Jennifer Longee and myself are going to work with Mrs. Parry and Mrs. Doak to have their students create wikis on some Great Depression topics that appear in the book Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Students will work with Mrs. Longee (who constructed the wikis using PBwiki) to research the various topics and begin to work on the wikis. Students will use a research template in order to guide their research.

It is our hope that students will be able to learn more about characters from that time period while also using tools that lend to collaborative and interactive learning since pages will have multiple authors and allow comments by readers. We have password protected the wikis for security reasons as we want only authorized users editing and commenting on the pages.

We will start the work on the 18th of December so follow along as our students create their own Great Depression wiki.

Mrs. Doak’s 5.1 Language Arts
http://doakgd.pbwiki.com/

Mrs. Doak’s 5.2 Language Arts
http://doak52gd.pbwiki.com/

Mrs. Parry’s 5.3 Language Arts
http://parry53.pbwiki.com/

Mrs. Parry’s 5.4 Language Arts
http://parry54.pbwiki.com/

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