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Instructional Objectives:
Students will design a book based on their research on the selected
cultural group to be read to their kindergarten little buddies
and donated to the class for future use. They will use Microsoft
Word to create the text and illustrate the pages with original
art. The book will include a bibliography which they will create
online.
Language Arts: Writing:
Organization and Focus
1.2 Create multiple-paragraph expository compositions:
a. Establish a topic, important ideas, or events in sequence or
chronological order.
Research and Technology
1.3 Use organizational features of printed text (e.g., citations,
end notes, bibliographic references) to locate relevant information.
1.4 Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing
organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down
menus, word searches, the thesaurus, spell checks).
Time Required: Approximately
four one hour periods.
Advance preparation and prerequisite
knowledge and skills: The students and teacher should be familiar
with word processing on the computer: how to format text, use
spell check, save, edit, and print documents. (See handout for
basic Microsoft Word worksheet used in lesson two). A computer
with Internet access and a word processing program for every student
or access to a computer on a rotating basis is needed.
Materials and resources required:
The students need to have their organizational chart from lesson
one, the list of Internet sources, and the interview document.
Procedures: Discuss with the class the need
to summarize their research into text that will be understood by their kindergarten
audience and the use of vocabulary that is appropriate for the younger students.
Give directions and requirements for the completion of the book (at least ten
pages with a title page, bibliography, author's pages and ten to fifteen facts
about their cultural group, illustrations on each page, and front cover with
petroglyph).
Activities:
Students will:
· Plan their book by first listing ten to fifteen facts
about their cultural group from the organizational chart.
· Simplify the text using vocabulary appropriate to the
grade level of their audience.
· Create the bibliography by going online to http://easybib.com
· Incorporate two or three facts on each page and decide
on an illustration for the page.
· Type, edit, and print the pages using Microsoft Word.
· Illustrate each page.
· Make a front and back cover for the book by creating
a petroglyph (see lesson three).
· Add an author's page at the end of the book (see lesson
two).
· Read their books to their little buddies in the kindergarten
class.
Evaluation: Use this rubric
developed with Rubistar (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/).
Homework: Read the finished
book to a younger sibling, parent or friend. Practice fluency
and appropriate expression.
Extension: Rewrite the book by taking on a Native American
identity and using the first person point of view.
Student Work Samples:Click
here for pages from a student's book