DIY Radio

Create a radio diary.

Anyone can make a radio diary. Try your hand at making radio. Whether you’re interviewing a neighbor, or a grandparent, or someone you’ve never met, a microphone is a passport into their lives. If you or someone in your community has a story to tell, get a microphone, a recorder, a pair of headphones, and get started.

The Teen Reporter Handbook has been used in schools across the United States, as well as in Russia, Israel, South Africa, and even in a journalism training program in Southern Afghanistan.

We Are Happy From …

Grab your smart phone and make your own “We Are Happy From…” video.

Team up with a group of friends, classmates, teammates … and work on your “lip dub.”

 

(name it Pharrell Williams – Happy – We Are from [name of the city])

 

Read about Pharrell Williams at wikipedia.

Read about youth who cannot create and share such a video.

 

Watch, but not all of it at once, a 24 hour version of Happy, http://24hoursofhappy.com

 

Put your town on the map: http://wearehappyfrom.com/map

 

Tools:

Google Drive

WeVideo and WeVideo Help

iPhone WeVideo App

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciVr0yvqDz4

 

Yellow: #ffd202

 

How to get your video to the YouTube without paying the premium?

Publish your project, once published the project can be exported. Export it to your Google Drive (notice the YouTube icon is grey and requires an upgrade premium to click).

Wait a bit of time.

Look for your exported “happy.mp4” inside your “My Drive”. Download this file to your desktop, then upload it to your youtube.

Worked for me.

Be careful how many times you “Export” there is a “bumper” on the free account that only allows a few MBs or minutes to be exported. Be certain you are ready for export and export only the once.

 

After the Harvest

Write a comprehensive film review of the film “After the Harvest.”

If you have read “Wild Geese” by Martha Ostenso, be sure to compare and contrast.

Consider especially details from class discussions, notes, essays or any other ideas to help you out.

Tip: consider a 5-paragraph essay as an organizational structure for your review. Perhaps one third focusing on literal elements, one third on figurative elements, and the final third thematic elements.

Screenshots:

RULES FOR TEACHERS – 1872
“That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star”
Jeanne d’Arc
Jude = Judas?
see also Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857
Norns? Moirai? Fates? Past, Present, and Future?
Dionysian and the Apollonian form a dialectic.
“Gregor Samsa, I presume?”
Narcissus’ gift for Echo
John Keats, “To Autumn” … And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep …
see “Flight of Icarus” lyrics
“Kashrut?”
iPhone 0.1
“But there never seems to be enough time”
The “Wedding Quilt” is missing something…
Amelia’s hands are “Planters’ Hands”!
What was in the package?
Matthew 14:13-21; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15
“Ball and Chain”
Ares and Dionysus
Thetis as goddess
“Naughty, isn’t it” “Part of the appeal.”
Calumet?
“Lady of the Lake”
“I could have loved you, Caleb.”
“Running with the Devil” – Van Halen
“Christina’s World” (1948)
4-20
“Three Wise Monkeys”
“In the Upper Room”
Dauntless or Abnegation?
Ophelia’s Flowers
“You’re pregnant. Stupid, stupid girl.”
“… in the trenches … you got three seconds … one, two …”
“Out, damned spot; out, I say. . . . Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
“But if you want money for people with minds that hate / All I can tell you is brother you have to wait”
Ellen’s repertoire
“We don’t care, we aren’t caught up in your love affair”
“There’s the truth.”
“You’re late for your chores.”
“You fought in the war, you have a university degree, you are going to study law. What in hell are you doing here?” “I have an obsession with trees.”
“The body has risen!”
The Red Wing Project, Minnesota
“Twenty-some years ago, women followed the rail crews north…”
Gilbert Garcin Diogène ou la lucidité – Diogenes or lucidity, 2005
see “Mud Time,” George Bowering

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/geese/geese.html

Write a Short Story

Imagine your story is already done:

Who is the hero in your story? Explain why you think so.

  • What is the turning point? In what way does your protagonist change?
  • What is the overall message and mood?
  • Is humour an important part of this story?
  • Why is your story title significant?

Now begin with a fuzzy plan:

Investigate drawing a plot diagram for your story. Use an online tool or draw your own chart. Complete it by adding story details under each of the following: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Have you read other stories like yours? Discuss these stories. How were their plots similar or different?

Think about a big idea:

In most good stories the characters undergo a significant change. What are some good ideas for a short story about an ordinary person who undergoes a significant change? Which idea would make an especially entertaining story for an audience of your peers?

Plan out the details:

Add details to your outline for your short story, including notes on the following: main character and personality, setting, conflict, initial incident, rising action, changes, climax, and conclusion/denouement/resolution.

Write a first draft:

Use this outline to write a first draft.

Revise:

Ask a partner to give you feedback about improving your story. Revise your draft using this feedback.

Publish:

Barney

Pre-Reading Questions:

  1. Give some examples of common topics in science fiction novels and films.
  2. What have you read about experiments involving increased intelligence? Do you believe that we will one day be able to achieve this goal?

Read “Barney” by Will Stanton.

Question for Discussion:

  1. Do you think scientists should be free to perform experiments in secret?

Respond Personally:

  1. With a partner, review the events of the story as you understand them.
  2. Name some famous novels and movies in which science experiments go wrong.

Respond Critically:

  1. How did you respond to the surprise ending? What has happened? What was the foreshadow of the plot twist?
  2. Find three examples of irony in the last two paragraphs of the story?
  3. On what grounds is Tayloe fired? How did the protagonist rationalize his dismissal?
  4. What familiar conventions (patterns or rules) of the science fiction story and the fantasy story are found in “Barney”?

Respond Creatively:

  1. Write two more diary entries for Barney.
  2. Assume that Barney is recruiting female rats. Make a home page for him.

Going Further

  1. In a paragraph, review the events of the story as you understand them.
  2. What are some of the crises in the story? What would you consider to be the climax, or main turning point?
  3. Why is the story written in journal form? Would the story have worked any other way?
  4. Write the investigating police detective’s report on what happened on the island. Support with evidence.
  5. Make a collage of the story to illustrate the various scenes, episodes, and characters.