Friday Feb. 28

3MS
-watched most of the Junior Year

Homework
-make sure all questions are filled in for the Freshman and Sophomore Year
-based on your questions and answers, and what you saw in the junior year, fill in the "Hoop Dreams is about..." sheets

Monday
-finish Junior Year and questions

3C1
-memo assignment explained
-quizzes returned

Homework
-rough copy of memo due Tuesday

Monday
-read "Paid Up Member"
-element of irony

Thurs. Feb. 27

3MS
-corrected freshman year questions
-watched sophomore year
-answered questions for sophomore year

Here are the links to St Joseph's high school and its wiki page

http://www.stjoeshs.org/pages/StJosephHS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph_High_School_(Westchester,_Illinois)

Tonight
-be sure all questions are completed in the freshman and sophomore packages

Tomorrow
-begin Hoop Dreams is about...worksheets
-watch junior year 

3C1
-period 4 - completed and corrected Intro to Business worksheets
-introduced memo assignment

-period 5 - wrote quiz
-completed and corrected Intro to Business worksheets
-introduced memo assignment

Tomorrow
-element of fiction #6 - Irony
-read "Paid Up Member"

Wednesday Feb. 26

3MS
-watched up to the end of the Freshman Year in Hoop Dreams
-began working on question package

Tomorrow
-correct questions
-watch Sophmore Year

3C1
-period 4 - finished Intro to Business Writing
(hockey buyout)

-period 5  - elements of character and setting, began Intro to Business Writing 
** Quiz tomorrow

Tuesday Feb 25

3MS
-finished power point intro to documentaries (if away make sure you get the worksheets)
-be sure you have filled them in

Tomorrow - Friday
-documentary analysis and work groups

3C1
-period 4 - wrote quiz, intro to business writing

Tomorrow
-the memo

-period 5 - watched "Monsters," reviewed elements of setting and character, completed review for the quiz   

Tomorrow
-quiz and intro to business and writing

Monday Feb. 24

3MS
-intro to documentaries (and tomorrow)
-returned tests

3C1
-finished "Monsters"
-element of setting

-quiz tomorrow

Friday Feb. 21

3MS
-wrote test
-if you were away, be prepared to write it Monday

Monday-Friday 
-begin documentaries unit

3C1
-period 4 - answered questions on "Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
-period 5 - class interrupted due to literacy test prep

Monday 
-finish "Monsters"
-element of setting

Tuesday 
-quiz and intro to business writing

Thursday Feb. 20 to Monday Feb. 24

3MS
-finished and corrected text book fact finding mission

Tonight
-study for the test

Tomorrow
-unit test 1

Monday
-begin documentaries unit

3C1
-continued reading "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Tomorrow
-finish story and quiz outline for Monday

Monday 
-quiz on first 3 stories and 6 elements

Wednesday Feb. 19

3MS
-corrected codes and conventions of movie trailers
-text book fact finding mission
-test outline - test is Friday - on Introduction of Mass Media

3C1
-period 4 - catch up period
-period 5 - what is theme? Begin reading "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"   

Tuesday Feb. 18

3MS
-completed work on codes and conventions of movie trailers
-any incomplete charts should be done for homework


3C1
-period 4 - what is theme? ; began reading "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
-period 5 - literacy test prep - no classwork done

Thursday Feb 13 and Friday Feb 14

3MS
-corrected Film Techniques handout and Stand By Me handout
-handout on Codes and Conventions of Movie Trailers
-watched our first two trailers

Homework
-finish the chart for one of the 2013 trailers

Tomorrow and Tuesday
-analysis of 2013 trailers and classic trailers

Test will be at the end of next week on unit 1

3C1
-read "DB Cooper"
-completed questions on "DB Cooper"

Tomorrow
-corrected questions on "DB Cooper"
-watch Unsolved Mysteries on DB Cooper

Next Week
-last story before the quiz and first writing assignment

Quiz next Friday and minor writing assignment

Enjoy Valentines Day and Family Day!

Movie Trailers

3MS

Practice

Social Network   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4

Dodgeball  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUpzAw5Kw7M

Click on these links to find the movie trailers

2013

The Wolf of Wall Street      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszwuX1AK6A

Anchorman 2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdGI5-z_hg

Gravity  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4

The Great Gatsby  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARN6agiW7o

Man of Steel   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS7iJu4

Animated vs Horror

Toy Story  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYz2wyBy3kc

Shrek   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37DlG1i61s

The Conjuring    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJiqsVfiB8

The Shining    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b726feAhdU

Media Assignment Day 2

We've completed Step 1 - a chart on the codes of film making


Now onto Step 2.  

Application portion - Applying these terms to a scene from a movie 

Step 3.  Watch this short video:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWPz0-iYTTw

(Spoiler Alert - there may be a curse word or two, but they are not mean or malicious in intent, the words come more out of fear)

Step 4.  Go get a question sheet from D'Angela on this scene.  Watch the scene a couple of more times and then answer the questions.   

You will need your chart from yesterday to refer to the terms and techniques.

Media Library Assignment

Knowledge portion - Learning new terms

Step 1.  Get a handout from D'Angela on some technical terms.  You are on a web quest to define and give a reason they are used in film (what effect they create).  You can watch the video we watched yesterday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUKRTFhoiA and pause and write or type in the term and research it.  

However, to better understand the technique, I would like it if you defined the term but also visualized (saw it) as well again, but it is up to you.

Monday Feb 10

3MS

-finished up our discussion of pop culture
-introduction of codes and conventions of film making
-watched a video on film techniques

Tomorrow Meet in the Library

3C1
-finished up analysis of "Interlopers"
-learned what a pseudonym is

Friday Feb 7

3MS
-defined pop culture - pages 3-4 of textbook
-continued the power point on pop culture
-if you were away be sure to catch up on the note when you returrn

Monday
-finish up pop culture
-introduction to codes and conventions of media

3C1
-read "The Interlopers" p. 41 of Between the Lines
-answered questions 1-8 on question sheet (for period 4 - should be complete by Monday; for period 5 - questions 1-4)

Monday
-finish up "Interlopers"
-note on element of fiction - character