PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Presentation Friday July 15th, 2011

Creative writing across the curriculum

LAS NOTICIAS

Using a thinking hat!

La Opinion:

1. Dissect the news paper and find all the possible sections. 2. Compare a news paper from weekdays and one from weekends3. Compare La Opinion to an English speaking paper 4. Computer lab and explore online papers from South America and Spain

4 corners to select a section of the news paper: sports, CA, USA, world.

Oral readingSilent readingCurrent events

Musical reading chairs (short text for them to read at each chair) or the comics

Art: using letter cut outs create signs, postcards, letters, etc

Use the newspaper to make a: skirt, coat, dress a Professional in groups (ballerina, doctor)

Highlight specific things in an article: example: find verbs!!Find compound wordsFind cognatesFind adjectivesFind syllabus one, two, threeFind professions, places, Find accents and categorize them

Dramatize a story from an article

Pictures of the paper given to students for them to try to figure out the event

Advanced students to record an article or teacher and ply it back to the entire classLower level student listen and follows along

News cast presentations in class: live in the classroom or record it

Real or fake news (remember the storm inside the class: cookie tray spray water flash light) (commercial interruption) (narrated a recorded game himself) (interacting with the recording of an anchor at a remote location)

Project base learning: FINALCreate a school news paper (pictures, editorial, news, games,

Field trip to La Opinion2 articles in LA Opinion about my students