Seeing Double

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Seeing Double

• Incorporating Technology With Literature

Karenward_at_clovisusd.k12.ca.us
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Jack London has been called one of the most
popular authors in the world today.What
qualities did this American author have which
continue to endear him to readers many years
after his death?What can we learn from his
personal and professional life?
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Overview
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This is a project based component for a unit
based on Jack London

• Student involvement in this project will enable
  them to
• Focus on making a connection with a successful
  author
• Better understand the authors life and
  experiences he had which affected his writing.
• Analyze the effect Londons writing style has had
  on other writers
• Research on the WWW, as well as analyze and
  synthesize this new information
• Create an electronic project.

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Students will be using their Microsoft Paint
program to combine their faces with Jack Londons.
This final project empowers students to connect
personally so that they can parallel the lives of
London with his writing.
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Require students to include a bibliography with
their completed project. This bibliography
must include both sites where they found
information as well as sites where they find
pictures.Here is a site where students can
access information about how to correctly
annotate a bibliography.
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Component RequirementsWWW Graphic
Organizer author picturestudent digital picture
bibliography Microsoft Paint program(or other
program like this)
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Guiding your students in learning through the use
of a graphic organizer will help them brainstorm,
research and present their findings in a
patterned, sequential, and understandable manner.
Additional information about graphic organizers
can be found at these siteshttp//www.writedesig
nonline.com/organizers/index.htmlhttp//www.sdcoe
.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htmhttp//www.g
raphic.org/goindex.html
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Teacher Directions
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Research

• Create a prompted PowerPoint scaffold for your
  students which directs them to go to the WWW so
  they can research the author and his life.

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Web Research Resources

• Web research The Research Cycle, Jamie
  McKenzie http//www.questioning.org/Q6/research.h
  tml
• Educational Technology Journal, May 1,
  1998http//questioning.org/Q4/cov98may.html
• Teaching with the Webhttp//polyglot.lss.wisc.edu
  /lss/lang/teach.html

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Example

• Using the WWW research Jack Londons life.
• Search for factual information as well as his
  character traits and experiences in his life
  which helped him develop these traits.
• Enter these in the graphic organizer

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Graphic Organizer

• Create a slide that familiarizes your students
  with graphic organizers.
• With students explore the different types of
  graphic organizers available.
• As a class decide which graphic organizer would
  best meet the needs for this assignment.
• Explain that students will be using a graphic
  organizer to enter information they find about
  Jack London.

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Graphic Organizer

• Create a prompted PowerPoint slide which
  instructs students to create and complete a
  graphic organizer with their research information
  about Jack London.

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ExampleT-Chart for Note Taking
Jack London
Fact or Event
Brief Description
Birth/Childhood Education
Choices Experiences
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Paint Project (Teacher 3)

• Create a PowerPoint slide explaining to students
  the use of the Paint program to create a double
  image.
• Instruct students to incorporate their pictures
  of Jack London with their own digital portrait.
• Instruct students to place text boxes by the
  sides of both pictures with written comparisons
  and contrasts between themselves and London.

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Example
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Example
Liked reading
Like reading
Student Name
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Bibliography

• Create a slide that instructs your students to
  create a slide for their bibliography.
• Instruct them about proper citation for the WWW.
• Web Resources for creating bibliographies
• http//www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/

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Additional Ideas

• Have students write about their researchboth the
  process as well as the finished productwhat dig
  they learn about the process and the authors?
• Compare Londons life with that of another
  author, like Gary Paulsen.
• Compare main characters found in Londons stories
  to one another or the student themselves.

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Example of Electronic Project
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ExampleT-Chart for Note Taking
American Renaissance Man
Fact or Event
Brief Description
Birth/Childhood Education
Choices
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Example
Liked reading
Like reading
Student Name
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Bibliography
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Seeing Double 1

• In this activity you will be comparing yourself
  to Jack London.
• You will use the Paint option to create a Seeing
  Double portrait of both people.

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Seeing Double 1

• Using the WWW find a portrait picture of Jack
  London. Right click and copy the image.
• Go to Start/Accessories/Paint and open this
  option.
• Paste the portrait you copied earlier.
• Using the select tool outline half of Londons
  face. Save this half only. Minimize.

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Seeing Double 2

• Have students take a picture of themselves using
  a digital camera.
• Open Paint again. Start a new file.
• Paste their digital picture into the file.
• Using the select tool outline the opposite half
  of their face. Right click and copy. Close.
• Maximize Seeing Double 1. Paste their half face
  next to Londons half face.
• Select all. Copy and close the program.

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Seeing Double 1

• Open the slide you are creating for this image
  and paste.
• Create text boxes on each side of the portrait
  and include compare/contrast details about London
  and themselves.
• Return to instructions

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