Rory and I had a great discussion about the characteristics of an artist to help them "blow up" in the music industry. - Things like: enhancing skills/talent, audience research, image (i.e. being a good person, and bringing a valuable product/service to the table), as well as, staying aligned to a "why" bigger than himself.
Form an Economics perspective, we talked about how the main goal (for any business) is to decrease risk and increase profit and impact.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
We had a pretty real talk about where he's at with things in his business and in his life. I'm trying to focus more on the "energy" of economics and how he has a real opportunity to not only make a lot of money but impact a lot of lives if he gets his head (and heart) straight!
Discuss the background of Keith Haring and show examples in my book.
Arrange and trace around Haring type figures. Then add lines and shapes around the figures.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
0
Lesson Comments
I was looking forward to meeting him, but he left school early because of a sore throat.
Rory and I continued watching the film. He takes notes of the setting and characters. He is going to write a film review. We also discussed the comparison of the book to the movie.
Based on Rory's outline of the movie , "The Book Thief" ,we discussed how to convert his outline into sentences and paragraphs. We first noted the date of the movie's release and then identified the director . Next, we composed an introductory topic sentence using this information. We completed the introductory paragraph by describing the main characters , and the movie's locale, Nazi Germany 1939. I mentioned "Schindler's List" as another movie set in this time frame ,and we examined how "The Book Thief" is fiction while "Schindler's List' is based on a true story. Before composing any type of critique or review, Rory picked out plot highlights and incorporated them into his composition noting how the movie creates dramatic tension arising from the main character's hiding a Jewish man from the Nazi regime. While we did not complete the writing in one session, we did address some word choice and structural issues and made a very good start on this writing project.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
I substituted today, but no one was able to identify exactly what subject was scheduled in the time slot. .There were no available lesson plans so I followed up on some of the work he was doing in English.
Monday, February 10, 2020
11:00 - 12:00; 12:30 - 1:30. 120 min. -
Environmental Science:
One Strange Rock: Gasp. -
Rory and I watched the first chapter of ‘One Strange Rock’. Narrated by astronauts, the National Geographic documentary addresses a very fundamental question raised by humankind’s exploration of the Cosmos: Why is the Earth, the third rock from the sun, so very different from the rest of our solar system? The first episode, entitled Gasp, describes the role of microbes in the development of our present atmosphere, as well as the role of diatoms and green plants in a delicate balancing act. It also shows how the water cycle works to create the largest river in the world, which exists in vapor form and sits above the Amazon rainforest; a literal River in the sky
