Workshop Day

1. Review Criteria for Blog Portfolio

2. Peer Review Senior Movie Review

3. Work on Revisions and Introductions

HW: Blog Due Next Class

Pixar Shorts

• Make sure you have handed in your final Vox Pop!!
• Review Analysis is due today. It should be in your Journalism Folder.
• Final: Blog Rubric and Senior Movie Review Assignment
• Please select one of the “short” films below. These are all Pixar movies. You can watch more than one, if you would like, in order to pick the one you would most like to review.

  • Geri's Game: http://vimeo.com/42073764

    • Partly Cloudy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a6Pe1ovKHg
      
      
      Boundin’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycP3pJTM3s
      
      
      One Man Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=454nNoD6-TIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=454nNoD6-TI
      
      
      Lifted: http://vimeo.com/33231695
      
      
      Presto:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng9THFe4pLY
• Based on the rubric (click here) and the example reviews you've read, please try writing your own review. This is due at the end of class.

Vox Pop Presentations and Movie Review Intro

1. Turn in Vox Pops via Ebackpack

2. Listen to Vox Pops and complete voting- winners will be announced on Thursday

3.  Blog Post:

• If you are thinking about seeing a particular movie, would you consult a movie review for a recommendation? Why or why not?
• What types of useful information can a movie review offer you? List as many as you can.
• How often do you think young people consult movie reviews before watching a movie?
• What aspects about movie reviews make them a positive or negative influence on your decision to watch the movie?

4. Movie Review Analysis Activity

Bring Ear Buds for Next Class- we will be doing a movie review activity in class that will be due at the end of the period. 

College Crossroads and Vox Pops Listening

1. Sydney Opening Moment

2. Blog posting:  It’s April, and that means colleges and universities are notifying high school seniors across the nation about whether they were accepted, rejected or wait-listed.

How involved are you in the college process right now? What messages have you gotten from your parents, teachers and others about the importance of getting into the right school? What do you believe?

What kind of college do you think will be the best fit for you? Why?

In “Our Crazy College Crossroads,” the Op-Ed columnist Frank Bruni writes about this question. Read the article and then answer three of the following questions on your blog:

— What is your reaction to Mr. Bruni’s idea that where you go to college matters less than “the effort you put into your studies, the earnestness with which you hone your skills, what you actually learn”?

— If you’re a student who is finished with the college process, what advice would you give high school juniors?

— What is your idea of what the perfect college for you might be? Why?

— How much pressure do you feel, whether from parents, teachers, the media or your friends, to get into a selective college? How do you handle that pressure?

— In the end, how much do you think it matters where you go to college? Why?

3. Listen to vox pops

4. Begin individual vox pops- due Tuesday

Vox Pop Editing

Opening Moment: Kyle

Directions for Vox Pops:

1. Create your  audio story in Garageband.

Create a new project. Name it.

Make your recordings directly in Garageband.  Choose a voice track with no effects and start recording the responses to your question.

It is easiest to put the responses in different tracks  but you can also build it in one track and split the clips when you are done so that you can move them around.

Be mindful of not saying the question each time (perhaps write it down for people to read instead )  as that will require less editing Try to minimize background noise.

Adjust the sound levels on each clip so there are no abrupt changes.

Build the piece in order from left to right. It's easiest to build it in a blank track above or below the others.  Put the responses in the order that will most effectively make your point.

Add music in a separate track

Name the song in Garagband

Export to iTunes

Import to iMovie- you will need to ad an image before you do this.

Vox Pops Intro

1. Opening moment: Cody

2. Vox Pops Assignment #1

• Vox Pops Rubric

• Example Vox Pops: https://www.prx.org/pieces/100130-53-just-another-fish-story

1. Come up with a compelling question.
2. Ask a variety of people (different ages, different genders) to answer the question.
3. Upload your audio notes to GarageBand.
4. Divide them up in a way that helps you make your point.
5. Add an introduction - music - sound effects and a conclusion in iMovie.

Should Businesses Use Your SAT Scores?

1.Ben Opening Moment

2.  Blog Activity: Read the article How Businesses Use Your SATs.  Read the article given and then respond to THREE of the questions on your blog.  Visit TWO of your peers and respond to their answers.

• — Do you think SAT scores could be a good indicator of future career success? Why or why not?
• — If you were on a hiring committee at a workplace, would you consider SAT scores as part of an applicant’s materials?
• — If so, how much emphasis would you put on the scores?
• — Should there be an expiration date on the scores’ being considered as part of
• a prospective employee’s application? If so, what should it be?
• — What if a job applicant did not take the SAT? Do you think some employers would penalize that person? How should this situation best be handled, in your opinion?

3. Story time!