Nonfiction+Book+Project

Nonfiction Book Project
 * Materials: Nonfiction book, PowerPoint, PhotoStory, research** **Final Product: PhotoStory Digital Story** Requirements:
 * 1) Read your book completely before beginning the project.
 * 2) Use PowerPoint for the following requirements:
 * 3) 10 slides - each with one fact from your book.
 * 4) Each slide will contain a fact, a graphic, and no more than 5 lines of text
 * 5) All sources must be cited ( Where did you get your graphic?)
 * 6) 10 slides - each with an important vocabulary word from your book
 * 7) Slide should contain word, graphic, definition or sentence showing the word in context.
 * 8) Title Slide
 * 9) Should contain book title and author, illustrator if appropriate, and your name
 * 10) The following could be created in PowerPoint //or// PhotoStory
 * 11) Summary: At least one slide must be created that will be shown while you read a summary of the book that you wrote.
 * 12) Research topic: Select one topic from your book to research further. For example, if I were to read a book about Colonial America and there was a section in it about blacksmith, I could choose blacksmith to research further and provide more indepth information about this topic.
 * 13) At least one slide should be used for this section.
 * 14) The slide should contain text, graphic, and have an oral recording that is read in PhotoStory.
 * 15) Reflection: At least one slide must be created that will be shown while you read your final reflection. This might answer the following questions:
 * 16) What was the most amazing fact you learned and why?
 * 17) What surprised you the most and why?
 * 18) Why should someone read this book?
 * 19) Use PhotoStory to create a digital story related to your book. The requirements for PhotoStory are:
 * 20) Must have a title page
 * 21) Must contain 10 slides with the 10 facts
 * 22) Must contain 10 slides with 10 vocabulary words
 * 23) Must create at least one slide with summary that is orally recorded
 * 24) Must contain at least one slide for researched topic with oral presentation.
 * 25) Must contain at least one slide for reflection with oral presentation.
 * 26) All slides created in PowerPoint can be imported to PhotoStory in a couple of steps that we will go over in class.