Fees $$$

We need to collect the fees for the class this week.

Please go directly to the Treasurer, Ms. Concepcion to pay your $20.00 fee for class. Especially now, with the PAT project, we will need your fees for materials and supplies.

The full amount of your fees will go towards materials and supplies that you will use to create your work.

Thank you for your cooperation! Mrs. Nadel

First PAT Field trip - Friday October 16, 2009

Remember to get your field trip forms signed and back to Mrs. Nadel by Thursday, October 15th.

Due to the PSAT, we may not have class on Wednesday. So, you are responsible for getting me your completed and signed field trip forms before or after school or on your way to or from lunch.

Thank you! Mrs. Nadel

If you want access to Wolfsonian-FIU PAT blog and NING website

If you would like access to the Wolfsonian-FIU Page-At-a-Time blog and NING website, you may email Ms. Sullivan, from the Wolfsonian-FIU, directly, to ask for access.

If you do email her, please consider using your new school email address.

Her email address is claudia@thewolf.fiu.edu

Set up your STUDENT EMAIL account!

Log in to STUDENT PORTAL

go to email@live.com tab

LAUNCH EMAIL

you will have to change the password -- so ask me for it before you start the process.

once your email is set up, send me an email

knadel@dadeschools.net

Check Out the PAT Blog

Artist, designers, students,

Please be sure you are checking in with all our tehcnology resources and communications, collaborations workspaces.

http://wolfsonianpat.blogspot.com/

What is Conflict?

what happened?

how did you feel?

your ideas?

questions?

Thoughts on Papermaking

http://gort.ucsd.edu/preseduc/papermak.htm

School Volunteers

http://community.dadeschools.net/!svp/school-vol.asp

Mayra, could you please add a links list on the blog and add the volunteer link above - thank you

Page At a Time - PAT - PROCESS

Hi Damarys,

It’s so great to hear from you. Thank you so much for your hospitality, Kate and I had a great time visiting your classroom. We came away very impressed with your enthusiasm and leadership.

These are the steps to follow in terms of starting the design process.

Goals-

Firstly, the goal of this year’s Page a Time project is twofold for your class. The primary goal is for you class to design a book (or books if you wish) that focuses on a conflict and it possible resolution. The secondary objective, is to share your experiences of the design process with the middle school students so that they learn from you how to go about making their own separate class book. Most likely the middle school will work on only ONE book.

How you will do it-

First steps for you:

#1) Define conflict. To do this brainstorm with the class. Think about personal experiences as well as formal definitions found in different dictionaries.

#2) Once you have compiled a “universe” of ideas, begin to separate the most important ones in the following categories:Personal conflict

• Military conflict
• Economic conflict
• Social conflict
• Modern conflict

#3) Choose the top 5 conflicts – and provide evidence (through research in newspapers, or books) as to why you think these conflicts merit having a hand-make book creation.

# 4) Record your process in NING network or the PAT blog. I will send you an invite for both at your hotmail address. You can document the process by taking pictures and writing a summary or by creating a series of short videos clips (like a mini movie) explaining how you went about defining conflict.

#5) When you come to the museum you will class members make a presentation (that I will record on video) that explain to me #1) how you defined conflict, #2) the reasons for choosing the top 5 conflicts and what evidence you have to support your choice of conflict. Why should a topic be chosen as the subject of a hand-made book? At this time we can also discuss what direction to take in terms of creating a book. Will you make one book for the whole class, or several? What are the pros and cons?

#6) During your field trip we will also discuss the ways you will be assisting the middle school students more concretely.

Work for Friday October 2, 2009

As always, you are my EYES, and are therefore precious to me.

Wolfsonian Page at a Time - PAT

• http://pageatatime.org/

1. Damarys will go over our upcoming collaboration with the WOLFSONIAN --

• brainstorm ideas of CONFLICT
• think about/get into teams
• start thinking about working with the students from Ms. Rodriguez-Graber's class
  (her classes are mixed 6th, 7th, 8th graders)
• go to the PAT website and look through the previous student PAT books and the colleciotn of books at the Wolfsonian

You have a READING and RESEARCH assignment...

• go to http://americanart.si.edu/
• http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/

THis will help you to get situated to work at the Wolfsonian

Your assignment -- due TUESDAY -- is

1. select on work of art from the collection
2. create your own version or homage to that work of art but UPDATED to fit our circumstances / conditions today
3. you may use any medium -- drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, photo montage
4. BUT your work has to relate back to the original
5. write a relfecton about why you chose the particular work of art; how tht work is still relevant and meaningful to us today; what you did to update the work; how your work relates back to the original

Grading Rubric

Overall style, completeness, quality ..... 15%