Whole Bunch of New Slides for Let’s Get Visual

You’d better get ready!

We’re going to learn so many new terms and how to draw a whole bunch of new shapes and lines in Illustrator. First, here’s a reminder of the procedure:

• Make everything in Illustrator. Save as an .ai and then also save as a .pdf (PDF).
• Import the PDF into your PowerPoint presentation. You can drag and drop the PDF right on a slide.
• When you’re doing the illustrations in Illustrator, don’t hesitate to get artistic. Use color and backgrounds or whatever. Just don’t make the message about the geometry hard to see or read.
• Submit each PDF for your grade.
• The PowerPoint is a big project (plus it’s an archive of all your art).

Now, here is a list of the slides you’re going to make in Illustrator and add to the Let’s Get Visual PowerPoint. They’re from your Basic Geometric Constructions handout from Mr. Paisley:

1. Copied Line Segment
2. Bisection of a Line Segment
3. Construction of a Perpendicular to a Line from a Point off the Line
4. Construction of a Perpendicular to a Line from a Point on the Line
5. Bisection of an Angle
6. Copied Angle
7. To Construct a  Perpendicular to a Line from a Point off the Line (four-in-one slide)
8. To Construct a Perpendicular to a Line from a Point on the Line (four-in-one slide)
9. To Copy a Line Segment (four-in-one slide)
10. To Bisect a Line Segment (four-in-one slide)
11. To Bisect an Angle (four-in-one slide)
12. To Copy an Angle (six-in-one slide)
13. Extra Credit for early finishers: Inscribing Regular Polygons (four separate slides)

Don’t forget to turn each slide in as a PDF to the Student Journal work submission area to get credit. And add each illustration to the Let’s Get Visual (about Geometry, I Mean) PowerPoint presentation.

Update: I have a special extra-credit assignment for anyone who needs to raise their grade!! Go online, search for “Da Vinci painting” in Google and choose the Wikipedia Last Supper entry from the Google results. Save the JPEG of Da Vinci’s Last Supper. Then, place the painting into Illustrator using the “Place” function. Next, establish the single vanishing point for creating the perspective of the hall and its alcoves in the background of the painting. Finally, draw the lines that Da Vinci might have drawn before he began to lay down the paint. In other words, see if you can create the sketch Leonardo must have drawn preparing for this fresco. Good luck!! You’ll be rewarded for your work. Oh, and you can add this to your Let’s Get Visual project.

Staying with Let’s Get Visual and tying up loose ends

Many of you are completely caught up with your work, and some of you still need to get the Romeo & Juliet stuff done. Even some of you have the Decimal-Fraction Pattern spreadsheet to finish.

Today I just want everyone to get finished with everything we’ve got going and to get ready to add some more slides – produced in Illustrator – to our Let’s Get Visual PowerPoint.

I’m also thinking of a way to create groups in which all the members help each other stay on track. We need to select a mentor (or leader or expert, whatever we want to call it) who can be a source of help and advice. I’m going to think of ways to create these groups so that they sit together but don’t have to particularly sit alphabetically.

If you have any questions or want to receive credit for an assignment, don’t hesitate to come talk to me. However, I’m going to rely on you to self-manage more and take responsibility for your work progress. If you want good grades for your work, though, staying on task is very important.

If you run out of work, I’ve got more for you! And we’ve got plenty of projects to come.

 

Update: The first six illustrations for the Let’s Get Visual project are:

1. Right Triangle 1
2. Right Triangle 2
3. Right Triangle 3
4. Naturally Occurring Square Roots
5. Multiple Terms on a Slide
6. Multiple Images on a Slide

Save them as .ai files, and then save them and turn them in as PDFs.

Let’s study perspective

You’re all about to get your tools and pencils out to learn how to draw objects in perspective over in Mr. Paisley’s class. Then, you’ll come back here and learn how to do it in Illustrator and maybe even Google Sketchup, our 3D program.

So let’s prepare for the experience by going to “Drawing in One-Point Perspective.”

We’ll do it together (watch my screen and yours, too).

BTW, perspective, according to Dictionary.com, means “a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface.”

Follow the sub instructions

Work on finishing the Romeo and Juliet Programs and Posters. Finish the Decimal-Fraction Pattern spreadsheet. If you get that done, work on any late assignments. If you want to get started on the Let’s Get Visual project, go ahead. Everything you need to know is on the last three blog posts below this one. Read them.

Mentors, help others where possible. Let the substitute teacher know if you help someone.

I expect everyone to turn in the Program, Poster, and Decimal-Fraction Pattern. After today, they will be considered late. Work with your Communication Studies teams for the Program content.

I want a good behavior report. Thanks.