Mrs.+Thorne

**Project Overview** Students use their schema on the Great Depression to create inferential stories on a character from a photo taken during this era.
 * Inferential Stories**


 * 1) As a whole class, students build schema on the Great Depression Era through online videos, written text, oral stories, and other research.
 * 2) Using this schema, students will make inferences about the subjects in photos taken during the Great Depression by Dorothea Lang.
 * 3) These ideas will be used to write an inferential story about the subjects in the photos, their lives, history, etc.
 * 4) A class voicethread is embedded at [|www.protopage.com/thornecandice] where students will record their stories with the appropriate picture.

**SLE's**
 * 1)  R.9.4.1 Organize prior knowledge and new information to make meaning of the text.
 * 2)  R.9.4.2 Make connections that demonstrate a deeper understandinf of text related to self, etxt, and/or world.
 * 3)  R.9.4.9 Use inferences to expand understanding of content knowledge.
 * 4)  R. 11.4.8 Add content words to sight vocabulary.
 * 5)  W.4.4.15 Use available technology for publishing.
 * 6)  W.5.4.1 Write for a general audience.
 * 7)  W.7.4.4. Describe characters and setting.


 * Student Created Projects **

media type="custom" key="6411337" Overall, I was very happy with the outcome of this project. Students created stories that approprately reflected the content of the photos as well as their ability to write across the contents. It was amazing to see how they took one photo and turned an unknown character in that picture into someone we all felt we knew and understood. Each story put me in that photo and in the position of the individual.
 * Reflection **

What I might change about this project next year would be to have students use [|www.compfight.com] to find their own photos, where as this year I chose their photos for them. This would allow them freedom of choice so that they connected with the photo even more. They could then upload their chosen photo into the class voicethread at a central computer station. This might require a day of searching and uploading for classtime, but I do feel it would be worthwhile.