Multimedia Project Design

Project Title:

The Grocery Store Approach to Writing

Grade Level:7

Subject/Topic Area(s)

The Writing Process Language Arts and Across the Curriculum

Designed By:

Margaret Parsons

Date: August 1, 2000

School District:

Dorchester County

School: Mace’s Lane Middle School
   
   

Goal: By 2002, Mace’s Lane Middle School will score 75% satisfactory on MSPAP writing in grade 8. By June of 2005, 95% of Mace’s Lane students in grades 6,7, and 8 will read at or above grade level.

Content Standards:

  1. Students produce informational, practical, and narrative writing that demonstrates and awareness of audience, purpose and form using stages of the writing process as needed.
  2. Students understand and use the structures and conventions of the English language in their oral and written communication.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Summary: This multimedia presentation will introduce the steps in the writing process and provide examples and reasons for using each of the steps. The Writing Process will be compared to a trip to the grocery store and the steps used for a successful grocery shopping trip. This will be a preliminary activity in a year long focus on improving writing skills. It will serve as a base which other academic teachers will use in their classrooms as we attempt to unify our cross curriculum writing efforts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Objectives/Desired Results (What will the learners understand as a result of this project?)

Students will understand that good writing requires thoughtful planning, and revision as well as drafting. Student writing samples will show improvement in organization, (particularly through the use of transitional words and phrases) increased usage of extensions and elaboration, and will contain fewer errors in usage and mechanics.

Specifically following this multimedia presentation:

Students will be able to state valid reasons for using all the steps in the writing process.

Students will be able to list the steps of the writing process in logical order.

Students will be able to write a group story utilizing the writing process steps.

Students will demonstrate use of the steps on an independent writing activity.

 

 

 

Plans for Facilitation: There will be a whole class multimedia presentation, followed by a class discussion, the creation of a piece of writing by the entire class using "Inspiration" software as a starting point for prewriting. Then small groups will create a piece of writing demonstrating their use of the writing process. Finally, students will independently create poems, which will demonstrate their use of the writing process.

 

Instructional Resources: Computer and power point multimedia presentation file created with the use of a digital video camera .as well as online resources.

Inspiration Software

Writing task prompts for group activity and for independent writing activity. (Poem)

Copies of rubric for each student

Poster of writing process steps for classroom wall.

 

Type of Assessment Used (e.g. observations, work samples, electronic discussions, dialogues)

  1. Teacher observation of individual participation and voluntary responses to questions.
  2. Teacher observation of voluntary contributions to group story.
  3. Group presentation of writing sample using each of the steps in the process.
  4. Individual writing sample demonstrating use of the steps in the writing process.