COLLEGE PROJECT UPDATE

I’m so IMPRESSED WITH HOW THE STUDENTS HAVE WORKED ON THEIR COLLEGE PROJECTS.  THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED AND SENT THEIR BUSINESS LETTERS:

              Morgan

              Lauryn

Micah

Madison

K’myiah

Kayla

Devin

Darnishia

Joshua

Now we need to wait for all the packages from the colleges to come in. That is always exciting to see what is sent!

We have started Phase 2 of the project this week.  We have looked at Feature Articles and the characteristics of the articles.  Some of these are: a title, captions, pictures, maps, graphs, paragraph chunks.

Students do not have the information yet to actually write the articles.  So far the only homework assignment was to bring in an article and find some of the characteristics.

The following 2 steps are needed to complete Phase 2 of the College Project:

Phase 2

Compare the information about the three colleges with assigned criteria on the Facts and Figures sheet.

Write a feature article comparing two colleges and picking the best one out of the 3 colleges that they sent letters to)

This will be written mostly in class, however information on how to access it on Google Docs will be forth coming.