Social Justice Multigenre/Multimedia Projects
Social Justice Multi-Genre ProjectsAs a culminating project for the year, students selected a social justice topic that was important to them and were given a wide range of ways to demonstrate their literacy, technology, and critical thinking skills. Some built websites with embedded audio and video content, some created digital magazines, and still others conducted interviews and produced original documentary films.
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Book Clubs - Incorporating Various Content Areas, Encouraging Student Voice & Choice
Students participate in Dystopian, Historical Fiction, and Literary Nonfiction Book Clubs, which involve multiple content areas and demonstrate the level of student choice in not only selecting their reading material, but also in demonstrating their learning.
Literary Nonfiction Book Club
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As a follow-up to Argumentative Research, students selected a literary non-fiction text to read with a partner. Each partner set also chose at least one non-fiction graphic novel as a follow-up. Each of the texts addressed a current social justice issue. Students then created a digital text recommendation in the form of a podcast, video interview, website, etc. This unit served as a introduction to the culminating Social Justice Multigenre/Multimedia Project to end the year.
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Literary Nonfiction Digital Book Recommendation |
Historical Fiction Content Curation Project
Following several classes of selecting their choice of short non-fiction articles and interactive videos, students were then able to select from a menu of 20+ different historical fiction novels. At the culmination of the Historical Fiction Book Clubs, groups were given options about how to demonstrate their learning, such as building a Google Site with links to supporting text and multimedia reference materials from the historical era of their text. They then presented these projects to the class.
Poetry: Analyzing Craft & Structure
One of the summative assessments for our poetry unit was the submission of original poems to a volume that we then published on Amazon.com, Amazon.uk, and Amazon.de.
Proceeds of our poetry sales were donated to a local charity and some were used to host a pizza party to celebrate becoming published authors! Students even had the chance to autograph their published books for the audience.