April 29 - Check this out

Look at and write up your comments.

Here is the movie. It is made by students in high school who are also part of the PBS Student Reporting Labs. They are in Detroit.

Here is the "making of" video. Check out how they did it.

You need to write up your reaction to this and tell me how you think they came up with the concept and how they executed it.

10 points formative.

p.s. You might want to look at this on shoes

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

April 10 - Assignment

1. You must sign up for a sporting event to cover. If you do not, I will select one for you to cover. You may work with one partner.

2. You must decide on one news package you are going to cover that will air on the show. Write up a proposal pitch for one and turn in to me tomorrow.

3. Watch the following videos and write a response to them. Some of them you may have seen before but, for example, the Pixar one, they give lessons you need to heed.

4. When we return from break, all students will film a four min fiction piece that you will write collaboratively. You will film outside of school.

Here are the links you must write a response to. They will help prepare you for your movie.

Here is number one to re-read.

Here is number two.

So now, what are your insights about how to tell a story and how will you change what you are doing with your scripts? Write this up in one page today.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

April 8 - Look down the list of winners . . . what do you see?

Click here for the link to the NYTIMES vocab contest we entered last semester.

April 8 - Quiz today --

We need to see if you making the vocabulary videos helped you retain the meaning of the words.

Take 8 minutes and watch these videos:

Turncoat

Paranoia

Tenacity

Ramble

Sloth

Hypocritical

Omnipresent

Agility

Fluke

Vaporize