Civics this week

Visit https://www.planbook.com to view weekly lesson plans, look for Boyer Valley, and enter password "maldog"

Chapter 3- The Constitution

Papers & Projects: Personal "Preamble" Project (Mission Statement) Due Friday Jan 17

Section review questions: 

• Page 61 due Tues 1/14
• Pp 67 & 62 due Fri 1/17

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; Do this right away

Boyer Valley Digital Photography students-

Please register for a free Flickr account as soon as possible. http://www.flickr.com You will be uploading and managing your images there- that's where I will be able to find them in order to grade them or comment on them.

If you are planning on using an ipod touch, ipad, smart phone or tablet rather than or in addition to a camera, you should look for the free Flickr app and download it as soon as possible.

I recommend that you register using your school gmail account. While you could use yahoo or facebook, if you do, you will run into difficulties with the school's security blocks.

Once you've registered explore, get used to it, upload a few pictures you've already taken before this class that you're proud of, but please make sure that you take care of the two other things soon-

Look for me, "Mal Dog" and request to connect with me and look for the "Boyer Valley Photo Class" group and ask to join.

Are you getting the idea that there's a lot of digital to Digital Photography? Make sure you visit and bookmark our class wiki, http://digphoto.wikispaces.com because after all, all of our assignments and in fact, all our chapter tests are all already on there.

If you're interested, our textbook has a website its a good place to review- http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_london_ashortcour_6/30/7766/1988309.cw/-/t/index.html

We need to finally get moving, so I'm going to go ahead and administer our pretest tomorrow whether or not any or many more have joined the class. Friday we'll check out books & finally take a look at the syllabus & course overview. Thank you for your patience this week.

You may also be interested in-

• Upload your pictures to RePlayIt.com so we can use them in the Yearbook! They also have a free app for your phone, ipod, or tablet
• My Photography & Yearbook Pinterest Board
• Our very own Dig.Photography Class Facebook group

ALL ART CLASSES; Get to know your 4FOURS!

CIVICS; Core Principles

We are going to be studying the Constitution in Chapter 3.

http://bv-civics.wikispaces.com/Chapt.+03+Constitution

Last quarter we memorized the Preamble to the Constitution. The Preamble contains 6 principles which we
use to help us make decisions about how our government should work and what it should do.

Principles are goals or values you believe are so important that you base your behaviors and choices on them. They can give us purpose and direction.

Of course, you might also think of a principle as a concept or idea that seems to be so universal that its considered "natural law," like the law of gravity or other laws of physics. Many Social Scientists including most of the founding fathers thought that people tended to follow certain patterns, have certain needs and drives so much that they talked about them as "natural rights," because they believed these weren't just random patterns, but universal concepts (AKA principles).

To better understand the 6 principles in the Preamble to the Constitution, Civics students will spend some time considering what their own personal principles are. Once they have, they'll summarize them into a personal mission statement in our "Personal Preamble Project" due Friday, January 17.

The conceptual filter I'd like students to keep in mind both while their considering their own principles and while studying the 6 principles in the Preamble are the 3 Core Democratic Principles which we studied in the Declaration of Independence:

• EQUALITY- "...that all men are created equal..."
• HUMAN RIGHTS- "...and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..."
• THE SOCIAL CONTRACT- "...that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

These thee principles would also be good filters when considering the concepts and principles contained in the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Which we will be studying in Chapter 4.

Both our Rights and our Responsibilities (Social Contract) are essentially principles. Therefore, principles are what Civics is all about!

YEARBOOK This Week!

This week we are studying caption-writing. Check the class wiki for the study guide and module 12 activities worksheets. http://archive-yrbk.wikispaces.com/YB+012-+Caption+Writing

This quarter we'll still be working through the rest of our textbook, while of course working on the actual yearbook at yearbookavenue.jostens.com These are the modules we have left:

• Captions
• Editing
• Photography
• Typography
• Layout Design
• Graphics

Is there anything you can do for extra credit? Of course!

 1) work on layouts or tagging pictures on- the more time you log on yearbookavenue, the higher your production grade and 

2) KEEP SELLING ADS AND BOOKS! Books are still just $42 until March 2, then they go up to $50!

