Ashlyn

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**A CITIZEN WHO DREAMS OF A CLEANER COMMUNITY **
 * Dear Citizen, **
 * Three ghosts appear to you in your dream. The ghosts are REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE. They are looking for a citizen who participates in their community, and they have their eyes on you! They appear in your dream to teach you different ways to contribute to the well-being of your community’s natural environment! Tell the story of what you learned from each one of them! **


 * Your tasks include: **
 * Create a thinking map to help you plan and prepare to write your narrative!
 * Define each “R,” and why they are important to the community’s environment.
 * Use dialogue.
 * Use transitional words throughout your paper to help establish a beginning, middle and end of your story.
 * Make sure that your story has a strong ending.
 * Your narrative should be at least two full pages.
 * When you finish, ask your shoulder buddy politely to proofread your narrative and to provide helpful feedback .
 * Remember to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation!

Standards 3.C&G.2 Understand how citizens participate in their communities. 3.C&G.2.2 Exemplify how citizens contribute to the well- being of the community’s natural environment. W.3.3a Organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write. W.3.3b Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. W.3.3c Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. W.3.3d. Use temporal transition words and phrases to signal event order. W.3.3e. Provide a sense of closure. W.3.3f. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing, with consideration to task and purpose.
 * Social Studies- Understand how citizens participate in their communities. **
 * Writing- W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. **

My thoughts on how this technology relates to my future classroom is leaning more toward the positive side. At first I found this activity to be extremely frustrating beginning to end, but I quickly came to enjoy it. I feel as if incorporating this in my class will allow the students to become more interactive in their writing, and maybe even begin to enjoy the writing process a bit more. I really enjoyed using VoiceThread, because I did not know that it was a thing before this class. I enjoyed writing my narrative, making a hard cover book, and then creating it using my friend's voice. I will definitely use this in my future class!
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