Digital Parts of Speech

These students are at the intermediate level of ELD in high school, and have been in this country between 4 months and their whole lives. If they have been here longer, that means they have not been successful at learning to read and write in English, although they are verbally fluent.

The beauty of this project is that it incorporates the right brained, literary-challenged students as well as the newly arrived, vocabulary and grammar challenged students (but who arefluent in their own languages ) through computer integrated skills. Students who have not been successful with learning left-brained activities like reading and writing English well may have learning disabilities or brain orientations that allow them to excel with this creative blend of computer graphics, animation, and music with the structure of the English language that they have up to now been lacking.

We will down-load/import clips, music, etc. from the internet and then create skits to personify the various parts of speech--nouns, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections.

We will work in groups of three or four. We will need a laptop for each person and a video camera for each group.

This project will promote literacy in the hard to reach, at risk students who are in danger of dropping out. Writing storyboards and scripts prior to building the project and gathering information are essential components to this project, and these skills will carry over to all their other classes.

We presently have none of the equipment I'm requesting, so any part of it will be so great!

Thanks.