Weds/Thurs: Video Production[VP] - UNIT INTRODUCTION & EXEMPLARS

UNIT Learning Target(s):  

• How can we SPEAK the LANGUAGE of 'film'?
• How can we use film to express ourselves and our ideas?

UNIT Project Deadline(s)

• 2 minute How-To Video
• DUE: Tuesday 5/12/15
• 5 minute Featurette
• DUE: Week of June 1st

Learning Target(s):  

• I can begin to UNDERSTAND the basic techniques of proficient VIDEO STORY TELLING

Announcements: 

• START BRINGING HEADPHONES EVERY DAY - but don't have them out unless you are told.

HOMEWORK:

• Watch 120 seconds of three different kinds of video/film. 
• Due: This Friday 5/1/15

Agenda: [100]

• Typing Web Exercise [15]
• New Unit - Cell Phone VIDEO! [10]
• Can it be done?
• freddiew : Sandcastle Sensei 
• A little about Freddie Wong & the Guerrilla School of Filmmaking
• What are you good at? [15]
• turn to your seat-mate for a think-pair-share [01+01+01]
• What is the simplest thing that you are really good at?
• Why are you good at it?
• Share out your partner's idea
• Looking for examples [25]
• What makes a proficient how to video?  Here's a bad one:
• How to Make a Peanut butter and jelly sandwich  [02]
• Can you find an example on YouTube for YOUR idea? [13]
• Everybody finds their own
• The EXEMPLAR [20]
• How to Grip a Skateboard with Mr. Keithley
• Pair Shares/Cold Call Discussion: What makes this video proficient and interesting? Compare it with the videos you found on YouTube using the the photo/video concepts listed here:
• Techniques - very similar to phtography
• Quick Cuts (*NEW - what do you think this means?)
• Camera Framing (Rule of Thirds?)
• Attention to detail
• Lighting
• Sound
• Titles
• How to get GOOD at this... [05]
• Freddie Wong: My High School Films and how to watch  films  CONSTRUCTIVELY 
• The HOMEWORK [10]
• Template
• Assignment

Tuesday: DP - Edit, Improve & Submit your "Community Photo"

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, 

and you can't [really] correct it..." Henri Cartier-Bresson

Warm-Up:  

• Get to work on your "Community Photo"

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can sort, correct, crop and modify my photos using Picasa
• I can export my photos to Photoshop for further modification
• I can Submit my "Community Photo" and any other 'good' photos I want John to consider for my grade & the photo exhibition

Announcements: 

• Youth Law Academy Application

Agenda: (60)  

• Work time (60)
• IMPORT
• EDIT
• EXPORT
• To Save Changes Permanently and Submit - or - 
• To Photoshop
• Photo manipulation
• Content aware tools
• Advanced Text Formatting
• SUBMIT
• Google Classroom
• COMMUNITY PHOTO - YOUR NAME.JPG
• Picasa notes: 
• SpaceBar to STAR 
• STAR every good photo - this is the first pass through them
• Arrow Keys to Navigate
• Show ONLY Starred Photos
• EDIT
• Fill Light
• Neutral color ("White Balance")
• Crop & Straighten
• Add simple text
• Otherwise enhance
• UnStar ones that just don't work
• EXPORT Photos you want to submit or move in to PHOTOSHOP for further work & fancier text effects.

Internships and Opportunities
BAY-Peace "Theater for Social Action" 

2015 Summer Program (paid internship if you qualify)

Apply today for the BAY-Peace 2015 summer program: Theater for Social Action! June 29-July 30th, 11 am - 6 pm, M-Th. This five-week (4 days a week) intensive training includes Theater of the Oppressed, Playback Theater, and community organizing for youth justice.

The program is open to Oakland youth, 13-20 years old, who want to develop their creative performance skills to fight for justice, and against violence in their community. The program is free of charge and meets in downtown Oakland.

PAID INTERNSHIPS: They also welcome participants who are enrolled in paid internships through ECCO, Mayor’s Youth Summer Jobs Program, Youth Uprising, YEP, Youth Uprising, Brothers on the Rise, etc. They can give you more information so that you can apply to one of those programs if you aren't already enrolled.

Rolling admissions—Interviews start in April. Please use the online form to apply ASAP!

You can also call 510-863-1737 for more info, or email baypeace@baypeace.org.

Monday: DP - Community Photo Worktime & Youth Law Academy Presentation

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, 

and you can't [really] correct it..." Henri Cartier-Bresson

Warm-Up:  

• Period One: Get to work on your "Community Photo"
• Periods Three, Four, & Five: 
• NO COMPUTERS [turn OFF if ON]
• Get settled, have note paper out to take notes, write & hold questions, etc...

