Resonance of Remembrance Project
Purpose: In keeping with the purpose of DDLM, our purpose of the project is to honor the people in our lives who are most important by sharing stories about them/with them
Essential Questions:
Humanities Overall Goals:
Performance:
Timeline
Sept. 8th - Sept. 11th
Sept. 21st - Sept. 25th
Essential Questions:
- Who is most important in our lives? How do we best share with them what they mean to us?
- Can sharing our memories and our voices bring us closer to our families and closer to our classmates?
- Why does music and sound trigger such strong memories?
- How can physics of sound enhance the emotion shared and our audience’s understanding of our memories?
Humanities Overall Goals:
- Writing Conventions
- Share a meaningful experience through a written memoir
- Organize a story with a conflict, rising action, climax and resolution format
- Use sensory details to convey the setting and unique characters’ personalities
- Use dialogue to convey unique characters’ personalities and motives
- Edit unnecessary parts so that the story is as concise and exciting as possible
- Grammar:
- Distinguish between run-on sentences and fragments
- Identify subjects and predicates and focus on including the active versus passive voice
- Identify simple, complex and compound-complex sentences and use a variety of sentence structures within the memoir
- Identify adjectives and adverbs in memoir and use them to enhance the sensory experience
- Texts:
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien
- The Things They Carried (sensory details)
- On the Rainy River (story structure)
- How To Tell a True War Story (character development/dialogue)
- Speaking of Courage (character development/dialogue)
- The Lives of the Dead (editing out unnecessary details)
- Possible supplementary texts:
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- On Writing by Stephen King
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- What You Looking At Me For?
- My Name Is Margaret
- Graduation
- Basics of waves in physics
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Sound
- Parts of a wave
- Understanding the science of hearing sound waves and interpretation in the brain
- Science of the ear and brain
- Understanding wave formulas and how they affect sound, light and harmonics
- Solving for waves
- Frequency
- Velocity
- Wave Parts and how they interact with music and sound effects
- Amplitude
- Intensity
- Harmonics
- Diffusion
- Diffraction
- Sound Design and Engineering
- Connecting with Foxhole Studios for real world application of Sound Design Industry
- Analyze sound design
- Create group sound design digital tracks on AudioTool
- Performance Group Memoir
- Students in groups of 4, total of 14 groups
- Produce at 2.5-3 minute memoir--Students in their group decide how to incorporate each member’s individual memoir into the 2.5-3 minute performance memoir
- Live performance with recorded soundtrack
- No more than 30 seconds of copyrighted song
- Every kid has to perform (add their voice to the memoir)
- Physics soundtrack pre-recorded
- Individual Memoir
Performance:
- Exhibition: 11/5/2015 @6pm (Thursday)
- 1 hour performance with all 14 groups giving a 2.5 - 3 minute segment performance. It represents the four students as a whole.
- Location: Memorial Park or AMC Movie Theater (Waiting to hear back)
- Backup Location: Chula Vista Public Library Auditorium, or On Stage Theater
- Audience walks away being affected by the personal stories of the students
Timeline
Sept. 8th - Sept. 11th
- Purpose of DDLM
- Begin TTTC
- Mixed Tape Autobiography
- Tool Safety
- Wood/ Grid out to scale
- Begin Jigsaw safety test
- Read “TTTC,” “Love,” “Spin”
- Write first memoir focusing on sensory imagery
- Paint and color banner
- Assemble banner
- Intro to DDLM
Sept. 21st - Sept. 25th
- Read “On the Rainy River”
- Write second memoir, focusing on story structure
- Define sound
- Analyze Sound Design from Movies
- Parts of a wave
- Read “How To Tell a True War Story”
- Rewrite memoir, focusing on dialogue, character development
- Select group memoir and add initial sound to soundtrack
- Constructive and destructive wave interference
- Amplitude and Intensity of Sound
- Begin Mixing sound
- Read “Speaking of Courage” and “The Lives of the Dead”
- Rewrite, focusing on making memoir concise
- Field trip to Sound Studio??
- Skyping with Sound design people
- Physics of light and optics
- Edit individual memoirs
- Explain the physics of sound
- Define all the parts of the physics within waves, sound, intensity
- Make pamphlet
- Figure out way to incorporate photos and objects to further honor loved one
- Sound editing and completion
- Critique on Sound
- Final Soundtrack complete by Friday
- Practice memoir
- All team rehearsal, rehearsal, practice practice!