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Student editors continue their magazine project with written news articles including catchy headlines, clever attention-grabbing beginnings, thought-provoking interviews, colorful pictures and captions, and more!  Enjoy the research-based, intriguing writing below!  (Click here to read about the entire magazine project.)

"I'm Editor-in-Chief" Magazine Project!

Last week each student in Room A-4 became an editor-in-chief of their very own magazine!  To practice functional reading, students will preview (real documents), plan, and publish their own letters from the editor, advertisements, news articles, technical directions, and several other types of pages seen in magazines today.  Students began by analyzing and taking notes on real advertisements seen in magazines, billboards, online, and more!  Then, students created their very own advertisements to become pages in their very own published magazine. The magazine project will become the students 4th quarter district benchmark test, which is an oral presentation, in which they must present their magazine within an Adobe portfolio to the class (including a show-and-tell or demonstration) trying to persuade their classmates to subscribe to their magazines!  Check out the entire project from last year here!  Check out some finished ads below--several students even added 21st century twists to their ads with their very own created QR codes too!  They even enjoyed following the codes using their Smart Phones to find out more about each other's products!

Even a commercial advertisement:

"Oscar Movie Day!" - Point of View Movies

Students enjoyed a fun-filled day in Room A-4 on Friday watching each other's Point of View movies while reenacting an "Academy Awards" ceremony in the classroom!  Students entered the class on a "red carpet" while "paparazzi" cameras flashed taking their photos!  Students enjoyed popcorn and awarded each other with "Oscars" for categories such as "Best Cinematography," "Best Animation," "Best Screenplay," "Best Picture," and more!  The Point of View movies based on real or invented stories) included hand-created sets/characters, their very own digital photography, text/voice narration, sound/music, and much creativity all using MovieMaker Live!  Despite a few spelling errors (Remember to proofread!), the movies turned out great!  Enjoy a few finished products and festivities below:

Movie directors (a.k.a. students) and "actors" were greeted 

as they walked the "red carpet" into class!

"Paparazzi" snapped photos of the "stars"!

(It just so happened to be "Decades Day" at D.A.T.A. today too!)

 Enjoying popcorn and the movies!

 Who will win for BEST FILM?

 Students handed out "Oscars" based on several categories!

SIT BACK, RELAX, and ENJOY THE MOVIES below!

"Some Summer Salad": 

"Once Upon a Sheep":

"Cinnamon Toast Crunch Commercial":

"Eeyore and the Lost Tail":

"For the Birds":

"Hunger Games":

"The Lollipop Adventure":

"The Great Battle for Yeldarb Forest":

"Eggville":

"Ted the Monkey's Quest for Bananas":

"The Mysterious Treasure":

"Candy Crusade":

"The Worst Thing to Happen at School":

"Odysseus and the Bronze Birds":

"Shrek and Donkey":

"The Ice Cream":

"Operation Chili":