WQNicole

=G.R.A.S.P.S= //( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion.)// Presentation: Speaks Clearly 10%, Content 40%, Enthusiasm 15%, Time-Limit 15%, Preparedness 15%, Listens to Other Presentations 5% || =Understanding(s)= //(Copy and paste the big understanding(s) you have listed in your unit for Dr. Grace. What are the academic goals for the unit (which will also be the purpose of the WebQuest).)//
 * Goal || Your goal is to transform your personal narrative from mere paper into a digital story, still showing all of the major components of a good narrative. ||
 * Role || You are an up-and-coming autobiographer trying to make it big in New York City. ||
 * Audience || The audience is a board of editors at Chicken Soup for the Soul headquarters, one of whom is an international correspondent with limited proficiency in the English language. ||
 * Setting || You are submitting your personal narrative to Chicken Soup for the Soul in a video entry for review. You are to transform your narrative's major parts (beginning, middle, and end) into a movie, using images to represent the sensory details that appear throughout the narrative. ||
 * Presentation || You will create a short video in iMovie that visually represents the major components of your personal narrative as you tell its story. ||
 * Standards || Product: Storyboard 5%, Images 25%, Voice 15%, Duration of Movie 15%, Content 25%, Details/Editing 20%

•Students will understand that narratives "show" - not "tell." •Students will understand that there has to be a "point" (or reason) to what you are writing. || •Common Core State Standards English/Language Arts Writing Text Types and Purposes Standard Number Three ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •Students will understand that all narratives have a beginning, middle, and an end.

=Introduction= //(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)//

"You're never really done for so long as you have a good story and someone to tell it to." - //The Legend of 1900// Chicken Soup for the Soul is publishing a new book! They are currently scouting for submissions, and one of your life stories just may be the perfect fit. You have someone to tell it to, so the only question now is...

// What's your story? // =Task= //(Tell the story of the Role, Audience, Setting, and Presentation. Be a story teller. Save any classroom-specific information for the Process. Build the scenario and stay in character. You can reference the Introduction but try not to duplicate the information that's in the Introduction.)//

You are an up-and-coming autobiographer, looking to make it big in New York CIty. You hear that there is a new Chicken Soup for the Soul book coming out, and decide to submit one of your stories for entry into the book. When you inquire about the details, however, you discover that there is a requested format for the entry. The Editor's Board at Chicken Soup for the Soul is a //very// busy group of people. They don't have time to flip through the pages and pages of every single story being submitted during their free time. What they have decided to do is meet in the afternoons and review the stories together, taking a vote to decide which ones will make it into the final round. Since one of the board members is an international correspondent with a limited proficiency in English, the board has requested that each personal narrative be submitted in the form of a digital story - using iMovie to illustrate it with pictures and/or video so the board member who is an English language learner can follow along and have an equal vote. Your task is to create an iMovie representation that captures the major components of your personal narrative to submit to the board for review. If you submit your movie on time, you could be in the next Chicken Soup for the Soul!

=Conclusion= //(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)//

Stories make up who we are. If told effectively, a story can communicate something to another person or even a whole group of people that can do anything from affecting great change to sharing a part of yourself. By creating a digital story out of a personal narrative, you will have learned the general sequencing of a narrative, how to communicate sensory language to someone using more than just words, and how to convey meaning in a technological fashion. All of these things are essential to storytelling in the 21st century. With technology growing so rapidly, good old fashioned stories seem to be getting lost. With the skills learned in this digital story project, you can now go out into the world and make sure our stories - our accounts of who we are - are not lost in time.