President Obama on the school shooting on Friday

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019920481_shooting17.html

Beverages/Marketing/Advertising

Watch this video first if it's not blocked. 

Beverages/Marketing/Advertising

Think of the beverages you like to drink. Milk, juice, soda, energy boosters. Now think of how you can create your own imprint on those drinks. You are an ambitious business person determined to make it big. Your goal is to create the next big drink product. It's going to be exciting, it's going to be creative and it's going to change the world. First you must have a plan. You will present your plan to the rest of class. Be imaginative. Be appropriate for school - no swearing, no alcohol, no drugs, no sex. Be creative. As a class, we will choose five or six ideas that we want to work on further. Then, we will study advertising and marketing techniques and in groups of 3, shoot a 30-second commercial selling your product. You will turn in and present the following information a few days after the break. So get started on it now! Please be detailed.  - Name of product  - About a 1/2 page concept that includes an introduction and the following information:    - What category is it (juice, health drink, coffee, bottled water, soda, energy, etc.)    - Detailed description of what it looks like (is it a can, a bottle, a pouch, something else, etc).    - What separates your product from other products in the same category?    - What is the basic reason you created this product? Some examples: - My drink is for aggressive people who are looking for a big-time energy boost. - My drink is for kids and it's fruity, colorful, not-too-sweet and 100% natural. - My drink is for people who lift, want big muscles and need a workout supplement.  - Target audience - are you trying to reach kids, old people, men/women, athletes, etc.?  - What is your hook or slogan? For example:     - Sprite is "Obey your thirst"     - Snapple is "Made from the best stuff on earth"     - Gatorade is "Is it in you?"     - The Beast is "Next time you feel weak, unleash the beast"     - MuscleCana is "You drink, we lift"  - A logo or actual can/bottle design on Photoshop.

Careers in Design

The program at Seattle Central (2 years) -

http://www.seattlecentral.edu/programs/graphicdesign/

Two professional designers -

Kevin Peralta
Ryan Anderson

Design as a career -

Graphic Design - Bureau of Labor Statistics
Industrial Design - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Some amazing design sites for inspiration

Digital Kitchen
Superfad
Artefact
Weiden and Kennedy
Deloitte Digital
Camp Doug
frog
Tether

Questions to answer:
- Overall, what thoughts came to your mind as you watched the movie, "Objectified"?
- Investigate the Seattle Central site. What are 3 things you learned about community college?
- Look at Peralta's and Anderson's websites. Talk about one interesting project on either site.
- Read some of the statistics on the Bureau of Labor Statistics sites. What do Designers generally make? Did it surprise you?
- Look through at least 5 of the sites I've given you for inspiration. Write about 3 projects that inspired you and explain why.

Editing/Revising

What does professionalism mean?

Please make sure:
- That your work is checked for spelling. There are way too many spelling errors.
- Clean up any and all design mistakes.
- Make your menu just like you would hand it out at the restaurant.
- If you need to print anything in color, let me know.
- If your business card is out of focus, send me the original inDesign file, and I can try to improve the resolution.
- Don't forget your floor plan if you have one.

If you feel like you need a stronger business card, click here for some ideas.
If you feel like you need a stronger magazine advertisement, click here for some ideas.
If you feel like you need a stronger menu, click here for some ideas.

Your final poster is due at the end of the period Tuesday. No exceptions!

Link to Nickel and Dimed exceprt

Chapter 1

High School Dropouts and Race

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/united-states/Documents/TheSilentEpidemic3-06FINAL.pdf

Read "An Open Letter to the American People."

Go to Boostup.org, Click on "The Facts" and then "National Dropout Rates" and also "Why Students Drop Out."

Read through some of the facts and go through the charts.

On a piece of paper, answer the questions below:

1. Why do you think Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans are dropping out of school at a rate higher than Whites or Asians?

2. Think about stereotypes people have of some ethnic groups. Do you think expectations are different based on what ethnic group you are? Give examples to support your answer.

3. Give some example of stereotypes when it comes to ethnic groups and academics/school.

4. Do you think if you're a minority, you are more likely to get in trouble at school? Why or why not?

5. Think about Esperanza in House on Mango Street, or Junior in Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. What factors in their life might influence them to drop out?

6. How does poverty/being poor affect a student's education?

7. How does somebody's race/ethnic background affect a student's education?

Octopus Hunt by a Diver

Hello. Today I want you to read about a 19-year-old from around here who hunted a live Octopus off Alki Beach. He got in all sorts of trouble for it.

