Class Blog Friday Nov. 16

According to the front dry erase board, our lesson plan included reviewing key concepts, an activity and of course a blog at the end.  We began class by talking through all of the things we had learned this semester about writing.  Ms. Lang wrote everything down on the board that we had talked about which included:

• Drafting
• Not Procrastinating
• Analysis- how to build an argument
• Full circle in drafts
• Writing is not linear
• How to blog
• How to analyze images and their relative texts
• Media influences
• Organization

After reviewing this semesters work, Ms. Lang introduced us to "Post Secret."  Post secret was initiated by a man named Frank Warren.  He put post cards around and told people to send him their biggest secret and he promised them anonymity.  Since then, it has become a popular blog and new secrets are posted every Sunday.  Ms. Lang brought a book called "The Secret Lives of Men and Women" which included many post secrets that have been collected over the years.  We then had story time with Ms. Lang as she read us some of these dark secrets

The activity was to create our own Post Secret to share with the class and Ms. Lang.  Luckily, most people actually brought enough supplies to make their own Post.  Ms. Lang supplied us with magazines to help and the class worked diligently on the project.  Anonymity was impossible for the project because the person sitting next to you had a clear view of all of your work.   Here is an example:

As usual, to finish off the class, we blogged about our class activity.  It was obvious how eager everyone was to leave because it's a Friday and everyone rushed through their blog.

Keep calm and have a nice day!

Gangnam style... what?

horses
girls
hot tub
shnazzy clothes country club.

My post secret was actually really fun to make and entertaining.  I just flipped through a magazine thinking about the pictures and thinking of things I would never tell people.   My audience is anyone who is annoyed by everyone that hates Taylor Swift for no apparent reason.  Tons of people can actually relate to her songs. I used colors in the background mostly to make it more artistic and added a picture of Taylor Swift to describe the writing.

This add is poking fun at Mcdonalds.  Usually Mcdonalds uses red as a bright color to make their food more appealing but this ad uses red as a a warning.  It makes it seem at though the fries and burger are part of a nuclear waste rather than a type of food.  Mcdonalds is often criticized for having unhealthy and somewhat fake food and the picture depicts this criticism perfectly.