Live broadcast class

I met with Cynthia Whitehair from Cowan this morning.  Her class is very excited about coming to Burris to be the class for Andrew Clements.  They are going to read 4 titles (Frindle, Janitor’s Boy, Report Card, and head of the Class) before the day of the taping.  They are planning to do them as “book clubs.”  I am going to go out to her class in February to model a book talk.  After that, they are going to do some writing of book talks for the books they have read.  It is uncertain at this time whether or not any will be video-taped.  There is a student teacher at Cowan who could conceivably pilot any lessons that we come up with for any of the books.Laurie has shared the press release for this program.  When the brochure arrives advertising the event, I will send it out to our PDS network.  We now have a release form for any video-taping that includes kids.  We can modify the form to match the days of the taping.  Peggy 

Notes from 1-4-08 meeting

Hello everyone! I just took a few minutes to jot down what we talked about last week.

 

Next Team Clements meetings is February 4 at 4 pm in Laurie’s office.

 

EAV Dates for Andrew Clements- March 17, 18, and 19; Jon Scieszka April  28, 29, 30 

 

To do: 

1. Create a list of interview questions- Who needs to do this, what is the target date for this list?

2. Questions for Clements: Who needs to do this, what is the target date for this list?

A. What media will you want to bring: PowerPont, Video?

B.  Will you want to read any passages from your books? Can you tell us page and paragraph # so the production team can make graphics of these? 

C. Will you want to interact with student audience during the broadcast?  What props will be needed for this?

3. Identify Elementary students for Book Talks. Set up video taping for these. 

4. Ask about video conferences for Stacy and Rodgers 10-10:45 on March 19

5.  Get image release forms for  elementary students: Mitchell, Cowan, Washington-Carver

6. Write lesson plans- see notes below 

Email addresses: Chris Rodgers: cwrodgers@bsu.edu  Jennifer Stacy wicked1230@comcast.net Production Team: They want the author to be comfortable, and to be able to concentrate on the actual presentation.   Power point, Video available. Cameras are all around the room. Author has some mobility, can walk around between long rows of students. Need to know if Clements is bringing a PowerPoint. If so, who will advance the slides? They will create a video opening to be used for all EAVs.They will create graphics for the EAV- book covers, etc.Interview with the author will be filmed in Burris Library on March 17.March 18 EAV will be filmed in Burris Studio. March 19 Video Conferences will be filmed at Burris Studio.  Lesson plan notes:Use format on handout. Use bullet points to make it user friendly. Be sure to identify National Standards. (NCTE) List themes and number of minutes for the lesson. Make sure to include a sample of all manipulatives. All manipulatives should have student directions written directly on them. Rough Drafts for lesson plans are due on the blog by January 31. Final drafts are due Feb 28. Kelly is developing lesson plans based on No Talking. She is looking at affective and academic ideas. William is developing lessons based on School Story.  Students from Rodger’s and Stacy’s rooms will be participating in Book Talks about the books. Chris Rodgers is creating lessons based on The Landry News. Target dates for videotaping are April 1-4Jennifer Stacy is creating lessons based on Report Card. Target video taping dates are Feb 18-29. * Be sure to videotape session on how students feel about getting grades.Some web sites to explore in reference to each book  are:  http://www.emints.org/ethemes and education-world.com    

Lessons for many books

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/clements.html

This site has information for many of the books, discussion questions and activities.

Summaries and awards

This list includes all of the awards that he has received by book. There is a brief summary for each book, plus all the nuts and bolts about the publishing.

http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/f_clements.html

Book discussion guide Landry News

The Multonomah Library has a selection of book discussion guides. This one is for Landry News and could be used in forming a lesson plan.
http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-landry.html

The School Story

My research has found very little pertaining to lesson plans on The School Story. The best, and basically only, plan I found is through the following scholastic website. It introduces the editing and publishing process to students in grades 3-5. It is quite vague, which is probably good for our purpose. At this point in time, this lesson plan has probably been located because it appears to be the only one out there for this particular story. The only other ideas I found were simply to the extent…”write your own school story”, which could be ineffective.

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=936_type=Book_typeId=2962

Lunch Money Resources

LUNCH MONEY
LESSON PLAN 1:

Lesson Plan 2

Lesson Plan 3

WORKSHEET:

INFORMATIONAL:

LUNCH MONEY
LESSON PLAN 4:
Objectives
Language Arts
Socail Studies
Money Making

LUNCH MONEY
LESSON PLAN 5:
Objectives
Apply the fundamental questions for production and distribution of goods and services: What, How, and For Whom to Produce?
2. Apply the decision making process to an entrepreneurial experience.
3. Recognize the incentive for starting a business is profit.
4. Evaluate the costs and benefits of starting a new business.
5. Analyze the rights and responsibilities of operating in a market economy.

From Lynette – a potpourri!

This site gave a synopsis of the book, a list of Clement’s books that are linked to a review and  a very short bio on him. Main page:  http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/index.asp  Page about Report Card: http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/0689845154.asp

Review by Common Sense: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Report-Card.html

Awesome website that contains lots of information about Clements and his books:
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001810.shtml
included in this site: Interview with Clements about Report Card from Time for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kidscoops/story/0,14989,636701,00.html

Scholastic web site Type in Andre Clements Lesson Plans http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/search.jsp?query=Andrew+Clements&c17=1&x=26&y=5
4 items appear including an author study

More Scholastic: This web site lets you search for Reading Counts quizzes by authors’ name.    Over 30 were listed under Clements: http://src.scholastic.com/ecatalog/detail_collection.asp?UID=5452128688394DABAF6A203C3874BA8C&subt=0&volume_id=39421

Reviews by children on scholastic site: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/swyar/browseTitle.asp?booktype=Funny&booktitle=The+Report+Card
Simon and Schuster:
Video of an interview about The Report Card http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?sid=183&pid=353745&agid=7
Discussion guide from Simon and Schuster: http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=810&pid=414285&agid=21
Lesson plans about several of Clement’s books: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/clements.html

Synopsis and discussion guide for The Report Card: http://www.emporia.edu/libsv/wawbookaward/masterlists/thereportcard.htm

Landry News

Specifically deals with starting a class newspaper. http://trumpetclub.com/intermediate/activities/landry.htm

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