Week 2
Telling Stories with Scratch

Weekly Summary

Last week you learned about two concepts of programming - algorithms and loops.  This week you will add in an additional concept - events - by exploring the idea of coordinating multiple sprites to tell a story.  You will, once again, use a set of videos that I produced for another class. 

Key Concepts

Lessons

Please watch the following videos which total approximately 60 minutes.  

• 2.1 - Knock Knock Joke
• 2.2 - Adding Sound Effects
• 2.3 - Changing Costumes
• 2.4 - Introducing Broadcast and Receive
• 2.5 - Using Broadcast and Receive
• 2.6 - Adding Movement

I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to spend 30 minutes on this non-graded, guided task.  In it you will take an existing story and make some modifications of your own selection.  I think this is a good practice/transition to your full graded assignment later.

• 2.7 - [Task] Improving the Harry Potter Story

Finally, If you want to learn a little extra about how to control the speech bubbles you might look at:

• 2.10 - [EXTRA] Controlling Speech Bubble Placement

Assignment

When you have completed the lessons for this week, please complete this programming activity.