Concentration Topic > The Positivity Portfolio

Concentration Topic > The Positivity Portfolio

Required:

Complete > everything highlighted in yellow.

The Big Idea:

Photography has the power to move us to become more positive.

Essential Questions:

• How will photography help me become more positive?
• Why is positivity beneficial?
• What is a Positivity Portfolio?

Concepts:

• Positivity changes how your mind works.
• You can train your mind to increase your positivity.
• Positivity transforms us for the better. (more receptive and creative)
• Positivity Portfolios trigger your own positive upward spiral toward flourishing.

Standards:

• Understand and apply > media, techniques, and processes with skill
• Use design > principles and functions
• Choose and evaluate > subject matter and ideas
• Reflect upon and assess > the characteristics and merits of both mine and other’s work
• Make connections > between my art and other aspects of life

Goal: Know that positivity is beneficial and can be elicited through images.

Access Prior Knowledge:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Elicit Prior Knowledge > Positivity Alphabet > http://goo.gl/AISH6o

• View Responses > http://goo.gl/g9EJpQ

New Information:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Narrative Organizer > Build Your Best Future - KWL > http://goo.gl/jVlwKP  

• View Responses > http://goo.gl/x7A7gK

Read > Handout - The Positivity Portfolio > https://goo.gl/KNExh7

Apply Knowledge & Skills:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar > Achor: The Happy Secret > http://goo.gl/OMkSuf

• Responses > http://goo.gl/dlgcmZ

Supplemental Information >

• Watch > Peter McGraw: What Makes Things Funny > http://goo.gl/q0qQcl
• Watch > Alan Watts: The Secret of Happiness > http://goo.gl/RTWunN
• Watch > Sir Ken Robinson: Laughter > http://goo.gl/8THxFl
• Watch > Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our Future > http://goo.gl/bua7B7
• Transcript > Abundance is our Future > http://goo.gl/NrO1Dt
• Watch > Alan Watts: Playing the Game of Life > https://goo.gl/MFLjx8

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Required Work Checklist:

• Elicit Prior Knowledge > Positivity Alphabet > http://goo.gl/AISH6o
• Narrative Organizer > Build Your Best Future - KWL
• Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar > Achor: The Happy Secret > http://goo.gl/OMkSuf

Why We Play the Game of Life

Access Prior Knowledge:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar

• Watch > Why We Play the Game of Life > http://goo.gl/AVax1u
• Comment > In the comment section below respond to the following
• describe your takeaway from the video, use lines directly from the video
• Reply > In the comment section below
• Reply thoughtfully to a classmate's original comment

Understand > Joy

Access Prior Knowledge:
Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar Alan Watts:The Dream of Life

1. Watch > The Dream of Life by Alan Watts video
2. Comment > In the comment section below, describe your takeaway from the video, use lines directly from the video
3. Reply > Choose a classmate's comment and offer a thoughtful reply that either confirms or disagrees with the original statement

New Information:

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity

Focus on Relevance > Meaning and Content Survey

1. Read > What is Joy?
2. Complete > Meaning and Content Survey

Respond > Joseph Albers on Design

Design Systems - Design is Order

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1965 > http://goo.gl/lOsWX8 

1. Below is a poem written by master teacher and artist Josef Albers
2. Below is also an image of Josef Albers with something he said. 
3. Respond > choose one question below and respond to it in the comment section.
• Does the concept of design qualify a man's thinking and doing? 
• Do you believe the basic rules of language shift or alter after awhile?

To design is

to plan

and to organize

to relate and to control.

In short it embraces

All means opposing disorder

and accident.

Therefore it signifies

a human need

and qualifies man’s

thinking and doing.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkbv-LZxEpfJAfyMC4UJLtSGcHHjn4NQrUJvmwGB783hy6KkqwaA

Get in the Shot of your Life > Holiday Cards with PicMonkey

Instructional Strategy

• Setting Objectives

Learning Activity

• Personalize Goals > Socratic Seminar Get in the Shot >  http://goo.gl/Lph0m5
• Respond > in the comment section answer:
1. How will you 'create' memories this holiday season?
2. How are you going to 'get in the shot' of your life?
3. What is your New Year's resolution?

Instructional Strategy

• Cooperative Learning

Learning Activity   

• View > http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards  

Instructional Strategy

• Nonlinguistic Representations

Learning Activity

• Create > With PicMonkey > http://www.picmonkey.com/ a Holiday/New Year's card
• View > The following tutorials

1. Make a Holiday Photo Card
2. Holiday Graphic Cards for the Ho-Ho-Hurried
3. Ten Steps to an Edit-worthy Holiday Photo
4. Holiday Graphics Cards for the Ho-Ho-Hurried
5. New Blank Canvas Feature Puts Graphics in Your Wheelhouse

#westoshaphoto   



01:56
Because while we take the same photo, our perspectives change, 
02:55 
And it hit me: One of the most important things we all make are memories.
03:02 
So I want to share the idea of taking an active role in consciously creating memories.
03:16 
I want to encourage everyone to get in the shot, and don't hesitate to ask, "Will you take our picture?"
 

Social Dialogue > Pride Socratic Seminar > Try Something New

Instructional Strategy

• Cues and Questions

Learning Activity  

• Social Dialogue > Socratic Seminar: Mat Cutts Try Something New

Goal Analysis > Form

The Big Ideas:

A system is a structure of interacting, intercommunicating components that operate individually and jointly to achieve a common goal.  

Designing is creating conceptual and visual unity by giving order to diverse but interrelated and interdependent parts.

Goal Concept:

From is determined by the organization of elements that make up the totality of a design.  

Access Prior Knowledge:

• “From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.” ~Pablo Picasso

• “When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.”  ~Ellsworth Kelly
• "In order to understand form in its complete three-dimensional reality, you must understand the space that it would displace if it were taken away" ~Henry Moore

Instructional Strategy

• Set Objectives

Learning Activity

• Focus the learning targets > 
• Respond > in the comment section
1. What does Pablo Picasso mean "convincing lies"?
2. How is Ellsworth Kelly's "the edge" different from an outline?
3. Why does Henry Moore believe we must understand "the space that it would displace" to truly understand form?