English in Aviation
Project Assignments
Flight Log: You
will keep a log of the discussions and activities for each day you work on
the project. This
log will be detailed enough that an outsider could relate the history of your
progress without any input other than that in the log itself.Ý
Although you will decide among yourselves how the log will look and
who is responsible for overseeing the maintenance of the log (Will each student
keep a log? Will there be only one log for small groups of students? What
are the benefits or drawbacks of each plan? What are other options?), you
must remember that this is a daily log and the teacher will evaluate the quality
of the log using a Daily Log Rubric.
Timeline: You
will create a timeline that will allow you to complete your investigation
and final product by the end of the eighteen-week semester. Remember that
while you want to create a reasonable and realistic timeline, school time
is sometimes unpredictable. A good place to begin is to look at the days that
you will be in the classroom. Check with administration regarding any mandatory
testing dates or student activities that might be scheduled in the first semester.
Check the dates the teacher may have scheduled for directed class activities.
After your class has spent an adequate amount of time brainstorming what this
project entails, you may then want to begin placing due dates for the tasks
needed to complete the project. Timelines can be intimidating if you think
you donít know what is needed to get to where youíre supposed to be. This
is a task that the teacher can be of great help so donít hesitate to ask.
See the Aviation Timeline for teacher scheduled
evaluations.
Source Log:
You will be searching the Internet for information, contacting aviation experts,
and using traditional sources to complete your investigation. You must keep
track of this information by answering these three questions for each source
you find/consult/use:Ý
1. How did I find it? (What keywords, search engines, directories,
etc. did you use?)
2. Where did I find it? (What is the URL, bibliography, or address
of the source?)
3. What did I find out? (What information did you find? Was it
useful? How/why?)
Any resources that you
use to complete your project must be correctly
cited.
Reading: For this project
you will be reading All Quiet on the
Western Front, a required work
of merit for tenth grade students. The novel is set on the German front during
WWI. Although aviation is not a major theme of the novel, the image of bombs
dropping from the air is strong and frequent. Besides our more traditional
study of the novel, we will investigate the role of aviation in WWI.Ý You may decide that this is a relevant and
useful piece of literature for Aviation Academy students to study, or you
may develop an argument against using this particular novel. Again, you will
need to give suggestions for pieces of literature that you think would be
more useful and relevant if you decide that All
Quiet on the Western Front doesnít fit. Your teacher will direct you to
Score Cyberguides
for additional activities for the novel.
Written Document: At
the end of your investigation you will create a written document that the
counselors can use as a recruitment resource. Whatever kind of document that
you decide to create should be created with public relations as a main purpose
and the community as your audience. You will brainstorm the type of document
you want to create. The document will be of professional quality. What do
you need to know about writing? Advertising? Your audience? How can your teacher
help you? Your teacher will use a rubric
to assess your final product.
Editing/Revision: The
other project classes ñmath, CAD, history- will be sending some of their written
work for you to edit. Again, your teacher will direct you to online editing
sources and will work with you in class.
Multimedia Presentation:
You will create a multimedia presentation ñor an English focused component--that
will be included in a final presentation that you and the other project classes
will present to a student and parent assembly as well as to the school board.
Your teacher will use a rubric to assess
your final product.
Rubrics: You will develop
assessment rubrics for various components of the project. Your teacher will
guide you and offer online sources for you to use as guides as well. Your
evaluations of your own work and of your peersí work will be weighted in the
grade your teacher assigns to your project.
Presentation:
You
will present your final products to a variety of community audiences using
standard rules for formal presentation.Ý Again,
your teacher will direct you to appropriate helpful resources and will be
a guide for you as well.
Student Directed Assignments: As in the
ìreal-worldî you may find that you need ñor, gasp! Want
ñ to add a task to the project that the teacher hasnít suggested. An innovative
team might have a creative idea that is feasible and worthy of ìreal-assignmentî
status. See the teacher so that you can be given credit for your extra work
or brilliant idea.
Group Evaluation: You
will develop a rubric that you will use to evaluate individual performance
in a group. You will decide how frequently throughout the semester process
you will complete an evaluation and how you will use those peer evaluations
to help the group work more effectively.Ý
The teacher also will use a rubric to score your individual performance
in a group.
As you can see, you
have quite a task ahead of you. Since you now know what is due and when itís
due, you probably want to know how the teacher will determine your scores.Ý For that information see assessment.
Created for the Fermilab LInC
program sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory Education Office and
Friends of Fermilab, and funded
by United States Department of Energy, Illinois State Board of Education, North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
which is operated by North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the National Science Foundation.
Author(s): Sheila SmithÝ mommymean@hotmail.com
School: Vallejo High SchoolÝ Vallejo,
CA
Created: February 15, 2001 - Updated: December 28, 2002
URL: /lincon/w01/projects/aviation/englishassign.htm