Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Students working with visitors today!
10-10:30 Quang (CVU had 2 hour delay)- 1:45-2:15 Bubba
- As always I will start with them in the back.
- Welcome to Week 19! Let’s make our folders now…
- EHS visitors moved to Friday due to yesterday’s Snow Day. Depending on visitor schedule, the Friday schedule listed below may change to accommodate.
- This week we are going to:
- Getting back to “normal” as we pivot to Semester 2:
- YES we are back to Design Homework’s
- YES we are back to Agencies.
- We are having Rube production in lieu of Speed Designs both today and Thursday as you prepare for the Friday 11AM Rube deadline. Friday will be our next Speed Design.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Last Looks
Last looks is when I give students time to upload their completed work to the weekly folder on the public, in a folder that is your last name. Remember we aren’t doing any work today – this is just when we turn it in. Plan on not doing more than scan / upload each Monday morning – and the scanner may have a line!
Week 17 and 18 Team Game Work
- lastNameLastNameGameOverview.mp4
- lastNameLastNameGameTrailer.mp4
10:45 Quarter 3 Design Homework Focus – Still Lifes
As part of our traditional art curriculum in GAWD we use Champlain Colleges’s Game Art & Animation Portfolio requirements as our guidepost to practice traditional art that has logical utility. Champlain is the most popular local option for GAWD students over the last 10 years, and what they are looking for in their Portfolios is common to other schools like SCAD, RISD, MECA, etc.
Quarter 1 – Introduction. Using the tools, learning about the scanner, getting comfortable with a sketchbook, art supplies, etc.
Quarter 2 – Perspective. 1, 2 and 3 point perspective. Taught in a traditional stand and deliver teaching environment. I lead with lessons in front of the class.
Quarter 3 – Still Life’s. What goes into a classic still life? Taught through online YouTube resources. The ability to learn while outside traditional education environments (on your own, or to extend class material) is incredibly important. I curate the videos in Q3.
Quarter 4 – Portraits. Weekly I give you the topics and it is up to you learn and apply the topic. The most likely way is self selecting your own YouTube resources, but you could talk to an artist, go get extra help from an art teacher, jump in their Discord, whatever you need to do to learn on your own, and create a project demonstrating your new skills. Learning how to learn will be very important to you in your career.
We are looking for an hour of work on your Sketch Effort is easily apparent, and your work is presented each and every week.
DH19: Baseline Still Life
A still life sketch is a drawing that focuses on a small arrangement of inanimate objects—often everyday items like fruit, bottles, bowls, books, or tools—carefully observed from life. The sketch emphasizes shape, proportion, and composition, using simple lines and light shading rather than heavy detail.
Value contrast is built up gradually with hatching or soft shading, helping the objects feel real, actually 3D. The background is typically very basic, so attention stays on how the objects relate to each other in space. Often the shading is just apparent so that the objects seem “sitting” on a plane – similar to what we do in Blender. The focus is rarely the background scene.
This week we need the starting point for your skills – setup a Still Life scene of at least 3 objects and sketch it. It is best practice to setup an actual 3D scene and draw what you see. Undoubtably many will take shortcuts and draw from a picture, but realize you are only cheating yourself with the shortcuts.
Save your file as lastNameDH_19.jpg.
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Week 19 GAWD/GAWD2 Rube Goldberg Challenge
Today we will start our dedicated work sessions towards our Rube Goldberg Machines.
This is what teams turned in for last weeks Thursday deliverable:
We do a lot of mid year coloboration so you can test drive working with each other before you make your teams. We WILL have 7 teams of 3.
GAWD2 students will be working in our room during these dedicated sessions. The goal is collaboration, getting to meet new people, and thinking about next weeks longer form SkillsUSA-lite competition. Who do you want to work with? Which discipline? Talk early!
Teams:
| Bourdeau Shelby Sebastian | Sawyer Jackson Jacob |
| Quang Piche Maxx | Bubba Melissa Lion |
| Wyatt Ben MJ | Goyet Amanda Sylvie |
| Jayden Collin Post |
When is our Week 19 dedicated Rube Goldberg GAWD / GAWD2 Collaborative Time?
Make sure your Team Manager is looking at deliverable specifics. 11AM on Friday we will have our Rube Goldberg Team presentations. This is when that deliverable is due – 11AM Friday.
11:55 Lunch
12:25 Attendance and Article
- 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.
12:30 Web Semester Prep / VS Code Instalation
In Preparation for our Web Semester let’s make sure VS Code is installed / up to date. Maybe we just get the freshest version …
We will use VS Code as our code editor. This is where we will write native code, mix and match with forks from the internet and Vibe Coding with AI. It supports many different languages and we will use HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, Databases, etc.
12:50 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a dystopian novel by George Orwell that explores totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and the manipulation of truth through the story of Winston Smith in the superstate of Oceania, ruled by the omnipresent Party and its figurehead, Big Brother.
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Week 19 GAWD/GAWD2 Rube Goldberg Challenge
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