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can sort, correct, crop and modify my photos using Picasa
• I can export my photos to Photoshop for further modification

Announcements: 

• Youth Law Academy Application

Agenda: (60)  

• Work time (60)
• Import to computer
• STAR
• EDIT
• Fill Light
• Neutral color ("White Balance")
• Crop & Straighten
• Add simple text
• Otherwise enhance
• UnStar images you no longer feel are good enough
• EXPORT
• To Photoshop
• Photo manipulation
• Content aware tools
• Advanced Text Formatting
• To Submit
• Google Classroom
• Picasa notes: 
• SpaceBar to STAR 
• STAR every good photo - this is the first pass through them
• Arrow Keys to Navigate
• Show ONLY Starred Photos
• EDIT
• Fill Light
• Neutral color ("White Balance")
• Crop & Straighten
• Add simple text
• Otherwise enhance
• UnStar ones that just don't work
• EXPORT Photos you want to submit or move in to PHOTOSHOP for further work & fancier text effects.

Internships and Opportunities
BAY-Peace "Theater for Social Action" 

2015 Summer Program (paid internship if you qualify)

Apply today for the BAY-Peace 2015 summer program: Theater for Social Action! June 29-July 30th, 11 am - 6 pm, M-Th. This five-week (4 days a week) intensive training includes Theater of the Oppressed, Playback Theater, and community organizing for youth justice.

The program is open to Oakland youth, 13-20 years old, who want to develop their creative performance skills to fight for justice, and against violence in their community. The program is free of charge and meets in downtown Oakland.

PAID INTERNSHIPS: They also welcome participants who are enrolled in paid internships through ECCO, Mayor’s Youth Summer Jobs Program, Youth Uprising, YEP, Youth Uprising, Brothers on the Rise, etc. They can give you more information so that you can apply to one of those programs if you aren't already enrolled.

Rolling admissions—Interviews start in April. Please use the online form to apply ASAP!

You can also call 510-863-1737 for more info, or email baypeace@baypeace.org.

FRIDAY: Hella Healthy & Photo Editing

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, 

and you can't [really] correct it..." Henri Cartier-Bresson

After you finish your typing test:  

• Read ONE of these stories (Read both if you have time and don't watch the video, we'll do that together) 

• McGuffey ‘Anti-Gay Day’ investigation continues; mother speaks out
• Tony Norman: Anti-gay bullies trend the wrong way

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we take good pictures no matter what kind of camera we have at the moment? 
• How can we use our critical thinking and computer skills to MAKE a good picture happen?

Unit Product (Due NEXT TUESDAY, April 28th): 

• "Community" Photo
• Student Writing on concept of Community (done)
• Student Photo of concept (should be done)
• Photoshop additions & modifications to further concept (Today and Tuesday)
• Student Exhibition of Community Photos &/or PSA (TBD)

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can discuss the origins of Bigotry
• I can sort, correct, crop and export my photos using Picasa

Announcements: 

• The Student Leadership Social Justice Conference is TOMORROW!
• A youth Social Justice Teach In on various topics with 100-150 students from six different Bay Area schools leading and participating in various student-led workshops. And the event is right here at EA!!! 
• You can just show up BUT if you know you are likely to come please fill out this form

Agenda: (60)  

• Typing TEST and Reading: (15)
• Video: McGuffey High: (05)
• Response: “McGuffey did not authorize an ‘Anti-Gay Day.’ A small group of students, not the hundreds that some reports inflated, exercised their rights as citizens to express their viewpoints. Readers and viewers picked up part of the story from news media, allowed emotion to cloud judgment and initiated a large-scale campaign against our district,” the response said.
• Discussion: Responsibility & Action (10)
• Picasa: (30)
• Mini-Lesson: Quickly Sorting a LOT of Pictures (10)
• SpaceBar to STAR 
• STAR every good photo - this is the first pass through them
• Arrow Keys to Navigate
• Show ONLY Starred Photos
• EDIT
• Fill Light
• Neutral color ("White Balance")
• Crop & Straighten
• Add simple text
• Otherwise enhance
• UnStar ones that just don't work
• EXPORT Photos you want to submit or move in to PHOTOSHOP for further work & fancier text effects.
• Independent work (20)
• Import to computer
• STAR
• EDIT
• Fill Light
• Neutral color ("White Balance")
• Crop & Straighten
• Add simple text
• Otherwise enhance
• UnStar images you no longer feel are good enough
• EXPORT
• To Photoshop
• To Submit

Click READ MORE for the INTERNSHIPS 

Weds/Thurs: DP - The Photo Walk II [Digital Photography]

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, 

and you can't [really] correct it..." 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Warm up:  

• Tie your shoelaces
• Get valuables out of your backpack and into your pockets if you are not carrying your backpack with you.
• Find a buddy to walk with
• Pledge to NOT be the last kids walking in the group (if everyone does this we won't get so spread out and have such a yellie, waitie walk)

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we take good pictures no matter what kind of camera we have at the moment? 
• How can we use our critical thinking skills to MAKE a good picture happen?

