Scratch Animations: 8th Grade
Lesson 1: Using Our Voices
Objectives:
To learn how to record sound in Scratch.
To think about how to use our voices.
Activator:
What are some cartoon characters with memorable voices?
Mini Lesson:
The Making of Toy Story 3
How to record your voice in Scratch
Student Engagement: Work on Storytelling projects
Wrap-up: Save and sign out.
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Lesson 2
Objective: To learn how to use your voice to tell a story. To discuss folktales.
Activator: Listen to Donna Washington tell the story of The Red Red Lips
Mini Lesson:
Discuss the way the storyteller uses her voice.
Listen to the Fox and the Grapes
Student Engagement:
Pass the Face
Tell the story of the Fox and the Grapes
In pairs, record yourself telling the story in Scratch
Wrap-up:
Share with the class.
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Lesson 3: Story Boards
Objectives: To learn to use our voices to tell a story. To think about the setting of a story. To create a storyboard for a fable.
Activator: Listen to Dead Aaron
Mini Lesson:
Discuss the way the storyteller uses his voice.
Read the The Hare and the Tortoise.
Create a storyboard for the Fox and the Hare.
Student Engagement:
Read the Country Mouse and the City Mouse
Create a storyboard for the Country Mouse and the City Mouse
Wrap-up:
Share some Storyboards
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Objective: To look at some classic fairy tales, and see how they have been altered.
Activator: Watch first Fixed Fairy Tale.
Mini Lesson: Discuss how the fairy tale is altered from the original
Student Engagement:
Watch more Fixed Fairy Tales.
In your composition books, list ways the fairy tales are like and unlike the original.
If you don't know the original fairy tale, write some things you can change
Wrap-up: Put composition books in their spot.
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Allegory: Fables and Parables
Yertle the Turtle
The Sneetches
Objectives:
To learn how to record your voice in Scratch.
To learn the meaning of the words: Allegory, fable and parable. To read some parables.
Activator: Watch The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
Mini Lesson: Discuss allegories, fables and parables.
Allegory:
- a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation; a symbolic representation of something else.
- Fables are a form of allegory. (Fable is a literary device which can be defined as a brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end. Characters are usually non-human.)
- Parables are a form of allegory too. (A short story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. Characters are usually humans.)
Student Engagement:
Read The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury.
Wrap-up: We will discuss tomorrow.
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Objective: To discuss the parable, The Flying Machine, by Ray Bradbury. To analyze an allegorical story.
Activator: Listen to The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury
Mini Lesson:
Class discussion
Ted Talk about drones
Student Engagement: Group Discussion
Mini Lesson: Collect notes
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Write your own allegory
http://allegory.happykidsschool.com.tw/home/module7/finalassignment_
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Lesson : The Shape of Stories
Objectives:
To learn about the shape of a story.
To write a story with a clear beginning, middle and end.
Activator: Hand out Storytelling Rubric
Mini Lesson:
Kurt Vonnegut Video: Beginning, middle and end
Discuss Vonnegut's ideas in comparison to Itsy Bitsy Spider and Rabbit Animation
Student Engagement:
Students write an outline of their own stories. (with a main character, beginning, middle and end)
Students may then start creating their programs.
Wrap-up: Save and sign out.
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Lesson : Some useful Programming for your Stories
Objectives: To learn some programming that will be useful in your stories.
(Show, Hide, Set rotation style, Switch Backdrop & When Backdrop switches, point in direction, broadcast)
To continue developing your stories in Scratch.
Activator: What are some of your biggest challenges in your project so far?
Mini Lesson:
Using show, and hide.
Setting rotation style, setting your sprite's center, and using point in direction.
broadcast command
Student Engagement:
Work on your stories.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
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Lesson : Working on your Stories
Objectives:
To create a story animation in Scratch with a beginning, middle and end. (see Rubric)
Activator: How is your project going so far?
Mini Lesson:
Individual review of any of the programming lessons as needed.
Student Engagement:
Work on your stories.
Wrap-up: Save your work....and save a copy too!
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