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Essential Question How do we improve student writing performance on the ACT while still continuing to improve their own writing?

Challenge Design a curricular resource guide that addresses the KCK/ACT 216 convention standard to better help and improve student writing and performance on the ACT or Create a podcast over an essential grammar skill for the ACT.

Guiding Questions


 * 1) Is this one class or mulitple classes completing this project?
 * 2) How do we get all kids included. (ELL, SPED, Gen Ed)
 * 3) How global do we get...outside students in other schools?
 * 4) How do we get all teachers involved in the teaching of writing?
 * 5) What if these curricular guides addressed all content areas?
 * 6) Are these guides for teachers, students, parents, friends)
 * 7) Would a writing lab be a way to go?
 * 8) How big would this be. (limit to just standard 216 and what parts of 216?)
 * 9) How are we going to guide the students in to doing this?
 * 10) What format is this going to be in...podcasts, digital work, movies?
 * 11) Who leads the project?
 * 12) How much input does the teacher have in guiding the challenge?
 * 13) How much time do we dedicate this?
 * 14) Is the idea to have this be more student lead?
 * 15) What does the scaffolding look like with the writing?
 * 16) Do we gather and limit the resources students can use?
 * 17) How do we motivate students to really want to do this?
 * 18) How do we motivate teachers to really utilize this?
 * 19) Is this a project that lasts for one unit or does it go through the entire year?
 * 20) How much time do we devote to this in each lesson?
 * 21) How much work is done outside of class?
 * 22) How do we group students and what roles would they have in each of these groups?
 * 23) How would we grade and assess these?
 * 24) Would there be an answer key for students...would it include practice tests?
 * 25) What resources would this curricular guide offer?
 * 26) Would kids research the best ways to learn grammar?
 * 27) Would this address the multiple ways that writing could be used? (resumes, essays, cover letters)
 * 28) How do we stay away from drill and kill with grammar practices?
 * 29) What community resources can we tap into?
 * 30) How do we mesh this with the ENI pacing?
 * 31) How do we motivate students to really want to do this?
 * 32) How do we motivate teachers to really utilize this?

Rendered down questions:
 * 1) How do we get all kids included. (ELL, SPED, Gen Ed)
 * 2) Are these guides for teachers, students, parents, friends (THE ENGLISH STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE)__Teachers__: This could be a guide for them to use examples of grammatical rules. Teachers could use it as a resource to teach certain grammar rules that would include muliple examples of media.__Students__: This could be a guide for them to use when they are not with the teacher to help improve their writing and also to know the various ways to structure their own writing.__Parents:__ This could be a guide to help parents with their grammar usage when they are helping their students with their writing. It could be used as a tool to help parents refresh their memory on the rules of writing.
 * 3) How are we going to guide the students in to doing this, how much teacher input is needed?
 * 4) What format is this going to be in...podcasts, digital work, movies?
 * 5) How much time do we dedicate this?
 * 6) How do we group students and what roles would they have in each of these groups?
 * 7) How would we grade and assess these?
 * 8) What community resources can we tap into?
 * 9) How do we motivate students to really want to do this?
 * 10) How do we motivate teachers to really utilize this?