Thursday, June 11, 2009

Grade 6: SUMMER PROJECT

MULTI-CLASS PROJECT: objective: students will work together to create a student newspaper. 1 lesson=2 weeks. each week teacher will present a different topic and associated vocabulary, then students will work independently in groups of 2-3 to create documents for the paper.
before end of class, introduce the next topic, and have them bring materials/ideas that they think will be good for the paper.

choose: 2 editors who will choose how the newspaper will ultimately look
and writers

sections:
weather
fashion
advice column
opinion
horroscope
Events & Announcements
World News
Letters From the Editors
Classifieds

Crosswords
puzzles
brain teasers

recipes for summer