Week 12 – Digital Photo Display

Use the next two days of class time to create a Digital Photo Display (‘poster’) to promote an upcoming local sporting event.
The event can be real or fictional.  It can be an Usher related sporting event, or something larger than that.
Ensure that your ‘poster’ has several images, and that it includes all of [...]

Week 12 – On-line Portfolios

We will spend this week in the computer lab.  Use this time to work on two things. 
1.  Finish the Pop-Art assignments that were posted under Week 11.
2.  Customize your Wikispace pages to create On-line portfolios of your artworks.
You will need to create a Pop Art page on your wikispace.  This is were you will post [...]

Week 11 – Digital Photo Display

Now that you have some advanced wordprocessing skills, and some intermediate photo editing skills, it is time to ‘marry the two’. 
For this project, you will use Ulead Photo Impact to design a full page poster display.
The display is to be printed on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper.  We need to leave a small [...]

Week 11 – Digital Pop Art Assignments

Now that you’ve had a few hours to experiment with the software and have deepened your understanding of Pop Art, it is time to create some artwork!
#1 – Your first assignment is to create a collection of self portraits.  Create at least four self portraits in the style of Pop Art.
#2 – Next would be [...]

Week 10 – Letter/Memo Final Project

For this project, you will do some role playing:
Your name is Rob Bartell.  You work in an office (you will decide the company name).   You have been away from work at a conference, and when you returned, you found a stack of paperwork on your desk.  While you were away, Jenn (who works in the [...]

Week 9 – Vocabulary Writing Assignment & Quizzes

STUDY your vocabulary worksheets from The Great Adventurer.  There will be vocab quizzes this week.
The assignment:
            Create a short story in which you have correctly used at least 5 new vocabulary words from the novel The Great Adventurer.  The words that you have selected should pertain to the beliefs of the people of ancient Greece [...]

Week 9 – Visual Collections

Visual Collections (see last weeks post for more info) of students selected artists are due on Monday, April the 7th.  We will work on putting these collections together on a class wiki.  These collections will be added to and perfected over the course of the semester.
Research for the Paper portion of this major assignment will continue [...]

Weeks 7-9 – Reading The Great Adventurer

For the last couple of weeks we have been reading the novel The Great Adventurer together in class.  Our reading of the novel has also been supplemented with discussions, study questions, vocabulary, maps and other in-class activities. 
As of Monday, April 7th, 2008 (Week 9) students should have completely answered questions 1-16 in full sentences.  Also, [...]

Week 9 – Personal Letters in Full Block

Using the photocopied letter booklets prepare the following letter assignments:
Personal Business Letters
Read about Personal Business Letters on page 111, then:
Letter_4-25 (Page 111) – Prepare using one of the MS Word Letter Templates.  This is a short length letter.
Letter_4-26 (Page 111) – Use your own name and info.  This is short letter.
Letter_4-27 (Page 113) – Use your own name [...]

Week 8 – Major Research Project begins

Work on the major research project for this class has now begun.  Click here for an outline of the assignment. 
The project is made of three parts.  Don’t forget your due dates: 
1) the Visual Representation is due on Friday, April 4th 
2) the Research Paper is due the next Friday, the 11th.
3) a Personal Interpretation is due [...]