Christina

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[|Rubric - Christina Pierzga]

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[]This is my animoto sample I made for the students. We did it together so I could show them the features the site offers. I don't know how to get the actual movie on here ???

media type="custom" key="5779929" media type="custom" key="5780019" Applying sunscreen is an important step in protecting your body and should be done before you go outside. It is often something people overlook. I can provide you with three good reasons why people should start remembering their sunscreen.

My first reason is that wearing sunscreen lessens your chances to get a sunburn. When you get a sunburn it hurts and can cause painful blisters, itchy peeling and sun poisoning. More importantly, too many sunburns will increase your chances of developing skin cancer.

Secondly, applying sunscreen regularly can reduce your chances of developing Melanoma, a serious, potentially fatal skin disease. Melanoma is the sixth most common cancer in the U.S. If caught in the earliest stages, melanoma is entirely treatable with a survival rate of nearly 100%. If untreated and allowed to spread, there is no known treatment or cure.

Last but not least, putting on your sunscreen keeps your skin looking youthful and wrinkle-free. Excessive and/or multiple sunburns causes premature aging of the skin that will make you look older than you really are. My Nana Ryerson never wore sunscreen as a child or an adult and she lived in the very sunny, and hot state of Arizona. Everyone always told her she looked about 10 years older than she was because of her “weatherbeaten” face. Her skin looked tough and worn like leather. So the next time you plan on being outdoors for a while, don’t forget to rub on some sunblock before you leave the house. I have provided you with plenty of facts and examples to support this idea.

**__The Plan__**
It had already been decided last year, what type of writing fourth grade would be working on during what month. The month of March happens to be persuasive essays. So it's already in the works that I'll be spending the entire month teaching and modeling for my students how to write a persuasive essay. The project has already gone through the following steps:
 * Identified the purpose of persuasive essays
 * Generated a list of 15-20 possible topics for persuasive essays
 * Written goal statements for 10 of those 15-20
 * Write introductory paragraphs for 5 of those 10 goal statements
 * Determine 2-3 reasons for each of those 5 introductory paragraphs

All of my students are somewhere in there.....with the Writer's Workshop model of teaching writing the students kind of work at their own pace and just pick up where they left off the previous day. This week (March 8-March 12) we will be working on the following steps:


 * Locating facts/examples to support the reasons for each topic
 * Choosing one of the five topics students have been working on
 * Drafting persuasive essay

Next week (March 15-March 19) we will work on revising and editing the students' persuasive essays Last week in March will be for proofreading and publishing our persuasive essays

My plan for the Application Project is to spend the entire month of April having the students take the idea they portrayed in their persuasive essays and create a digital story (like a 60 sec public service announcement). They would be able to use what they wrote as the narrative (or at least parts). I've already had them work with showbeyond.com and voicethread a little bit so they could choose one of those formats, but I also would like to show them Glogster and ToonDoo because I think those would both be great forums for this kind of project too. I know that our librarian and tech person would be more than willing to spend our library period working on these projects. In a perfect world this is how I see it panning out

April 12-16: Students will choose which program they want to use to create their public service announcement and will gather images/video/sound April 19-23 April 26-30