Visual Literacy

Here is John Collier's "Clytemnestra, After Murdering Agamemnon."  Spend some time looking at the painting and consider these questions:

• What is the tone of the picture?
• What aspects enhance the tone?

Next you'll choose one of the images below to examine in a blog post of your own:

Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks at the Diner"

Grant Wood's "American Gothic"

Archibald Motley's "Nightlife"

Diego Rivera's "The Flower Carrier"

Georgia O'Keeffe's "Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills"

Cyber Bullying

We'll start today by reading this article from the New York Times about a recent suicide related to cyber-bullying.

We'll have a short discussion about it then do some writing in the comments section of this blog, responding to it with different tones and points of view.

Perspectives:

• Mother
• Classmates - non-bullies
• Classmates - bullies
• Technology
• Police
• Principal
• Girl

Tones:

• Sympathetic / Understanding
• Disconnected
• Anger
• Sadness
• Confusion

A look at the anniversary of 9-11

Please go visit this website.

Down the left-hand side is a list of newspapers and magazines.  Select a few of these and browse around to find their coverage of the 9-11 anniversary.

Select an article you'd like to read and then read it.

Back on your blog, create a new post including:

• a link to the article
• your commentary on it (a short paragraph)

If we have time, we'll browse through each other's blogs to see which articles our class selected.

Let's Blog!

Let's Blog!!

Today you will all become part of what has become known as the blogosphere, a modern day adaptation of the public square. In a tradition that has its roots in early American society, the public comes together to explore the interesting and provocative ideas of the day. In 2013, that universe has expanded to allow anyone's ideas to be put into the marketplace for the world to see or hear. Today, you will set up your blog that will allow you to do just that.

What is a blog?

What does a blog look like?

· Time’s best blogs of 2012

· http://www.bestblogs.org/

· http://blogs.botw.org/

· http://blogsearch.google.com/

· http://www.blogged.com/directory

 

Let’s make a blog! (Note-first step will to be to sign in to Google).

· https://www.blogger.com/start

Some things to consider-

• Choosing a design
• Including gadgets
• Warnings before going too far
• Audience
• Privacy - no full names, personal information
• Expectations - tone, respect, acceptable topics

Blogging

• Writing posts
• Commenting on posts
• Incorporating images, video, links

Need help?

 

· http://www.google.com/support/blogger/

So, here are your ultimate tasks for today:

1. Create a blog!
2. Think of a catchy title. Make sure you add a description of what you want your blog to be or to express.
3. E-mail Mr. Rigler with the name of your blog and its URL address. He will create a link to it on the class blog.
4. Write your first post. The first can be about virtually anything-current events, a good movie you’ve seen recently, the first day of school, etc. Spend some time with this. It will be the first time for your followers to get to know you and your ideas thus you want them to have a good sense of your voice.
5. Comment on someone else's post.