Wed Feb. 18

Students worked to get onto Flickr.
Assignments due today: written bio and good photo description.
Mini-lesson: Introduced elements of composition.

LINK to advanced photo

Welcome to Creative Writing/Photo 9

This course will run a full semester and will combine both writing and photography. Students will complete the course by producing a portfolio of written work and a slideshow of their best photography.

As a result of budget cuts and a number of cameras getting broken last year, it is strongly encouraged that students have their own camera or at the very least access to a family camera at home. Camera phones are OK, but quality of photography is not always great. Even if you have a good phone camera, I suggest you use the school's camera's during class time for assignment work.

ALL STUDENTS MUST HAVE THIER OWN 2GB sd card. This is your notebook for the class. Cards will only be provided on an emergency basis, not having a card could interfere with your success in the course. These cards can be bought at grocery stores, drugstores, Walmart or Future Shop. I would like students to have this card by Mon Feb 23.
Writing Assignment #1: Students are to write a bio telling about themselves including: interests, hobbies, likes/dislikes, favourite foods, fav. books, foods etc. This assignment should be written in third person. Ex. Jane is a shy girl who lives in Comox with her two cats named Goofy and Mittens. Jane enjoys knitting in her free time ……Length 1 paragraph Criteria: detailed, specific writing ( 10 marks)
When finished, you are to find a partner in the class to read your paragraph to and get them to help you improve  the piece by offering suggestions.

When finished this assignment, you are to go to Flickr ( this is a photo share site) and you are to create a new Yahoo account and password to sign up to create a Flickr account. Please use your real name, but you can make up a fake phone number, just make sure it is a Canadian number. I would like you to copy and paste your Yahoo user name and password into a word document and the save it to your Photo 9 edited folder on the L drive. If you have trouble getting onto Flickr, try to get on at home (just remember your user name and password),

Assignment #2: Using Flickr or Google images, I want  you to find a photo that you think is really great, and then give me three reasons you think it is a good photo. You can copy and paste the photo into a word document and then write out your three reasons, and then save onto your computer until next day.

Term #2 Assignments

The following is a list of all of the work that needs to be completed for term #2:

• spot colour

Mon. Dec. 8

Ms Chase is away, no cameras out today.

Please work on the following in the order of which it is presented.

• Conflict piece of writing, last day to hand in rough drafts is Wed. Dec. 10. At this time I will be handing back all rough drafts and students will fix up and hand in good copies.
• Bucket list : Due also on Wed. Dec 10

• NEW ASSIGNMENT: look up and write down the definitions and an example of each of the following poetic devices: ( this will be handed in with your poem)
• simile
• metafor
• personification
• theme
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• oxymoron

POEM ASSIGNMENT ( do not hand in yet) You are to write an 8 line poem on a theme of your choice using one other poetic device when wiring the poem.

• Work on editing your photography and putting photos up on to Flickr. Edit and organize photos for slideshow…we will be having a lesson on this next day and you should have 5 photos ready to put in to your slideshow. You might also want to find 3-4 coloured background photos, including one black background for your slideshow, and save these background into your slideshow folder. Photos for slideshow should be saved on your L drive. 
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• There should be NO BLURRY photos in your slideshow and all of the elements of composition should be taken into consideration when choosing photos for your slideshow. Subject matter should be interesting not random photos of boring subject matter. Detailed criteria will be discussed on Wed. in class

THERE IS LOTS TO DO SO DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!

New Assignments this week Dec.1

New in Photo:

• Spot colour: choose the best 5 photos to hi light colour 10 marks
• Portraits: 8 photos in total, 4 of one model, 4 of another model ( try taking some of the oppposite sex, can be brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts or moms and dads or friends  16 marks
• Your name in objects, either found objects or created ones. 10 marks
• Test next day out of 10 on camera functions check out the link. 10 marks
• Ongoing... 30 shots for your slideshow which is set to music. ( more info to come on this project) 30 marks

Writing

• Conflict piece 10 marks
• Bucket list: top 25 things you want to do before you turn 25. 20 marks
• Poetry coming soon!

Working on Writing

There will be no cameras signed out today. I would like students to work on the following in order of priority.

1. Work on your conflict piece on the computer….do not hand in to the TOC (15 marks) Due WED NOV. 26
2. NEW piece of writing: Bucket List You are to create a list of the top 25 things you would like to do in your life within the next 20 years. This list should not be goofy…it should be thoughtful and intelligent. (10 marks)
3. Work on editing spot colour or organizing your photos on Flickr.

LEARN ABOUT DIGITAL SLR FEATURES

Check out this link to learn more about the features on our cameras.
Digital SLR features front of camera
Digital SLR features back of camera
Digital SLR top of camera