General Art:
This period was dedicated to introducing the next assignment students would be starting the following day. Mr. H began by asking students if they were familiar with Manga and Anime, the majority were. He then spoke about how he will only introduce a culture/history/person if he can reduce it to three questions: 1)What was the change that occurred? (What made them revolutionary?) 2) What is their influence? (Why did they do what they did?) 3) What is the tradition they kept? (not too radical). He really focused on the progression/development of single panel comics to full anime by connecting the influences from Japan to the US and back. He showed examples to students and asked them to focus on their life as students, make something that you connect with. The US animated industry focuses on the heroic/what sells, they should focus on what they connect to, event if it would draw only a small crowd. Students were given time to come up a five sentence story that they would turn into a Manga in their own style. He showed images of comics and talked about breaking up the space and creating dynamic images. Students seemed excited as they spoke at the end of the hour about their ideas.
I think this sounds like such a fun project for this age group; what a great way to connect the students through their experiences as students together. Mr. H also asked students to raise their hands if they have been to an art museum in the class (1) and then he asked them to raise their hands if they have seen anything animated within the last month (every student). He told them that he wants to make sure they are familiar with their pop culture, what is truly relevant to them rather than just the fine arts.
Prep hour:
During this time Nora, Mr. H, and I reviewed his notes on our lesson and discussed what we would learn as we gained experience teaching. Mr. H was full of compliments and encouragement even while he was critiquing things we could have done differently. Speaking with him made me really excited about becoming a teacher; I only wish I'd be in the classroom again sooner! I was also excited to speak with him about student teaching; he would like to request both Nora and I to work with since we will be student teaching during different semesters. This is so great! I loved working with Mr. H over the last couple weeks and I feel like I've learned a great deal during this time.
We also went over grading for the Notan Design Lesson; Mr. H graded a couple projects with us and Nora and I will finish grading this weekend. He also showed us the basic functions of skyward before his next class began.
I asked Mr. H what advice he would give a new teacher; he thought about it for a while and then said that the best advice he was ever given was: teach your students how to survive in the world, use art as a tool. What a fantastic way to express the core of education, how can they use what you teach them if they can't make it fit in their lives?
Eighth Grade:
This class began learning about story-boarding today. Mr. H introduced different views that are important in story boarding and gave great verbal stories that incorporated effective shots. He did a great job of helping students imagine scenes and how they would depict them. Students were shown many examples of story-boards and discussed what they were seeing.
It was really sad saying goodbye to Mr. H; I learned so much from my time in his class. I hope that I will be able to student teach with him, he is a great teacher and I think I would fit well into this setting.
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