Unit Product (Due AFTER Spring Break): 

• "Community" Photo
• Student Writing on concept of Community
• Student Photo of concept
• Photoshop additions & modifications to further concept
• Student Exhibition of Community Photos &/or PSA

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can MAKE a photo that will be suitable for my Community Photo
• I can take excellent pictures using my techniques

Current Product (DUE FRIDAY): 

• YOU must have a community photo to work with by Friday

Announcements: 

Medical Internship Application Due Friday

Agenda: 

• Photo Walk [100]
• Rules [05]
• You MUST be able to see JOHN @ ALL TIMES
• You MAY NOT be more than 1/2 block away from John, who will try to walk in the middle of the pack
• You MUST NOT CROSS ON RED.  I will give you an NC if you jaywalk.  Just wait for the green.  We will wait for you.
• You MAY NOT go inside ANY business or building so don't ask to be allowed to
• You may not sit on any cars, climb on any walls, or otherwise do anything but walk on the sidewalk unless John specifically tells YOU that you can.
• Walk [95]
• Approximate Route (2.6 Miles, 53 minutes walking + 42 minutes for stopping to shoot pictures)

Tuesday: Cell Phone Photography

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, and you can't [really] correct it..." Henri Cartier-Bresson

WARM-UP: Explore BAY-Peace (below) 

-OR- Go to Typing.com

BAY-Peace "Theater for Social Action" 

2015 Summer Program (paid internship if you qualify)

Apply today for the BAY-Peace 2015 summer program: Theater for Social Action! June 29-July 30th, 11 am - 6 pm, M-Th. This five-week (4 days a week) intensive training includes Theater of the Oppressed, Playback Theater, and community organizing for youth justice.

The program is open to Oakland youth, 13-20 years old, who want to develop their creative performance skills to fight for justice, and against violence in their community. The program is free of charge and meets in downtown Oakland.

PAID INTERNSHIPS: They also welcome participants who are enrolled in paid internships through ECCO, Mayor’s Youth Summer Jobs Program, Youth Uprising, YEP, Youth Uprising, Brothers on the Rise, etc. They can give you more information so that you can apply to one of those programs if you aren't already enrolled.

Rolling admissions—Interviews start in April. Please use the online form to apply ASAP!

You can also call 510-863-1737 for more info, or email baypeace@baypeace.org.

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we take good pictures no matter what kind of camera we have at the moment? 
• How can we use our critical thinking and computer skills to MAKE a good picture happen?

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can sort, correct, crop and export my photos using Picasa

Announcements: 

Photo Walk Weds & Thurs 

Bring Fully Charged Cell Phones and Cameras ON WEDS / THURS for the "Community" Photo Walk 

Agenda: 

• Do Now: [10]
• Discussion: Community Photo
• Concept

 Exemplar:

• Community: To work together, in common, for good.
• Tired of tagging and stickers and littering, and everything like that
• Love my school and "Love Oakland"
• The Love Oakland Movement

Transformed - how?

Other Internship Opportunities:

The Student Leadership Social Justice Conference this Saturday:

• All this year, about 15 EA students, as part of the Student Leadership Group, have been working with students at five other Bay Area schools to develop their leadership and take action on events they think are important. Their culminating "action" is coming up this Saturday.  They are organizing a youth Social Justice Teach In on various topics they believe are important. There will be around 100-150 students from six different Bay Area schools leading and participating in various student-led workshops. And the event is right here at EA!!! 
• There will be workshops on gender inequity, mass incarceration, cyber bullying, environmentalism - locally and globally, police brutality, and more.
• You can just show up BUT if you know you are likely to come please fill out this form

The Clinical Immersion and Mentoring Summer Internship (RESUME NEEDED TO APPLY):

• The Summer Internship is a seven (7) week (Orientation June 29^th,Program July 6- August 14^th, 2015, 15 years or older ) , full-time program where MIMS participants are immersed into direct patient observation, shadow mentors in patient care settings, interact with a broad spectrum of health professionals/staff and attend daily skill/leadership development seminars. Participants will observe patient care at a busy, urban emergency department, out-patient clinics and private clinics. In addition to the clinical segment, participants will be educated about the prevention and management of health issues disproportionately affecting marginalized communities with an emphasis on mental and sexual health. Participants will become peer health educators and teach younger students about the importance of health education.
• To Apply you will need to upload a RESUME so have that ready before you start.  For more information
  
  

