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Teacher: Sherae Mcrae Grade: TBD School: Longwood University
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Essential Learning Target(s):
· Students will: · Understand how to write blogs · Express their opinion in a blog entry · Assess other students’ blog entries
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| Subject: Writing
Topic: Blog |
Essential Question(s):
•What is a blog? •What information should be included? • What it is it used for?
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| Virginia State Standard(s):
Writing: 5.7 The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, to explain, and to persuade
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| Lesson Procedures:
· Ask students if they have heard of a blog. · Explain what a blog is. · Discuss rules for blogging. Add any more rules to the Blogging Rules list that your class determines. · Show examples of educational blogs, such as those on Scholastic News Online. · Choose a blog to join in the discussion. · Allow time for the students to type their blog entries. · If time allows, have the students respond to another student’s blog entry. |
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| Materials:
· Blogging Rules · Scholastic News Online Blogs
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Assessments:
How well did the students understand the blog-writing process? How interested were the students in the discussion topics? What technical problems arose?. |
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