Here is the first story you should read:

Octopus Kill Sparks Outrage

Then read this story:

Diver surprised by reaction to his Octopus hunt

After you've read both stories, on a blank piece of paper:

1) Summarize what happened in a CSE (Claim, Support, Evidence) or TEC (Topic Sentence, Evidence, Commentary).

2) Please be sure to offer your commentary or opinion on what Dylan Mayer did.

Turn your summary into the sub before you leave class today.

Hurricane Sandy 2

Objectives:
Review the reading process.
Find out more about Hurricane Sandy.
Understand why we read sometimes.

Read this story:
Overall assessment of the damage

State-by-state breakdown of the damage

Hurricane Sandy readings

Today's objective:
Review the Reading Process

Everyone has to read this one about Hurricane Sandy:

Hurricane's menacing size shown from space

Then choose one of the following:

Hurricane Sandy grounds thousands of airplanes

Waves pound, winds whip, residents hunker down in Massachusetts

"Pirates of the Caribbean" boat sinks; 14 rescued, 2 missing

If you're looking for supplies, it may be too late

Pictures for "Refine Edge" tutorial

Please copy these pictures into your Photoshop folder and open all 3 into Photoshop.

 

 

CS 6 Tutorials

Tutorials:

3D-Tron Text

http://www.iceflowstudios.com/2012/tutorials/3d-tron-legacy-text-effect-photoshop-cs6/

Denim and Zipper Text

http://designfestival.com/learn-how-to-create-denim-and-zippers-in-photoshop/

Glass Text Effect

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/glass-text-effect/

Other cool Text Effects (Warning: Some of these tutorials use different versions of Photoshop than the one that we have)

http://psd.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/

Using Glows and Lighting Effects

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/create-dynamic-art-using-glows-lighting-effects/

Colorize a Black and White Photo

http://cgpitstop.com/tutorial-photoshop-cs6-colorize-a-black-and-white-photo/

Color Splash Effect

http://www.iceflowstudios.com/2012/tutorials/color-splash-effect-in-photoshop-cs6/

Better Blur 1

http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2012/05/software-workshop-better-blur-photoshop-cs6

Better Blur 2

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/4400242053/photoshop-cs6-blur-gallery-tutorial

Motion Blur Effect

http://news.dphotographer.co.uk/tutorials/add-motion-blur-effects-in-photoshop-cs6/

Creating a Poster inspired by the "Bourne Legacy" movie

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/create-poster-inspired-movie-the-bourne-legacy/

Create a "portal" photo

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/create-epic-portal-scene-photoshop/

Create a scene of an invisible man inside a mystic cave

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/how-to-create-a-surreal-scene-with-an-invisible-man-inside-a-mystic-cave/

Wide-Angle Look

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/adaptive-wide-angle-filter/

Changing Skin Tones

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/select-skin-tones-photoshop-cs6/


(Blocked at school, but you can get these at home)

25 fresh tutorials

http://www.flashuser.net/photoshop-cs6-tutorials

How to change lip color
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1L3vqQ08c

Furry Text

http://abduzeedo.com/easy-furry-text-photoshop

Icy Frozen Text

http://www.cgways.com/photoshop/creating-icy-frozen-text-in-photoshop-cs6

Note-taking - 4th period

Good afternoon!
I'm out sick today. Please read this carefully to get an idea of what you are doing today.

Part 1, REVIEW:

First, we are going to review a few of the things we've talked about in class, related to interviewing and active listening.

1. Read this document first. This is about DEVELOPING YOUR LISTENING SKILLS.
   - In your notebook, please write down two or three tips from this list that you want to remember during your interview.

2. Then read this document next.
  - In your notebook, define "ACTIVE LISTENING."
  - What does it mean?
  - Why is it important?
  - What are things you could do to be ACTIVELY LISTENING during your interview?

Part 2, REMEMBER:

Active listening is important. Having good listening skills is important. 

Part 3, NOTE-TAKING:

You must develop a note-taking system. It's vital that you know how to take notes during your interview. Please read this document about 5 different note-taking systems.

Pick a system that you like the most and that seems to be a good fit for you. Tell me why you picked it.

Part 4, ACTIVITY:

Finally, take a page of notes about what is happening in class today and what people said. I want you to write down at least 10 observations about fellow students, or the sub, in the class today (true things/facts, they don't have to be super interesting, just true and accurate), and find at least 10 quotes that people said.

Part 5, If you finish early, browse through these excellent note-taking resources.

Typography - 1st and 5th periods

Hello students, I'm out sick today.

