The Lab:
1. Complete your 500-word short story draft project. Give your story a title, check your grammar, then print it out by the end of period 3.
2. If you finish your 500-word short story, you may wish to work on your human interest video project. With your partner, go shoot some video footage or film a short interview for your project (see posts below for information...)
3. Type up the poem you wrote in your journal or use the poem word spill from our poetry-walk last class to write a draft of a poem. Print out and turnin your draft if you complete it.
See me or tech-savvy peers to help you upload your video footage and import it into Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premiere. Both can be found in your programs menu at the bottom left hand of your screen.
1. Complete your 500-word short story draft project. Give your story a title, check your grammar, then print it out by the end of period 3.
2. If you finish your 500-word short story, you may wish to work on your human interest video project. With your partner, go shoot some video footage or film a short interview for your project (see posts below for information...)
3. Type up the poem you wrote in your journal or use the poem word spill from our poetry-walk last class to write a draft of a poem. Print out and turnin your draft if you complete it.
See me or tech-savvy peers to help you upload your video footage and import it into Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premiere. Both can be found in your programs menu at the bottom left hand of your screen.
- How to use Microsoft Movie Maker and a print version.
- How to use Adobe Premiere and the website for more help.
If you finish all 3 tasks, please go on to the short research task for 4th period:
Conduct the following research for our first play: Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon. Write your notes in your journal. Be prepared to share what you found with your peers this morning.
Find out:
Conduct the following research for our first play: Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon. Write your notes in your journal. Be prepared to share what you found with your peers this morning.
Find out:
- Who is Neil Simon? What is he famous for? What books or plays did he write?
- Where is Brighton Beach? What did it look like in the 1930's?
- What was life like for American citizens in the 1930's?
- Check out this link and read about what was happening in the U.S. and around the world in 1937.
- Finally, read about baseball in the 1930's.
When called, please go to the library to pick up the play Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon.
When we return from the library, please go next door (room 238) and sign up for a reading role or script task.
Before we begin reading, please find at least 2 other peers and share information about the 5 questions posted above. Talk about what information you found in the lab. Then we'll get started reading this play.
HOMEWORK: None. Please bring your play scripts back with you to next class.
Before we begin reading, please find at least 2 other peers and share information about the 5 questions posted above. Talk about what information you found in the lab. Then we'll get started reading this play.
HOMEWORK: None. Please bring your play scripts back with you to next class.
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