Mrs. Thaler's Advanced Language Arts classes read three short stories by the author, Gary Soto. Students were to pair up or group up, choose one story, choose one scene, and create a product that either reenacts the story plot or adds on by creating post story events.
The groups had the choice of:
Scene reenactment (iMovie, video, live)
Comic Scene (paper or iPad App)
Podcast (using the SpreakerDJ app)
Talk Show
Lego Movie
The students then presented final products to their peers and fellow visiting Language Arts classes. Check out what our TRMS kids came up with.
Story: "The Challenge" & "7th Grade" By: Gary Soto
Scenario: Radio talk show interview with character role playing, post story, to catch up and see how the characters are doing after the major drama unfolded.
Story: The Challenge By: Gary Soto
Scene: Jose realizes he has a crush on the new girl who has a major appetite. He thinks about a way to impress her. He flashbacks to when he tried to impress a girl and failed and decided to not try that again with the new crush.
Story: The Challenge By: Gary Soto
Scene: Jose flashbacks to when he tried to impress a girl and failed and decided to not try that again with the new crush.
Story: "7th Grade" By: Gary Soto
Scene: Victor is in French class with his crush, Teresa. He desperately wants to impress her so he pretends to know how to speak the language of love. It doesn't go very well as you can hear in this on air reenactment.
Story: Mother & Daughter By: Gary Soto
Scenario: The story "Mother & Daughter" is retold while being compared to classic favorite, Cinderella, through pictures and clever text.
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