MALLORY SUB LESSONS THURS 12/5/13

PER 1-2 CIVICS- 

• Read pp.2-4 of Iowa History article, answer questions about reading on handout (on desk in back of room) due at end of class.
• Iowa Crossword puzzle due Monday

PER 3 DRAWING- 

• Read directions on pp.181-187
• Take turns posing & drawing profiles of classmates into sketchbooks

PER 4- Planning period

PER 5 7th GR ART- 

• DEAR time (silent reading, many will go to Kathy Marsh's room), 11:52-12:12
• Complete self-critiques & aesthetic scans (will be on island counter) of recently finished oil pastel self-portraits (hung to left of board). Due at end of class period, turn into yellow box.

PER 6 PAINTING- Watch videos on Grant Wood and Edward Hopper, complete Venn diagram comparing/contrasting the two artists.

Go to this Website on laptop (have student turn on projector if you need it.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-1907-1960-age-of-global-conflict/American%20Modernism/v/grant-wood--american-gothic--1930

If you want & there's time, you may show video on Jackson Pollack too.

PER 7 8th GR ART- Read pp. 248-251 in textbook & answer questions 1-6 on p. 251. Due at end of class period, put in yellow box.

PER 8 YEARBOOK- Go to North Lab; Students may work on any of the following:

• Layouts on yearbookavenue.jostens.com
• "Tag" pictures in Image Gallery (esp. Girls BB & Drill, just uploaded)
• Work on stories due next Tuesday
• Work on Activities 9.1-4 (which will help them prepare stories)
• Study for Module 9 Test (which will be either Mon or Tues, not Fri as planned)

NOTE TO EDITORIAL TEAM Jasmine/Franklin/Shelby/Jade- 

• 2 more Sr. Portraits uploaded yesterday
• Rock-n-Prevention and Book Club pictures uploaded (need to add pages to ladder?)
• Great job on cover- its in the mail.

Mallory Sub-Lessons Mon. Nov. 4, 2013

1- Civics (Room 203)

2- Civics

Students should complete the Current Events Worksheet (on desk) by the end of the hour. Newspapers should arrive before the beginning of 1st period. When finished, have them put their assignment in the purple tray in the front of the room.

Please have students return graded assignments. There is a stack for each period in front of the purple trays at the front of the room. Please remind students to check the red tray for assignments without names on them.

3- Drawing (room 219)

Have students complete a self-critique form (on the island-counter) for their knee drawings in their sketchbooks. Have them put the critique-sheets in the yellow tray on the island when they’re finished.

Then, they should read the directions in their textbooks on pages 146-151 before drawing two “sighting” perspective drawings; 1) Of one of the doorways in the classroom (facing a door, like shown on page 147) and 2) One of one of the corners of the room (like the one shown on page 149) Both drawings will be in their sketchbooks. They will only have about a day for each- they are both due on Wednesday.

4- Free Period

Lunch

D.E.A.R. Time: 11:46-12:12

5- 7th Grade Art

Students should continue working on their Jose Posada/Dia de Los Muertos calavaras (skeleton) scratch-art cartoons (on island).

6- Painting

Students should complete self-critique forms about their color-field paintings (hung above the white-board) when they’re completed, they should put them in the yellow tray on the island.

Then, they should try completing the color theory crossword puzzles (on island). They may help each other if they need it. They should turn these into the yellow box when they’re finished too, although these aren’t due until tomorrow.  

If/When they are finished with both of those,, they may work on their watercolor color wheel paintings,  if they didn’t finish last Thursday. Those who paint need to be sure to clean up the last 5 minutes of class.

7- 8th Grade Art

Students will continue working on the Surrealist paintings they began on Thursday. The directions can be found on pp.262-263 of their textbooks. Please make sure that they clean-up the last 5 minutes of the class period.

8- Yearbook

Yearbook II & III Students ( Jasmine, Jade, Franklin, & Shelby) should be working on layouts on yearbookavenue.jostens.com, may use this time as a studyhall, or may “coach” (help) YrBk I students.

Yearbook I students should work on Activity 5.3 and 5.4 (they have the directions). Scissors and glue are in tubs in the second cabinet from the wall on the South side of the Art Room. Magazines are in the drawers under the windows along the East side of the room. Have students glue and label their verbal clips (Activity 5.3) onto yellow paper and their visual clips (Activity 5.4) onto blue paper. (I will have stacks on the island for you). YrBk I students may also use textbooks (on island by the blue crate) to  complete Activity 5.2.

Please have them clean up at the end of the hour. If they finish 5.3&4, make sure they put their names on them and they  may turn them in to the yellow tray. If they don’t finish, they will have time tommorow.