| # | Time | Phase | Actions | Content | Students’s role | Teacher’s actions | Teacher’s role |
| Preparing |
1 week Monday 45 min | Defining research problem
| | How and why do stories become news? | Discussing with teacher the subject and getting necessary information. Stating goals
| To introduce the aim of the project work and motivate students. To help with goals. | Neutral facilitator enables the group to explore a range of different viewpoints without stating their own opinion |
| | To what extent does the audience affect what you write and how you write it?
| Goal: Students will be transformed into reporters who write newspaper stories that can be pasted up into a class newspaper.
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| | How can we use the writing process to communicate our stories as news for a specific audience? What are some of the different types of professional writing in the world? What is it like to be a writer? What are some good and not so good things about being a writer?" Why are newspapers important to our community? What kind of information do they provide to link us to our political and social structure
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| Defining target audience | Grade: 7 Level: Pre-intermediate | Subject: English Integrated: Computer study and Drawing |
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| Devil’s advocate deliberately adopts an opposite stance to confront people, irrespective of their own views |
| Skills: |
| Writing | Develop writing process; writing stories, news. Types of Writing: •Novels •Short stories •Non-fiction •Plays •Movies •Poetry •Television •Radio •Advertising •Public relations |
| Speaking | Discuss in the class news and develop main idea; communicate to gather information; Interviewing teachers and pupils. |
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| Reading | Working with questions and reading articles. |
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| Listening | Rewrite ready news from different resouces. |
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| Stating objectives | Identify the purposes of a newspaper | Students will be able to: - Summarize the text - Create a visual image - Think of prior knowledge - Connect new information with prior knowledge - Share new information with someone |
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| Declared interests declares their own position so that the group knows their views. |
| Apply basic layout principles |
| Produce a class newspaper
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| Creating strong project title
| Creating a newspaper |
| Planning |
1 week Tuesday 1 hour | Defining possible sources of information | Websites to create:
Resources:
Using online programs Apps: | 1.http://www.jhuapl.edu/education/ elementary/newspapercourse/ forteachers/lesson.htm 2.http://learninginhand.com/ blog/drivingquestions 1.http://www.greececsd.org/ instruction/ELA/6-12/Essential%20Questions/Index.htm Rubister4teacher.com Newsadd.co |
Making plan of work and timeline. |
To give ideas, make predictions and approve the plan. | Ally: supports the views of a group. |
| Selecting a strategy
| Reading a Newspaper and then summaries in order understand how to work | Preview the text Read captions (etc) |
| Defining the form of presenting results/findings | Producing the Newspaper |
| Defining project's phases, intermediate deliverables and final results, their assessment criteria | (Rubrics, poster, presentation of student’s work) |
| Distribution of tasks/responsibilities among group members
| Group members | Responsibilities | Time |
| 1 student | Summarizing the text\ Reporter | 1 week |
| 2 student | Creating a visual image \Draw pictures for the stories | 1 week |
| 3 student |
| 4 student | Designing the newspaper banner | 1 week |
| 5 student | Looking for relevant stories and news | 1 week |
| 6 student |
| Research |
1 week Wednesday 2 hours | Collecting data, doing intermediate tasks | Making Rubrics
| For content For design For protection | Perform research by solving intermediate tasks. | To observe, advise, consult, check calculation, indirectly supervise the activity of students Measuring a project's progress through intermediate deliverables. |
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| Taking interview | From pupils and teachers at school | Challenger: The facilitator, through questioning, challenges the views being expressed and encourages the pupils to justify their position. |
| Data processing | Selecting ready made stories Writing stories Writing poetries Writing new about school | Theme: school news |
| Results and conclusions |
2 week Monday
| Analysis of information | Writing stories and checking grammar mistakes | Show the links | Analyze the information. | To observe, advise |
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| Formulation conclusions | Editing the newspaper | Printing the materials |
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| Presentation of work |
2 week Tuesday | Presentation form of intermediate results:
| 1) project planning time scale
2) the project timeline
3) developed questionnaires
4) results of statistical analysis | (graphs, tables) |
Present their work, discuss and define it |
To listen, ask the appropriate questions in the role of an ordinary participant in the process. |
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| Presentation of results:
| Newspaper | Introduce the content and sections |
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| Assessment |
2 week Tuesday | Self-evaluation | By ready-made rubrics | Reading newspaper stories and compare to criteria |
Participate in the evaluation through collective discussion
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To assesses students' efforts, creativity, quality of use of sources, unused opportunities, the potential for continuation, and the quality of the report.
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| peer-assessment | Discussion By ready-made rubrics | Evaluation of each other |
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| Teacher assessment | By rubrics
| Content, grammar, relevance |
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| Feedback | Discussion of whole work; Pros and cons; Successful results; Answer the question ‘What I have learned from this work?’ |
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