Bridget's Log

Class Log: April 19th

• Poem: Tuesday Ordinary by Damian Caudill . It’s about Trayvon Martin.

• Starts with a quote from Fox and Friends

• Olivia does a genre presentation on Carpool Karaoke

• Part of late night show with James Corbin

• He uses celebrities to gain a better audience by singing their own songs

• They drive through New York and Los Angeles

• Audience can be for older and younger generations

• Has 2.5 trillion views

• Purpose of it is for comedy

• There isn’t much controversial material in the show

• Next genre presentation is by Jordan

• Showed us an example of Bruno Mars and James Corbin

• Kristian Williams does Youtube videos focusing on pop culture icons and media

• Talks about well known icons

• He does “video essays” and uses pop up animation styles in his videos

• Stops the music and speak about his personal opinions

• Called “Kaptain Kristian”

• Showed us an example of a Dr. Seuss video

• Project 3 is due on Monday April 24th

• Presenters will be randomly chosen

• Do not present for more than 5 minutes

• Present even if your project is incomplete

• Points will be taken if you say you’re not prepare or if you’re absent

Portfolio

• Classwork: You need 10 out of 11 blogs to receive full credit

• Post mini-genre presentations on Wix

• If you can’t upload, put pictures of the analysis slides. Something to show you did it.

• It’s suggested you put index cards on your blog, notes about when you lead discussion, notes about mini-genre presentations, other class notes and documents

• The blog is a way of showing what work you have done during the term

Project 1:

• Rough draft, revised draft, final draft, (reflection)

• Put down any other drafts

• Conference Notes with Mat

• Conference notes with students

• RWC

Project 2:

• Annotated Bibliography

• Revised Draft

• Final Draft

• (reflection)

Project 3:

-3 genres - documented with photos or on the website

- reflection:

-links to other sources

-links to classmates

Overall Reflection: Post on your website, IMPORTANT. WILL BE READ

-Meta Cognition: thinking about your thinking

-think about how your thought process has changed

-don’t make a post about what you learned or how wonderful the class is

-reflection should be at least a page

-overall conclusions can be 2 pages