Non-Fiction+Reading+Text+Book+Creation

Letting Students Take Charge: A Nonfiction Writing Workshop Stephen Wilhoit--UD
 * Non-Fiction Text Book**--Goes with Tracking Information

Especially since we have no textbook for ELA in our school, I think I'll have my students create their own textbook. To keep this narrow and more concrete we'll do one specific type.

Interviews

Students will collect samples of interviews to put in their textbook One must be from a book/magazine One must be from an online source They must have 5 interviews

All Interviews must state where they are from if it is not on the page xeroxed off (they could copy the information from the inside cover when the copy the book. Most of the information should print off when they print off the web source).

For this activity I will not allow non-print sources (such as podcasts or videos) because this is a writing textbook.

Students will make a list of questions asked in the interviews. We will then combine the list of questions to make a class list which I will then give to each student to include in their textbook.

Students will list what information is most commonly included in the first paragraph. Again, we will combine this information as a class.

As a class (remember this would be a small group for most people...7 or 8 students max) we will create a list of ways interviews are organized.

As a class we will create a list of who is interviewed.

These will also be typed up and included in the textbook.

As a class we will look at how authors construct an interview (question/answer format, more traditional paragraph, what words are used for transitions, sentence structure).

If the textbooks turn out well, I will possibly have them published on [|TikaTok] If published...could I/they add in graphical information found in textbooks...webs, guides, index, glossary??

Follow up activity would involve creating their own interview and editing based on information in "their" textbook. Publish in school paper? School WebSite? Local Newspaper?