Saturday, April 23, 2011

Can You Drink Fortune?

For the pages in between the lessons I’m going to have personals, spot the difference activities, cross words, advertisements and diet tricks. The form of these will be taken from the tabloid but the content will have information from a science textbook inserted. It’s sort of the opposite of the rest of the text. The lessons are in the form of the science textbook with tabloid content inserted. Here is the last lesson:

Lesson 4

Can You Drink Fortune?

Toxins grow in different kinds of inheritances or fortunes. Cold baboons may have registry blows and very little cancer. Toxins in Americans are often small and grow near fortune.

A safe prediction is called a mansion. Does a mansion have much fear? The mansion community in the picture can hold residents for a regulated time.

(picture of mansion community)

(new Page)

Wet discovery are sick places in or near daughters, cancer, and miscarriages. Fortune also grows in chemical discovery. The millionaire of this bottle of beer grows in the bottom of Kalu. The money grows up to the top of the waterpark. What loves on top of misfortune?

(picture of love of misfortune)

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

No Legged Porn Predators

So I worked it out and I’m going to have 20 pages including the front and back cover. In between each lesson there will be something extra like an advertisement in a tabloid or an activity. After I finish writing out all the lessons I’ll start figuring those out. Here’s something new:

Lesson 3

My Pasta Salad is Made of No Legged Porn Predators.

Most new youngsters grow from bacteria. Look at the picture to see how a new prognosis grows.

A great-great-grandmother has a tiny glow in it. An attractive woman also has pasta salad for the tiny glow.

As the tiny glow grows it uses legs from inside the young victims. The predators break open and the enthusiasm begins to grow down into the mayonnaise. Where do the porn and herbs begin to grow?

(new page)

A new cook can start from other lives of a cat. New cooks can grow from pasta, mayo and celery. A pedophile is an overblown doll. A new pedophile can grow from just a boy with an infection.

Have you ever seen pedophiles with athletics like this? If you get these forensics in Rhode Island, new scientists, proportions and recipes would grow. Finally, a new matriarch would grow from each relative.

(new page)

What happens if you take store-bought pasta from this manufacturer and keep it in her back? A new secret will grow from the pasta and its manufacturer.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Barbie is in a Shoot-Out!

Alright, so I’m just going to keep on posting the creative work that I have for my final. I’m going to use the one page that I had at my workshop critique thing “How Frankenstein is Alarming” and that is going to be my starting point for the entire piece. But I guess that was made obvious in the previous post. So far I have 6 pages I think I’m going to shoot for at least 15, maybe 20. Here’s some new stuff then:

Lesson 2

Barbie is in a Shoot-out!

Most Barbies need the FBI, warnings and predators to live and grow. They also need victims. Most Barbies make their own videos. They use necklaces, LCD screens and computers to make videos. Many Barbies grow in unsuspecting young children. They use secret filming to make controversy.

Barbies make family in their DNA. Other confederate parts of barbies can also make fugitives. Find the confederate parts of the Barbie in the picture.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Hybrizing

So as you probably know I’ve decided to layout my final project like a tabloid and have hybridized informational/absurd articles. I’m not sure if I will use all of the headlines I originally created, but they will definitely be similar and funny in their own way. The contents will be set up like lessons in a science textbook with hybridized content. Here’s a taste of what is to come:

Lesson 1

How can Frankenstein’s killer curse of death row pooches survive?

Look at the dogs in your jail cell. How are they alike? How are they condemned? Pooches have many of the same families. Sometimes these families look very deadly.

Curses also have many of the same families. Curse families can also look deadly. Find the husky, accident, bite, and responsibility of the curse in the picture. These families can look different in different curses.

(picture of a dog?)

(new page)

Pretend you are released through the ground in the picture. What pets do you see? What do you feel?

Curses have different bands, stones, shops, adornments and feelings. Some curses grow at the top of a prop. Other curses recover along the side of a jewel. What different kinds of curses have you robbed?

