If two of you do the interview to the group 7th grade scientists, the rest will have to cover School Week (that is, unless you propose something else). This means that no matter what, there will be at least 3 reports on School Week. You need to let the rest know what you'll be doing and with whom. It might not be a bad idea if you all got together and agreed on the assignments you'll take. Because you're 7, somebody will have to work on their own, unless one of you decides to participate in two School Week reports.
Also, I think it would be really nice for you to take LOTS of pics. Remember, you may take as many as you want of the class of 2007. BUT you should also make sure you take enough pics of everyone from the other classes. Remember the school blog will get more hits if people want to get in it to find themselves in it! You could post them in different ways. On the reports, there will be pics that are relevant. We could have another label/section of School Week only. I also saw in other blogs a service that allows you have a slideshow uploaded with the pics you may want to post. If any of you has a cam-corder (filmadora) or can borrow one, you could shoot different scenes, make a pot-purri of scenes or several short ones and upload them to the blog through YouTube. As you can see, the possibilities are endless. I wish you all would take this as a fun assignment and play around with the idea. What you end up posting on the blog will become a nice souvenir, yet another one, of your experience in your last year at school. Every year, students in the graduating class feel the need to leave a mark at the school, so that they're remembered. This could be another way of leaving yours! It's a kind of community service as well (just in case any of you needs more hours for the IB, I can talk to Ms. Alejandra Yanotti about it). And wouldn't it be a cool to have several testimonials, reflections, interviews, short scenes, different kind of moments, documented through the blog?
I hope you like this assignment. Let me know what you think!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Welcome back to exciting work!!!
Winter break is over and now it's time to get back to work! You have two assignments for the next two weeks:
1. Propose at least one article from your blog to publish in the school blog (this is INDIVIDUAL WORK - I think that some of you more than one piece to publish so go ahead and make your proposal for as many as you think you'd like your schoolmates to read),
AND
2. Choose one of the following options, which you can do IN PAIRS:
A. An interview with the group of 7th graders who won an award in a Latin American science fair. For this, you'd need to talk to one of the 7th grade preceptores to help you set up a meeting with the whole group. Find out if you can include the adults that guided them in the project. If it's not possible during the school day this week, you should try to get together at noon, at school.
Before the interview:
Part of your preparation is: a) read the press releases about this event, which you can find in La Gaceta and maybe the other Tucuman newspapers -the school has some of these... so ask around!; b) prepare a set of questions for the interview.
During the interview:
Record the interview with a walkman or tape recorder.
Take pictures. The recording and the pics will prove to be crucial when you write the article.
Once you start the interview, you may add more questions, and pursue a line of questioning that came up while talking to them.
After the interview:
Go over the details and the focus/emphasis you want to give your article. Discuss this with your partner. Then it's time to write your first draft which you will email me on the first Monday after the end of school week.
B. School Week
Choose an area, such as cultural events, evening events, sports, etc. Take pics of the event, talk to the people who attended or participated, take notes of important, interesting, outstanding information that others may be interested in reading about. Though apparently easy, this task is more challenging because you need to find the interesting angle of anything that may be going on in your event. Remember it should be worth reading it!
Both of your assignments are due Monday August 6. If you turn in either of them late, you will lose a point (10% of your grade) for every 24-hour period of your delay. You should email them to me as a Word document attachment.
I'm open to questions, comments or to clarify any aspect of the work. Also, I'm open to suggestions or alternatives! I'm looking forward to reading your reports!!! :)
1. Propose at least one article from your blog to publish in the school blog (this is INDIVIDUAL WORK - I think that some of you more than one piece to publish so go ahead and make your proposal for as many as you think you'd like your schoolmates to read),
AND
2. Choose one of the following options, which you can do IN PAIRS:
A. An interview with the group of 7th graders who won an award in a Latin American science fair. For this, you'd need to talk to one of the 7th grade preceptores to help you set up a meeting with the whole group. Find out if you can include the adults that guided them in the project. If it's not possible during the school day this week, you should try to get together at noon, at school.
Before the interview:
Part of your preparation is: a) read the press releases about this event, which you can find in La Gaceta and maybe the other Tucuman newspapers -the school has some of these... so ask around!; b) prepare a set of questions for the interview.
During the interview:
Record the interview with a walkman or tape recorder.
Take pictures. The recording and the pics will prove to be crucial when you write the article.
Once you start the interview, you may add more questions, and pursue a line of questioning that came up while talking to them.
After the interview:
Go over the details and the focus/emphasis you want to give your article. Discuss this with your partner. Then it's time to write your first draft which you will email me on the first Monday after the end of school week.
B. School Week
Choose an area, such as cultural events, evening events, sports, etc. Take pics of the event, talk to the people who attended or participated, take notes of important, interesting, outstanding information that others may be interested in reading about. Though apparently easy, this task is more challenging because you need to find the interesting angle of anything that may be going on in your event. Remember it should be worth reading it!
Both of your assignments are due Monday August 6. If you turn in either of them late, you will lose a point (10% of your grade) for every 24-hour period of your delay. You should email them to me as a Word document attachment.
I'm open to questions, comments or to clarify any aspect of the work. Also, I'm open to suggestions or alternatives! I'm looking forward to reading your reports!!! :)
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