Please work on this lesson about TYPOGRAPHY. Please read this carefully for instructions on what you need to do today.

Good luck, and I'll see you tomorrow!

***
1. REMEMBER/LEARN: 

Another element of design is TYPOGRAPHY, which is the study, style and appearance of fonts and letters.

2. ACTIVITY, Part 1: 
Please look at these example webpages. I'm sorry if some of them are blocked. :(

Examples of TYPOGRAPHY:
http://typeinspire.com/

http://inspirationfeed.com/inspiration/typography-inspiration/40-remarkable-examples-of-typography-design-8/ (You can also click on the other examples of remarkable typography design)

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/50-new-examples-of-beautiful-typography-inspiration/

*BTW, if none of these work, please just enter "typography inspiration" on Google, and look through any of those links. 

3. ACTIVITY, Part 2: 
Answer these questions on a separate piece of paper and stick in your DESIGN folder (the one with the magazine cutouts):

   1. What is typography?

   2. What is one example of typography that you really like? What is the name? What do you like about it? Please describe using vocabulary from last week's ELEMENTS OF DESIGN discussion (color, shape, line, texture).

   3. Attach that example of typography on this paper (Find it online or in a magazine, and staple it or tape it to your paper; you can also print if you need but remember please be careful you print out only what you need. Also, there's a sub, so you may need to help work the machine and find paper).

   4. Find online or in a magazine, cut out, and attach an example of typography that is "modern" or "new." Explain why you think it's modern or new.

   5. Find and attach an example of typography that is "old-fashioned" or "traditional." Explain why you think it's old-fashioned or traditional.

   6. Find and attach an example of typography that is "fresh." Explain why you think it's fresh.

   7. Find and attach an example of typography that you'd see in the future. Explain why you think it's futuristic.
  
   8. Finally, hand draw your name in a font of your own creation.

News of the Week

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/can-great-teaching-overcome-the-effects-of-poverty.html?ref=education

Senior Survey

http://bit.ly/QJtyzh

Chilean Mine Rescue - Luis Urzua profile

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/news/article_1591283.php/PROFILE-Luis-Urzua-the-Chilean-captain-who-left-last

Reading Process Readings

Digital Divide story

Mercedes-Benz job

Task using these colors, and black, come up with a color scheme that would work for a MBseattle site redesign.

Check out MBseattle.com
and other Mercedes-Benz sites around the web.

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

New York Times, 2011 Year In Review, Pictures

Questions to consider today:

When telling a story...
-What's difference between words and pictures?
-When would you use words? And when would a picture be better?

Prezi.com

Photojournalism

Photography = “drawing with light” – taking pictures

Journalism = the investigation and reporting of events, trends or issues

      Reporting = gathering the 5 W’s and H (who, what, when, where, why, how)

Photojournalism = collecting and presenting images to tell a story about something true

Let’s see some examples:

1 in 8 million by the New York Times

National Geographic Photography

Pulitzer Prize Photography (the highest award in journalism)

Seattletimes.com/photography ("Photo of the Day" galleries updated daily)

Successful visual storytelling techniques =

• Try to create visual variety – a mix of pictures
• Scenery
• People
• Close-ups and detail
• Faraway
• Tell a story
• beginning, middle, end
• first, second, third...
• don't make it random  

Program =

Photo Story 3, a free download for Windows machines

• Can use for school projects, weddings, family slideshows

Senior Class Pictures

Photography Field Trip Pictures

Senior Symposium Pictures

Checklist of Photography Portfolio

Due June 5 at the end of the day

YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO - These are pictures you have taken. If you have any you've taken in the last few months before this class, you may use those if they fit into these requirements.


Create on Photo Story 3. Make sure there is NO PICTURE MOVEMENT, so you can see the entire photo. Each photo should be set for at least 3 seconds. You can include background music if you’d like. You must include:

1) Self-Portrait – The Real You (W/ PROP)

2) Still Life (Dandelion or anything else) – How can you make the ordinary look extraordinary?

