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Frank’s Gone #Friday! #Focus on the #Functionality and #Fun of #Art

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Goals: 

  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
  • A REAL day of painting – What are you looking to accomplish today? Look at your painting FIRST… them answer the question? REFLECTION!

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at your painting today… what DID you accomplish? What are you pleased with and what are you NOT happy with? Successes and Failures – TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBOR about this please and WRITE it OUT so that you have a strong record of the accomplishments!

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook TUESDAY!

CLICK HERE and watch the video at the bottom of the page. There are EXAMPLES of the types of textures on the page too. LOOK at the examples that Max Ernst created and how I used texture to create small SUCCESSFUL artworks! Don’t forget to come  back to this page to deal with the GOALS below!

Collage and TEXTURE – Not a landscape per say, but a great example of a collage of textures. http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Untitled1920.JPG

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you like best from yesterday? Why?

Reflection / Evaluation: Write a ONE PARAGRAPH EXPLANATION about your work on the BACK of the collage. Describe how you used Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work and how it holds together as a successful composition. Talk about the use of color, texture, shape, form(?) space… USE YOUR WORDS and WRITING SKILLS. EXPLAIN! Not ONE SENTENCE!

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

LOVE Richard Diebenkorn’s work – how to relate? Focus on ACCURACY and MAKE IT RIGHT! http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/a001327158-001.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Final IN CLASS DAY of the figure drawing – make this YOURS! Looking back on ALL the GESTURE drawings you worked out last week – WHY did you choose the one (or more) you are using as (or the inspiration for) a BREADTH piece to demonstrate this skill? What about it stands out as successful?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How did having the ENTIRE HOUR to draw help you develop the composition of your figure?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

LOVE IT! http://www.invisiblebooks.com/KandinskyComposition%20VIISketch913.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
  • Take your artwork out – DON’T look at it. Step back. WRITE OUT THE FIRST THINGS THAT COME TO MIND. Use the handout from our guest teacher to do a small bit of SELF REFLECTION and PEER REFLECTION. Talk – Write – Reflect – Hand in the worksheets and GET TO WORK!

Reflection / Evaluation:  How does this work relate to 1) Kandinsky and his movements? 2) Your song? We are going to be WRITING an ARTIST STATEMENT and PHOTOGRAPHING this work Friday and NEXT WEEK (in the computer lab). Be prepared to provide writing that is DONE! ALSO – FIND YOUR SONG ON YOUTUBE!

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#ArtTeacher Missing? #WorkHard so he’s impressed upon his return!https://youtu.be/-cZ0eA91lx0

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Goals: 

  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
  • TODAY is a new start for some of you. What are your concerns about the process of painting with Acrylics? What are the challenges that you have faced as you’ve begun with the acrylic paints that you could share with your classmates who HAVEN’T started? You are ON YOUR OWN today and tomorrow – be smart with your time and supplies.

Reflection / Evaluation: What CHALLENGES did you face today? How did you go about SOLVING that challenge?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook TUESDAY!

Max Ernst and TEXTURE! What do you think that he used to gather TEXTURES? http://www.pinturayartistas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/max+ernst/MaxErnstMondGuterDinge.jpg

CLICK HERE and watch the video at the bottom of the page. There are EXAMPLES of the types of textures on the page too. Don’t forget to come  back to this page to deal with the GOALS below!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you find comforting? What Textures do you find discomforting? Explain your thoughts about WHY you find something comforting or discomforting. Take 3 minutes…

Reflection / Evaluation: What was your favorite way of gathering textures today? How did you use them today in the abstracted landscape COLLAGE experience based on MAX ERNST’s works.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

https://claralieu.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/055.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • First day with FINAL DRAWING…  If you look back at one thing that you have improved upon… what is it? Look at your figure drawings from the past few days – I’ll give you a few minutes to look and think – REFLECT!

Reflection / Evaluation:  What worked today as you developed your ideas about a STRONG figurative composition based on the gesture drawings from the past week? How are you going to INVESTIGATE an idea of ELEMENT / PRINCIPLE with this one drawing? Why does it demonstrate your SKILLS and ABILITIES at an AP LEVEL 6?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

http://uploads8.wikipaintings.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/yellow-red-blue-1925.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1Ac: Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What are your OVERALL IDEAS that you hope to communicate? How do you demonstrate that in your drawing? How are you going to RESOLVE that in the next 4 days in studio?

