Showing posts with label independent projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label independent projects. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2013
The Closet by Arabella
Please enjoy Arabella reading aloud her picture book The Closet, an independent project of hers during writing this year. Arabella is both the author and illustrator of The Closet.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Independent Projects by Bridget
Independent projects are all about, well, you can do anything. You can do comics, interviews, plays, and stories. We do them during writing and it's super fun. You get to talk and talk about what you are doing.
I am doing an interview and it is fun. I walk around and ask people questions.
First, you get a proposal and fill it out. These are some of the things we do on a proposal. First, you write what genre and topic you will do then you write how you will use your writer's notebook. After that you write what your mentor text will be then you write when you will be done. And that's how to do an independent project.
I am doing an interview and it is fun. I walk around and ask people questions.
First, you get a proposal and fill it out. These are some of the things we do on a proposal. First, you write what genre and topic you will do then you write how you will use your writer's notebook. After that you write what your mentor text will be then you write when you will be done. And that's how to do an independent project.
Note from the teachers: the video above was created by Bridget to showcase some of the independent project work going on in our room.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Independent Projects - Launched!
On Monday, Room 101 was abuzz with excitement over independent writing projects.
Students brainstormed possibilities for a chart of what writing can become and filled out proposals for their projects. Proposals required writers to name the topic and genre of their piece, plan their notebook work (pre-drafting work), choose mentor texts (published texts in the same genre as their project), and choose a tentative due date. Students spent writing workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday beginning to work on their independent projects.
The work of independent projects is so valuable because students are able to explore an often new genre they are interested in and take themselves independently through the writing process. Some of the independent projects our writers are undertaking include: comics, plays, sports programs, picture books, fantasy stories, and interviews.
As we enter into this new world of balancing two writing pieces (independent projects and our class genre piece, currently realistic fiction), we will be learning that it's important that we do not rush through our realistic fiction work to get to our independent projects. Instead, we will use independent projects to help fill our writing time with writerly activities. One way students will show that they are balancing their writing work is through their plan box, which shows their own, individual, plan for writing workshop each day. Students may choose to work on independent projects as one of the three activities in their plan box.
In Room 101, the feeling is, indeed, that there is so much writing to be done.
Students brainstormed possibilities for a chart of what writing can become and filled out proposals for their projects. Proposals required writers to name the topic and genre of their piece, plan their notebook work (pre-drafting work), choose mentor texts (published texts in the same genre as their project), and choose a tentative due date. Students spent writing workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday beginning to work on their independent projects.
The photo above shows the brainstorming the writers in Room 101 did about possible independent projects. (Click to see a larger, easier to read image:)
The work of independent projects is so valuable because students are able to explore an often new genre they are interested in and take themselves independently through the writing process. Some of the independent projects our writers are undertaking include: comics, plays, sports programs, picture books, fantasy stories, and interviews.
As we enter into this new world of balancing two writing pieces (independent projects and our class genre piece, currently realistic fiction), we will be learning that it's important that we do not rush through our realistic fiction work to get to our independent projects. Instead, we will use independent projects to help fill our writing time with writerly activities. One way students will show that they are balancing their writing work is through their plan box, which shows their own, individual, plan for writing workshop each day. Students may choose to work on independent projects as one of the three activities in their plan box.
In Room 101, the feeling is, indeed, that there is so much writing to be done.
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