For my first video project this year in my 7th grade English Language Arts class, I wanted to integrate text analysis while teaching them how to use WeVideo for the first time.

Leading up to the Project: (make your own copy here, click use template)

Leading up to the project, I had taught the Signposts from Notice and Note Contrast and Contradictions, and the Aha Moment by watching short films (see Notice and Note facebeook group) and discussing and jotting things down, and then just the way it is suggested in the book with “Thank you, Ma’am” short story for CC and excerpts from Crash for Aha and Long Walk excerpt for Tough Questions. My fabulous teaching partner down the hall added this 5-part paragraph structure: define the signpost, identify the stop and ask question, summary, answer the stop & ask question, analyze: explain why it is important. Contact me if you have questions or want me to share any of the docs I used that aren’t on the slides above.