GLArts: Writing a Play/Screenplay

In an email, explain to me a idea you have for a screen play.  Once you have done this you may compare your ideas with others and form a group to collaborate with.

 In your group, decide on the following elements:

1. Describe the Setting: Is this set in a realistic or unrealistic world?  The past, future, or present day? What is the historical background for the story?  Urban or rural? What is the natural climate/landscape?  
2. Describe the Characters: At least one of the characters in the story must change or develop during the story.  Describe the external circumstances
3. Describe the conflict and plot that will occur.
4. What form of media would it be written for? Radio drama? Stage? Screen Play? Video game sequence?

For more in-depth help with these dramatic aspects, see the SCRIPTLAB website.

For how to format a screenplay like you're writing a real movie or TV show, see this very informative EXAMPLE SCREENPLAY.

To format a play or radio drama, use the this EXAMPLE STAGE PLAY.

Seminar: Sustainable Meal Project PART 3

III. Improving the Sustainability of your Meal
(for details see my Example Project Doc)

Local Economy Report

A. Local/Sustainably-Farmed Food

• For this section you will need to find a local source for at least one of your ingredients. The closer the better, but 150 miles is the maximum distance we will consider local.  
• Document the local source for this food. 
• helpful websites: Eat Well Guide, La Montanita Co-op, New Mexico products, NM Ranch

B. Improving the Nutritional balance of your meal

• use the chart below to an analyze and improve your meal according to the food pyramid.
• Remember to put the amount for one person's serving of your recipe, not the whole recipe.
• Estimate a serving size as about the size of your fist.
• The right column is where you must show what ingredients you might add to or substitute in your recipe to make it more nutritious (such as adding a cooked veggie or salad on the side or including fruit for dessert).

Pyramid Category	Ingredients from  original recipe (# of servings)	added or substituted for nutritionally balanced meal
Grains, potatoes (6 servings per day)
Vegetables (3 or more per day)
Friuts (2-4 per day)
Milk products or other calcium rich food (2-3 per day)
Meat, beans, nuts, eggs (2 servings per day)
fats, oils, sweets (less than one serving per day)

• OR you may use the nutrition data website (or do both for extra credit):
• http://nutritiondata.self.com/
• this is good for those who want

Above is the analysis of my original recipe.
To the right is how i changed it by adding and substituting some ingredients.

GLArts: Informational Writing

• Begin a Document titled "[your name] informative essay"
• Read the Description of Informational/Explanatory Writing and  example essay linked here on "Football".

1. In your document, answer the following questions in detail:
• What is the difference between persuasive and informative writing?
• What situations would you use informative writing and why?
2. For each paragraph of the essay provide the following:
• What would be a good title for this paragraph?
• What question is being answered by the paragraph (be as specific as possible while including all the information.
3. For the entire essay, what is the most specific question that is being answered by all the paragraphs?
4. What part of the essay is most effective and why?
5. How could the essay be improved? Give a specific example.

• Topic Selection

1. Write a list of 5 topics that you have extensive knowledge about and interest in.  It is best to choose something that reflects your personality and experience. 
2. Choose one of these topics and write a list of 10 open ended questions about the topic.  
3. Write an outline using the most interesting questions and adding questions where they are needed.  you need at least 5 paragraphs (including introduction and conclusion).

SEMINAR: Sustainable Meal Project

In this project you will design a sustainable meal.   Dishes from this project will be chosen later to cook both in a conventional kitchen and a solar oven.
We will be researching many aspects of the meal you choose, but we will begin with a main course and research its history.  Create a Google Doc for the project titled [your name]-Sustainable Meal and share it with me. (See my Example Project Doc) 

• STEP ONE (1): Choose a main course or main dish (not an appetizer or desert) that is the key part of a meal that you eat in your family.  Try to choose something that has as much tradition and history as possible.  Perhaps it is passed down from a grandparent, or it is a food that is traditional in New Mexico or another country or region.  Try to choose something that has a history of at least 50 to 100 years.
• Step 1A Recipe: find  a recipe online that seems close to what you make at home. (Include links to your sources!)
• Step 1B Origin and History:  Locate the city or region  that this food comes from (it may be multiple locations) and describe and people groups who are first known to eat it.   Cite information from at least 3 sources. (Include links to your sources like I did in the example)
• Step 1C Ingredients: List the ingredients of the recipe in order from what the recipe uses the most of to what it uses the least of.
• Step 1D Ingredient History: choose 1 plant-sourced ingredient and one animal-sourced ingredient to focus your research on. (If you do not have an animal-sourced ingredient you could do two plants, but diversity is more fun.)
• STEP TWO (2): In this step you will be researching the changes in ONE of your chosen ingredients from step 1d over time.  Be sure to link your sources for each part!
• Step 2a: How has the plant or animal you chose changed over time?
• Humans select plants and and animals with desirable qualities and breed or plant them.  Over time our selections make big and small changes in the organisms.  Changes will be less for wild animals and plants but most likely some change in habitat or habit will have occurred.
• Step 2b: How have farming (or hunting/gathering) methods changed since the first known civilization that consumed this plant or animal? 
• Be sure to mention key elements that changed along the way.
• focus on the comparison between early and modern methods.
• Step 2c: How has processing and cooking of the food from your plant or animal changed over time?
•  "Processing" is just a general term for methods (or "processes") of changing food to make it last longer or taste different.  Examples: drying, heating, freezing, smoking, pickling, grinding, mashing, seasoning, salting, marinating, blending, etc.