3) Flowers – When someone else sees your picture, they should think: BEAUTIFUL

4) Food – When someone else sees your picture, they should think: DELICIOUS

5) Building/Architecture – make this picture feel IMPRESSIVE

6) Motion/Blur (try long shutter) – MAKE THIS PICTURE feel ACTIVE

7) Animals – Dead or Alive – MAKE THIS PICTURE feel FUNNY or INTERESTING

8) Take a picture of the natural light – Make the LIGHT the main character in your picture

9) Color – try to get something that’s NOT A FLOWER

a. If your last name starts with A-D, take a picture of something RED

b. If your last name starts with E-G, take a picture of something ORANGE

c. H-K, something YELLOW

d. L-O, something GREEN

e. P-S, something BLUE

f. T-Z, something PURPLE

10) A picture that incorporates the Water –

11) A picture that captures People at Work –

12) A picture of something Grotesque/Ugly

13) Point your camera UP at something and take a picture/Point your camera DOWN at the same thing

14) Any other picture where you use your MACRO function

15) Any other picture where you use your INFINITY function

16) Take a picture of the same thing with HIGH ISO/LOW ISO

17) Any other 7-10 pictures of your choice that you like, that you’ve taken.

18) Assignment from Pike Place Market Field Trip

Great examples of multimedia journalism

Done by colleges -

"Our dreams are different" (click on past editions, near the bottom)

A great series about education

Done professionally -

"Victims of Gang Violence"

Other examples:

"Empty Cradles"

Food and health

How does your income compare?

50 more

Literacy Essentials – FINAL


Due June 6

You will present a summary of your paper (the job you researched and investigated). You should include basics like what the job is, why you are interested in it, and how you plan on getting there. You should be prepared to answer some questions.

The other thing that I’d like you to do is do something creative related to your findings/your job. This is pretty open-ended and pretty much up to you.

For example,

Sports photography: Go take pictures of sports practice/a real sports event and put together a “story” with pictures. Two seniors and a freshman are going to state for tennis. They are practicing this week. Take pictures of them and see what happens.

Nursing: Borrow a camera from Mr. Ko and go interview a real nurse (school nurse) Polly Elliott and ask her what the job is like, pros and cons of the job, and make a little video.

Film Directing: Show examples from your favorite movies and your favorite directors. Talk about what styles of movies you like and why.

Chef: Create a poster/picture collage that explains/shows the different kinds of cooks/people who work in a kitchen: sous chef, the executive chef, the line cook, the saucier, the sommelier, etc.

Engineer: Give a small-scale demonstration of an engineering project. Lead the class in a small project (building a tower out of newspapers, making a bridge with popsicle sticks).

Police officer: Put together a mix CD of songs related to police work, being a law enforcement officer, working in crime, and other themes related to police work (high stress, the responsibility of carrying a gun, etc.). Give a copy to everyone in class.

OR

ANYTHING ELSE CREATIVE OF YOUR CHOICE, JUST LET ME KNOW.

You will have a few days to work on this in class but you are also expected to work on this project at home, on your free time. Once again, this entire project (the paper, the creative product, the presentation) will be your FINAL GRADE for this class.

Examples of self-portraits

Self-portraits/Props (important object)

Self-portraits/working with light

Resources for Career Pathways assignment

Puget Sound Skills Center

South Seattle Community College Professional and Technical Education

Renton Technical College Programs

List of all the majors you can have at the University of Washington - Seattle

All the work we've done so far in class:
Money and Success worksheet
John Wooden's Pyramid of Success word study
Personality/Passion in the job place (Videos of cupcake maker and chocolate making brothers)

Personality type analysis

Go here to read about your type.

Try this personality test

Click here first
More difficult vocabulary.
If it's too hard, try this more kid friendly version

What do you like?/Job Descriptions

Go here first.

You can also get some more information here.

Finally, there are some great statistics here.

Questions to consider today (answer for at least 3 jobs): What workers do on the job? Write an accurate job description. How much do they make? What is the outlook for the job?

Career Pathways assignment

In a short paper, about 2 pages, you will answer 3 questions:
“What do you want to do in life?"
"How will you get there?"
"What will it look like when you get there?”

In the paper you must include:
- An introduction to a job or career you want for your life. And an explanation of why you want it.
- The pathway, or the steps you will take, from high school until you get there. (Do you have to go to college, community college, vocational school, graduate school; what kind of training/certification do you need?)
- A description of the job:
oWhat do people who do this job actually do day-to-day?
oWhere would you work? oHow much do people make doing this job?
oIs there a big demand for this job in the next few years?
oWhat is the job satisfaction like for this job?

Everyone must turn in a paper.

In addition, you must choose one creative outlet that represents your findings and conclusions in some way – A picture collage
A poster
A video
Photography
A mix CD
A skit
OR
ANYTHING ELSE CREATIVE OF YOUR CHOICE, JUST LET ME KNOW

We will talk more details about the creative part.

Money readings

Start here: "Scraping by on $150,000"

Audio Slideshow

Hello,

We will work with a program called Photo Story 3 to produce an audio slideshow in which you share parts of your life story. You can choose how much of it you want to share, but you need to include your name and your picture at the very beginning. You must also cover 7 of the 10 topics listed below.

