October 5, 2017

 
1.  Share information regarding All Pueblo Reads and a synopsis of this year's book.

All Pueblo Reads is an annual event that encourages our community to read the same book and participate in activities that help us engage with the material in a meaningful way.  This year's box is "Station Eleven", by Emily St. John Mandrel.

"An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains - this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it." (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven)

This year we will be participating by creating our futuristic or apocalyptic character.

2.  Discuss materials and guidelines for assignment.

Every student will receive one sheet of paper from the substitute teacher.  Students may use marker or color pencil.  Students know where markers and color pencils are.  Student should come up with a unique character that they think would be in a book or movie about a futuristic or apocalyptic world.  The entire paper must be filled with color and design.  The artwork should take students three, whole, class periods.  Artwork should be turned into the labeled baskets at the back of the classroom at the end of each class period. (These baskets are next to the sub plan box and should be set out on the counter on the opposite side of the sink.)  

3.  Watch video Urbanization and the Future of Cities

4.  Pass out materials and let students begin work.

5.  Play the first 20 minutes of Wall-E while students work.  Remind students that they should be working while watching the video.  The DVD is in the substitute teacher box and can by played using Windows Media Player on the classroom laptop.  There is a short cut to Windows Media Player on the laptop.

6.  Have students clean up 10 minutes before the end of class.  No artwork should leave the classroom.