Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Happy Friday – you made it!
- Everyone have a great long weekend, we will see you on Tuesday!
- Please encourage your family to fill out the start of school paperwork – all digital, needs to be done through their email and parent accounts.
- Remember today is an English day – so after lunch you report to English directly at 12:25. Then you report back to GAWD for our Speed Design after break. Let’s look at the schedule so we are comfortable.
- We still had some people with art supplies out, sketchbooks left, etc. Let’s start practicing these daily as they soon are a component of your grade! More info next week regarding Transferable & Employability skills.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Lego Building
This morning we are going to use Legos for one final activity as we finish our week. Today you will work in teams that are given 1 instruction booklet to work off.
Your team is going to elect a CD, or Creative Director. This group member will is responsible leading the team through the construction process. It is the CD that gets the instruction booket.
The CD does not need to create the device, simply shepherd the project to success. The CD is assessed on how well they do in leading their team. They are going to be communicating, they are going to be leading, helping, but not doing. They can’t touch the legos.
In this exercise we are looking are your ability to:
- Make sure you (if the Creative Director) clearly explain and teach the construction process. Don’t just yell, practice leadership.
- If a worker bee – listen to the instruction coming from your CD. Indirectly learn from your teammates.
- As always we want to see working clean. working together, and being on task.
- CD’s, when complete, please organize so I can see your teams work.
Here are your working groups / each has to elect a Creative Director. Once the CD comes to see me, they get their Instruction Booklet.
Group 1
- Jayden / Bourdeau / Jackson / Piche
Group 2
- Breadmore / Post / Wyatt / Sawyer
Group 3
- Amanda / Asher / Michael
Group 4
- Melissa / Ben / Bubba
Come on back, get with your team, and let’s start!
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 Final Lego Breakdown!
11:05 Blender
- Appending external Blender files
- Scale, size, humans, and working between “worlds”.
- Using a resource from the Public Drive, saving to your own files
11:20 First Independent GAWD Project: Castle!
Check back to the Thursday Dayplan for specifics.
11:35 A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow is a reader’s dream — a wonder-full, nuanced story full of wit, insight, and imagination.
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
11:55 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.
12:25 English
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 15 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 First Independent GAWD Project: Castle!
- Continue to make progress on your Castle.
- Save often (the Blender file).
- Create a render for dailies which needs to be in the correct folder by 2:15.
- Have computer off by 2:15.
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “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 the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
