Studio Time | Start writing your year in review.
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DO NOW: Go Around
What types of pictures would you want to capture for your Year in Review? (these can be literal or abstract visual representations of the year) STUDIO TIME: Walking Trip Off to JMKAC for photo opportunities along the way, in the sculpture garden, around the building, etc. Learning Goal | Summarize the Year
Do Now | Synecdoche Book Fill out the order form. Do Next | Time Magazine: Year in Review Instructions for our year in review assignment. Studio Time | Start writing your year in review. Learning Goal | Apply part to whole one more time.
Do Now | Quick Jot What words would you use to describe the year? Think of adjectives that describe, but also nouns of things that were important. You will turn your word list in. These words will be used to create a “word cloud” that summarizes our year. Year in Review | Assignment On Friday, each student will have 2 minutes to present a year in review, with slides. What do you need in order to be ready? ex: we should take one more walk to ______. Books | $20 Anyone interested in the Synecdoche book, it will cost $20. Learning Goal | Practice representing the whole
Do Now | Write down names of "celebrities" One per sheet. Celebrity = Someone that most/all people in this room would know. Play | Celebrity The game plays in 3 rounds. During each round, teams take 45 second turns to get their team to guess as many names as possible. Players can pass, and put a name back in the hat. Each round is played until all names are successfully guessed, and points are scored. The next round starts with the exact same set of names. Round 1: Players have to describe the celebrity, but can't use their name or variations on the name. Round 2: Players can only use one word to describe the celebrity. Round 3: Players have to use gestures to describe the celebrity. Announcements
Do Now | Conference Sign Up Pod Discussion What is one thing you learned yesterday about presenting ideas or findings that could actually help your reflective essay as well? Share out. Studio Time | Reflective Essay *due Friday ↑ Intent: Thinking about initial thoughts, questions, expectations.
Move It! | Silent Discussions Open your Reflective Essay on your computer screen. Turn up the screen so the people in your pod can clearly read your essay. Now everyone in your pod move one seat to the right.
Exit Slip | What is the next step of your essay? What do you need? Do Now | Pick one word that encompasses the work you completed in Synecdoche this semester. This word should specifically represent your creations, not the class as a whole.
Do Next | Reflection Open Google Classroom. Click on Synecdoche Reflection. A reflective essay is a formal analysis of an experience. The goal of a reflective essay is to evaluate the learning that happened during this experience as well as consider how that learning can affect future experiences. This reflection should be written in first person because it represents you. Include specific examples and explain what those examples represent within your learning. Remember, the individuals reading your reflection will have experienced hundreds of projects. They will not understand what you mean if you write things like “while writing my thesis statement I learned,” because they may not remember your individual thesis statement. Instead, be specific, such as “I began my research journey with the thesis statement: Life becomes a dangerous game of self-destruction when individuals are denied the opportunity to be themselves in a restrictive society.” ↑ Intent: Thinking about initial thoughts, questions, expectations.
← Process: Thinking of what happened in the creation phase.
Mix N' Mingle | Give your collection of work a title, select the first thing that comes to mind. You can rework the title, come up with something deeper/more meaningful from here. → Intent: Thinking of future learning.
Do Now | Ladder of Feedback
Peer feedback Do Next | Studio Time Complete/submit Spring Green Summary. Or play Werewolf. Learning Goal | Focus your writing with a specific viewpoint.
Do Now | Quick Jot Write one sentence that expresses the viewpoint of your photographs. What do your photos say about your trip? Review | Tom Jones perspective What were Tom Jones' photographs about yesterday? Go Around | Share viewpoints Studio Time | Complete Spring Green Summaries Learning Goal | Use professional models to improve our own writing Do Now | See/Think/Wonder Take a look at the pictures below and discuss as a class. Claim | What experience do you think this gallery summarizes?
Connections | Read an artist statement about the photos above. How does it connect with our assumptions? How does this artist statement connect with your own writing about the Spring Green photos? Studio Time | Continue writing |
Course DescriptionWisconsin is often considered “flyover country,” a place to ignore on your way from one exciting place to another. Purposeful examination reveals that it’s actually a state rich with rewarding opportunities and experiences, captivating natural history and human history. It is a place with many parts that can be observed, experienced, reflected upon to better understand it as a whole. This class will look beyond the cheese and cows to rethink our state using the professional models of Wisconsin. Together we will create a final interactive Wisconsin experience that captures new ideas about the place we call home.
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