Friday, February 25, 2011

Term 3 Reading: 200 Pages and 4 Book Chats

You've all chosen a book to read this term. Read 50 pages for each Book Chat (tell me when you're ready).

Book Chat 1 (50 pages): by February 25
Book Chat 2: by March 3
Book Chat 3: by March 16
Book Chat 4: March 24

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Book Page Design

February 25 and March 3 Writing Lab Assignment (20 points)

You will have today and next time to design a "Lucy Flake" page for a book I'm hoping to publish. Use what you've learned about alignment, repetition, contrast, and proximity to create a page that's visually attractive and easy to read.

1. Open a Word document, go to File, Page Setup, and put in the following page dimensions: Top (1"); Left (2.05"); Bottom (1"); and Right (2.05").
2. Decide what fonts you're going to use; create a heading that reads Lucy Flake.
3. Insert visuals/photographs of Lucy, Prudence, and Will. Since the visual of Lucy is big, you should crop it (perhaps only keep her head and shoulders).
4. Create captions for the pictures.
5. Using proximity," include the following information on the page: birth/death/marriage dates, number of children.
6. Decide how to present the information about Will Flake--text box? caption?.
7. Extra Credit: Create a small map of Beaver, Utah and Snowflake, AZ so the reader can quickly see where Lucy lived.

Lucy Flake page material

25 Beautiful Minimalist Designs

Friday, February 18, 2011

Book Chats

During Term 3, you should read 200 pages on your own. For each 50 pages that you finish, come to me to do a "book chat" for 10 points. During the book chat, I'll randomly open the book to the section you've just read and ask you to tell me what's happening at that point in the book.

Monday, February 14, 2011

PR Debacle PowerPoints Presentation Schedule

Thanks for all the work you've put in to this project! When you're scheduled, please make sure that you have your PP on a flash drive or on your email to present to the class.

Wednesday
Kalena
Lexi
Brin


Friday
Luis
Chris
Nic
Rachel
Spencer

Wednesday
Payton
Mark
Zach

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

PR PowerPoint Schedule

Feb 4--Writing Lab
Feb 8--Comma Day!
Feb 10--Writing Lab
Feb 14--Writing Lab
Feb 16 & 18--PowerPoint due; presentations