Mr. Holbrook’s Hillcrest Blog

Greetings Div 17 and Div 19.  If you are in Division 19, please read to the bottom of this post for an important reminder about our MovieMaker project in HCE class with Charlotte.  For all classes, here is a summary of what happened in this week’s Humanities lesson: Book Refresher: We did a placemat activity to [...]

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It’s the dawning of a new era in Humanities lessons this week as we moved away from anything advertising and commercial related and shifted our focus to a novel study.  for the next several weeks we will be working with the novel Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi.  The book cover looks like this: [...]

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I’m hanging my head in shame as I write this. I’ve been a few days late in the past with my blog entries but being nearly three week late entry is a real shocker.  Anyway, enough with the “mea culpas” and on with the update. This 1-block lesson was basically the same for each class [...]

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Things have been a bit crazy for me this week. So much so that I almost forgot to update my blog. There’s not much to report so this shouldn’t take too long. The commercials were due in this lesson and we took class time to view a few and hear from their creators. Due to [...]

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Hello, all.  Here’s all the news that’s fit to blog about from this week’s lesson.  Basically each class did the same work so this update covers both Division 17 and Division 19. Humanities To give you a chance to practice making a commercial that includes an ad claim and meets the task’s other criteria – [...]

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Happy new year and welcome back to school.   Today’s lessons were essentially the same for each class so this update covers both divisions. HUMANITIES: Seeing as it we’ve all been away for awhile, we started by reviewing the 8 advertising claims we studied before the break.  AFter that we examined a few commercials created [...]

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Today’s lessons were similar for both classes so here’s an update that works for both divisions. Humanitie What better way to review last day’s homework – choosing the best VISA commercial from a selection of six – than to bring the ads into a The Apprentice-style boardroom and debate which one should be hired and [...]

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Today’s lessons were slightly different for each class so the updates are broken down by division. Divisions 19 We continued to consider the question: What makes an effective advertisement?   In this lesson students were asked to imagine themselves as members of the VISA credit card advertising department.  We viewed four VISA commercials and analyzed them for [...]

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In the 1970′s, Rod Stewart sang that “Every Picture Tells a Story” (and to prove it you can check out this clip of an unplugged version of the song at the end of this entry.)  In Humanities class today – 30 odd years later – we considered the idea that every commercial tells the story [...]

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In today’s Humanities lesson we took another step toward the creation of our own television commercials. We watched a collection of anti-smoking advertisements and analyzed them for the following elements: The Audience (the Group(s) of People) the Ad is Trying to Reach The Key Feature of the Ad The Feeling or Image Created by the [...]

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