Friday, January 5th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Friday! Have a great weekend!
Web Development college course signups will happen next week:
- Tuesday – Emmy comes in and gives an overview
- Wednesday – Emmy comes in and we take a pre-test and sign you up.
- You will need to know your Social Security number on Wednesday. If you don’t know it, talk to parents this weekend, you will need it Wednesday to sign up to earn college credits.
Remember that we are creating 2 Capstone Pitches this week, and you will choose one of them to focus on for your 2 week capstone starting Monday. You will decide whether you are an Animator or a Game Designer, and really try out the career. Regardless, all will be hung up so over the next 2 weeks we can have some musical chairs and people can pair up for the State Design Competitions.
Pin Design students – I MUST have all of your Pin Work turned in on Monday, including the 7×7 inch full size and the 1.5×1.5 inch smaller version. I have to get these to the printing program to … print, so we don’t have a lot of fat in the timeline.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Adobe Illustrator

Less can be more (BUT DON’T BE LAZY, LESS IS CAN ALSO BE LESS)
Spellcheck
Refining design – the last 5%

10:30 Week 18 and Week 19 Summative Capstone Work

Friday Pitch – Game Design

If you chose the Game Design Capstone, what type of game would you build in the next 2 weeks? Remember that we are focused on our 3rd person, collectable, puzzle game as a foundation – but if you want to do a driving game, a rolling game – and realize you are doing it 100% on your own, do it! High School is where you should challenge yourself and take risks. If is free to fail here.

Creating your 1 sheet

In Illustrator create a letter template (standard piece of paper like our Pin) that includes:

Game name
At least 1 image
At least 1 paragraph of lore and story – what are you to do in the game? Why are you doing it?
At least 3 bullets of technical / artistic content you get to practice.
What are you looking for in a partner if on a game design team?

Make your 1 sheet look as good as you can – you WANT to get people to work with you.

Save and export your file as 4X Size at (lastName)GamePitch.jpg.

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

11:00 English

11:55 Week 18 and Week 19 Summative Capstone Work

12:25 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:55 Attendance and Article

1:00 Steve Jobs Biography

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

1:30 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

Summative Capstone Work
- (lastName)AnimationPitch.jpg
- (lastName)GamePitch.jpg
DH17: Summative Perspective first draft
- (lastName)DH17draft.jpg
Week 17 Agency / Pin Design 3rd Draft
- lastNamePinPrint.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

2:20 Dailies

2:25 “19 Minutes”

4 of 5 days per week we will end our day in CAWD with the “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At 2:44 each day I will come to 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened in your story over that day’s reading session. It is neat to hear little pockets of a story, here and there.