Focus+Example_Paul+Harvey+Project

Origins

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**From Mt. Airy, NC to Mayberry, USA**
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From Henley Middle School and UVA to...
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...Walker-Grant Middle School (1995)
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Components

 * ====//Then: Middle Grades Students //==== || ====//Now: Pre-Service Teachers at NC State University //==== ||
 * * ====Generate topics of interest====
 * ====Read, listen, and analyze Paul Harvey's stories====
 * ====Listen and analyze previous students' stories====
 * ====Narrow focus and begin inquiry efforts====
 * ====Parallel inquiry into irony and mass media====
 * ====Write story (writing process)====
 * ====Rubric / self-evaluation and reflection component====
 * ====Perform story====
 * ====Peer evaluations and class voting====

// Outcomes //

 * ====One of most popular and successful projects, especially with resistant students====
 * ====Motivated interest in nonfiction reading====
 * ====Motivated interest in research and created bridge to more traditional research projects====
 * ====Better understanding of nonfiction writing, irony, and mass media====
 * ====Students developed understanding of writing in a particular format & larger audience====
 * ====Radio broadcast (live)====
 * ====Local cable television station filming and broadcast==== || * =====Generate topics of interest=====
 * =====Students begin orientation to historical inquiry and primary source analysis=====
 * =====Read, listen, and analyze Paul Harvey's stories=====
 * =====Listen and analyze previous students' stories and digital videos / stories=====
 * =====Narrow focus and begin inquiry efforts=====
 * =====Parallel inquiry into irony and mass media=====
 * =====Write historical inquiry paper (writing process)=====
 * =====Adapt historical inquiry for Harvey's rest of the story format (writing process)=====
 * =====Initially, create podcast. Now, storyboard and digital video / story, posted to CED Video Server=====
 * =====Middle Grades Inquiry Application Essay=====
 * =====Rubric / self-evaluation and reflection component=====

// Outcomes //

 * =====Exposed students to options for high-interest nonfiction reading=====
 * =====Students developed better understanding of historical inquiry and the doing of history=====
 * =====Students developed better understanding of primary sources -- strategies for locating=====

and analyzing them

 * =====Students developed better understanding of inquiry and strategies for integrating inquiry=====

and early years of teaching)

 * =====Motivated interest in research and created bridge to more traditional research projects=====
 * =====Better understanding of nonfiction writing, irony, and 21st century media & emerging technologies=====
 * =====Students less dependent on scaffolding Harvey's format provided=====
 * =====Students created podcasts initially, and then storyboards and digital videos / stories=====
 * =====Transition from podcast to digital video to digital storytelling===== ||

Examples from NC State Pre-Service Middle Grades ELA & SS Teachers

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 * Jessie's Inquiry Project Wiki Page

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//Topic:// Critical Analysis of The American Dream: Exposing Effects of Poverty || Sarah's Inquiry Project Wiki Page

[|CED Video site version]

//Topic:// The Cherokee Indians and The Indian Removal Act of 1830 ||