A lot is going on! VOCABULARY WILL CONTINUE IN 2015 and it will always be cumulative, so refer back to your notes regularly!
7th Grade:
Have your thumbnail sketches for your Social Action Project for our next class. Push yourself because generic 'issues' won't cut it. You have to care about the issue you are choosing. WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH YOU? If the answer is 'not much' then you need to dig deeper. |
| "Peanuts" by Charles Schultz |
8th Grade:
Study your notes from the Power Point you saw before break about Graphic Novels. You will be tested on this in the next 2 weeks. Also, bring in an example of the TYPE of graphic novel you are interested in creating. Have you though of characters? Where is the setting? Will there be a narrator? We will get into this during class, but start thinking seriously about your, ORIGINAL novel you will be working on.
6th Grade:
Continue reviewing the East Coast and Mid-western states…you MUST know them. The Western states will be next. TEST YOURSELF with this online quiz!
Be ready to show and share your images from the research we have done on the states you will be planning your trips to. You should have graphic organizer-style notes on each state with attractions YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VISITING with photos/pictures/drawings to match.
5th Grade:
Choose 3 items in your life and draw contour line drawings of each of them. Check your POINT OF VIEW (the position you are observing from) and ask yourself "Is this interesting to look at?" How can you change your point of view to make your COMPOSITION (the layout or design of your page) more interesting? Remember, you have to look at your subject and your paper constantly and get the INNER and OUTER edges (lines!) of your objects. Get to work and have this for next week's classes!
DOJO EXTRA…If you have an artistic-style New Year's Resolution that you would like to share, write it out on a Post-It note and give it to Ms. Hillman on Tuesday, January 6th. Put your name on it! See you Tuesday!
Questions about any of this? Email: jhillman@cpcsschool.org