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Title: All About Me

Standards Addressed:

Note: Prior to Lesson One, the teacher should have already set up E-pals with another class, preferably out of their "neighborhood".

Materials and Technology Needed:

• E-pals (Gaggle.net is a wonderful site for setting up filtered student email accounts!)
• At least one computer station as a center, but a mini lab would be wonderful!! If neither are available , the school computer lab could be used if it has Internet access and a word processor.

Activities:

• Create a story web on the chalkboard using yourself as an example
• Review what the main topic sentence is for their paragraph that they will send to their E-pal and place it in the center of the web
• Review supporting sentences
• Add sample supporting sentences to the web
• Students then create their own story web about themselves using topics such as family, hobbies, likes/dislikes, etc. NOTE: DO NOT USE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS AT THIS TIME!
• Students type up the paragraph to send to the receiving E-pal. This can be done as an attachment or as text in an e-mail message.( I would suggest the attachment strategy, especially as their writing improves and the length of their messages increases).

Assessment:

• Use a rubric to assess their paragraphs