, sound, editor?)(5min)
MINILESSON: Update chart, laptop procedures, camera procedures (5min)
WORKTIME:
1. Interpret the poem using visuals and sound following your group's mood.(25 Min)
CLO: What did you learn? What did you do? (5Min)
HW: Visit Vimeo.com and look at videos relating to poetry.

106: Media & Main Idea

OBJ: SWBAT recognize and interpret a main idea of a passage.
VOCAB:
Main Idea- the point of the passage
MINILESSON: Brainpop "Main Idea"
WORKTIME:
1. Find main idea of a commercial.
2. Brainpop group quiz
CLO: Reflect on work
HW: login to brainpop before 5:30 (EST) to watch video again.

106: Media: Mood and Tone.

OBJ: SWBAT identify mood and tone in media
VOCAB:
mood - the feeling a piece of literature creates in the reader.
tone - the attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature revealed by the characters, word choice and the general writing style. The tone can be serious, funny, satiric, etc.
MINILESSON: Brainpop "Mood and Tone"
WORKTIME
1. Look at examples of mood and tone in media
CLO: How does mood and tone relate to media?
HW:

108: Harlem Renaissance

OBJ: SWBAT make connections between art, social studies, and literature.
VOCAB: Renaissance - "rebirth"
MINILESSON: Brainpop's "Harlem Renaissance" 1920-1930s
WORKTIME:
1. Group Quiz
2. Write a reflection about the Harlem Renaissance
CLO: What topics do you think Harlem Renaissance artists wrote about?
HW: Google "Langston Hughes"

Julie Taymor, Director

OBJ: SWBAT identify careers in theatre
VOCAB: William Shakespeare - The Tempest - a play about a old magician getting revenge and giving up his powers
WORKTIME
1. Behind the Scenes "Theatre"
CLO: What does a theatre director do?
HW: How does someone learn how to direct plays?

108: Historical Poetry, the Blues


OBJ: SWBAT identify and compose 12 bar blues lyrics in groups.
TASK:
MINILESSON: Brainpop blues
WORKTIME:
What pains are you feeling?
I. (introduce) 10-12 syllables describing problem
IV. (repeat) 10-12 syllables describing problem
V. (resolve) 10-12 syllables describing a possible solution or clever twist
CLO: What did you learn? What did you do?
HW: Listen for blues influences in other styles of music.

107: Mind Map for Gary Soto Project

OBJ: SWBAT organize a mind map for making a movie.
TASK: Write in your notebook about your group's plans.
MINILESSON: Mind map details
WORKTIME: Groupwork add to Mind Map
1.Write who is the DRI at the top
2. What is the mood of your section of poem? write under "What"
3. How will the camera create that mood?
4. How will the sound create that mood?
5. How will the editing create that mood?
CLO: verbal or written share
How did your project change today?
HW: Start collecting what you need for production (props, costumes, sounds)

108: Slander, Libel and the First Amendment

OBJ: SWBAT recognize first amendment's impact on journalism.
TASK:
Slander - a spoken defamation
Libel - a written or pictorial defamation
First Amendment - freedom of speech, religion, the press and right to peacefully protest.

Mini Lesson: "You give me the pictures and I'll give you the war"- William Randolph Hearst
When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." (Time Magazine 10/27/1947)

Worktime:
1. Citizen Kane 23:46-27:14
2. What does the quote mean? write
3. Table Share
CLOSING: What does the quote mean? Group share.