Seeing Double

							     Seeing Double
Incorporating Technology
     With Literature

Karenward@clovisusd.k12.ca.us
Jack London has been called “one of the
   most popular authors in the world
               today.”*

What qualities did this American author
 have which continue to endear him to
  readers many years after his death?
What can we learn from his personal and
           professional life?
*http://www.geocities.com?NapaValley/7996/
Overview
    This is a project based component for
        a unit based on Jack London
Student involvement in this project will enable them to:
 Focus on making a connection with a successful author
 Better understand the authors life and experiences he had which
   affected his writing.
 Analyze the effect London’s writing style has had on other
   writers
 Research on the WWW, as well as analyze and synthesize this
   new information
 Create an electronic project.
  Students will be using their Microsoft Paint
   program to combine their faces with Jack
                    Londons.
This final project empowers students to connect
personally so that they can parallel the lives of
            London with his writing.
Require students to include a bibliography
with their completed project.

This bibliography must include both sites
where they found information as well as sites
where they find pictures.

Here is a site where students can access
information about how to correctly annotate a
bibliography.
Component Requirements
           WWW
     Graphic Organizer
       author picture
   student digital picture
        bibliography
  Microsoft Paint program
    (or other program like this)
Guiding your students in learning through the
   use of a graphic organizer will help them
brainstorm, research and present their findings
in a patterned, sequential, and understandable
                    manner.
     Additional information about graphic
    organizers can be found at these sites:
 http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/index.html
  http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm
           http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
Teacher Directions
         Research
Create a prompted PowerPoint
scaffold for your students which
directs them to go to the WWW
so they can research the author
           and his life.
       Web Research Resources
• Web research:
     The Research Cycle, Jamie McKenzie
     http://www.questioning.org/Q6/research.html

     Educational Technology Journal, May 1, 1998
      http://questioning.org/Q4/cov98may.html

     Teaching with the Web
      http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html
Example
   • Using the WWW
     research Jack
     London’s life.
   • Search for factual
     information as well as
     his character traits
     and experiences in his
     life which helped him
     develop these traits.
   • Enter these in the
     graphic organizer
          Graphic Organizer
• Create a slide that familiarizes your students with
  graphic organizers.
• With students explore the different types of
  graphic organizers available.
• As a class decide which graphic organizer would
  best meet the needs for this assignment.
• Explain that students will be using a graphic
  organizer to enter information they find about Jack
  London.
    Graphic Organizer
Create a prompted PowerPoint
slide which instructs students to
create and complete a graphic
organizer with their research
information about Jack London.
Example—T-Chart for Note Taking
                        Jack London
Fact or Event     Brief Description
Birth/Childhood


Education


Choices


Experiences
  Paint Project (Teacher 3)
Create a PowerPoint slide explaining to
  students the use of the Paint program to
  create a double image.
Instruct students to incorporate their
  pictures of Jack London with their own
  digital portrait.
Instruct students to place text boxes by the
  sides of both pictures with written
  comparisons and contrasts between
  themselves and London.
Example
                Example

Liked reading
                                Like reading




                          Student Name
              Bibliography
• Create a slide that instructs your students to
  create a slide for their bibliography.
• Instruct them about proper citation for the
  WWW.
• Web Resources for creating bibliographies:
  – http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/
        Additional Ideas
• Have students write about their research—
  both the process as well as the finished
  product—what dig they learn about the
  process and the authors?
• Compare London’s life with that of another
  author, like Gary Paulsen.
• Compare main characters found in
  London’s stories to one another or the
  student themselves.
Example of Electronic
     Project
Example—T-Chart for Note Taking
                  American Renaissance Man
Fact or Event       Brief Description
Birth/Childhood


Education


Choices
                Example

Liked reading
                                 Like reading




                          Student Name
Bibliography
         Seeing Double 1
• In this activity you will be
  comparing yourself to Jack London.
• You will use the Paint option to
  create a “Seeing Double” portrait of
  both people.
            Seeing Double 1
1. Using the WWW find a portrait picture of
   Jack London. Right click and copy the
   image.
2. Go to Start/Accessories/Paint and open
   this option.
3. Paste the portrait you copied earlier.
4. Using the select tool outline half of
   London’s face. Save this half only.
   Minimize.
            Seeing Double 2
1. Have students take a picture of themselves
   using a digital camera.
2. Open Paint again. Start a new file.
3. Paste their digital picture into the file.
4. Using the select tool outline the opposite
   half of their face. Right click and copy.
   Close.
5. Maximize Seeing Double 1. Paste their half
   face next to London’s half face.
6. Select all. Copy and close the program.
             Seeing Double 1

1. Open the slide you are creating for this image
   and paste.
2. Create text boxes on each side of the portrait and
   include compare/contrast details about London
   and themselves.
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