Teacher's and students' role

In the classroom 20 minutes

Week

1

Teacher’s role:

Neutral facilitator

• Teacher introduces students to the aim of the work and plan of the project.

• Teachers shows students two short videos that were filmed according to a books (literary works):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-ZmE3bhJM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exbQneLHjM0

• Teacher poses Essential question:

“How to make our own enjoyable movie according to excerpts from the book?”

• He/she gives the task for home to read the article and to watch the movie.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1myw_0W5E8

Students’ role:

• Students watch the stories and get acquainted with the project objectives.

• The students discuss the essential question.

• Students read the article and watch the video. They can also look through other resources.

In the classroom 15 minutes

• The teacher checks how the students understand the article and video. She/he discusses them with the students. Then she/he divides the students into groups.

• Students discuss the article and the video, share with their opinion. Then they divide into groups of five/six.

In the classroom 15 minutes

Week

2

• The teacher offers to read a book, take an interesting excerpt from the book they have chosen in order to make a movie.

• The teacher makes up rubric for evaluation of the students’ project. She/he shows criteria.

• Students discuss the rubric with the teacher.

• The students distribute the tasks and responsibilities.

• Students go to the library. They read literary books. They analyse them, they choose one appropriate book.

• Then they take an interesting excerpt from the book they have chosen.

In the classroom 15 minutes

Week

3

• The teacher checks what book they have chosen and the comprehension of students.

• The teacher observes, counsels, advises.

• The students discuss their books.

• They name their short stories (the excerpts of the books).

• The students prepare all necessary things and their speech for making movie and shoot their movies. They use skills that they have learnt in the first step.

Outside the classroom

Week

4

• The teacher observes, counsels, advises.

• Teacher offers the website which can help students in editing:

http://www.wikihow.com/Edit-Videos

• The teacher checks the scripts of the movies

• The students edit their movies.

• They can visit the web page in order to learn how to edit videos.

Outside the classroom

Week

5

• The teacher observes, advises

• The students make an advertisement poster for the movie.

• When the students present their movies they tell their aim in making this movie.

• Students answer the essential question according to their experience.

In the classroom 1 hour 30 minutes

Week

6

• The teacher assesses students' efforts, creativity, mistakes in speech and the quality of the presentation, content of the film.

• The teacher uses his rubric to evaluate.

• The students participate in the evaluation.

• They use their own rubrics (peer evaluation)

• Also they answer the checklists (self-evaluation)