Monday, February 15, 2010

Competition Proposal

My teammates, Rachel and Becky, did a great job introducing our idea on their blogs. The description of the literacy challenge posted on the competition website says:
You are a 5th grade teacher preparing students to take a state-administered writing test. Your students will be required to plan and write a persuasive essay in response to a prompt provided to them. They will be required to compose their essay on the computer. Prepare a teaching sequence to help your students, focused on the genre of persuasive writing and the use of accurate mechanics.
We have decided to scale the assignment up just a little bit to seventh grade. We have considered using two technologies--Diigo and MindMeister--to help students interactively examine models of persuasive writing and practice drafting their own essays.

1 comment:

  1. OK sounds good--I'll go check their blogs to see where you guys are at. I'll post the feedback on the blog that has the lesson plan/artifact, so check there to hear what I have to say to your group!

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