"The Book of Us" was a project made by a High Tech HIgh Chula Vista team called RUN DMC. This project was about how a group of students can come together and gather each others own personal stories and show them to the world by publishing a book called "The Book of Us". If you would like more information click on the link here
When we first started our project we had think of a topic to write about. We were given a worksheet that made us think about our topic in 6 different ways. Within these 6 themes you must have 3 different ideas about the 6 topics. We learned these 6 themes through a "Field Guide". In the picture below I will show you my topic and my 3 ideas for each of the 6 themes, I am sorry for my legibility, I am a sloppy writer:
As we were in the process of picking our topics, we would have little quick writes to get our juices flowing for our writing pieces. We wrote about the topics above into these free writes. We would have written 1 of 3 topics about the main topic. The picture below has 2 example of these quick writes.
Another way our teacher (Dr. P) preppred us for our writing was by finding mentor text for us to read. They ranged from Magicians to Teenage Drinking. The reason why he showed us these texts was to show us what each wriing style looked like. This then helped students and I figure out what type of writing piece we would like to write. Soon after reading these texts Dr.P gave us more mentor text but this time on our topic of chioce, which was the main idea for our writing piece. Once we read the article(s) we were given a graphic organizer to fill out and get a better understanding of the type of writing style we chose. If you would like to see my graphic organizer click here
For my writing piece I decide to write about FIFA 15 and how the game works along with its games modes and other things. I also included a comparison in my writing piece. The style of writing I chose was to Inform and Explain. As I wrote my piece we had to go through many critiques and if you would like to se my first draft or down draft see it here, after all my revisions I finally came down with a final draft and you can see it here
As we were preparing for our exhibition, our photographers took pictures of us and within the picture it contains our golden line from our text. You can view mine here.
Reflection
When we firs started to do this project I had originally wanted to talk about FIFA Ultimate Team and how it functions. As I was writing my piece I along with my teacher decided that it would be better to write about the game in general because what I had wanted to write would have been focused too much on the people that already played FIFA Ultimate team. Since I changed the way I was going to write the crtiiques on my paper were severe because the flow was not a smooth as water running down the stream, it was more like a wave crashing down on the shores of a beach. There were many ways I changed my draft from start to finish, their was major formatting changes, content changes, and most of all grammar issues. But as the weeks passed I was able to recover and fix all of these problems to make my wave like writing piece into a smooth stream of writing. If I could do one thing over and over again that I did in this project was researching my favorite game and learning the details for that game while also comparing it to its fierce competitors. I could change one thing about my piece, I would not change anything because in my belief i think that it is perfect to inform anyone about FIFA 15 and what that game consist of.
When we firs started to do this project I had originally wanted to talk about FIFA Ultimate Team and how it functions. As I was writing my piece I along with my teacher decided that it would be better to write about the game in general because what I had wanted to write would have been focused too much on the people that already played FIFA Ultimate team. Since I changed the way I was going to write the crtiiques on my paper were severe because the flow was not a smooth as water running down the stream, it was more like a wave crashing down on the shores of a beach. There were many ways I changed my draft from start to finish, their was major formatting changes, content changes, and most of all grammar issues. But as the weeks passed I was able to recover and fix all of these problems to make my wave like writing piece into a smooth stream of writing. If I could do one thing over and over again that I did in this project was researching my favorite game and learning the details for that game while also comparing it to its fierce competitors. I could change one thing about my piece, I would not change anything because in my belief i think that it is perfect to inform anyone about FIFA 15 and what that game consist of.