The goal is to try and tell a compelling story about your life.

Photo Story 3 is an easy-to-use presentation program that you can use for a variety of other purposes, including senior project/other classes/slideshows for friends and family. We will use Photo Story 3 for other photography projects this year. You can also download it for free if you have a PC at home.

The questions you must address (at least 7 of 10):
1. Where are you from?
2. Describe your family.
3. Describe some of your interests.
4. Describe some of your beliefs.
5. Describe something that's really important to you.
6. Describe something difficult you’ve had to overcome in your life.
7. What are your future goals? What do you want to be?
8. Describe a really important memory.
9. Describe your favorite food.
10. Describe something that most people don’t know about you.
11. In addition to picking 7 of the 10 topics above, you can also talk about whatever else you'd like.

What you will need:
- Photos of yourself and your family/friends/pets/items. You can take them yourself with your own digital camera, or you can bring your photos in and we can scan them at school.
- Pictures off the Internet representing your life/your hobbies/your interests/etc.
- A song or some kind of music/some kind of sound – whatever is most appropriate for you, whatever works for you – to serve as background. You can "create" music on Photo Story 3.
- A microphone, provided, that you can use to narrate your story.

What you will turn in:
- Final Project: A two- to three-minute Photo Story 3 slideshow due Wednesday, April 25 at the end of class. We will play all slideshows in class.

Make Your Own Documentary Exercise

Go here.

Presentation about high school dropouts

Next week, you will present your findings on your essential question. Most likely, the presentations will take place Tuesday or Wednesday. You will use the readings I've given you or the readings you find to answer your essential question.

Your presentation will be:
1) Your essential question.
2) Why you chose this essential question.
3) A summary of your findings.
4) Visuals (posters, multimedia) to explain your points.
5) Your final opinions/thoughts on the question.

You must turn in a dialectic journal with your findings.

You must turn in a bibliography of at least five sources. You must read and use at least five sources. They can be readings Mr. Ko has given you, or readings you've found yourself.

The goal is to come away from this more informed about the high school dropout crisis.

So what are the solutions to the dropout problem?

These articles might help you find some answers, and BE MORE INFORMED!

Preventing future high school dropouts (This is a big document. Focus on Chapters 6 and 7)

10 Strategies to keep students in schools

Should we pay kids for doing well at school?

What are schools doing specifically about Latino students? Here is one answer from Houston.

Latina girls have a higher drop out rate than any other group of girls. What is it about the Hispanic culture that conflicts with education?

Is "Cyber-education" a possible answer?

The state of Washington is working on a plan to help African-American students achieve in school (Focus on Chapter 5)

What about Big Picture Learning schools? They have this thing called Learning Through Internship/Interest. And we have one in the Highline School District.

Is Middle School the Key to the Dropout Crisis?

The Kony debate

This site has a lot of good info.

Students of Color, Expectations and Trayvon Martin

Black, Hispanic and Native American students are dropping out of high school at an alarming rate - almost half of them every year, according to a 2006 report by the Gates Foundation titled "The Silent Epidemic." Why?

One of the answers might lie in the expectations that teachers have for students of color (versus white students).

To further examine this issue, let's look at the case of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Florida boy who was shot and killed Feb. 28 while walking home from a store. He was black. The shooter, George Zimmerman, 28, was 1/2 white and 1/2 Hispanic. Here's a good summary of the case so far:

The shooting of Trayvon Martin

After the shooting, outraged citizens have gone crazy on social media. More than a 1/2 million people have signed a petition on Change.org to demand the arrest of Mr. Zimmerman, who was released after being questioned.

It's interesting to connect this case to education since we're talking about our perceptions here. Zimmerman clearly saw Trayvon as a threat. What kinds of perceptions and expectations do we have of certain groups of people?

Here is a thought-provoking article from a guy who says,

White People, You Will Never Look Suspicious Like Trayvon Martin

Do you agree/disagree with the author, Mr. Skolnik?

Here's another really good article that says it's more complicated than black and white.

What do you think?

What does Trayvon Martin have to do with the high school dropout issue we are studying? Maybe there's a real connection, maybe there isn't. I'm not a social scientist and I don't claim to have the answers. But consider the facts about school discipline in this country:

Minority Students Face More Discipline, Data Shows

What should we make of this data? Why are black and Hispanic students disciplined more than their peers? When teachers enforce the rules, do you think they have different expectations for kids based on their color? Might that be a reason for high dropout rates? Or is this just an excuse?

