Where I'm From Poems 2014

Welcome to the 2014 school year!  This is an exciting year as we will be in a computer lab all year and all of our curriculum and assignments will be digital!  We are also looking forward to working with the MASSA students in Teresina, Brazil!  We composed poems to introduce ourselves to our partner students.  Check out these awesome poems that show our personality and culture.

Where I'm From Poems 2014 

More Videos

Here are some more videos students created:

Alien Grey
Alarm
Tim's First Day of School
The Stalker Box
Sinister Box
Playing Soccer Ninja Box
Marry Poppins Box
Many Boxes
Box Thief
Balloon
Wolf Guts

Lights, Camera, Action!

Mrs. Landeen and I had the awesome opportunity to attend a SHIFT workshop a few weeks ago in Moab, Utah.  At this workshop, we learned the ins and outs of iPad filming. We learned different camera angles, camera movements and editing techniques. When we returned to school the following week, we taught those same skills to our students.  Since we were ending the year with narrative writing, we had the students turn their short stories into film.  Film making allows students to explore different audiences and techniques such as music and facial expressions to show mood and tension.  Groups of students were given the prompt "a student comes upon a box..." as their prompt. They were also told their story could contain no narration.  Students storyboarded their ideas and then spent several days in production where they shot each scene from at least three camera angles.  They then spent several more days in post production editing and adding special effects to their videos.  All the videos are posted on our classroom youtube channel (littlemizenglish).  Here are some of the top ones. Check out their camera angles, movements, and special effects!

Box Transporter (4th period)
Cupcake Wars (7th period)
Mime in a box (7th period)
Mrs. Martell (4th period)
The Dream Box (3rd period)
Hospital Romance (7th period)
The Impossible Box (2nd period)
Mario Movie (2nd Period) 
Western Box  (7th Period)
That's not your box (5th Period)


Check out Miss Ewell and Mrs. Landeen's box video:
The perfect lid

Romeo and Juliet Videos

To end our Romeo and Juliet Unit, we divided students into groups and had them change at least one element of the play such as the characters or the setting.

4th period 1

4th period 2 Cavemen

4th period 3

4th period #4 Surfing

4th Period #5 Text Messaging  

Sixth Period 2 Modern Day  

 

Where I'm From Poems

As part of our global collaboration, my students created poems that tell a little about themselves.  We hope that this will tell our Brazilian friends what our interests, hobbies, culture and personalities are like.  We would love it if you would make comments on our writing and let us know what you think.  We look forward to reading your poems as well and learning more about the Brazilian culture. :)

Where I'm From Poems

Figurative Language Videos

To make sure students understand the types of figurative language used in Romeo and Juliet, we prepared some short videos on each type of figurative language.  Enjoy!

Onomatopoeia

Period 2

Period 3

Period 7

Simile

Period 7

Metaphor

Period 1

Period 2

Allusion

Period 7

Alliteration

Period 1

Idioms

Period 1
 
Period 2

Hyperbole

Period 2

Period 3

A day in the life of a Brazilian student

Check out this massa video made by Alex's students in Teresina, Brasil.  It shows what his students do each day and what their routines are.  How is their day different from or the same as yours?

A day in the life

Happy Birthday Alex (Our collaborating teacher in Brazil)

This week we reviewed many different types of figurative language including idioms. We talked about why authors use them in their writing.  We also talked about how idioms are very unique to the culture they are from and are often confusing to non-native speakers or people from different regions.  So, to end our unit, we decided to "kill two birds with one stone." We wanted to make a video that showed a popular idiom to share with the students in Brazil who are studying English and we wanted to wish Alex a happy birthday or Feliz Aniversário!!! Since the Brazilian students have just returned from their long and hot (especially in Teresina) summer break, we chose an idiom that relates to the end of summer.  In the US students are usually not excited to return to school and we're assuming it's the same for the Brazilian students.  But, we hope they are excited to return to school so they can collaborate with us and share with us some of the videos they have made :).  Hope you enjoy! 

Idiom Video

How to use Google Docs

Miss Ewell's classes are very excited to start collaborating with other ninth grade students at Snowcrest Junior High School.  We will be working on projects together through Google Docs.  Miss Ewell's students have created some videos for you to watch to know how to use Google Docs.

Watch the following videos to know how to access Miss Ewell's website:

 Miss Ewell's Website 

Miss Ewell's Website

Miss Ewell's Website

Watch the following videos to know how to log in to your Google account (Gmail):

Gmail Account

Watch the following videos to know how to open and Share a Google Doc:

Google Docs

Google Docs

 Google Doc

Google Docs

Watch these videos to see how to use a Google Form:

Google Forms

Google Form

Watch these videos to see how to comment on a Google Doc:

Comments

Comments

Comments

Watch these videos to know how to copy a Google Doc to your drive:

Copy a document

Copy a document

Copy a document

Watch these videos to understand good computer collaboration behavior:

Good Behavior

Good Behavior

Romeo and Juliet Act I videos

Hear ye, hear ye!  Miss Ewell's students have created a few videos to recap what has happened in Romeo and Juliet Act I.  Third period and Fifth period will be judging each others videos and Sixth and Fourth period will judge each others.

Period 3 Videos:

Act I Scene I

Act I Scene II

Act I Scene III

Act I Scene IV

Act I Scene V

Act I full summary

Period 5 Videos:

Act I Scene I

Act I Scene III

Act I Scene IV

Act I Scene V

Period 4 Videos:

Act I Scene I 

Act I Scene I

 Act I Scene II 

Act I Scene II

Act I Scene III 

Act I Scene IV

Act I Scene V

Act I

Period 6 Videos:

Act I Scene I

Act I Scene II

Act I Scene III

Act I Scene V

 Act I