Monday, May 20th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Happy Monday! Welcome to Week 35!
This week is the final week of the holy trinity of CAWD projects.
We have 3 weeks of academic school left, then a week of end of the year activities.
- 35 – web focus / web complete (3 projects)
- 36 – “Passion Project” Draft (2 projects – no Web)
- 37 – “Passion Project” Final – all work due Friday June 7th at EOD (only project – final grade)
- 38 – end of year activities
  - Monday – Certification exam
    - Have to take the exam, part of the program. If you can’t take it Monday, we may invite you back Friday to take it after school is over. This is not what anyone wants, so make sure you are here Monday.
  - Tuesday – Movies (CAWD2 wants Garfield if possible)
  - Wednesday – Game Day / Social / Relax
  - Thursday – Recognition Night Rehearsal, Recognition Night – LAST DAY!!
Guy in green is SENDING IT.
Bus drill canceled today – will do it next Tuesday. You can have all morning for Last Looks.
Otto 1:30.
Students that borrowed one of our laptops, we need it returned after this long weekend. Tuesday, May – Tuesday, May 28th. It has to come back in the same state it went out:
- All the “parts”.
- Log out of everything.
- Clean.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Live Site
- lastNameLiveSite.mp4
DH34: Nose and Mouth
- lastNameDH34.jpg
Week 34 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
- … or give me an mp4 if animated, or a still if a sketch

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 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday as a class. I will then present your work to the class. Every week we will pick a new student to proactive giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

Today Dylan will give Constructive Criticism.

11:30 DH35: Hair

This week we are going to focus on drawing hair.

Split your paper into 4 quadrants (you decide landscape or portrait based on your hair).

In the 4 quadrants I want you to draw 4 versions of hair – the hair itself is up to you, but I strongly recommend that you draw the type of hair that you may use for your final Portrait (next week).

If you are going to draw someone with long black hair, consider practicing 4 versions of long black hair – just the hair!

If you are going to draw someone with the standard side part, consider practicing 4 versions of that – again just the hair!

You are welcome to mix and match hair styles if you wish – but please remember that we want to see 4 solid versions, and drawing bald people isn’t going to cut it. I personally think the best plan is to think about next weeks final portrait and get practice with 4 versions of that hair style.

Remember that we are finding our own lessons for this – please don’t just whip together 4 quick hair sketches without learning and improving. As you can tell from Critiques, it is noticed, and it presents poorly to your classmates.

Continue leaning into human realism.

Sign and date, call your work lastNameDH35.jpg.

11:35 Tuesday Introduction

Mr. Cronin is out Tuesday, so let’s go over the specifics.

The big specific for Tuesday is to work on your Agency which is due Wednesday at 10:15 of this week! In less than 48 hours. Let’s take a look.

11:55 Study Guide

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

DH35: Hair
- lastNameDH35.jpg
Week 35 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
- … or give me an mp4 if animated, or a still if a sketch

Please note the Agency is due Wednesday May 22nd at 10:15.

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.