Reflection / Evaluation: Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!

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#AAArt… YES – Let’s TALK about your #Future!

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Painting, Advanced Painting, AP Studio Art, Drawing: Ashton Gallagher from the American Academy of Art

AAA Drawing Students – http://www.aaart.edu/assets/1/7/AAA-1187.jpg

Goals: 

  • 10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
  • As an art student looking to the future – what careers, uses of the skills you have developed do you think might be available to you in the future? Interested in the prospects?

Reflection / Evaluation: So… What do you think of the ideas – careers options BEYOND the high school level in the visual arts?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook TUESDAY!

Oooo Rah Rah Korb
Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What did your classmate do to help you BEGIN the drawing? How are you going to RESOLVE this sketchbook assignmemt?

Sketchbook Assignment: (Come to class with this SELFIE MADE and PRINTED!) Using your own camera, take a selfie – your entire head needs to be in the photograph… Print out the photograph, cut out the head, and glue it to the sketchbook page. Using the photograph that has been glued down – resolve the rest of the picture with a friend. Let them begin the background and encourage them to DISREGARD to what was in the original background. HAVE FUN with this. Check out Mica Angela Hendrick’s website – see what her and her daughter can come up with. http://goo.gl/Xiihh1 Mr. Korb and his daughter’s run at this assignment HERE.

Reflection / Evaluation: Fun? Creative? What are the BIGGEST CHALLENGES you are going to have in FINISHING this up for TUESDAY?

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#Tuesday #OnTask in #Art

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

BRICE MARDEN – He’s The MAN! http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/29/arts/600_loos.jpg

Goals: 

Reflection / Evaluation: Today – Successful in the process? What is an interesting aspect of the layering or flattening of the acrylic paints? What did you accomplish today? Which TECHNIQUES have you tried?

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook TUESDAY!

FUN! http://busymockingbird.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/img_5151.jpg?w=620&h=745

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Sketchbooks are challenging… how have you been able to LEARN about your abilities through this weekly sketchbook practice? EXPLAIN how your skills have been developed over the weeks.

Sketchbook Assignment: (Come to class with this SELFIE MADE and PRINTED!) Using your own camera, take a selfie – your entire head needs to be in the photograph… Print out the photograph, cut out the head, and glue it to the sketchbook page. Using the photograph that has been glued down – resolve the rest of the picture with a friend. Let them begin the background and encourage them to DISREGARD to what was in the original background. HAVE FUN with this. Check out Mica Angela Hendrick’s website – see what her and her daughter can come up with. http://goo.gl/Xiihh1 Mr. Korb and his daughter’s run at this assignment HERE.

Reflection / Evaluation: Today’s work was collaborative… what did you do to help your classmate in their drawing? What did your classmate do to help you? How are you going to RESOLVE this week’s drawing to make it SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

How important are your interior lines? http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2004/290/1/8/Gesture_Drawing_by_overcome.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Another day of GESTURE DRAWINGS – We could spend a SEMESTER on them… What do you hope to figure out BETTER today than you did yesterday? I am going to EMPHASIZE using GUIDELINES and REFERENCE Lines today! Let’s see the work – just like in math.

Reflection / Evaluation:  Based on a DIRECT COMPARISON – What is more successful in today’s drawing than yesterday’s?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

How are you handling the EDGES of the images? Sharp lines with soft edges? http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/kandinsky.comp-4.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation:  Are you successful in the communication of your ideas? Write out 3 reasons to back up your successes.

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#Monday is ALWAYS a #GoodDay in the #ARTS

“Aim higher in case you fall short.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire – Jasper Johns:

Jasper Johns – TARGET: http://addictionblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Life-coaching-online-for-addiction-recovery-1.jpg

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting and Color Schemes

Abstraction and Painting: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81CIvE3XoYL._SL1500_.jpg

Goals: 

Reflection / Evaluation: As you look back on the development of your composition, what are especially satisfied about? What are 3 things that you feel are successful compositionally?

