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**PBL Projects - Language Arts**
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Names: Chris Callihan and Noel Franke


 * Project Title**: Cell Phone Policy
 * Grade Level**: 10-12
 * Project Idea**: Plan a presentation for the school board and administration proposing changes to the current policy
 * Driving Question**; How should the administration and school boar alter the cell phone policy at Jackson High School?
 * Content**: Create arguments using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence.
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed**: Collaboration: peer editing, feedback, Communication: Presentation to grade level peers and other grade level peers, select groups from each grade level to present to school board members and superintendent, Critical Thinking: self-reflection, effective persuasive techniques and research, Information Technology Literacy: Use of digital media to collaborate and create presentation
 * Major Students Products**: Write a proposal; Present an oral defense using digital media

This project will involve all college prep sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Jackson High School. Students will first create an independent written proposal in which they present an argument for how the school cell phone policy should be altered using relevant and significant research on the topic. Sophomore students will work with a mentor junior or senior student during the proofreading/editing/revising process. Final written proposals will be submitted. Students will then be grouped and share the written proposals with team members to evaluate the strongest arguments present to incorporate into a presentation for classmates. Each group will be responsible for designing some form of digital media that must be incorporated into the presentation. These presentations will be video taped and uploaded to Blackboard, then each grade will vote using the survey function on the site to choose a group to present to the administration.

Chris and Noel, Could you please just add the 21st Century Skills that will be taught and assessed?

**Your name (s):** Ashlin Streetman, Kelli Marvin, Matt Gillispie, and Denise Rooker **Project title:** Digital Me: This Time It's Personal **Grade level:** 9 and 10 **Project idea:** Use digital storytelling to create a personal narrative with plot structure, imagery, characterization, and a moral theme. **Driving Question:** How can I write a rich personal narrative for an online audience? **Content:** Writing narratives with characterization, dialogue, sensory details, setting, plot structure, and theme. **Student Product(s):** Individual: Brainstorming (idea and topics), prewriting (story board), final digital story on Story Bird; Group: peer edit- each member will be looking for a specific item, consensus on best overall
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:** Collaboration: peer editing and feedback (gallery walk); communication: presentations to a small group of 3 or 4; critical thinking: story development with characters, plot and theme; innovation: creating something new from their own experiences and applying story elements to their own lives

Our entry event is a neighborhood playground map; it relates the project to an important time in their childhood, and it also helps them begin to see what they could write about. The students are able to choose a childhood memory, the length, and the pictures they use for their story. We were going to give them options about the web tool they use, but this is one of the first things they do at the beginning of the year. Story bird is a good intro tool because they choose the pictures from the site rather than come up with their own. They will be publishing it for an online audience, their teacher, their classmates, their parents, and hopefully other classes in the school as well.

**Your name (s):** Melinda Cales <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Other Content area(s) (if applicable):** Social Studies <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project title:** Where Were You On ... <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Grade level:** 9 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project idea:** Students will create a digital story of an historical event within the past 75 years using news clippings and interviews of friends and families to create mini documentaries. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Driving Question:** How have historical events impacted our lives and those of people we know? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Content:** //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade 9 CCS: //
 * **Reading Informational text 1:** Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 * **Reading Informational text 7:** Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums determining which details are emphasized in each account.
 * **Writing 3:** Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique. Well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences
 * **Speaking and Listening 5:** Make strategic use of media in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Student Product(s):** Students will post their finished video to either TeacherTube.com or Youtube.com and post the embedded video to the class Wiki to share with their classmates. Student videos will be streamed at Constitution Day Open House event as well.
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:** Collaboration, Communication, Technology Fluency

=== //**Entry event will be student survey listing historical event that they have witnessed in person or through media. Survey results will be shared with the class. The driving question will then be asked and students will be placed in groups of 2-3 and draw up an action plan contract listing each student's responsibilities and role in the project. Students wishing to work independently may do so as well but will need to consult with teacher before doing so to ensure that they aware of responsibilities and will sign an individual contract.**// ===

//**9th Grade**//
=== //**Project Idea: Students are asked to evaluate a historical figure/celebrities and pick a controversial decision that they have made and determine how they can influenced by their decisions. They they will present a two point of view monologue for 10 minutes and at the end of the monologue there needs to be a message.**// ===

//Driving Question: How can my life be impacted by the controversial decisions historical figures/celebrities make?//
=== //Content: Research-open ended questions, Communication: Oral and Visual-Analyze the techniques used by speakers and media to influence an audience and evaluate the effect this has on the credibility of a speaker or media message.// ===

Entry Event: Students will be given lyrics to a popular song and will listen to the song to determine the meaning of the words and the message of the song.
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Your name (s): Susan Hagerty **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Other Content area(s) (if applicable): Language Arts **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project title: Memoir Digital Story Project **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Grade level: Grade 9 **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project idea: Freshmen will develop a digital story with select chapters from their memoirs. The memoir will reflect who they are now and what life events have shaped them thus far and in the future. **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Driving Question:** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿**Who am I? What life events shape who I am now and who or what I may become?**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Content:** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿**1) Writing narratives; 2) Writing responses to literature; 3) Writing process standards; 4) Reading applications--literary text; 5) Communication--formal presentations and small group collaboration; 6) Technology standards**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Student Product(s):** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿**1) Create digital story using Glogster; 2) Write/edit/revise memoir chapter narratives using The Writing Reviser; 3) Blog reflection at the end of the assignment**
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed: ﻿1) Collaboration (peer edit, small group discussion); 2) Communication (formal presentation); 3) Critical thinking/problem solving (blog reflection at the end of the assignment) **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Math- ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">reading bar graph ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Science ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">compare and contrast ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Art- ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">mosiac ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ELA- ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Readers Theater ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Collaboration, Presentation, Critical Thinking, Research ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Student Product(s): ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">voice thread of student reader’s theater, student seed tracker wiki posts, student plants, bar graph **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your name (s): ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Maggie Ford **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Other Content area(s) (if applicable): ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ELA, art, math, and science **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Project title: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Tiny Seed **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Grade level: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2nd **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Project idea: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will use the Eric Carle book The Tiny Seed as a spring board for a cross curricular unit learning about the life cycle of a plant. Students will listen to the teacher read the class synchronously in the Wimba classroom or asynchronously through the use of a podcast. Students will be broken up into groups which will add to the class voice thread. Students will plant seeds and keep a field journal tracking the progress of their seed using excel to create a bar graph. Students will make predictions in their journal about how light temperature and water will impact the growth of the plant. Students will use tissue paper, cardstock and glue to recreate the flower on the cover of the book. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Driving Question: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What does a seed need to ** grow?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content: **