MS2+Questions


 * How can we integrate technology and have access to technology...where do we get the resources even if it isn't computers?


 * How can we design a project that can go right into the classrooms?

How can we involve the outside communities: authors, tv media...etc. And, How will teachers get access to that?
 * How can we integrate this project with all the testing?
 * How can we develop something that can go directly into the classroom then developed into a longer project?
 * How can we integrate Sir Ken Robinsons creativity lessons?
 * How can we integrate digital technology when we might not have access to the technology?
 * Will the students be able to apply what they learn here to the ACT?

KS Curriculum R.8.2.1.3 ENI # KCK10R080128a: KCK10R080128a Determine and explain the importance of the major and minor elements of the plot, including problem or conflict, climax, resolution, rising action, falling action, subplots, and parallelepisodes, in grade-level-appropriate passages (R8.2.1.3, ACT) Rationale: Essential eighth-grade indicator.

Also, has an ACT


 * What is the power of a story...what power do stories have in our lives?
 * How can we integrate the seminars big idea: College Readiness in the 21st Century with our chosen big idea?


 * investigate the power of stories throughout history and through different cultures.
 * we can use comic strips/graphic novels...or interactive story writing from the new holt series we just adopted.