Final Geezer Blog Hack

What a pleasure to spend the last couple days with you all. Would have been there today, but was called to active duty to help secure our alpine perimeter... ; )

Each of you are amazing in so many different ways. It was my honor to explore the realms of life and writing with you for a dozen weeks. I learned many profound lessons and am richer because of our time together.   

So, thank you all for playing your part in this beautiful one-act play called life.

Please remember Ali's advice to Remember....

And remember....... Mr D's advice to:

1. Live a deliberate life.
2. Think for yourself.

As good advice as I've ever heard. I'm sure Ali would agree.

I hope to see you around as the years roll by....... 

Clay

Geezer Blog Hack

Greetings from the Geezer.

There I was, minding my own business when I was ambushed by rowdy riff-raff on board an otherwise peaceful sailing of the M/V Columbia.

In spite of their obvious need for adult supervision, these Ferry Fairies were all working very hard on their homework.

Mostly.

See You Before You Know It!

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The whole show is slowly coming to a close. 

As we approach the end of the year we have done so much, crossed so many borders, and tried so many different things.  Now it is time to take something that you are proud of, expand on it and create something you are truly proud of. 

For a final project we are going to create a movie.  You will be working with I-movie in the lab, or something on your own, and put music, sound, and pictures together with your writing to make something amazing. 

My hope is that on your final week of school we will be able to sit back and watch the wonderful things that you have created.  I am providing a lot of lab and class time to finish this, please let me know if you have any questions.

Click here to get the overview on your final project!

Hey Team,

In the last week we took a look at Satire.  We looked at Juneau Douglas High School and played around with the different policies here.  I asked you to exagerate characteristics of the high school and come up with one of your own. 

To get your 12th writing challenge... click here.

Journal and In class writing

Here a couple more opportunities to make some points. 

1st. We have been writing in our journals everyday as part of our routine.  If you have been taking advantage of this time with either reading or writing you have earned the points. You can turn in your journal, show me that you have been reading, or show me your writing and I would be happy to help you out here.

2nd.  Lots of the writing that we have done has been in class, either in your journal or in groups.  If you take one of these pieces of writing, polish it up, and turn it in to me I will give you another 5 points.

Please let me know if you have questions and I would be more than happy to clarify.

The Ballad

With Folk Fest happening all week I hope that we can get inspired.  This week we are looking at literary ballads.  I pulled a few ballads for us to take a look at yesterday:  Bob Dylan, Coleridge, and Warren G.

This week your challenge is to write a ballad telling the story of something you found, or something that is a part of your life. 

Details of the assignment can be found by ...clicking here...

Media Criticism

This week we have been taking apart archetypes, allegories, and stereotypes.

I want you to apply your knowledge to the media and become a critic.

Pick out an advertisement, TV show, movie, or song and criticize it.  Tell us where it is coming from.  What archetypes is it displaying?  What is the hidden story?   What is it telling us we should be like?

Your criticism should be mature and collegiate.  It should be about one or two paragraphs long.

Please see me if you have any questions.