Commercials and Blogs in 6th grade

Sixth graders in Mrs. Jagger's language arts classes are creating commercials for their books that they have read. Each student has chosen a book to read to their liking. The assigned project was to create a commercial to sell their book to audiences of their same age. Students had to give the important information of the book: title, main characters, setting, plot without giving away the story line. Students were required to create a commercial using the required information as well as read an excerpt from their book. The students recorded themselves reading an excerpt using iMovie, Quicktime or PhotoBooth. Creating a video then adding the video to their Google Presentation.

Mrs. Jagger's sixth grade Social Studies class are using Blogger to create blogs for their social studies topics. Each student has chosen an event in time to start a blog about. The students tell the story of the event in detail. Then ask thought-provoking questions. Other students on the class have to respond to each students blog. Mrs. Jagger monitors each blog and post. The students also are learning proper social media etiquette while blogging.