Thursday, August 28th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Day 2! Welcome back! Some notes on Wednesday:
- Almost everyone had their computer off – please make sure you do so at the end of each day.
- Almost everyone had their art supplies away – please make sure your station is cleaned each night.
- Almost everyone took their schedules and handbooks – remember don’t leave anything at your station when you leave for the day.
- Almost everyone pushed in their chairs. If they don’t fit up high, lower them down and push them end end of the day please.
We are going to call the first 3 days of this week, and 4 days of next week, as “week_01”. Today we will start some classwork that will extend into next week. Remember we have an upcoming 3 day weekend. (Yes you have school tomorrow.)
Today we will start our articles for many starts to our day before and after lunch.
Today we are going to start our Speed Designs after our PM break.
Today will be our first day of English (Thursday and Friday’s in GAWD). Let’s tale a look at the full Dayplan schedule.
- You go to English directly from lunch – don’t be late.
- You go to break directly from English.
- We start back up in GAWD at 1:25 sharp with our first Speed Design of the year. If you have a 7/8 CTE class on “Blue” days (Thursday and Friday) you will be at that class by 1:25.
- Make sense?
You need a book for today’s end of the day silent reading! This book can be left in the room on your machine as we will read it daily. If you don’t have a book get one at lunch, OR you can pick from my selection in my mini-library. This will happen daily going forward.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Tweaking Blender Settings

10:15 Day 2 Class Info

Public Drive review
Class Sketchbook (goes home at end of the day). Your first sketching assignment is two fold:
- 1. Write your name on sketchbook cover.
- 2. On page 1 fill the page with your artwork. This is a preassessment so I can see where we are in terms of Skills.
- This won’t be due until the end of Week 1 (next week) but I know some want to start early and put in as much detail as they can.
Epic Games Launcher
Testing Student Adobe Accounts / Email Accounts
Weekly Schedules

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 Lego Building

This morning we are going to work on a procedural activity in pairs. You will get one instruction booklet to work off of, and your task is that each of you has a complete device.

In this exercise we are looking are your ability to:

Working with a co-worker, sharing the instruction booklet.
Working clean.
Solving problems with your teammate.
Make sure you and your partner show your complete device to me!

Partners:

Jayden / Bourdeau
Jackson / Piche
Breadmore / Isaac
Wyatt / Sawyer
Asher / Amanda
Melissa / Bubba / Quang
Michael / Ben

Could we break this down before 11:35?

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

At 12:25 you must be in your seats in D105 for English!

1:10 Afternoon Break

1:25 First Speed Design of the year!

Speed Designs are 15 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 First Independent GAWD Project: Castle!

In your first independent project of the year, you are going to create a Castle in Blender.

First, start off with a new Blender file and save it to your “week_01” folder as “castle.blend”. Now we can hit save as we work and it is all setup for us.

What type of Castle should you create?

Cartoony? Realistic? Something specific that exists such as the Disney Castle or Helm’s Deep? Something 100% creative and original that you can’t get wrong?

Let’s say here are some classic Castle elements which should be included:

Walls
Towers
Keep
Drawbridge

Today is Day 1 of this project, for now we are going to work and save.

Preparing for Dailies

At 2:15 today we are going to have dailies, where we start presenting our work each day. You get credit so long as you show a little of what you worked on this day. We do this every day. Micro-presentations of your work each day to get us used to the idea of making our work for OTHERS as well as us.

At 2:05 we will start preparing for dailies so we are comfortable.

Computers turned off before we present.

2:15 Dailies

2:20 “19 Minutes”

Every day in GAWD will will end 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 the end I will 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.