Finally, read more about the idea of a "Color Blind" approach to education.

Is this the right idea? Should teachers then try to disregard the color and background of their students? What are the consequences?

From these readings, what can you take that might help you become MORE INFORMED about the high school dropout issue in this country?

News of the Week assignment

1. Read this story about gun safety laws, written after a third child was shot by a gun due in large part to the carelessness of adults.

2. Go on to the comments section. Read the comments, leave a comment.

3. Email your comment to me at Michael.Ko@highlineschools.org.

OBJECTIVE: Inform yourself about the issue of high school dropouts.

Your task today is to skim through the Gates Foundation report on high school dropouts, called “The Silent Epidemic.”

Read the Executive Summary
Read "Consequences of our Nation's Low Graduation Rates" (page 2)
Read "Who is Dropping Out" (page 2-3)

At the end of the period, you will have one essential question that expresses your interest in one area of the dropout problem. For example, it could be:

Why do so many Hispanic and black students drop out of school? or
What can we do about unmotivated students? or
How can we make school more relatable/relevant to students?

Eventually, you will answer your own question. You will find readings that relate to your topic. You will read those readings. Then you will present your findings to the rest of class. The goal is to have an informed opinion about the issue of high school dropouts in the U.S.

Documentary Modes - Resources

Standards:
Students will analyze mass media for bias and use of persuasive tecniques and evaluate their impact (Communications GLE. 1.2.2)

Documentary Mode = The characteristics and traits that separate each of the different types of documentaries.

The ones we will be studying in class, and the styles that you will be choosing from, include:

Poetic/Avante Garde
Expository
Observational/”Fly on the Wall”
Cinema Verite/French Realism
Reflexive/Interactive
Performative
Participatory

Here are some resources for you to put together your informational sheets that you will share with the rest of your class.

You need to create a 1/4-1/2 page handout in language that you and your classmates can understand. It must include:

- a definition of your documentary mode
- characteristics, traits and elements of your documentary mode
- some examples from TV and movies that use your documentary mode

When you're done, attach it to an email and send it to michael.ko@highlineschools.org.

We will also present our work to our classmates.

Documentary Modes

Bowling for Columbine Study Guide (see page 3)

Wikipedia

Good summarization of a few more modes

Cinema Verite

More Cinema Verite

Good slideshow with definitions (scroll through to find info on expository, poetic, observational, performative, participatory, and reflexive modes)

Pit Bulls

Standards:
1. Theme - Students will demonstrate understanding of theme in non-fiction readings (Reading GLE 2.1.3)
2. Students will comprehend important information through summarization (Reading GLE 2.1.7)
3. Students will cite evidence and specific details to support their conclusions (Reading GLE 2.1.7)
4. Students will make inferences (predictions/assumptions/educated guesses) based on the readings (Reading GLE 2.1.5)

You must read:
1. Washington State Dangerous Dog Laws Please pay specific attention to 16.08.100.

2. Pit Bulls on Wikipedia (Read only "American Pit Bull Terrier" "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2000)" and "Legislation")

Then choose 3 of the following 4 stories to summarize:
Story #1 - Jogger in Chicago loses foot after being attacked by pit bulls

Story #2 - Pit Bulls: Natural Born Killer or Misunderstood Companion?

Story #3 - A lonely life if you love a pit bull

Story #4 - The Michael Vick/Pit Bull story *After playing six years in the NFL, he served 21 months in jail for his part in operating a pit bull ring. Now he is back in the NFL.


Remember, summaries include three elements:
1) Main idea or author's main message
2) 3-5 supporting details (specifically from the text)
3) Final thought/Commentary - New thinking/your opinion

If you need an example of an acceptable summary, please look in your portfolios at the ONLINE SHOPPING EXEMPLAR. You should all have one.

Your THREE summaries are due Monday at the end of class. We will then have a QUIZ/ discussion preparation day on Tuesday.

On our block day next week (Wednesday for Period 3 and Thursday for Period 6), we will have a Socratic Seminar called "Pit Bulls: Killer Dogs or Just Misunderstood?"

Check this out!

Scale of the Universe!

Period 3 and 6 - technology reading

Hello.
Please read the following article. Summarize it with a main idea, 3-5 supporting details and a final thought/conclusion. Due at the end of the period.

The story is about Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide because she was bullied online.

ARTICLE

Standards:
Comprehend important ideas through summarization.
Cite evidence to support your conclusions.

Period 1 and 5 - action sequence assignment

Read the following article about how to put together a car chase action sequence.

