Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 11! Let’s make our folders now.
- 2 weeks of school before a 11 day vacation!
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!
Luxo Jr inspired Walk Cycle
- lastNameWalkCycle85.mp4
- or
- lastNameWalkCycle95.mp4
- or
- lastNameWalkCycle105.mp4
DH10: Floating Boxes
- lastNameDH_10.jpg
Week 10 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
10:35 Game Day Friday the 21st
On Friday the 21st of November – the Friday before your Week long Thanksgiving vacation – we are going to have our first Game Day of the year.
What is a Game Day?
Game Days are FIRST academic in nature. If you not fully caught up in your work, you will spend as much time as you need in the AM to become fully caught up. Checking gradebook, uploading missing work, getting current.
The goal is that we able to remove all the zeros in your Gradebook BEFORE you leave for a well deserved vacation, getting your grade up so your parents are happy, and reducing any anxiety and dread of going back to school after Thanksgiving.
Once we you are fully caught up, the rest of our Day is going to be spent relaxing, socializing, working on current work, playing chess, reading, playing guitar, Monopoly, playing Rocket League, speed run competitions, knitting, drawing, playing cards, etc.
On that Friday we are NOT having English – we will all have it on Wednesday instead from 1-1:40.
You will still have your 7/8 classes, unless you get out of them. Many times students will simply ask their teacher if they can get out of their 7/8 class and chill in GAWD, and if you are fully caught up this is often what happens. Up to you; no I won’t get you out of your class, you have to be proactive.
I strongly recommend that we organize and bring in … things. PS5? DDR? Clue? Matchbox cars? Magic the Gathering? We had kid bring in a Keytar one time and play music. I’m not kidding. We have had a kid bring in a drum machine. A kid brought in an electric guitar. Up to you all to organize – what would YOU like to do the day before vacation?
The food!
Often on these days we put out a spread for us to eat.
Option 1 – no food
We run class as normal, you go to lunch, and that is your food.
Option 2 – we all bring food in
What is your family known for? What can YOU cook and share? What are you proud of making?
We had a family that made amazing homemade samosas.
We had the family that owns Asian Bistro drop off the biggest most delicious stir fry you can imagine.
Last year Gabi made the most amazing Ambrosia Salad.
Buffalo chicken dips, lasagna’s, meatballs…. all depends on what the class is into and good at making / baking that year.
We would setup in a pot luck style where we are able to share what we like.
Option 3 – we kick in cash into the Poorly Produced Piece of Pottery
If people kick in cash I volunteer to go Hannaford’s / Price Chopper that morning and spend it all on what you crazy kids like. Chips? Carrots? Pies? Cookies? Cheese? Cherries? Whatever we all agree on, I will go blow the money at the store and we can feast. The GAWD record was $247 dollars that I took and spent for you, and we had leftovers for future game days.
Option 4 – a hybrid of it all
We fold it all together. Some bake, some kick in cash, some do nothing.
We typically ask that if you don’t kick in $ or help by bringing in food that you don’t scarf all the food in that people have kicked in $ for or brought in.
So, lets talk about it!
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice 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.
11:30 1 Point Perspective Continued
11:50 DH11: 1PT Architectural Design
This week we are going to move beyond the basics of understanding the “rules” of 1PT perspective, and start applying it. This week I want you to build something architectural and “real” using 1PT perspective.
It could be outside, it could be inside, so long as you are following the rules of 1PT perspective.
Think that you are in a career, or in college, or thinking about this weeks Game World we are building. How would you create concept art (as an example) that would get your project green lit, or get people to want to work with you? Starting with quality Concept Art and pre-production visuals is Step 1.
Conversely if you are art is terrible your project (while it could be a great idea) will look less than, and get potentially less consideration.
Life is hard enough with debt, nepotism, and other inside tracks that some have – making sure that you are putting your best food forward in … everything … will be important for you in your life. Start today.
Save your file as lastNameDH_11.jpg.
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 Attendance and Article
12:30 Blender
- Coin pickup
- Resetting UV’s
- Looking at Scale
12:50 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.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
DH11: 1PT Architectural Design
- lastNameDH_11.jpg
Week 11 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
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
