Happy New Year Everyone!
Welcome 2023!
Hi all, I'm out one more day, Thursday. My tooth is painful but resting today should help. Enjoy the rain! Keep working on your projects. You can email me if you have any questions. Make it a great, wet day!
Let's orient ourselves to the new year. Start off with our regular morning routine. Then we'll get started on either a new project or continue with one that you have already started.
Have a wonderful first week of 2023!
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Period 2 - Computer Science
Monday -
Tuesday - Catch up with your Game Dev group. Find out where you are at and what needs to get done to move your game forward. Make notes on your GameDev Doc as needed.
Continue with your game dev. Now that all the basic movements are working, get started with making the interaction between sprites work well. That includes interactions between the main sprite and obstacles.
Start developing the art for the game
Start developing the music for different parts of the game.
Wednesday - Continue
Thursday - Continue - Keep going! Most of you are ready for your artwork & unique sounds. Get that first level working well so you can start on level 2.
Friday - Continue - Milestone 2 checkpoints will start next week. I'll be looking for smooth interaction between sprites and early art/music ideas.
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Period 3 - Robotics
Monday -
Tuesday - Let's look over our next unit and see what we will be building. The unit is:
Watch the video and start looking over each project. We'll talk about them, make some predictions, and get started on the work tomorrow.
Start on Project Place Your Order
Wednesday - Finish Project Place Your Order
Thursday - Take some time to finish the "Place your Order" project. Try out some different codes to make your scanner work better. When you are done, post an entry & image/video on your website portfolio. Start on Project Out of Order
Friday - Finish Project Out of Order
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Period 5 - English Language Development
Monday -
Question -
Tuesday - Welcome back. We'll be learning in ILit this week. You will have assignments to complete and a story to read. We'll also be working on learning new vocabulary. We'll be working on this for the rest of the week.
Copy & memorize this Quote - One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. — Frank Smith.
Wednesday - ILit
Question - Pretend that you can fly whenever you wanted. Where would you go?
Thursday - Keep working on your ILit assignments the best you can. If you run into questions, help each other out with the vocabulary, the reading, and the questions about the reading.
If you are stuck or done, here are some extra activities you can work on.
Question - If I could choose a different name, I would choose…
Friday - Giving
Question - Walking in the rain is…
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Periods 6 & 7 - Computer Science on the Wheel
Monday -
Tuesday - Getting back into 3D design - check out what you have created in Tinkercad. Do you have any projects you would like to develop further?
Prepare for Project Identification.
Review and begin Project Identification
Wednesday - Project ID
Thursday - Project ID - continue to work on your Project ID. As you are designing, use your ruler to check the size of your design. Remember to make it personal to you!
Friday - Project ID
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Space Out Friday
The Parker Solar Probe
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