Facebook, You Tube, Wii Created Lessons, Oh My!

Fridays, I like them to be days of weekly reflection and fun, sneaky learning. I thought we were going to do our assessment over Footloose (style, form, p. o. v.), and then watch a slide show of the students' summer. (The show was not completed.) Time for a change of plan. I noticed on that one of my friends had commented on facebook concerning NASA blowing up a peice of the moon. He left a link and I followed. It was an interesting read, and he had many comments over the topic. So, I decided to make it my fun bit of reading tomorrow. Nathan, my husband, just realized we have an Internet channel on the Wii with all the benefits that entails, and was catching me up on some entertaining You Tube videos. Among them was Moongirl, a short film by Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline. I decided my students would write a collision between the two pieces of information (one fiction, one nonfiction). Moonday tomorrow! I'll reflect on the lesson.

The Lesson:

Objective: SWBT (students will be able to) analyze form, style, and point of view from the movie Footloose, and combine a piece of nonfiction and fiction into a reflection.

Standard: R.10.10.20  Explain the influence of historical context on the form, style, and point of view of a written work

Plan:

1. Take an assessment over form, style, p. o. v.

2. Read NASA bombing moon.

3. Reflect for 2 minutes

4. Share out/ discussion

5. Watch Moongirl

6. On a moon graphic organizer combine the two stories as final reflection.