Monday: Youth Law Academy

Warm-UP: Read about the 

two opportunities below

READ BOTH and CHOOSE ONE

then click the link in that one for 

further information or to sign up then 
do TypingWeb until instructed to stop  

OR

Do TypingWeb until instructed to stop

➀ The Student Leadership Social Justice Conference this Saturday:

• All this year, about 15 EA students, as part of the Student Leadership Group, have been working with students at five other Bay Area schools to develop their leadership and take action on events they think are important. Their culminating "action" is coming up this Saturday, April 25. They are organizing a youth Social Justice Teach In on various topics they believe are important. There will be around 100-150 students from six different Bay Area schools leading and participating in various student-led workshops. And the event is right here at EA!!! 
• There will be workshops on gender inequity, mass incarceration, cyber bullying, environmentalism - locally and globally, police brutality, and more.
• You can just show up BUT if you know you are likely to come please fill out this form

➁ The Clinical Immersion and Mentoring Summer Internship:

• The Summer Internship is a seven (7) week (Orientation June 29^th,Program July 6- August 14^th, 2015, 15 years or older ) , full-time program where MIMS participants are immersed into direct patient observation, shadow mentors in patient care settings, interact with a broad spectrum of health professionals/staff and attend daily skill/leadership development seminars. Participants will observe patient care at a busy, urban emergency department, out-patient clinics and private clinics. In addition to the clinical segment, participants will be educated about the prevention and management of health issues disproportionately affecting marginalized communities with an emphasis on mental and sexual health. Participants will become peer health educators and teach younger students about the importance of health education.
• To Apply you will need to upload a RESUME so have that ready before you start.  For more information

Agenda:

• More Picasa & Photo Organization
• Due to circumstances beyond our control the Youth Law presentation will NOT be happening today: We will have it NEXT MONDAY for 3rd, 4th, and 5th period.

Week Of Knowledge - Day of Silence (BULLY & DOS)

NO COMPUTERS

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we learn to be TOLERANT of difference?
• How can we LEARN from difference
• How can we learn to EMBRACE difference?
• How can we STAND UP for those who are different?

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can recognize the causes of and solutions to Bullying

Announcements:  

•  Saturday, April 25 from9:30am to 3pm @ EA
• Student led Social Justice Conference
• 100-150 students from six different Bay Area schools leading and participating in various student-led workshops.
• Workshops on gender inequity, mass incarceration, cyber bullying, environmentalism - locally and globally, police brutality, and more.
• You keep talking about "doing something" - well now's your chance
• The Bully Project
• Day of Silence participation links:
• Organize Your Friends by signing them up
• Print cards to explain your silence
• LGBTQ Resources link - including suicide prevention

Agenda:  

• Explaining the Movie Bully (10)
• Over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation.
• If you have NOT seen the film before please know that it will be an emotional experience.
• If you HAVE seen the film before there is a level of detail that you can only see with maturity so the film will be very new to you as well.
• Bully: A Documentary

Week Of Knowledge - Day of Silence (BULLY)

NO COMPUTERS

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we learn to be TOLERANT of difference?
• How can we LEARN from difference
• How can we learn to EMBRACE difference?
• How can we STAND UP for those who are different?

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can recognize the causes of and solutions to Bullying

Announcements:  

• The Bully Project
• Day of Silence participation links:
• Organize Your Friends by signing them up
• Print cards to explain your silence
• LGBTQ Resources link - including suicide prevention

Agenda:  

• Explaining the Movie Bully (10)
• Over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation.
• If you have NOT seen the film before please know that it will be an emotional experience.
• If you HAVE seen the film before there is a level of detail that you can only see with maturity so the film will be very new to you as well.
• Bully: A Documentary (21)

8th grade reading assessment

Good Afternoon!

You are about to take 

your Accelerated Reader

online assessment of your 

reading comprehension. 

This assessment is made up of a combination of vocabulary and short passage questions. You are going to do great. 

For some of you it might take less than 20 minutes, for others it will take longer.  Don't trip. Remember, the test gets harder every time you answer a question right so DON'T GET DISCOURAGED!

It is ESSENTIAL that the classroom remain extremely quiet so that everyone has the best environment.


This test is TIMED by the question. If you are running out of time a little clock will appear at the top of the screen. Try and answer the question soon if you see the clock.

When you finish the assessment BREATH for a minute and then ...

STOP HERE AND WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS

When instructed, click here to enter the assessment website: bit.ly/acceleratedreader

Then click "I'm a STUDENT" and, if you know what's up you may continue: Once you start the test I CANNOT restart it for you.

Otherwise wait.

For most of you your Username is First_Last_2019

So, John's username looks like this: John_Kittredge_2019

If you can't log in call John over.

If the system asks you for the monitor password: admin