Grade

Project Title

Project Description

3^rd – 4^th

My Home Book Store

Students create a variety of documents that create a three-book series.  Each book aligns to a core academic area and / or a social-emotional topic.  During week one participants learn and review the parts of speech.  This includes how to use them to enhance written skills using video creation, essay submission, and live online sessions.  

5^th – 7^th

The “Genre” Magazine

Camp scholars take a deep dive into the four main genres of writing (Narrative, Descriptive, Expository, Persuasive).  Participants will create an individual and collaborative magazine that highlights various genre selections. 

8^th – 10^th

Online Global Radio Show and Podcast

Virtual Journalism and Presentation in interview format, and submission of a comprehensive written artifacts.  Students explore topics of interest and focus on the intersection with core academic areas. 

11^th – 12^th

College Career and Trade Portfolio Conference

Participants have intense writing sessions that result in artifacts characterized by college letters requesting admittance, communications with projected employers, and investigation of professionals or tradespersons.  

Grade

Project Title

Price

(Itemized Costs All Levels)

Project Academic Standards and Intended Outcomes

3^rd – 4^th

My Home Book Store

(3-Weeks)

$325.00

45-Hours of Instructional Activities

Project Materials

Certified Teacher Facilitators

Project-management and tutoring

Wraparound Service

Individual and Group Advisory

Yearlong access to virtual course materials

Academic Standards Addressed include:

1.      Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

a.      Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding

b.      Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

c.       Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

2.      Locate and refer to relevant details and evidence when explaining what a text says explicitly/implicitly and make logical inferences.

3.      Summarize text, from a variety of genres, to determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details.

4.      Describe character (traits, motivations, and/or feelings), setting, or event, drawing on specific details in the text.

Students will:

·         Become more proficient with parts of speech through reading that supports accuracy and fluency.

·         Demonstrate understanding of how to use parts of speech in sentences while using details and evidence to explain texts both explicitly and implicitly toward logical inferences.

·         Exemplify parts of speech within authentic stories

·         Create and publicize 3 virtual story books with an abstract that highlights story charter traits, motivations, and/or feelings within a setting or event with attention to details.

5^th – 7^th

The “Genre” Magazine

(3-Weeks)

$350.00

(Itemized Costs All Levels)

Academic Standards Addressed Include:

1.      Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

2.      Determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, academic and content-specific words, and analyze their effect on meaning, tone, and mood within a text.

3.      Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to determine the overall structure of story, drama, or poem.

4.      Summarize texts, from a variety of genres, to determine a theme or central idea and how it is developed by key supporting details over the course of a text.

5.      In literary texts, analyze how particular line of dialogue or events propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Students will:

·         Gain virtual group collaboration skills through shared readings focusing on accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.

·         Become more proficient with the genres of writing while sharpening ability to determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, academic and content-specific words, and analyze their effect on meaning, tone, and mood within a text.

·         Gain deep understanding of how to demonstrate genres with essays with particular attention to explanation of how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to determine the overall structure of story, drama, or poem.

·         Exemplify genres with authentic magazine submissions by editing material using skills that include summarizing from a variety of genres, determining central themes and how they are supported, analyzation of dialogue, and revelations from genre characters. 

8^th – 10^th

Online Global Radio Show and Podcast

(3-Weeks)

$400.00

(Itemized Costs All Levels)

Academic Standards Addressed Include:

1.      Trace and evaluate an argument and specific claims in a text.  Assess whether the reasoning is valid, and the evidence is relevant and sufficient.  Recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

2.      Choose and develop criteria to evaluate the quality of texts.  Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, identities, eras, and personal experiences.

3.      Objectively and accurately summarize texts, from a variety of genres, to determine one or more themes or central ideas and analyze its development, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

4.      Analyze how authors employ point of view, perspective, and purpose to shape explicit and implicit messages (examine rhetorical strategies, literary elements, and devices).  Explain how an author’s geographic location, identity, and culture affect perspective.

5.      Delineate and evaluate an argument and specific claims in a text, assessing the validity or fallacy of key statements by examining whether the supporting evidence is relevant and sufficient.

Students will:

·         Use real-life learning to sharpen abilities to create writings with supportive documentation (evidence of tracing and evaluating an argument and specific claims within a text).

·         Demonstrate writing across ELA, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science with focus on cultural perspectives, identities, eras, and personal experiences.

·         Engage in weekly interview sessions to be aired on global radio and OUISN Podcast Series using the following skills, summarization of text from a variety of genres, identification of central themes, correctly identifying and citing authors point of view, and assessing the validity or fallacy of key statements.

·         ACT Readiness Writing

11^th – 12^th

College Career and Trade Portfolio Conference

(3-Weeks)

$400.00

(Itemized Costs All Levels)

Academic Standards Addressed Include:

1.      ACT Prep and Retest Readiness

2.      Analyze how authors employ point of view, perspective, and purpose to shape explicit and implicit messages (examine rhetorical strategies, literary elements, and devices).  Explain how an author’s geographic location, identity, and culture affect perspective.

3.      Delineate and evaluate an argument and specific claims in a text, assessing the validity or fallacy of key statements by examining whether the supporting evidence is relevant and sufficient.

Students will:

1.      Obtain experience with convention planning, development, and implementation

2.      CCRT Portfolio Development

3.      Interact with business and tradespersons

4.      Engage in ACT testing and retesting skill building