Expectations

Individual students will:

• Keep up with the reading schedule in support of individual / team progress
• Make 3 or more postings each week (two individual and one as a group)
• Post 1 = Choose a memorable quote or passage from your assigned reading and give a thoughtful reaction to it (not summative of the reading) in 5 or more sentences. Then, tie in this passage to a real-life example (ie: from music, media, history, personal experience, news related, etc.) with 5 or more sentences.
• Post 2 = Choose a social studies prompt to respond to using at least 5 or more sentences. The response should include text or media clip references to material learned that week in S.S.
• Post 3 = Group post on experience thus far; tie-in to lit/history (insight in understanding)
• Provide thoughtful, well-written reactions to reading and/or outside connection material that will invite others to leave comments (or even inspire blog entries of their own)
• Comment an average of 2 or more times per week on other student-group blogs, other than their own, over the duration of 4 weeks (total: 8 comments minimum)
• Contribute to as many different blogs from the 13 student-group pages during the 4 week project
• Support his/her team ‘editor’ (a role that rotates every week)
• Use and reference the Internet appropriately — including the content of all entries, links, comments, and behind-the-scenes administration of the web site itself

‘Editors’ will:

• Maintain the team’s blog (appearance, etc.) during the length of one week
• Support individual requests and overview the publication of group members’ entries, the validity of their content, and any wishes they have concerning the actual web site itself
• Collaborate with Miss Tesmer about the publication of all links and comments
• Encourage team members to maintain regular participation
• Keep an accurate team record (i.e. a spreadsheet) of all team members’ contributions to-date (kept in classroom)

Teams will:

• Successfully create a blog that demonstrates insight and analysis of selected holocaust novel
• Create a unique ‘name’ and ‘look’ for the blog by the end of the project (without it becoming a distraction in terms of the quality / analysis of content that is published)
• Use other web tools (beyond the blog – like YouTube, photos, links to news articles, other multimedia) to demonstrate a unique way to share knowledge / discoveries
• Use class time and the computer lab use in an appropriate manner at all times
• Present to the class as a group on 2 occasions what has been ‘learned’ and what has been ‘created’: 1) sometime during the process and 2) on the final submission day

Miss Tesmer will:

• Create a working web site for all student-groups and Provide behind-the-scenes technology support (and advice)
• Create a classroom/work environment that will allow students to successfully work as teams and complete the overall project
• Carefully review all written submissions and suggested links and remove submissions/other entries when deemed inappropriate