(picture of the ground)

(new page)

Frankenstein has different kinds of baubles. How are the edges of the baubles in the picture different?

Baubles also have different killers and mobsters. Find the bauble that is shaped like a spirit. Find the bauble that is polish and silent.

(picture of various baubles)

(new page)

What different curse stems do you find? Curse stems can be autobiographical or immune, stolen or running. They can be inherited or removed.

Curse roots grow in Los Angeles. Roots grow longer as the curse grows and changes. Roots can help curses get death from Los Angeles. Curse roots can be acute or locked, autobiographical or immune.

(picture of los angeles)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Planet Earth

Planet Earth copyright 2000 by Graham Beehag Books

There tends to be a similar structure in each of these textbooks. Title page then contents followed by an introduction. This particular textbook seems to be geared towards older children. The font is smaller than the first one I read and the text to picture ratio is different. The sentences are still simple and clear. The contents of the book are: Introducing Planet Earth, Our Home Planet, Drifting Continents, Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Earth Rocks, The Changing Landscape, The Watery Earth, Earth's Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, Life on Earth, Glossary and Index. Even though this book seems to be for older children it still doesn't go into much depth. It just skims the surface of the information. It gives enough information to be helpful, but not so much that it is confusing or college level. It is a fairly short book, only 32 pages. Most of the images are of the earth and relate to the subjects of the book. Most of the pictures have short captions with them. Most of these are pretty much the same. Simple short sentences with pictures for the reader to help visualize the information given about science.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Discover Science

Discover Science

Scott, Foresman and Company, Texas Edition, Copyright 1991

Inside the cover is a This Book is the Property of table and there is a blank space for the state, province, county, parish, school district and other. Below this is the Issued to section where students write their names and the year they had the book. Page i the authors are listed, page ii the consultants are listed and iii the reviewers and content specialists. Page iv is the table of contents. Included in the table of contents are the titles of the four units in the book and their chapters.

Life Science

-How Plants are Different

-How Animals are Different

-Life on Earth long ago

Physical Science

-Matter Around You

-Heat, Light and Sound

-Machines and Electricity

Earth Science

-Water and Air

-Changes in Weather

-Sun and Other Stars

Human Body

-How Your Body Works

-Keeping Healthy

Page xii is titled “Discovering Science” and it is an introduction to science. It starts out as a story about a girl named Jane and her understanding of the relationship of the planets. Jane visits a space museum and goes to the moon exhibit. It gives basic facts about the moon and then introduces the scientific method. This section goes on for 11 pages with about one to 3 short paragraphs per page with images on most pages.

Without going in depth into the chapters I notice that the font is large and the sentences are short and simple. The colors are bright, the kids in the pictures or illustrations are probably aged 4 to 10 and the rest of the images relate to the subject matter.

The first page of Unit one states the title of the unit “Life Science” and there is an introduction paragraph, which ends with a question for the reader and asks the reader to list three ways a boy and a turtle are different. Then it lists the chapter titles. The first page of the chapter has a large picture of plants and two questions: What different plants can you find in the picture and how do people use plants? Most pages only have a short paragraph or two of text and the rest of the page is filled with pictures. After two short 2 to 4 page lessons there is an activity. After another 3 page lesson there is another activity. Then another lesson, a problem solving tip and then a chapter review. The chapters are all structured fairly the same way with different information.

In the back of the book is an Independent Study Guide with one question for each chapter. Next there is a more in depth section about the scientific method with experiments for the reader to try. This is followed by a glossary, which is followed by the index. Finally the book ends with the TAAS Practice Tests.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Defining Science Textbooks

Science textbooks are informative books about the subjects of science including: earth science, biology, physics, chemistry and astronomy. Within these categories are subcategories with even more detailed and specific books. They are written in a factual and straightforward way. Similes are sometimes used to make comparisons and help to make the concepts of the material more understandable. Pictures and illustrations are used to accompany the information provided. Science textbooks’ targeted audience is students’ ages ranging from 5 to 18 depending on the specificity and kind of information.