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Meeting!
Hey everybody!

We need to get together and start designing our Google Lit Trip!
SO,

What days/times is everybody available?
I know we have talked about doing it at Hillary and Lydia's apartment.
What would everyone like to do?

Google Lit Trip!!
excited to make a Lit Trip onfor Suzanne Collin's themes, and of course locations(settings).
Using Google Earth we will use the picture of North America to re-create Panem. We can place all the districts in the correct locations and make a place for every important event in the novel. The Hunger Games is an excellent novel to do a Lit Trip, because it will actually be a helpful aid for people or students that really can't grasp the concept of the futuristic setting.
Mapping out the Capitol and District 12 will of course be the most important locations to add into our Lit Trip, but there are several other places we will be mapping out as well. We will map out the train ride from District 12 to the Capitol that Katniss must take. We can even map out the arena.
Of course, with every place on our Lit Trip map there will be an explanation or an underlying theme (or both) that we as readers experienced while reading the text. We will also try and include pictures that will, as accurately as possible, represent the images we "saw" in our head while reading the text.
Overall, this assignment is really exciting and with our collective love of The Hunger Games we believe we can construct an amazing Lit Trip that will contribute to students learning in the classroom or just for fun!

Google Lit Trip!!
We are excited to a Lit Trip on Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games! There are so many underlying themes in this YAL novel that can be shown through our Lit Trip. We are going to try and convey several character relationships, symbols, themes, and

Ariel Cook
Hilary Greene
Susan McNeal
Lydia Neeley
There has been a decline in the number of TV shows recently that use narration to guide their screenplay. The new rage is "reality" TV, where there is no need for a narrator because the characters control the plot. The concept of narration on a television screen has nearly been thrown out with the new wave of shows crashing upon our wide plasma screens. For the few shows which have kept the classic charm of a narrated screen play, they render a unique sense of style and appeal to their audience. Often they use the voice of the narrator to convey humor or move about key details which could not be developed in the shows constrained time slot. The recent comedic sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, created by screenwriters Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, is a prime example of such a show. The show develops from what you may consider "bedtime stories". In every show, the main character is telling a story from the past to his present children on how he met their mother (thus the title of the show). Therefore, the show is framed in a past tense setting, where the narrator controls the playing of events on the stage.

In order to convey this areas of study through media, we will be presenting our conclusions through a web blog. We anticipate using text, links, videos, and images to create a factual and engaging delivery.
How I Met Your Mother
Full Episodes on CBS website: Full Episodes
Google Lit Trip
As a group we will also be creating a Google Lit Trip for the YAL novel Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. In doing this, we will learn how to use the new internet resource, Google Lit Trip, and develop new perspectives for our future English classrooms and young adult literature. We will do so by using interesting links and pictures to help build a better understanding for the book as a whole.

In this Media/Visual Literacy Project we will be studying the show How I Met Your Mother and discovering what elements of the narration make the show appealing and unique. We will be sketching out the structure and framework of the narration by noting the concepts which are carried and developed from episode to episode. Once we have gathered our observations we will design ways we can use media narrative studies in an English Language Arts classroom.The final portion of our study will reveal what matters of the structure and framework affect not only the characters but the audience.
In order to convey this areas of study through media, we will be presenting our conclusions through a web blog. We anticipate using text, links, videos, and images to create a factual and engaging delivery.
How I Met Your Mother
Google Lit Trip
adult literature. We will do so by using interesting links and pictures to help build a better understanding for the book as a whole.

Lydia Neeley
There has been a decline in the number of TV shows recently that use narration to guide their screenplay. The new rage is "reality" TV, where there is no need for a narrator because the characters control the plot. The concept of narration on a television screen has nearly been thrown out with the new wave of shows crashing upon our wide plasma screens. For the few shows which have kept the classic charm of a narrated screen play, they render a unique sense of style and appeal to their audience. Often they use the voice of the narrator to convey humor or move about key details which could not be developed in the shows constrained time slot. The recent comedic sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, created by screenwriters Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, is a prime example of such a show. The show develops from what you may consider "bedtime stories". In every show, the main character is telling a story from the past to his present children on how he met their mother (thus the title of the show). Therefore, the show is framed in a past tense setting, where the narrator controls the playing of events on the stage.
episode to episode.Theepisode. Once we have gathered our observations we will design ways we can use media narrative studies in an English Language Arts classroom.The final portion the characters bybut the audience.
In order to convey this areas of study through media, we will be presenting our conclusions through a web blog. We anticipate using text, links, videos, and images to create a factual and engaging delivery.
Google Lit Trip
As a group we will also be creating a Google Lit Trip for the YAL novel Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. In doing this, we will learn how to use the new internet resource, Google Lit Trip, and develop new perspectives for our future English classrooms and young adult literature.

Hilary Greene
Lydia Neeley
screens. For thosethe few shows which the stage.
In this Media/Visual Literacy Project we will be studying the show How I Met Your Mother and discovering what elements of the narration make the show appealing and unique. We will be sketching out the structure and framework of the narration by noting the concepts which are carried and developed from episode to episode.The final portion of our study will reveal what matters of the structure and framework affect not only the characters by the audience.
In order to convey this areas of study through media, we will be presenting our conclusions through a web blog. We anticipate using text, links, videos, and images to create a factual and engaging delivery.

How I Met the Narrator
Media/Visual Literacy Project
Ariel Cook
Hilary Greene
Lydia Neeley
There has been a decline in the number of TV shows recently that use narration to guide their screenplay. The new rage is "reality" TV, where there is no need for a narrator because the characters control the plot. The concept of narration on a television screen has nearly been thrown out with the new wave of shows crashing upon our wide plasma screens. For those shows which have kept the classic charm of a narrated screen play, they render a unique sense of style and appeal to their audience. Often they use the voice of the narrator to convey humor or move about key details which could not be developed in the shows constrained time slot. The recent comedic sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, created by screenwriters Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, is a prime example of such a show. The show develops from what you may consider "bedtime stories". In every show, the main character is telling a story from the past to his present children on how he met their mother (thus the title of the show). Therefore, the show is framed in a past tense setting, where the narrator controls the playing of events on the stage.