Language Arts 2017-18
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REQUIREMENTS
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OPTIONAL
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Images
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Different Images – photos, drawings,
cut outs, art, etc
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Videos (news clips, sections from
movies, commercials)
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Create your own video to embed into
your story
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Narrative – written words to tell the story
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Oral narration
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5 to 10 minutes in length
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Music
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Must outline and/or storyboard your
story
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Resources
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Slidestory
Slidestory allows you to combine picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow has an accompanying voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text caption. Isn’t this a very exciting way to make presentations and share them?
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Smilebox
Smilebox lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, scrapbooks, and photo albums right on your computer. To get started, download and install the Smilebox application. Then simply select the photos you want to use, choose a template, add comments and music, and voila, you’ve made a Smilebox! With more than 1000 customizable templates to choose from, you’ll find inspiration around every corner. |
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Storybird
Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. They curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories. Note that while making, sharing, and reading stories on Storybird is free, printing them or downloading them have various fees that are clearly explained with each option.
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ZooBurst
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D popup books. ZooBurst books “live” online and can be experienced on your desktop or laptop computer, or on your iPad via the free ZooBurst mobile app. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials. The basic, free, account allows you to create 10 books of 10 pages each.
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Adobe Slate
Named App Store Editors’ Choice, Adobe Slate lets you turn your next newsletter, report, invitation, or travel adventure into a gorgeous visual story that delights readers on any device. Simply tap to select a unique look; beautiful fonts, color, and magazine-style design are automatically incorporated. Fluid movement and elegant motion are applied instantly. Create your Slate story and share the link anywhere.
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Puppet Pals
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time! Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. This app is as fun as your own creativity!
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ShowMe Interactive
Whiteboard
Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard: ShowMe allows you to record voice over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app that anyone can use; no matter how young or old.
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Toontastic
Toontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app and kids can't stop creating!
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WeVideo
Make and share videos using WeVideo's online video editing software, available on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, and Chromebook. In this cloud-based collaborative video creation platform, you can save your work to your hard drive, upload to the cloud, and pick up where you left off on another computer. Note that free accounts are limited to 5 minutes of published video time and 2GB of cloud storage.
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30hands Starter
A very easy and exciting way to tell a story, explain a concept, or flip a classroom. Create a multimedia presentation in minutes and publish it as a video to share. This tool was designed to be simple and fast, so it takes backseat to learning and expression. In a single class period, students can complete a video activity. Mapping these activities to a longer project helps students make PBL projects authentic and fun. Whether you are in Kindergarten or College, 30hands Storyteller helps you learn better by following UDL principles and getting you to think and create iteratively.
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CRITERIA
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CONCERNS
Areas
That Need Attention
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Meets Standard
Standards
for Mastery Level for this Performance
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ADVANCED
Evidence
of Insightful/exceptional/going Beyond what is Expected Performance
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Engaging and
Orienting the Reader
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Consistently
engages the reader by
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writing an amazing, attention grabbing hook,
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creating characters that the reader is emotionally connected,
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describing a setting that is vivid with details.
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Creating a Narrative
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Consistently
moves the story forward by
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using all the elements of the dramatic arc as an organizing
pattern,
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writing essential dialogue,
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clearly establishing dynamic (those who grow/change) and
static (perhaps important, but do not change) characters through the
events in the story,
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using detailed language to describe characters and setting – and/or to
evoke the senses in the reader (painting them a picture with words).
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Use of the Language/Vocabulary
of Apartheid
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Clearly
creates a world controlled by Apartheid
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Apartheid topic is clear
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Explicitly uses the vocabulary of Apartheid.
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Writing a
Satisfying Resolution that also Reveals a THEME
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Clearly
concludes the story by
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wrapping up all the conflicts,
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taking the dynamic character on a
journey that changes him/her,
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leaving the reader with the ability to
answer the question, “WHAT UNIVERSAL
MESSAGE WILL THE READER WALK AWAY WITH AFTER READING THE STORY?”.
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