Alphabet Book Discussion Video

This forty-minute video goes over a lot of the material our text covers in the sections about Alphabet Books, Chapbooks, and Primers.

The video includes a commentary on a series of images taken in the main from Alphabet Books with an emphasis in the end on a modern Alphabet Book, Gone Wild, a book about endangered species throughout the world.

I hope that this short discussion helps you, for I suggest ways in which modern alphabet books borrow from devices utilized in traditional alphabet books.  But many contemporary books such as the one featured in the video move in different directions.

The video is also available as an iPod video you can download.

Final Examination Review

Here I offer a brief (32 minutes) review for the final examination. Keep in mind that his video comes from early May of this past spring. The format for the examination remains identical, so do not worry about the discussion concerning when the final examination will take place and where.

Make sure to review the material about the final examination, which comes, again, in two parts: Part One, six prompts; Part Two, an essay.

Remember, too, that you have from Wednesday morning, July 27, until Friday at midnight, July 29, to complete this examination.

And you have until midnight Sunday, 31 July, to turn in all other work.

Do a good job, Bill

Week Eight Material

This week, you will want to read carefully the assigned readings over the poetry.

And look equally carefully over the Study Guide for the Final Exam. Make sure to look over the preceding link to prepare for both parts of the exam.

I also created a video in May for the final examination for the face-to-face class; the summer examination covers the identical material, so make sure to give the half-hour video your attention.

As the examination description notes, you can take Part One and Part Two beginning Wednesday, July 27; you have until midnight Friday, July 29, to complete both parts of the examination.

The final examination will follow the identical format of the midterm. And you might want to look over some very good responses from both parts of the midterm.


This week, you will find here an introductory video and another slide-show video for American Born Chinese; both will help you prepare for the final examination. In addition, watch the two videos about the poetry readings assigned.

Take your quiz right away--you do not have to study for this week's quiz.

This week, you have two videos about the Poetry assigned for your enjoyment and edification; each of the two videos is approximately thirty minutes long an will help you on the exam and with any Book Analysis Report you might choose to write about Children's Poetry.

And I address in the video those poems, poets, and ideas about poetry for children that you might find of interest for both the discussion threads and the prompts that could appear on Part One of the Final Exam.


POETRY DISCUSSION PART ONE










POETRY DISCUSSION PART TWO







This slide-show video covers something Scott McCloud calls "closure," an important concept about the dynamics of "the invisible art" of sequential art. Read about closure on line and some of McCloud's other thoughts gathered in his excellent "comic," Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.

In this short video, McCloud talks about Understanding Comics.


The video also covers the second half of American Born Chinese.

Welcome to Week Seven

To read these three images, just click on each of the images--put the vocabulary to use in your discussion threads.

Experiment with the preceding vocabulary in your discussions and other writing.

And read Jessica Abel's wonderful description of the Graphic Noble and visit her web site.


The preceding images and Jessica Abel's link lay a foundation for reading our Graphic Novel, an example of Sequential Art. Just click on each of the images to see a full-screen version.

Final Exam and Preparation. Make sure to look over the preceding link to prepare for both parts of the exam.

You will complete both parts of the examination and other requirements for the class by midnight 29 July, a Friday.

You will complete both parts of the examination between early morning July 27 midnight July 27, between Wednesday and Friday.

The final examination will follow the identical format of the midterm

You will find the link to take PART TWO of the examination in the Assignment Folder for Week Eight. And the link to take PART ONE will reside just below the folder for the Week Eight assignment.


You will find four videos this week.

In addition to the following Greeting for Week Seven and a Quiz Review, I created a slide-show video about the assigned readings in American Born Chinese, and a slide-show video over Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.







The following video slide show--available, too, as a podcast--covers material assigned for this week's reading in the graphic novel, American Born Chinese. Try to look at the pages mentioned as the presentation moves from slide to slide from page to page:




I created a slide-show video about Where The Wild Things Are for your enjoyment--a question about this book could find its way into your final exam, so give the video a look.


Know, too, that I spent a couple hours before making the video in a dentist's seat for some surgery. The numbness might show a bit in the speech, but I wanted to get this published and so fumbled through.





And to cap off this week of multiple video presentations and as usual, you have a video review for this week's quiz:

We Begin Week Six of Eight

Purple Cone Flowers

This week's reading takes us formally into Science Fiction, which you have read over the past couple weeks, and Fantasy, which has, obviously, a lot in common with Tales of Wonder.

You will find here three videos: Week Six Introduction, The Giver, and Quiz Six.

As always, read carefully the this week's notes that cover Science Fiction, Fantasy, Peter Pan, and The Giver, and watch the introductory video.

This twenty-seven minute video introduces this week's reading:

I created a half-hour video for you over the final chapters of The Giver:



And finally for the week, give this video your attention before you take your quiz, thirty questions this time around:

Week Five Welcome

In this video (around twenty-seven minutes), I talk briefly about revisions, Book Analysis Reports, the Midterm Exam, and this week's reading material, all about Legends, our new area of investigation.

Remember that on Monday and Tuesday you must take the midterm examination--the exam comes in two parts, so make sure to look over the review information.






For your enjoyment and/or edification, I made a thirty-minute video concerning Chapters 7-14 of The Giver.




As usual, you will want to review for the quiz by watching the following half-hour video that covers all the areas the quiz addresses.

Quiz Four Review

Black-Eyed Susan Flowers in Field

This half-hour review covers quiz material for Fables, Myths, and Chapters 1-7 for The Giver.

My recording site encounters some problems; if you download this week's four videos, you will find only audio. I contacted the company and await word concerning what goes wrong--bugs, I suspect, in the Beta System.

Do a good job on the 30-question quiz.