Car Chase

Read the article, examine the car chase shots.

Draw out your own CAR CHASE SEQUENCE in a storyboard.

Turn that it at the end of the period.

Here are some examples of good storyboards here.

Feature Story/Character Profile Exemplar

By Michael Ko
Seattle Times staff reporter

On Sunday at the Triple Door, a Seattle music club, Avi Allison played stand-up bass at a local jazz festival alongside David "Fathead" Newman, a saxophone player for the great Ray Charles.

It's not where you'd usually find one of the state's best prep tennis players, especially a few days before the district tournament.

Allison, a senior at Garfield, defies easy categorization — even by the standards at a high school known for its rigorous academics and globetrotting jazz band.

In addition to being the school's top bassist, Allison is a 4.0 student with a heavy load of advanced placement classes, a four-year student of Latin, an officer with the school's outdoor club, a pianist, a member of the school's soccer team and a Bar Mitzvah tutor.

His tennis is pretty good too.

On Thursday, Allison will be the No. 2 seed in the Class 4A District 2 tournament at the Nordstrom Tennis Center. He lost just once this year and led the Bulldogs to a perfect 10-0 record and their second KingCo 4A Conference title in three years.

"He is the most accomplished high-school student I've ever come into contact with," says Garfield tennis coach Ira Moss.

Born and raised in Seattle, Allison, the middle child of three, says he prefers the bass because it's not an "upfront" instrument. It "fits my personality," he says. "I like the feel of holding things down in the backbone."

As for tennis — which he picked up early from his dad Tony, a top player at Roosevelt in the early 70s — the 5-foot-11 Allison hopes to reach state for the third time. He lost in the first round in singles as a sophomore and finished sixth in doubles as a junior.

His future is bright — he's considering attending Columbia University, Brown, Pomona and Stanford — and his schedule is busy.

"I enjoy doing all those things," Allison says. "I've never really gotten that stressed out. ... It's helped a lot to keep me from getting burned out on one thing."

Two more examples of feature leads

Creative Feature Leads (Description and Anecdote)

Seattle spine surgery gave child his boyhood back
By Michael Ko
Seattle Times staff reporter
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — Clutching his zamponia, a traditional Bolivian flute, Alfonso Figueroa stepped in front of his classmates and their parents during a recent Mother's Day celebration at his school. For about three minutes he played a lively song called "Celia." Then he grinned, bowed and leaned against the back wall, exhausted.
That he had enough breath at all is a big step for Alfonso.
"I didn't think I could finish," he said. "But I just kept going and going and trying."
Last year, thanks to the support of benefactors in the Seattle area and under the watch of schoolchildren and the media, the 12-year-old boy lived in Issaquah for nine months while doctors fixed his severely bent spine.
Before, his body was twisted by tuberculosis and his insides were so compressed that doctors feared he had lost 30 percent of his lung capacity. He couldn't eat much without throwing up. He was in frequent pain and in danger of dying.
Now back at the all-boys orphanage in Bolivia that he calls home, Alfonso is, by all accounts, faring well.

Plenty of cheers to greet Griffey
By Michael Ko
Seattle Times staff reporter
The cheering for Ken Griffey Jr. began when the Safeco Field gates opened Friday, around 5:15 p.m. Fans streamed down the aisles, many wearing their old No. 24 Mariners jerseys with "Griffey" stitched on the back.
They cheered when Griffey took his practice cuts — hat flipped backward, a smile on his face, the familiar looping left-handed swing bopping baseballs into the right-field bleachers. They cheered when Griffey trotted to the outfield to shag fly balls.
And they cheered loudest about an hour and a half later — an almost three-minute long, stadium-wide standing ovation — when Griffey, making his first appearance in Seattle since being traded to Cincinnati in 2000, was welcomed back home in a pregame ceremony.
"Never could I imagine it would be like this coming back," Griffey said from a podium at the plate, flanked by former teammates Jay Buhner and Edgar Martinez and Mariners executives Howard Lincoln, Chuck Armstrong and John Ellis.
"I spent 11 years here, 11 wonderful years here," Griffey said. "I met my beautiful wife here. Two out of my three kids were born here. This place will be home."

Technology Readings

You are going to prepare for a class discussion about technology. The guiding question is:

"Is too much technology a good or bad thing? Why?"

You will use information from the following readings to support your arguments.

