Hi everyone!
Just a quick recap of what we did yesterday, and a peek at what the girls decided to do next week.
We started with a little activity to get our creativity rolling and also think about how headlines can sometimes be misleading--"News of the Day!" Each girl made up a headline or two about an ordinary occurance, but made the headline sound super dramatic. Then we all tried to figure out what the real story was. For example, can you guess what stories these are REALLY talking about? (Answers at the end.)
1) Girl Caught with Addictive Substance at Greendale Middle School!
2) Teacher Refuses to Let Students Speak Their Native Language In Class!
3) Sky is falling!
4) Doctors HATE This Teacher For Ruining Their Income!
5) The OCeans Are Moving!
6) Teachers Force Students to Do Physical Labor!
7) Disease Spreading Rampant Across Greendale Middle School!
8) Teacher Doesn't Return to School After Students Drive Her Out!
Once we were feeling pretty creative we decided what to do next week, and the girls picked out these activities:
1) Think of 10 ways to challenge yourself then check in next month.
2) Remake a TV show, but make it more timely and appropriate
3) Play the telephone game to show ho messages can get changed as they spread
4) Make a 7-Layer Dip and think about how the layers blend into each other like different kinds of Media blend into each other.
We put together our snacks (caramel apple buffet!) and then watched a short documentary while taking notes about techniques and things the filmakers did that worked well and made the movie good. (The movie was "Ladies First" a short documentary about a woman archer from India who was ranked #1 in the world, and the discrimination and challenges she faced in her quest for Olympic Gold.) The girls took some good notes on what worked and things they want to incorporate into their movie.
I would like to watch one more movie next week, a short documentary called "Period. End of Sentence" that won the Oscar for Short Documentary last year. It's rated TV-PG, but I wanted to make sure I ran it by all the parents first because it does talk about the taboo women in India faced about their periods and how they are overcoming it, using it to empower themselves, start a business, and gain independence in their male dominated rural village. It actually was inspired and produced by a group of High School girls in California, so there's a double connection. Here's more information about the movie. It's on Netflix if you have that and want to preview it. (Or just want to watch it--it's very good and realistically inspirational!)
Let me know if you don't want your daughter watching it, and we can find some other activity for her, or you can pick her up a half hour early. (It's only a half-hour movie.)
Thanks, and see you next week!
Answers to the Headline Stories above:
1) A girl had coffee at school.
2) The Spanish teacher has a rule: "No English in Spanish class."
3) It was snowing.
4) Healthy Choices class helps keep kids healthy.
5) There are waves on the ocean.
6) Kids have to take gym class.
7) Some kids have colds at GMS
8) A math teacher got the flu and stayed home the last couple days.
Aleks
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