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=G.R.A.S.P.S= //( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion.)// to pitch your idea to a publishing company. || together to pitch your story ideas to a publishing company. || should publish. || to find their next author you must convince them it is you. Only one winning group will be chosen. || Publishing Company to publish your piece. || Originality 15%, Mechanics 10%, Requirements 20%, Group Collaboration 15%, Organization 10%; Performance: Vocabulary/Grammar 15%, Content 30%, Preparedness 20%, Time-limit 15%, Clarity 10%, Enthusiasm 10%. || =Understanding(s)= //(Copy and paste the big understanding(s) you have listed in your unit for Dr. Grace. What are the academic goals for the unit (which will also be the purpose of the WebQuest).)//
 * Goal || The goal is to create a story or book of poems then create a movie
 * Role || You have been asked to be an author and write your own work then group
 * Audience || You need to convince Scholastic Publishing Company that your the next author they
 * Setting || The challenge involves dealing with the Scholastic Publishing Company holding a competition
 * Presentation || You will create an iMovie presentation of your piece in order to convince Scholastic
 * Standards || (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation): iMovie: Movie Trailer: Presentation 30%,

Students will understand that meaning is found in writing. Students will know protagonist, antagonist, foreshadowing, flat character, round character, setting, plot, conflict, theme, mood, etc. Students will be able to relate their feelings to others through their writing. =Introduction= //(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)//

Scholastic Publishing Company has had a boring year this year with little to no authors coming to them wanting their work published. Scholastic Publishing Company is on a quest to find their next group of bestselling authors, to help solve their problem. In order to make this process easier they are going to have a contest where one lucky group of four individuals will get a chance to publish a piece of theirs in hopes of becoming a bestselling author. How amazing would it be to make one's dreams of becoming famous a reality? It would be incredible to have a piece of writing published or even considered to be published. So many individuals at this moment in time have that opportunity. How many will actually do this and go all the way? If you want to know more about how you can become a bestselling author, click the next button to see what you have to do. =Task= //(Tell the story of the Role, Audience, Setting, and Presentation. Be a story teller. Save any classroom-specific information for the Process. Build the scenario and stay in character. You can reference the Introduction but try not to duplicate the information that's in the Introduction.)//

Thank you for clicking further! This is your chance at fortune and fame. Your first order of business is to write a story or book of poetry. This will be entered into the first round of the contest. At this point the board of members at the Scholastic Publishing Company will assign you to a group based off your location and piece of writing. This group will be a group of four including yourself. Your mission is to take all your group’s pieces and find a way to fit them into a section of movie trailers to help pitch your pieces to the heads of the board. The board members of Scholastic Publishing Company will be judging all the videos and picking their favorites, so make sure it is creative and eye catching. Good Luck! Hopefully your dreams become a reality. To see all the steps you group will need to take please press next. =Conclusion= //(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)//

You have mastered the skill of writing your own bestseller and have entered it into the contest. You have made your pitch and proved to them why you would be the next bestseller. All of your work has paid off and THEY HAVE CHOSEN YOU! It is what you have always dreamed and it is here in reality. Best of luck and congratulations on the amazing accomplishment! //(add Content)//