Project Title: PowerPoint Presentation: How to Write an Accordion Paragraph
Project Area: English/Language Arts
Generation www.Y Student Grade Level: 7

Objectives for Partner Teacher's Students:
Following the completion of my project, students will be able to write successful, formal research papers for the personal project research paper purposes.  

Objectives for Partner Teacher:
Following the completion of my project, I will be able to write a more successful research paper. I will also learn the different ways to address my topic, and keep my audience hooked to my paper, while keeping my paper formal. By completing this project, I will learn different ways to write papers throughout the school year

Following the completion of my project, I will also be able to work coopreatively with an adult, and I will be able to present to an audience.  

Objectives for Gen www.Y Student:
Following the completion of this project, my partner teacher will learn different ways to animate a PowerPoint presentation. She will learn different ways to insert sounds and pictures into a PowerPoint document.

Hardware:
Computer
Projector

Software:
Microsoft PowerPoint

Other:
Packet on accordion paragraphs provided by the teacher

First, I will set up a meeting with my partner teacher. We will discuss the type of presentation she wants to use, and the subject I will need to address to her class. After we have had our meeting, she will give me the sources I needed to complete the task she has assigned.

Then, I will begin working on the presentation. I will lay out the way I would like to present the PowerPoint, and begin to type the text into different slides.

After that, I will save to file to disk, and take it to school to save in my file. Once it has been saved I will finish off any text or pictures I needed to insert into the slideshow. I will watch my slideshow and show it to my teacher and peers.

Once my GenY teacher and my partner teacher have approved my slideshow editing, I will go to my partner teacher to set up a date for presentation.

After the date has been set, I will prepare by practicing the speech I will have mentally prepared. I will sit for about 15 minutes rehearsing it each day before the presentation.

The day of the show, the students should pile into the library, ready to learn. I will begin clicking the mouse, and the rest is obvious. The students will be given worksheets by the teacher to complete. They will focus on what they learned by watching my presentation.

Assessment strategies/indicators for my partner teacher's students:
The students will complete worksheets for the teacher to evaluate how well they understood the presentation. They will also write acordion paragraphs on research topics.

Assessment strategies/indicators for Gen www.Y student:
I will use the skills learned in my Personal Project Research Paper. I will successfully present my PowerPoint to students, answering questions they may have.

Assessment strategies/indicators for my partner teacher:
My partner teacher will watch my presentation and discover ways to include technology in future lessons.

Kansas State Standards
Reading and Writing

Benchmark 7: The proficient writer uses a writing process that includes preparation, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing to produce a written document.

Indicators: The student will (1) generate ideas, narrow the topic, and gather and organize the information about the selected topic; (2) write a draft about a selected topic; (3) revise the draft to clarify and add ideas to reorganize and eliminate extraneous information to produce an improved product; (4) proofread and edit their and their peers' revisions for conventions, including spelling and appropriate format; (5) generate a legible final copy for presentation.

Benchmark 8: The proficient writer uses a variety of modes of writing for different purposes and audiences.

Indicator: The student will (3) write expository pieces, which may include lab report, math project, social studies report, and summary.

Published by: Kansas State Department of Education