What Should I Be Working on TODAY?

You are completing several steps of your MGP at once.  If you are working on a variety of pieces, you are right on track.  By this point, hopefully you have several things started and in the draft phase within your Google Docs:

1. Cover page (even if you don't know the page numbers at this point)
              -- create as a Word Doc, A Google Doc, a PPT slide, a Google presentation slide, etc...

I suggested to do a cover page including your table of contents on your cover page, but you can create a separate page if you wish.  See some samples below:

2. Bibliography (which you can still add to as needed) shared from Google Docs

Select "Save as Google Doc" and follow the instructions on the screen to save a draft of your bibliography.  Rename it once it is in Google Docs-- Draft, Final, etc....


3.  Draft of your "Dear Reader Letter"-- which I will annotate for you as I get to each one.

4.  One or both of your artifacts MAY be started at this point...


5. ACTION PLAN--

You are ready to start planning the remainder of your project.  Following our conference, you will determine the plan of action for your last steps.  We will meet and discuss your progress to this point, and you will create a simple 2-3 paragraph Action Plan (due on Monday, April 8th, 2013) for your project.  You will determine what you still need to do in order to meet the deadlines for the rest of your project. You will decide how much more research you still need to do to prove your assertion.  You will finalize the types of artifacts you will create.

6. THINGLINK--

I will show you sample Thinglink interactive images after we create your "truism" for your base picture. A Thinglink is like a virtual bulletin board, and you will "stick" video, pictures, etc. about your person's life on the picture you create.  You will click on each of the things you stick on the image, and you will discuss each link and its significance.  It will be the tool you use to present the information you learned during your research-- instead of a powerpoint or a Prezi.  You will speak for about 5 minutes (give or take) about your person & your assertion about him or her.

Truisms: 

MORE truisms

 A truism is something that you believe (after your research) to be true about the person you have researched-- it may be something he or she believes/believed in or fights/fought for.  It may be something that shows his or her basic beliefs about LIFE.  Your truism will be created on a word document using word art and will accompany a picture of your person and a picture that represents the truism.  You will take a screen shot of the creation and upload it to Thinglink.  I have posted some samples below.

NEXT WEEK-- we will be working on the narrative portion of your project-- this is the "big part" of your final project and requires you to have ALL of your research done.  You will blend fact and narrative writing to create your person's "STORY"... The artifacts just help to "tell the story"...