1. Opposing Viewpoints

2. Bill Gates

3. Readings on Online shopping, video games, online video and social networking (myspace and facebook)

You may, of course, include your own opinion in the discussion. But, to get full credit for the discussion, you will need to do the following things:

1) Cite specific evidence from the readings above. For example, you might say, "In the article about online shopping, it says that almost half of Americans shopped online in 2008. That means we're already there. Americans have already adopted this as a habit. Online shopping is so much easier for them because you don't have to deal with crowded malls or pay gas prices to drive there."

2) Turn in a discussion preparation T-chart (notes from the readings on the left hand column/commentary on the right) with a few items from all 3 articles.

3) In addition to the opposing viewpoints, online shopping and Bill Gates articles, pick one of the following subjects to focus on: video games, online videos and/or social networking. You are going to try and be an EXPERT on that subject.

Notes on news versus feature leads

What is the purpose of a lead?
1. To get the reader’s attention (“hook ‘em in”).
2. To introduce the subject of the story.
3. To lead the reader into the rest of the story.

A basic news lead:
1. Sums everything up nicely.
2. Covers the most important 5 Ws and H.
3. More direct.

A feature lead:
1. Tries to be a little more creative.
2. Includes more of the author’s voice.
3. Unfolds more slowly.

Two types of feature leads:

1. (Descriptive) Setting a Scene, Painting a Picture

Feature leads often begin by setting a scene or painting a picture - in words - of a person or place. Here’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning example by Andrea Elliott of The New York Times:

The young Egyptian professional could pass for any New York bachelor.
Dressed in a crisp polo shirt and swathed in cologne, he races his Nissan Maxima through the rain-slicked streets of Manhattan, late for a date with a tall brunette. At red lights, he fusses with his hair.

What sets the bachelor apart from other young men on the make is the chaperon sitting next to him -- a tall, bearded man in a white robe and stiff embroidered hat.

Notice how Elliott effectively uses phrases like “crisp polo shirt” and “rain-slicked streets.” We don’t yet know exactly what this article is about, but we’re drawn into the story through these descriptive passages.

2. Anecdotal lead
Another way to begin a feature article is to tell a specific story or an anecdote. Here’s an example by Edward Wong of The New York Times' Beijing bureau:

BEIJING — The first sign of trouble was powder in the baby’s urine. Then there was blood. By the time the parents took their son to the hospital, he had no urine at all.

Kidney stones were the problem, doctors told the parents. The baby died on May 1 in the hospital, just two weeks after the first symptoms appeared. His name was Yi Kaixuan.

He was 6 months old.

The parents filed a lawsuit on Monday in the arid northwest province of Gansu, where the family lives, asking for compensation from Sanlu Group, the maker of the powdered baby formula that Kaixuan had been drinking. It seemed like a clear-cut liability case; since last month, Sanlu has been at the center of China’s biggest contaminated food crisis in years. But as in two other courts dealing with related lawsuits, judges have so far declined to hear the case.

You find a specific person that can tell the story, and you tell the story through his or her point of view.

Try writing some leads

Here are links to a few sets of stories.

1

2

Instructions:
1) Read all the stories in both links.
2) Pick 6
3) For each of the 6 you pick, write a basic news lead AND a creative feature lead.
4) For the feature leads, you may choose the descriptive lead or the anecdotal lead.
5) Use your imagination to fill in the details you don't have.

Quiz review terms

Hello,
You're going to have a short quiz on Wednesday on two topics:
1) Effective Advertising Techniques and
2) Basic Camera Techniques/Shots

You will be responsible for the following terms:

Advertising Techniques -
Demographic Positioning
Evoke Emotions
Direct Response
Benefit
Personification
Problem Solution
Testimonial
Exaggeration
Dramatic Conflict
Interesting Character

You will be expected to give examples and explain why you might use a certain technique.

Go to http://www.adcracker.com/techniques/Advertising_Techniques.htm for more information.

Also, you will need to know

Basic Camera Techniques/Angles/Shots -
Pan
Tilt
Rule of Thirds
Establishing Shot
Long Shot
Medium Shot (3 types - head to toe, waist up, two-shot)
Close up
Extreme Close up
Over the Shoulder/Point of View
Bird's Eye View
Cutaway

For each of the Camera Shots, please write each one down, define it, and explain why you might use that particular angle. Due at the end of class today. Here are a few resources below. You can also use whatever notes you took yesterday.

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/
http://www.learner.org/interactives/cinema/directing2.html
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/angles/
http://www.wildsound-filmmaking-feedback-events.com/cinematography-shots-and-camera-angles.html
http://www.videomaker.com/article/12981/

Also, here are some of the videomaker instruction videos from yesterday.

shot types
pans and tilts
Rule of Thirds