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**Telling Your Story

** ** The project idea-real world connections, authenticity: ** ** Concerns, questions, desired feedback: ** ** Subject and grade level: ** ** Topic of your Unit: ** ** Curriculum Framing Questions: ** ** Concerns, questions, desired feedback **
 * Subject and Grade Level: **
 * // Language Arts and Technology-Grade //**** 8 **
 * // Connect to the past, what effect the past has on the future //**
 * // I am still working on narrowing down the standards and creating the student material for the project. I would like to have feedback on my use of the tools. //**
 * Summary of ideas for overall project: **
 * // Students will come to understand that that technology is a tool that can be used to enhance projects. They will learn how to use different types of technology and what the various software packages are good for //**** . **
 * // Language Arts and Technology-7th-8th grade //**
 * // My Story //**
 * Essential Question: **
 * // Where did I come from? //**
 * Unit Questions: **
 * // How does the way an author writes (style) make a story more interesting? //**//
 * What are several different ways an author can communicate their story to an audience? **
 * Why is it important to use multiple communication tools to tell your story? **
 * What tools can you use to help tell your story? **
 * How do authors plan stories? **
 * What makes a story compelling? ** //
 * Content Questions: **
 * // What are the elements of a story? //**//
 * What are the six traits of writing? **
 * What traits of writing does the author use? **
 * What software can be used to assist in telling your story? **
 * What is the best software to use in different situations? Why? **
 * The project idea-real world connections, authenticity: ** //

** Visual Ranking ** ** List concerns you have using Visual Ranking in your unit. **
 * // Software. List the software available for your use in telling your store. Rank the software according to its usefulness in telling your story from most useful to least useful. Justify your choice in the comment box. //**//
 * Communicating: List the many ways of communicating your story, then rank according to their usefulness to you from most useful to least useful. Justify your ranking in the comment box. **
 * Story Telling Plan: List the steps an author uses in telling a story from beginning to end. ** //

** Seeing Reason ** **// The decisions we make can have positive, negative, or no affect on others around us. The students will explore ways their lives might be different had their parents/grandparents made different choices about where to live, work, school etc. The students will begin to see that the choices they make will have a lasting effect on their children/grandchildren. Hopefully they will also begin to see that all people are basically alike. //**


 * List concerns you have using Seeing Reason in your unit. **

** Showing Evidence ** ** List your idea for using Showing Evidence in your unit. ** ** List concerns you have using Showing Evidence in your unit. **