Studio Art 360: LAST Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

Process over product! http://www.activefamilymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Process-Over-Product-The-Importance-of-%E2%80%9COpen-ended%E2%80%9D-Art-in-Child-Development.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
  • What is the ONE larger SKILLS you have developed as we have drawn? What is one MINOR Skill you feel you have developed? EXPLAIN.

Reflection / Evaluation: As we discussed on earlier in conversation… we are in it for the process of MAKING ART, not necessarily worrying about the finished product. Why do you NOW see the PROCESS as an important thing for an ARTIST to worry about and the PRODUCT as important to their audience.

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Figure – Are you BEYOND THIS? http://www.learn-to-draw-lessons.com/images/gesture-standing.gif

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What are three things that you you struggle with when it comes to the idea of the FIGURE?

Reflection / Evaluation: Of the images you drew today… what strengths did you see develop in the process today? Explain…

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

How’s your drawing coming? http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/bauhaus/bauhaus%20art%20swinging.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

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#TGIF – #ParentTeacherConferences

Hello All! Welcome to the END OF THE WEEK! It is YOUR DAY OFF! Yippee! Keeping that in mind… Here’s a quick video to occupy your time. EXTRA CREDIT can be yours if you hand in a well rendered and personal artwork using these ideas! Make this YOUR artwork and take it to the next level!

ALSO… If you are interested in following the development of our OPEN CANVAS project – visit the NEW site documenting the artwork right outside of room 123 HERE.

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Fri…#Thursday – #EndOfTheWeek! #TGIT

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting

http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_4.jpg

Goals: 

Reflection / Evaluation: What do you especially LIKE / DISLIKE about the ideas you have created in your artwork? What do you especially LIKE or DISLIKE about the ideas of ABSTRACTING from REALITY?

Studio Art 360: LAST Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

http://nicolsonartanddesign.wikispaces.com/file/view/Serena-Mignani-Imago-Orbis3.jpg/416391612/640×380/Serena-Mignani-Imago-Orbis3.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors. N: Draw with ONE SPECIFIC GOAL in mind.
  • This is the last day of working on these drawings… where do you see yourself having a HIGHLIGHT in the drawing? Where do you see the CORE of the SHADOW? Where are the Midtones (lights and shadows)? 

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the DRAWING what are you going to FOCUS ON today to resolve the drawing for Monday?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

SIMPLE and PERFECT! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Rembrandt.fallhut.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • What are your strengths when it comes to the FIGURE DRAWING? Write down three things that you see as the FOCAL POINTS and STRENGTHS of your figure drawing..
    • A gestural drawing as the basis of the work will hopefully be a good  place to see the strengths you have and HOW you develop a work about BREADTH into a work about YOU.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is it you need to focus on in the PROCESS to DEVELOP a solid DRAWING that is a bout the FIGURE and YOUR ABILITIES?

Drawing: MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

 

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation: How does your art compare with the work of “professionals” and how can you work to create a better understanding of your approach / intent / ideas?)

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#MidWeek #Wednesday

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Painting

a TREE? Come on Mondrian… really? http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_2.jpg

Goals: 

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • What are the relationships you are seeing in the beginnings of the space you are creating? How do you see the use of color as an important part of the conceptual / idea process?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the space you have created, how do you describe the FEELING / EMOTION you have begun to create? Strong sense of space? Easy to “read” ideas? Give EXAMPLES – at least two.

Studio Art 360: Drawing Day – Value – Composition? How’s it going?

wHERE HAVE WE SEEN this BEFORE? http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your composition. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE?

Reflection / Evaluation: How have you worked today on the ideas of the positive and negative space? What are you doing to RESOLVE the image for tomorrow? 

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Egon Schiele – Portrait of a woman: http://41.media.tumblr.com/22b49a4976b8db4dee3bcb8251c13c7e/tumblr_nc1alj2wTD1tf9o16o1_1280.jpg
BIOGRAPHY of Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife: http://40.media.tumblr.com/222209e5906fbb499767025a6f6c6ab2/tumblr_nc1aix04ue1tf9o16o1_1280.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • What challenges did you face yesterday when it came to the 5 minute drawings we did on large paper? How can you see one of these drawings as becoming the underpinnings of a final artwork?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – how are you working / thinking about hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes! MID CRIT – Look at the RUBRIC

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What techniques are working for you in this work? How will you talk about the the struggles and successes you are having?

