Fall+2015+Team+3

You will use the PBI process to develop your project.
====Be sure to design toward your rubrics for your 5 minute video and 8-10 page paper.====

**I. PBI Planning Draft of your INITIAL PBI plans. Collaboratively with your partner, complete the following questions by September 29. Write your answers here on the wikispace under each question below. If you don't some of the answers yet, share what you can at this point. **


 * What is your compelling question? **Do the use of graphic novels help struggling readers with engagement and comprehension? **
 * What initial ideas do you have for your PBI? **By using scaffolded groups the readers will be more engaged and have a vested interest in the lesson because they will read something of interest such as mythology. They additionally will be using e-books. Students will then be evaluated on their grasp of the theme through the use of ToonDoo.**
 * What is your target age group? **4th - 6th Grade**
 * Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use? **We will focus on theme and use small group reading instead of choral reading. The students will learn to use the highlighter function on an e-book. They will be evaluated on their comprehension and understanding of the theme which will be illustrated in a comic strip using ToonDoo. We will use the media center, computers, the novels, post-its and printers.**
 * What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address? **RL 4.2 -** Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.; **RL6.2** Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details;provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments**.**
 * What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI? **We have both introduced theme to our classrooms and we plan on implementing later in October.**
 * What materials and resources do you need to be successful? **Computers, ToonDoo, Kindles, Nooks, novels, sticky notes, and printers.**
 * What part of the PBI do you find or anticipate will be most difficult to plan? **We think the final part of making the video will be most difficult.**
 * How do you plan to prepare to overcome these anticipated difficulties?**We will overcome these complications** **with ample planning and good communication with each other.**
 * What other questions to you have about the PBI project? **None at this time.**

Hi! Toondoo is a great tool for grades 4-6. Kids have a lot of fun with this. Which graphic novel will your students read? What exactly will you do with ToonDoo? Will the students create their products with ToonDoo? Hiller 9/30/2015

Hi Hiller,

We were thinking of using a series of Greek mythology books such as George O'Connor's __Zeus: King of the God____s__. There are seven books in the series but some are not age appropriate so we will use our discretion.

The students will be evaluated using ToonDoo illustrating a theme that they understood from the novel. They could also develop their own god or goddess using this software and make their own myth/mini graphic novel. Coley 10/5/2015

This sounds like a great plan! Hiller 10/6/2015

===II. Design space for paper planning===

===III. Design space for video documentary development===