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How might we use the elements of composition to reveal five or components of our local culture in a professional photo essay? Include a one paragraph rationale for each of your photos.

Use the following criteria to maintain an effective blog during this semester/year. Each week, you must select the standards for which you would like your blog assessed. Then post links to your blog posts on the blog tracker on Google Drive.

: Create a 3+ song playlist to meet another's needs. Empathize with that user. Consider what that person needs, wants and how they use music. Write a 1 paragraph rationale (3-5 sentences) for each of your 3+ selections. Design album cover art for your playlist. Optional Evidence of Learning: Create a Playlist for Yourself, Explaining Your Choices.

Based on your personal experience with music, your understanding of the impact of music on society, and your understanding of the impact of society on music, design a product that demonstrates one or more of those understandings.

As you begin your freshman year, take a moment to determine who you are -- right now. How might you use at least three different styles & genres of writing & expression to present a brief story of who you are at this moment?

Consider the works we have read this year to date. Explore an idea inspired by a reoccurring theme or understanding that emerges across one or more of the works (poetry, prose, non-fiction, fiction, drama) as well your own experiences. Feel free to integrate ideas from across other literature, art, science, music, philosophy, film, etc. in your effort to build an effective argument. Be certain to include a works cited that follows MLA format.

Use the following criteria to maintain an effective blog during this semester/year. You must post three blog entries a week, Monday through Friday to meet the standard. You must complete the assigned creative thinking task as well.

Create a visual resume that shares your skills, talents, experience and personality

Choose any of these three topics: Discuss three important things you've learned over your HS career; Explain how a little thing/event/moment/item can have a big impact; Write a thank you to someone who has had a major impact on you

Develop a portfolio that demonstrates your current abilities with the six elements of social entrepreneurship described in Start Something That Matters AND describe/illustrate what you might start that matters

Develop a product that demonstrates your answers to one or more of the essential questions and the senses (Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning) presented in A Whole New Mind. Your product must connect in some meaningful way to the text (WNM) and your goals or career interest (you will choose one that interests you) while also incorporating root-based words.

How might we use the elements of composition to reveal five or more components of culture in our personal, local, or school in a Dorothea-Lange, Pecha Kucha-inspired photo essay presentation? Include a one paragraph rationale for each of your photos.

How might we use the elements of composition to reveal five or more components of culture in our personal, local, or school in a Dorothea-Lange, Pecha Kucha-inspired photo essay presentation? Include a one paragraph rationale for each of your photos.

Curate a collection of readings, viewings, listenings and interactives that product that reflect our essential questions as a class: how does pop culture influence society and ourselves, and vice versa.

Based on your personal experience with comedy, your understanding of the impact of comedy on society, and your understanding of the impact of society on comedy, design a product that demonstrates one or more of those understandings.

Based on your personal experience with social media, your understanding of the impact of social media on society, and your understanding of the impact of society on social media, design a product that demonstrates one or more of those understandings.

Based on your personal experience with comedy, your understanding of the impact of comedy on society, and your understanding of the impact of society on comedy, design a product that demonstrates one or more of those understandings.

Design a well organized, thesis driven essay in which you explain why a particular song well represents you as your theme song. You might consider the lyrics, association with experiences, the qualities of the music itself in making your selection.

Design Challenge. How might we create dramatic presentations of “To Be or Not to Be” to demonstrate our analysis and understanding of the play as a whole? It must: include original Shakespearean language, take the form of a product that can be watched and experienced, 1-page well-composed rationale that explains the intentions behind the production,

Develop a product that demonstrates your answers to one or more of the essential questions and the senses (Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning) presented in A Whole New Mind. Your product must connect in some meaningful way to the text (WNM) and your goals or career interest (you will choose one that interests you) while also incorporating root-based words.