Reflection / Evaluation: What did you LEARN about your work or that of your classmates from today’s critique?

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#SketchbookTuesday is HERE! StArt360 – #Enjoy

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

How has MONDRIAN changed his TREE over time? https://educar.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mondrian-red-tree-s.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Does the use of LINE become a DOMINANT element in your artwork or are you seeing other elements as coming to the forefront of the composition? Explain your thoughts about the DOMINANT ideas.

Reflection / Evaluation: What color scheme have you begun to think about? Why? how does it DESCRIBE YOUR feelings toward the SIMPLIFICATION of the SPACE / SURROUNDINGS / COLOR? 

Studio Art 360: Sketchbook Day! Doodle Day and Don’t Be Dumb – Thanks Josh and Chuck!

http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2014/01/19/98f30fc1-9cbe-4b1f-949d-79f76b6bcd83/4bee9cd5f388a27cb54d3dd31a98d0df/Andy%20Silton%20doodle%20244.jpg HIGHER PURPOSE of the DOODLE – HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are 3 things about your SKETCHBOOK that you are VERY PLEASED with? What are 3 things you WANT TO IMPROVE ON? How have you seen your DRAWING SKILLS improve since week 1?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How much time OUTSIDE of class do you feel you are going to need for NEXT WEEKS DUE DATE?  What DAY are you going to work on that? Maybe 5 – 10 minutes PER day? What benefits would LITTLE bits of time do versus ONE BIG HUGE TIME?

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing and Trading Card Photographs – OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!

Movement in the FIGURE DRAWING: https://venetianred.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/john-singer-sargent-sketch-of-a-spanish-dancer-1879.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • Consider the idea of a FIGURE DRAWING… When you think about one that will represent YOU, what are the elements or principles that you feel would be best to serve the purpose of making it YOUR drawing versus simply a “project?” 

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking at the rubric from the AP Site – are you hitting the level 6 marks? What do you do SPECIFICALLY to match one of them (or not match one of them).

Drawing: Oil Pastels Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked? What didn’t? WHY?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What are your biggest struggle / success for today as we are now working with OIL PASTELS? Write it out (and the WHY!) PLEASE SHARE THESE IDEAS WITH A CLASSMATE – FINALLY!

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#Monday Already? That’s OK – Let’s Make it #mARTday instead!

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Painting and Advanced Painting: Hallway Drawing / Painting

From REAL to ABSTRACT the Story of Piet Mondrain… http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_1.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design
  • Looking at yesterday’s one or two simplifications, name 3 of the larger GEOMETRIC shapes that are beginning to develop in your composition. Describe HOW the idea of SPACE changing in your composition.

Reflection / Evaluation: How does the ORIGINAL image still show up in the space that you are creating? How do you feel the work is developing as a successful or unsuccessful? Give Specifics!

Studio Art 360: Value and DRAWING!

PROCESS instead of PRODUCT! https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/45467/Process_over_Product/image.jpg

Goals:

  • 8.1P: Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.
  • As you examine this work of art, what are the larger SKILLS you have developed in the process?

Reflection / Evaluation: As artists, we are in it for the process of MAKING ART, not necessarily worrying about the finished product. How do you feel about the idea of  PROCESS versus PRODUCT?

AP Studio Art: Trading Cards – DISCUSSION

WONDERFUL ART CARDS: https://spaark.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/dsc_04262.jpg

Goals:

  • OPEN CANVAS CALENDAR!
  • G: 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • As you look at your trading cards (and your larger idea of body of work) if you had to choose the Element or Principle that you feel you are the strongest with, what is it and WHY? How about the WEAKEST – Why?

Reflection / Evaluation: What NEW ideas do you have about the use of or understanding behind the elements and principles you have been faced with today?

Drawing: Kandinsky and Shapes!

Goals:

  • .1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What is it about the song you have chosen that really stood out to you as one worth using as the basis for an art work? This was a BIG decision on your part. Having to put it into words is important for you.  What is ONE things that STANDS OUT as that connects the two works of art?

Reflection / Evaluation:  SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.