Monday, June 6

Students are working on a final project. It will be a 100 point assignment (worth the same as a unit test). It will take most of this week. See directions below:

Explorer Movie Project


In this project, you will be incorporating your Photoshop, Imageready Power Point, and iMovie skills to create a “movie” about an explorer.
Step 1:
Mr. Brooks, or Ms. Barnett, will assign you an explorer. You will collect information about this explorer and his voyage. You will need to answer the following questions before beginning work on the computer.
• Who is your Explorer? Provide brief biographical information.
• Who did they explore for?
• When did they sail? From what port? Where did they land?
• What is their LEGACY?

Step 2:
Create a title slide using Photoshop. Include the information from step 1 on this slide. Your title slide should include images pertinent to your explorer as well as their name and the years they lived. Save this file as a .jpg.

Step 3:
Create a Power Point which includes the information you gathered in Step 1. Do not include animations.

Step 4:
Using Photoshop and Imageready, create a progression of your explorer’s journey using a map. When your Imageready is done, export it as a quicktime file.

Step 5: When you have completed Steps 2, 3, and 4 import all parts into iMovie to arrange your movie. Be sure to set the “project preferences” first. You DO NOT want Ken Burns as a default setting, and you do not want your film to be widescreen (16:9). You want your aspect ratio to be 4:3.

June 3

The week of May 24-27 we discussed the Scientific Revolution, prepared for the test and took the unit test on May 27.
May 31: An introduction to the Aztecs
June 1-3: More about the Aztecs and the Age of Exploration (a dvd, 2 reading guides, a fill-in lecture about Columbus).
We will begin our final project on Monday. It will be an animated short film about a specific explorer from the age of exploration.

Students can bring their "at-home" texts beginning Monday. They can return them to the library at a time that is convenient for them.