On-Going Class Dynamic:
- Treat the team element of the project in a professional & fair manner
- Allow student ‘editor’ and ‘contributor’ status to rotate week-to-week
- Work successfully as a team, playing to each individual’s strengths
- Contribute confidently and appropriately as an individual ‘contributor’
Academic Analysis & Research:
- Carefully read selected holocaust-themed lit circle novel on 3 levels: student, researcher, and literary critic
- Engage the text through written reactions through blog entries and comments on fellow classmates’ blog entries
- Showcase quality written analysis of the author's work and all related research
- Provide, when necessary and appropriate, related research and links to support knowledge by visitors to the web site
Technology Operation:
- Maintain & develop an academic web site/blog with Miss Tesmer’s help
- Develop an on-going (and carefully edited / maintained) digital portfolio of individual and collective discoveries of selected holocaust-themed lit circle novel
- Demonstrate a successful use of a variety of web 2.0 collaborative tools as story-telling, reporting, and illustrating findings
- Communication outside of school done in many ways, but established especially through the web 2.0 tool Edmodo
Final Public Display of Knowledge:
- Each group will formally present to their class about their discoveries and contributions
- Each group will produce, by the final due date, a digital portfolio of their analysis, research, and discoveries that can help other students/teacher in better understanding the selected holocaust-themed lit circle novel and related topics to tolerance/intolerance/man’s inhumanity to man. Product will be presented through additional media (ie: movie maker, power point, etc.)
- Each group will respond, when necessary, to visitors’ comments and/or questions via the web site
Behind-The-Scenes:
- Shift Miss Tesmer’s role to a behind-the-scenes collaborator and adviser for the duration of the project. This process is what we’ve been practicing through many sessions of the Socratic Seminar form of discussion in class
- Place students at the head of the classroom to mirror a real research and work scenario
- Create a classroom day-to-day environment with clear guidelines, expectations, clear due dates, and technical support
- Give students a creative outlet that honors authentic discoveries through opinions of a work of literature
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