# data[].attributes.body
Students will examine poetry and short stories to develop an appreciation and understanding of the question, “How do short stories and poems connect us?”

# data[].attributes.headline
Driving Question: How does short stories & poetry connect us?

# data[].attributes.subject
Driving Question: How does short stories & poetry connect us?

# data[].attributes.headline
Students doing the Values Cards protocol 

# data[].attributes.subject
Students doing the Values Cards protocol 

# data[].attributes.body
Students will examine poetry and short stories to develop an appreciation and understanding of the question, “How do short stories and poems connect us?”

# data[].attributes.headline
Entry Event- Based on the genre of poems and short stories I have chosen, students will move among the stations, write down which genre(s) connects to them the most, and write down specific poems and short stories within the genre(s) they liked the best. There will be candy at each station to represent that genre. 

# data[].attributes.subject
Entry Event- Based on the genre of poems and short stories I have chosen, students will move among the stations, write down which genre(s) connects to them the most, and write down specific poems and short stories within the genre(s) they liked the best. There will be candy at each station to represent that genre. 

# data[].attributes.headline
 Once they have completed their stations packet students will choose the genre they want to focus on. This is when they can go back and re-read the poems and or stories. 

# data[].attributes.subject
 Once they have completed their stations packet students will choose the genre they want to focus on. This is when they can go back and re-read the poems and or stories. 

# data[].attributes.headline
Assignment for the Day: Short Story & Poetry Genre Proposal

# data[].attributes.subject
Assignment for the Day: Short Story & Poetry Genre Proposal

# data[].attributes.body
Assignment for the day:

Students will write a 100-150 word  proposal as to why they want to use the genre  to answer the question “How do short stories and poems connect us?” What in the genre and short stories and poems have you found that can connect people together? Is it the theme? Commonalities? Experiences? Fears? Hopes? Perspectives? Humor? Interests?

# data[].attributes.body
Students will use the mood board protocol to think about the mood they want their end product to have.

# data[].attributes.body
Empathy Building:

Students will think about what they might want to write about if they were a poet or author of a short story writing to connect people together.  Look at their poems and short stories they have picked out. Establish what qualities they have that connect us together. These are not specific examples. They are just qualities. Quality means a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something. You can even look at the characters and write down their specific qualities.

For example a quality might be:

Love

Fears

Danger

Create a list of those qualities- students will create a running notes page on their chromebook

# data[].attributes.headline
Idea Quota, Dot Voting, & Where is the Love Protocols

# data[].attributes.subject
Idea Quota, Dot Voting, & Where is the Love Protocols

# data[].attributes.body
Explore the poems and short stories. What lessons, themes, ideas, perspectives, adversities, and fears do the mentor texts have?

Idea Quota: (pg. 1 in incubation)

Using the ideas that you came up with when exploring the poems and short stories you will try and come up with as many ideas as possible to answer the driving question:

“How do poems and short stories connect us?”

Based on the genre groups came up with as many ideas as possible to answer that question.

Incubation & Solutions Slides- This is a more in-depth walkthrough of what we did in class.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Groups incubating using the Idea Quota Protocol

# data[].attributes.body
After the incubation and solutions stage, students did a quick conference with me to run their solution by me and ask any questions they had.

# data[].attributes.body
After the incubation and solutions stage, students had a quick conference with me to run their solution ideas by me and ask any questions they had before making their final decision.

# data[].attributes.body
Validation:

Final Presentations were to small groups and students recorded them on Flipgrid.

# data[].attributes.body
Below is an example that I thought was extremely creative. It was for the Sci/Fi & Technology genre.

# data[].attributes.body
This student wrote their own poem about life's journey and then used their own personal home videos to create their project.