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Students will pick a character from whichever text they are currently reading and create a fake social media profile. The original creator mentions that this can be done digitally, but says she has her students do it on poster board. Many students find the technology more engaging and can use it to look up and translate unknown words quickly. So I have provided the Google Slides templates for Twitter, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook. Having students work this way combines 21st century skills, and allows for students that are unfamiliar with words from the text to have access to a resource immediately. I would also have students work in pairs so that it is more collaborative. It is a "social" project. The rubric gives clear expectations. Students should NOT use real social media sites to create their profiles.

Learning Goals

Use technology and other resources for assigned tasks.
Pull key information from a text about a character and make it more relatable to themselves using social media.

title "Social Media Project" 2024 by Jennifer Kennedy
under license"Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial"

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Social Media Project

Created Jan. 24, 2024 by Jennifer Kennedy

This is a summative assessment piece designed to distinguish students' knowledge and learning about particular characters in a text. You can remove Hamlet from the title. This is simply the text I used most recently.

This could also be used in a Social Studies/History class with historical figures.

Hamlet Social Media Project

-GoogleSlides: Please "make a copy" before editing

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Links for the project

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Snapchat -Part 1 and Part 2

Remixed from "Social Media Project" by AMBER MEARES

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Standards

NC.DLS.CC.6

North Carolina Digital Learning Standards

Grades K-12

Learning Domain: Creative Communicator

Standard: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

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NC.ELA.RL.5.3

North Carolina English Language Arts Standards

Grade 5

Learning Domain: Reading: Literature

Standard: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

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NC.ELA.RL.9-10.3

North Carolina English Language Arts Standards

Grades 9-10

Learning Domain: Reading: Literature

Standard: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

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NC.ISTE.Student.1.6

NC ISTE Standards for Students

Learning Domain: 1.6. Creative Communicator

Standard: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

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