As a cumulative class project to summarize Le Mystère des faux billets, we are going to design an on-line picture book that will retell and illustrate the story. Using the summaries as a base, each student will provide captioned illustrations for 3-4 chapters of the book. These illustrations may be posed photos of classmates in character taken with a digital camera (we will have to assign roles to each classmate so that the characters are consistent), photos from Internet sites , scanned photos from books or postcards, video clips (via I-movie), etc. Please cite all sources you use.

Here is a calendar of deadlines:

 

Monday, March 4

Choose chapters you are responsible for (by lottery)
Chapters: _____, _____, _____, _____
Front cover _____, Back cover _____
By Friday, March 8
  1. Submit copies of the summaries you are doing, each on a separate page, for final editing.
  2. Create a title for each chapter you are in charge of.
By Thursday, March 14
  1. All project work will be saved in GAFiler>Curricular Projects>mystere. Create a folder in mystere with your first name last initial, eg. carols. All work will be saved in this folder.
  2. Separate your assigned chapters from your corrected résumés. remember to save all file names with the extension .doc. Assign your GA email account found at http://mail.germantownacademh.org:8383. Send each chapter summary to your teacher.
  3. Identify, locate, copy and save pictures or photos of scenes, maps, francs, items, characters, etc you want to include in each assigned chapter. Remember to save all these items with the correct extension .gif or .jpg. Usng your GA email account found at http://mail.germantownacademh.org:8383, send each item to yourself. Up to three attached files can be sent with each email.
  4. Save all images to your, GAFiler>Curricular Projects>mystere, folder.
  5. Use your worksheets to storyboard your pages.
  6. Know which character you will represent, gather props and and take a digital picture of your scene. You will need to acquire a PC disk to be used for the photos. Give this disk with your names on the lable to Mrs. Siwinski.
On Thursday, March 14

Meet in CALC period D with Mrs. Siwinski to work with PageMill to assemble your pages for the web site.
Tuesday, April 2

Meet in CALC to work with Fireworks to alter images, and make fancy text and navigation buttons.

Wednesday, April 3

Meet in CALC to learn to scan and place pictures, fancy text and navigation buttons in appropriate areas of document.
Thursday, April 4

Meet in CALC
Friday, April 5*

(*Mrs. Siwinski will not be available to help
Monday, April 8

Meet in CALC, to make and test all links and complete class project.

Students will be graded on cooperation, effort, creativity, meeting deadlines and accuracy.

The project will be worth a major test grade (100 points)

 

This project designed and implemented by Emily Wagner, Assistant Head, for the students of Germantown Academy Middle School. Web page design and technical assistance furnished by Carol Siwinski, Currciular Technology Specilaist.

 

March, 2002