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Learning Target:

• I can revisit the draft Strong looked at, making sure my sentences are visual.
• I can make the changes Strong suggested re: my Personal Essay
• I can turn in my final draft into Google Classroom
• I can make two photos from the two sketches for my New Year New You photos.

Steps:

1. Work on the personal essay re-write. Do all of items on the checklist.
2. Rewrite is due TODAY.
3. Turn in final draft into the final essay assignment post in Google Classroom
4. Make photos of the two sketches you made for the New Year New You. photo challenge.
5. Two photos are due Friday, 12/20.

For this week you will have a look at the personal essay feedback I gave you. You will make sure you have the following conditions met for your essay.

Checklist:

• Highlight five sentences that you will use as a reference for making five photographs.
• Have enough visual information in your sentences in order to make the photos.
• Font should be 12 point, Garamond or Times New Roman.
• Line spacing set to double spaced .
• Capitalize all “I”s as “I”s. Example. “I went to the beach”, not “i went to the beach.”
• Read each sentence as if you were reading it out loud. If you can read it out loud at home, read it out loud. You will catch things that you don’t by just reading it.
• Make sure the piece has a smooth transition between beginning, middle and end.
• Make sure you have one clear story to tell, not three different stories.
• Make sure the essay is at least 500 words.

Personal Essay: The Rewrite is due on Wednesday, 12/19

Learning Target:

• I can revisit the draft Strong looked at, and revise your essay to make sure your sentences are visual and you can make photos of them.
• I can sketch out two ideas for my New Year New You photos.

Steps:

1. Have a look at the personal essay I gave you feedback on and highlight the five sentences you want to take pictures of.
2. Sketch out two ideas for the new photo challenge. New Year New You.
3. Two photos are due next Friday, 12/20

Thursday:

Turn in your rough draft for Personal Essay. Start sketching your two ideas for New Year New You.

Learning Target:

• I can turn in the rough draft of my personal essay into Google Classroom before the end of the period.
• I can brainstorm 5 ideas for what I want to do my New Year New You photos.

Steps:

1. Turn in a rough draft of your personal essay into Google Classroom.
2. Have a first draft ready to show (500 words minimum) by tomorrow.
3. Strong goes over the requirements for the new photo challenge: New Year New You.
4. Brainstorm 5 different ideas for New Year New You.

Thursday:

Turn in your rough draft for Personal Essay. Start sketching your two ideas for New Year New You.

Learning Target:

• I can work on the rough draft of my personal essay I can share with Strong by tomorrow.
• I can brainstorm 5 ideas for what I want to do my New Year New You photos.

Steps:

1. Use the plan you recorded in your visual journal to write out your personal essay .
2. Have a first draft ready to show (500 words minimum) by tomorrow.
3. Read over the requirements for the new photo challenge: New Year New You.
4. Brainstorm 5 different ideas for New Year New You.

Thursday:

Turn in your rough draft for Personal Essay. Start sketching your two ideas for New Year New You.

For this next assignment, you will set two goals for yourself and photograph what those two goals look like. In the example above, my goal for last year was to be brave. This photo, with my daughter hiding behind a telephone pole, shows what its like to NOT be brave, to hide behind things, and this year, I have come out more with my own personality and feelings, even if those feelings are complicated or difficult.

Step 1: Write down 3-5 goals you’d like to see yourself do in the new year. This could include:

• Better attendance
• Do Better in School.
• Eat Heathfully.
• Get More Sleep.
• Get More Exercise.
• Meditate.
• Learn to Play a Musical Instrument.

Step 2: Choose two goals to sketch out using the graphic tablets or draw it by hand.

Step 3: Use this sketch to plan out lighting, camera angles, etc.

Step 4: Make the two photos.

Step 5: Add text that says what the goals are and that the font and color matches the mood of the photograph.

Two photos of two different goals on 12/20

What I’ll be grading you on:

• In focus images.
• How well the goal was illustrated.
• Font and text matches the mood of the photographs.

Learning Target:

• I can revisit the beginning middle and end of my essay that I came up with yesterday.
• I can use the plan I recorded in my visual journal to write out my essay.
• I can come I can have a rough draft I can share with Strong by Thursday.

Steps:

1. Look at the three part plan for your essay you created yesterday.
2. Use the plan you recorded in your visual journal to write out your personal essay .
3. Have a first draft ready to show (500 words minimum) on Thursday.
4. Get caught up on any misisng work.

Tuesday:

Strong goes over how to make your writing more visual, to make it easier to take pictures of your sentences.

Learning Target:

• I can come up with the final subject for my essay.
• I can identify which parts of my essay are in the beginning, middle and end.
• I can come up I can complete the exit ticket and start work on writing my essay.

Steps:

1. Look at the three ideas you came up with last week.
2. Choose one of them.
3. Figure out which parts go in the beginning, middle and end of your essay.
4. Complete the Exit Ticket in Google Classroom.
5. Post the answers to your exit ticket to your visual journal adobe spark page.
6. Start writing your personal essay.

Tuesday:

Strong goes over how to make your writing more visual, to make it easier to take pictures of your sentences.

https://entropymag.org/variations-on-a-theme-walls/

The above link contains an essay I wrote about a song and about my mentor.

What the essay is about: Growing up, finding my own voice, the way in life one thing ends and other thing begins. How there’s a pattern there.

The beginning of the essay: Starts at the end. At the end of the reading series I use to participate in. At Tom and my father talking.

The middle of the essay: I go back and forth between lyrics of the song, Walls by Tom Petty. I go back to how writing and the search for myself was the same thing.

I bring up both Tom Spanbauer, and Tom Petty, and I draw inspiration from both.

At the end of the essay I talk about the two times Tom visited me. At the end, I talk about moving on without my mentors, and how maybe I am a mentor to other people.

Think about the idea you have for your essay, how to the three parts of your essay break down?

Complete the Exit Ticket in Google Classroom to solidify your thinking.