Do you ever have grand ideas for a project and then step back from your incredibly elaborate ideas and think to yourself, "how in the heck am I going to pull this off?"
OR!
Have you ever continued with the incredibly elaborate project idea.... and then when you're in the thick of it you think, "Oh crud. How are we are going to pull this off?"
Luckily, this was one of those times were I took the advice of my co-collaboraters and we took the project down just a smidgen and it's been in-cred-ible.
Instead of attempting to manage a full fledged newsroom, we decided to have our classes create original "Opinion Talk Shows". Our writing focus for this quarter is opinion writing, so what better way to share our opinions than to write it AND share it on YouTube?
To kick off the project, we decided as a class to name our show, "Robertson Rivals". Each week, one small group gets the opportunity to take one of their published opinion pieces and transform it into a script for a talk show.
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| Behind the Scenes |
Small groups collaborate through Google Slides to write their script and decide on specific "parts" for the talk show.
Our inspiration for opinion topics come from Scholastic News Magazines. Our more popular debates have been...
Should participation count as a grade?
Does everyone deserve a trophy?
Should students have homework over breaks?
Should schools make up snow days on Saturdays?
We invite YOU and your students to subscribe to our YouTube channel and weigh in on these topics. My students love watching the "views" number spike and hearing feedback from other kids (some even in our building) about their talk show!
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