Mr. Esparza’s Santa Fe HS blog

Disney’s Halloween 2009 page: http://disney.go.com/partners/hauntedholidays/
Did you know you have a vampire name?  http://www.emmadavies.net/vampire/
Can zombies roam the earth? http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
What do you know about Halloween?  http://holidays.quiz.kaboose.com/74-what-s-your-halloween-i-q

Instructions for poetry anthology below.  Pay special attention to the sections you have to add to your document.

Instructions and Rubric

For the next week you can earn extra credit by turning in one of the following:

• A movie rewards code from any Disney movie, look inside DVD boxes (1 point each)
• A ticket stub from any Disney movie (1 point each)
• You can get a maximum of 8 points this way.

Why does Mr. Esparza want these codes/stubs?

I have a teacher friend that uses them to get items for her Kindergarten classroom.  With the stubs and codes she gets gift items and classroom items for her students.  YOU will be helping her with her classroom and getting some extra credit at the same time.  It’s enough to give you warm fuzzies for a whole day.

The last day to turn in any item for this extra credit is 10/30/09    )

Here are the guidelines  and instructions for your soundtrack project.

Click to view Your-Life’s-Soundtrack-instructions

Sample Assignments
Great sample of soundtrack
Sample that needs some work

***Note: the samples above had the background color removed  Yours should have a different colored background, not white.

For this assignment you will follow the steps given in this web site. You will be creating a jack-o-lantern face on a picture of a pumpkin. When you finish the tutorial submit your pumpkin as lastname_pumpkin1.jpg at ustudy.org.

http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/3011/1/Happy-Halloween-Ideas

You will then create your very own design on a second pumpkin image. Be creative with your pumpkin design, it must be different than the tutorial. You can make animals, cars, or mickey mouse.  No phrases, only pictures! View the links below for some inspiration:

1. http://www.spookmaster.com/pumpkin-carving-patterns-browse-favorites.htm
2. http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/index.php

When you finish the second image submit it at ustudy.org and call it lastname_pumpkin2.jpg

**NOTE: you are turning in 2 images, one just like the tutorial and a second with your own design on it. These are samples from last year.

It’s not only Photoshop, this animator makes a DVD each year to project on his window on Halloween night.  Check it out:

http://www.hallowindow.com/

Practice your carving skills before the real thing for Halloween:

http://bloompetals.com/index.php?c=pumpkin

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/halloween/carving/carve.htm

http://www.thepumpkinfarm.com/carve_pumpkin.html