Session+12

="12.1 Final Project Topic"=

**Essential Question**
1. How can we strategically plan lessons that incorporate inquiry, literacy, and technology?

//__What do you think the topic of the project you create for this course will be?__// My hope is to create an independent reading unit focused on contemporary non-fiction. Students will choose from autobiographies and memoirs which hope to broaden multicultural or global awareness. Before, during, and after reading activities will include opportunities for students to research the author, his or her life experiences, home, claims, and lessons. As a final project students will share their reading and research discoveries in the creation and presentation of a Glog. Reading about other people here and around the world and completing a technology based project seem ideal for incorporating inquiry, literacy, and technology.

//__Why do you plan on choosing this topic?__// I usually include an independent reading unit entitled Other People; Other Places. The projects often delight and surpass expectations. Each student shares knowledge from the reading and additional biographical or relevant information in Book Talks supported with projects such as posters, pamphlets, or PowerPoints. After the Global Awareness section included in this course, the goal of broadening opportunities for reading and sharing seemed natural. I felt that using technology with an independent non-fiction unit could better make the point that stories can enrich the reader's life, improve understanding about others, and help develop a sense of shared community both locally and globally. The end goal of having students create Glogs seems to further enhance the opportunity to learn about and understand the situations and perspectives of others.

=__12.2 Project Planning Resources __=

[|Common Core Standards] [|Technology Standards]

[|Global Awareness]

[|The Flowers by Alice Walker - Wordle] media type="custom" key="10353830"