II.+Student+Activities

STUDENT ACTIVITIES __Monday__ As a class we will read the fairy tale " Jack and the Beanstalk " If you need to listen to the story again or if your were absent when we read the story you can click [|here] to listen to it.
 * You will be sent back to your seats and asked to make a list of characters, settings, and location.
 * Have at least 3-5 options for each category.
 * As a class we will decide the best choice to use in the class story.
 * Once the main elements of the story are decided, I will separate the class into groups of 4 - 5 students.



__Tuesday__ As a class we will review the characters, setting, and location that we decided on together on Monday.   __Wednesday__
 * One by one each student from your group will go back to your helper to type out their portion of the group fairy tale on the computers.
 * While you are waiting for your turn at the computer, you will be creating a storyboard to help you decide what to write about.
 * Each storyboard must have a list of characters and details about them, describing words for the setting, events that you would like to occur to the characters in the story.
 * When in it is your turn at the computer the helper will read out loud the story so far. You will then continue the story by using the ideas you have written out on your storyboard.
 * You can use the [|Spider Map] on the linked website to use as a guide.
 * Click on the link on the website that says spider map to open up the guide.
 * Once again, each child will go one by one to the helper on the computer, but this time you will be creating an illustration on a Paint document that will match with the part of your group's story that you wrote.
 * When you are not on the computers and waiting your turn you will be at your seat drawing out ideas for your illustration that match the story.
 * Make sure your illustration has at least one character, a setting that matches the story, and describes what is going on in your section of the story.

__Thursday__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">One last time, each member will go meet with their helper to record themselves reading the part of the story they wrote into a microphone.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">While you are at your seat waiting for your turn you will be brainstorming titles for your groups fairy tale.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Using adjectives and describing words you will come up with five different options for story titles.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You can use the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Adjective List] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> to help think of a title that describes your story.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Keep the title under five words.



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">__Friday__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now that all the elements of the story are complete, it's time to pieces together and finish your groups story.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">With your helper and your group, you will put together the story using Microsoft PowerPoint.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As a group you will decide a design for the story layout and how you want the story to appear.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You will also decide as a group an appropriate title for your story with the ideas everyone wrote down the day before.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The helper will read aloud the story one last time, this is where you have the opportunity to change something in your part of the story before it is turned in.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The final PowerPoint will have a title page, each student will have at least two slides designated to their part of the story and illustrations, and also linked to your slides will be the audio recording of you reading aloud the story.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 168%;">We will present all the stories on Monday and have a group discussion about them.