Ahoy, landlubbers!

As promised, here are the written instructions for the Obituary Diorama.

First, go to Tagxedo and click create.

Before you do anything else, click Fonts.

From Fonts, Click USE LOCAL FONTS.

It should look something like this if you have done it correctly:

Exit out by hitting the X in the top right hand corner. You are now ready to add text.

Add text by hitting LOAD and then copying and pasting your ENTIRE obituary in the “Enter Text” location.

It will look really short. As long as you copied/pasted your entire text, it will be there. It’s just spread out horizontally. Make sure when you are done that you hit SUBMIT.

COLOR: This changes colors in your palette. If you don’t want all BLUES, then you’ll need to click on THEME.

THEME: This changes the theme of your colors. If you want, you can even create your own theme.

FONT: You can respin your fonts to find fonts that you like.

ORIENTATION and LAYOUT: This changes how the words appear on your word cloud.

ALL: This randomized all of those options.

SHAPE: This is where you can change the shape.

So this is what I made mine to look like:

Save as a 16 MP.

Then, download the Diorama template in the Obituary folder. Put your picture in the top section, and then answer the three questions in the bottom section. Make sure your name is on it, and make it pretty.

I will print these in color for you. 🙂

I do not expect these to be done by today, so I’m just making them due NEXT Friday, 11/15.

We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat.

Then, we did the following vocabulary exercise. We printed this picture to OneNote and completed this as a class over the word Pastoral.

Save this for the final exam!

We then read and annotate the Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

Here is poem 1.

We had a few students who I woo’d with promises of love and nature.

Pics coming soon!

Walter Raleigh read that poem and thought it was ridiculous. Kinda like I thought when I first heard Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” So her wrote a response:

We ended the day by doing the Venn Diagram Foldable. You can get the template in the Pastoral Section of BB. Print a copy for yourself and then drop off a digital copy to me in BB.

Have a good weekend!

We will have classes in the library on Monday because they are painting my room! 🙂