Week 4

	Week 4- Comprehension: April 25th- 29th	Teacher Notes
Activities	I researched and described in a summary ideas about Fashion. made a survey about fashion and sent the link to my friends for them to fill the answers in.
Standard and Criterion Met	Criterion C, D and E
Completed Task	Designed a survey on fashion using googledocs. I emailed to 12 of my friends. When the responses came back I interpreted and categorized the response into 1,2,3 answers.	Excellent work I enjoyed completing your survey.
Resources	Post it onto my blog. Construct a table that will represent the data to illustrate the different attitudes and opinions that people have.

Survey

I have made around 9 questions about Fashion and I sent the link trough email to my friends. This is the link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtvOUNORVJfSzlrLTVHTHN5M2NEaXc6MQ

I asked them to fill them in so I would be able to know what's the top three answers. The questions are simple and understandable and basically they are about fashion in daily life. Here are the answers

1. Which of the following places are you most likely to go shopping for clothes?	2. What color/pattern suits you best?	3. What do you usually wear for your top?	4. What kind of accessories do you usually wear?	5. What kind of sources that fashion influenced to the women in the world?	6. What do you prefer to wear when you go to a party?	7. Which of the following that you think suits your fashion sense best?	8. What kind of shoes do you usually wear for your daily life?	9. Fashion trends released every season. What season you like most for fashion?
a. Zara	a. Bright	a. t-shirts	a. Anything that suits them best	a. Movies / TV	a. LBD	a. Casual	a. Sport shoes	a. Summer
b. Juicy Couture	b. Mixture of dark and bright colors			b. Fashion channel	b. cocktail dress	b. Glamorous	b. Wedges	b. Spring
c. Top Shop	c. Dark colors/animal prints			c. other people	c. sequin dress

Does Fashion Influence People?

Source: News report

Locate + List - main points
Re-write in a paragraph - as a news report

Copy and paste all into a word document on googledocs
Highlight topic sentence yellow in each paragraph

Summary

Most of the people today were influenced by newest fashion trends, but most of them are not. Most of those that get influenced by fashion are usually seen the trends trough fashion channels, fashion magazine, fashion articles, runaway show and even by some friends or anyone that has high fashion sense. But fashions in 19th century were mostly influenced by popular designers and popular magazines. Americans were usually following the trends of Charles Frederick Worth’s designs, he was the first true fashion designer in 19th century. Fashion trends from Paris are usually illustrated with drawings but with photography it became more real. Mostly they used gowns. Vogue promoted the fashion from Paris models and the couture of French fashion, it provided sketches and patterns of fashion from America too. They combined two different countries in one Vogue magazine. One of the France’s popular designers was Paul Poiret. So I can see that American and French had something in common. Both shared similar fashion trends and it influenced the people. Both also included in fashion magazine Vogue.

Questions

1. What kind of sources that fashion influenced to the women in the world?
2. How many trends are usually released per year?
3. How long did it take for fashion to spread around the world from the original designer?
4. How long was it last when gowns used to be very popular?

Article
By the 1860s, stylish American women could see original designs by Charles Frederick Worth, the first true fashion designer, in the popular publication Harper’s Bazaar. As other designers appeared on the scene, their creations could also be seen in new fashion magazines. By the turn of the twentieth century, this was the primary method of spreading news of fashion trends from Paris, the seat of fashion.
At first, the gowns were illustrated with drawings, but as photography became more sophisticated in the early twentieth century, the fashion press used more and more photographs of new designs. At the same time, fashion and art were merging in the eyes of the artists, who dabbled in many of the arts. These artists not only painted, but also created textile designs and fashion illustrations. Some journals of the day printed both fashion illustrations and photographs, along with short articles on fashion by modern writers. Until the Second World War, even mainstream fashion journals like Vogue and Vanity Fair continued to publish fashion illustration by modern artists, encouraging the connections between fashion designers and visual artists.
Vogue functioned in America not only to provide sketches and patterns of fashions derived from Paris models, but also to promote French couture. One of France’s premier designers, Paul Poiret, wrote in a special thirtieth-anniversary edition of Vogue that the magazine "is today one of the best methods of communication with a distinguished clientele," revealing the importance for him of reaching the American clientele.
In America, wearing Paris fashion ensured that others would recognize the wearer’s status as a cultivated and wealthy person, perhaps able to travel to Paris, certainly able to afford the best her own locality could provide, be it local cultural life or the best dressmaker in town. For the Tirocchi clientele, nothing less would do to proclaim their status as wives and daughters of newly wealthy industrialists, a new elite of active and intelligent women in a vibrant city with a long history and a monied elite.
The Tirocchis subscribed to both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. No doubt many of their clients also subscribed to these magazines at home, but they were able in the shop to consult the magazines and could order a dress made from one of the sketches they saw illustrated. Vogue illustrated as many as 33 models from Paris in each issue, and about twice as many American dresses. Advertisements provided many more images.
As a result of their familiarity with fashion magazines, by 1920 clients were asking for couturiers by name instead of favoring designs sewn and trimmed by Madame Tirocchi herself. The sisters turned this development to their advantage by embracing it and offering their customers copies of Paris couture from supply houses in New York that had paid for the right to copy them in the same materials as the original, then stitch up copies to order for retailers like A. & L. Tirocchi.
Custom dressmaking declined for many reasons in the early twentieth century, but the increasing popularity of the fashion press, which championed couture and a worldwide fashion industry, was a major factor hastening its demise. Women saw what they liked in the pages of fashion magazines and were no longer satisfied with dresses that were not identified with the style of a particular fashion designer.

http://tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/514/story/fashion_magazines.html

Bloom's Vocabulary Knowledge

	Knowledge
Useful Verbs	Word Meaning
tell	communicate, talk about news or facts.
list	connected items or names written or printed
describe	Give a description of something or someone like maybe the characteristic, qualities, or events.
relate	connect something that has something in common.
locate	the position of a place
	writemark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement
state	the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time or condition.
name	a word that set for a person or animal

Mother Tongue Week

Last week, SWA held a special event as we celebrated Mother Tongue week. At lunch time, there were singing and dancing shows by teachers and students all week. They looked awesome wearing their costumes on stage. On Friday the teachers and students were wearing international dresses. Many people enjoyed the celebration because of the food fair. Wednesday was Europe day and on Thursday it was Aussie Day.

On Friday at lunch time, parents and teachers were selling many different foods from different countries. I found them interesting and I didn’t recognize some of the foods at first until I asked them what it was. I bought some Korean food which I liked so much. Almost everyone bought food from the Food Fair rather than in the cafe. My classmates wore some interesting costumes and they were kind of unique. Everyone wore costumes from Kindergarden to high school and even teachers except for me. I did not wear any costumes because I didn’t know where to rent or buy one.

Nouns

http://www.scribd.com/full/49446059?access_key=key-v18l837d5o8gsga3xvc

Global Issue

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