the light at the end of the tunnel

The title of this unfortunately doesn't mean I see the light at the end of the tunnel of this project but it does mean that I saw the light at the end of the tunnel for the MEGA writing project that my kids have been working on. I feel like I can really dive into looking at their writing pieces this weekend and getting an overall picture of each "case" based on this writing piece, as well as, their pre- and post- on-demand writing prompts. I am SO excited and proud of how the students did on their animal research books but let me tell you I am so glad to have that projects in the books for this school year and to not have to revisit it again for a year. It is such an undertaking but every year the kids really blow me away with what they produce.


I have decided by looking at the way that they wrote their books that I will be looking at each student as their own case. My final paper will be written like a case study. Since the students were all kind of working in isolated scenarios it fit best to look at them this way. That being said I have 9 different "cases". That seems to be a lot but I think it will be really good once I am examining it all.


I have picked three "organizing topics" that I will be writing up narratives about for each case. These three topics are conventions, presentation, and idea development. I plan to work on the conventions section heavily and will try and write up a blog posting some of my narratives for a couple of the cases on my blog tonight. I pulled these three topics from 6+1 traits. These seem to be specific traits that apply largely to informational writing which has been the focus of my entire study with my students.


Hope everyone is doing well!!!!