Language+Arts

=Technology Day: Language Arts=

Internet Digital Resource/Interactive: ReadWriteThink's Profile Publisher
 * Technology**

7th grade, Reading Applications: Literary Text - Describe and analyze the elements of character development.
 * Curriculum Standard**

Students will create a mock Facebook profile for a fictional character from a story preselected by the teacher. Students will include relevant information from the story and also inferences made about the character while reading.
 * Description**

Lamb, A., & Johnson, L. (2010). Interactives: Dynamic Learning Environments. //School Library Monthly//, //26//(5), 41-44. Retrieved March 13, 2010 from Academic Search Complete database [|http://proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=47122074&site=ehost-live]
 * Supporting Research**

This article gives a definition of interactives and discusses how they can help to meet different learning objectives including supporting special needs, providing quality content, and allowing students to role play. The article also gives examples of websites that have interactives.

This is new and innnovative (NI) because social networking sites are one of the things students are most interested in nowadays. This activity combines students' interests with the language arts standard of analyzing a character and his/her traits, making inferences about a character, and noting how he/she is developed throughout a story.
 * Tried & True (TT) or New & Innovative (NI)**

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