Climate Catastrophe!?

Commit to a decision – do you agree with this argument?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

 


Expressionism

The Paintings

four square
Four Square
Franz Kline
American, 1910 – 1962
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lavendar mist
Number 1, 1950
(Lavender Mist)

Jackson Pollock
American, 1912 – 1956
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name II
The Name II
Barnett Newman
American, 1905 – 1970
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Questions

  1. What kinds of things are the subjects of these paintings?
  2. What’s the real subject of these paintings?
  3. Why would a gifted artist want to skip painting people, places, and things?
  4. Which elements of design stand out the most?
  5. How much skill would it take to create paintings like these?
  6. Would you like to read general questions for looking at art?


Internet Resources
Style & artists:

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Impressionism

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Rouen Cathedral
Claude Monet
French, 1840 – 1926
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Pont Neuf, Paris
Auguste Renoir
French, 1841 – 1919
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Plum Brandy
Edouard Manet
French, 1832 – 1883
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Questions

  1. What kinds of things are the subjects of these paintings?
  2. What’s the real subject of these paintings? (hint: trick question!)
  3. Why would artists want to paint fuzzy like this instead of clearly?
  4. Which elements of design stand out the most?
  5. How much skill would it take to create paintings like these?
  6. Would you like to read general questions for looking at art?

There’s Data in them thar Kids

  1. Load this image into Twiddla or another drawing program
  2. Use the Pen and/or the text tool to highlight the parts of the cartoon that make it “funny”
  3. What is the author saying about President Obama and his Secretary of Education?
  4. What does this point make you think or wonder about?

Combine Harvester

Cluster what You See

  1. Draw or use clustering software
  2. What’s the main idea or feeling? Put it in the center.
  3. Work as a class to brainstorm as much as you can about the movie.
  4. Group or connect any of the items into larger sets.

 

JabberRumpus MonsterBumpus!?

Choose any or all the challenges below!

Challenge 1

jabberWordle

  1. Make a sentence using words from above.
  2. Click on the words above or this link so that they make sense!
  3. See, isn’t that better? (made with Wordle)
  4. Guess at a feeling that is behind this strange poem.

Challenge 2

Watch the video below.

  1. What sense can you make of the words or feeling now?
  2. Why would people write a “nonsense poem?”
  3. Hint: Can the words you choose really explain emotions you may be feeling?  Try it.  Choose an emotion and write two sentences:
  • a serious sentence describing the emotion.
  • a “nonsenstence” (nonsense sentence) that gives a feeling without clearly saying words we all know.


Challenge 3

New Wild Things

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  1. Listen and watch the Story
  2. What emotions do you think Maurice Sendak is bringing up in Where the Wild Things Are?
  3. Write a sentence about what Max is feeling.
  4. Why do you think Max visits Monsters?  Why not angels? clowns? giraffes?

Do you want to Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Additional Links

Challenge 4

  1. Flip through the book The Boy and the Monster
  2. If you wrote a book with Monsters in it, what kind would they be?
  3. What emotions would you include in your story?
  4. Do you want to take a turn publishing your own book with Tikatok?

Whose Future?

In 1994, the Digital Corporation produced this sexy preview of what the Web had to offer the world. They titled it “VisionShift.” Less than fifteen years later, look how this “Web” has evolved into a phone platform with personalized, location-based offerings that far exceed our wildest dreams in 1994.

Many have seen Pattie Maes’ TEDTalks on the Sixth Sense technology that is currently feasible for less than a topflight phone…

The question is not, “Will this really become available?”  Nor even “When?” The question for us to address is,

“Honestly, what might Sixth Sense become in fifteen years time that we can’t even imagine right now?”

Now let’s add a kicker:

“What are schools doing so that students’ can take advantage of such personal learning potential?”

Chocolate and Fair Trade

“Parts” Cluster

 

  1. Use clustering software like Bubble.us or Thinkature
  2. What’s the main idea or feeling? Put it in the center.
  3. Work as a class to brainstorm as much as you can about the movie.
  4. Group or connect any of the items into larger sets.

Journalism : Then and Now

Pro – Con – Neutral

  1. Why would people be in favor of this?
  2. Why would people be against it?
  3. What would be a neutral position?

When I become a Teacher – really?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim
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