Realistic Winter Olympic Narrative Project Begins

Today we introduced our next writing piece: realistic narratives.  To increase excitement and curiosity about the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics, we have provided the theme of being an Olympic athlete attending the Olympics.  To kick things off we reviewed aspects of narrative writing.

Next we started watching some videos of the winter Olympics of the past.  

Lastly we watched some videos on NBC's Olympics website (non-YouTube), which our students can also view on their Chromebooks.  We provided a 45 minute deadline for students to determine their sport of choice and to begin their research project.  Shortly we will come back together to see what students have learned in just 45 minutes about their sports.  My guess...there will already be some mini-experts on the topics.

We'll keep you updated on our 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic narratives.