Monday, March 7, 2011

General Announcements:

• If you ever notice something missing or wrong on the blog, comment to let me know about it - I don't always have the whole picture. -Grace
• March 16 (PM only) & 17 (all day) - Spring parent/student/teacher conferences. Conference sign-ups available in the River Classroom.
• March 16, 17 & 18 - Wed., 3/16 will be an early dismissal day (No Homework Club), and on Thurs., 3/17 and Fri., 3/18, there will be no school for students.
• Tuesdays: Hip-Hop Dance - The Prisms' next PE unit will be hip-hop dance class on Tuesday afternoons. Students need to wear or bring comfortable clothes and shoes for class.
• Eighth Grade Project resource page updated 1/24, including project deadlines through the end of February and downloadable documents. Page will be updated as I get new information.

Math:

Grade 7
• Due Tues., 3/8: Complete #1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 on pp. 64-67.
Grade 8
• Due Tues., 3/8: Complete #1 on p. 53 and #6 on p. 56. You will need grid paper for #1.

Language Arts:

• Due Mon., 3/7: Begin essay-writing assignment. Choose the topic, write a position statement/thesis and create a graphic organizer planner for a five-paragraph essay.
• Group 1 Due Tues., 3/8: Bring in photos and/or an object to share with your partner at Overlook. Have it to present in math class.

Social Studies:

• Due Thurs., 3/10: Timeline?

Science:

• Nada:

Spanish:

Moment of Zen:

Girl Walk // All Day
A Music Video of Epic Proportions

Slightly before anyone had mapped video from one thing on to audio from another, the mashup was solely the province of music - blending pieces of different songs to create a single track, ideally greater than the sum of its parts. Before that, it was mostly the province of potatoes.

In any event, Girl Walk // All Day aims to take hyper-mashup artist Girl Talk's most recent album, All Day, and film an improvisational dance video, drawing on a mashup of dance styles for the entire 71-minute run of it. Primarily following dancer Anne Marsen around New York City, the video available thus far translates the anarchic glee of the music into movement through the everyday in a remarkable way. The project has the interesting potential to be a document following this moment of music, the city, etc., depending on how the project.

If nothing else, you get tap dancing on a boat and a lot of puzzled bystanders.
Click the picture above to read New York Times 3/6/11 article about the origins of the project (video included), or check out the project's own website.