Step by Step
Author
1.Select at least four key topics that your book/manual will discuss in terms of young girls’ and teens’ self-esteem. There is no required length for your book, but make sure you cover the topics well enough so that your readers' get the points you are making.
2. Conduct research on your selected topics, and how they impact this demographic.
3. Review websites and periodicals (magazines, articles, etc.) that focus on empowering young girls’ and teens’, to find tips that will address the issues/topics in your book.
4. Make sure your book/manual contains the following: title, table of contents, headings/chapters, illustrations, and sources (if you included any work that is not your own).
5. Follow the writing process when writing, proofread work for grammar and spelling, and cite your sources appropriately.
6. Ensure that your graphic representations (pictures and illustrations) are appropriate for the topics presented, and for your target audience you are writing this book for.
7. Organize your book in neat, creative, and artistic fashion.
Journalist
1. Identify what type of creative project you will be creating (poem, song, commercial, PSA, skit, collage, or painting/drawing)
2. Decide whether or not you will need additional people to assist in the production (acting, dancing/performing if you are posting it on YouTube). You will need to checkout equipment for filming through the school's A/V department.
3. Determine the specific topic dealing with self-esteem and image that your work will address.
4. If doing a performance piece, you will need to develop a skit, to ensure that the production flows smoothly. If submitting your work for publication, follow the writing process. If creating a picture/painting/collage, determine what emotions your work will contain and how to capture it (follow the drafting/sketching process).
5. Use appropriate language and representations for your work (no explicit language or illustrations).
6. Make sure your work is a “finished product”, (work is free of grammatical, structural, and spelling errors (unless it is apart of the dialect), production of the project is seamless, the final collage/painting/drawing is neat).
7. Post your project on YouTube, or submit to me for possible publication.
Reporter
1.Select at least four key topics that your book/manual will discuss in terms of young girls’ and teens’ self-esteem. There is no required length for your book, but make sure you cover the topics well enough so that your readers' get the points you are making.
2. Conduct research on your selected topics, and how they impact this demographic.
3. Review websites and periodicals (magazines, articles, etc.) that focus on empowering young girls’ and teens’, to find tips that will address the issues/topics in your book.
4. Make sure your book/manual contains the following: title, table of contents, headings/chapters, illustrations, and sources (if you included any work that is not your own).
5. Follow the writing process when writing, proofread work for grammar and spelling, and cite your sources appropriately.
6. Ensure that your graphic representations (pictures and illustrations) are appropriate for the topics presented, and for your target audience you are writing this book for.
7. Organize your book in neat, creative, and artistic fashion.
Journalist
- Contact the school sponsor and the editor of our school’s newspaper, and inform them of the class project, in order to obtain permission to write your column.
- Create a name for your column, you can use Dear Abby (change the name to your own), or you can get creative with it.
- Create a flier or do an announcement on the morning news to inform the student body that you will be writing an advice column in the school newspaper, and provide contact information for students that want to write to you (preferably a mailbox where they can handwrite their requests to protect their identity).
- Read advice columns, such as Dear Abby, or go back and reread sections of “Letters of A Young Sister”, to examine how these writers approach their audience.
- Contact a columnist in a local newspaper here in Atlanta, and conduct an interview with them about tips for becoming a successful writer, and how to phrase things appropriately when writing to your audience.
- Select 3-4 letters that you would like to respond to, make sure the letters have varied topics in order to reach multiple readers (do not include the students' names in your responses, as they will be published in the school paper).
- When writing your responses, be sure to follow the writing process, and steps to writing an informational letter
- Before submitting for publishing, have it proofread to make certain your work is free of any grammatical, structural, or spelling errors.
1. Identify what type of creative project you will be creating (poem, song, commercial, PSA, skit, collage, or painting/drawing)
2. Decide whether or not you will need additional people to assist in the production (acting, dancing/performing if you are posting it on YouTube). You will need to checkout equipment for filming through the school's A/V department.
3. Determine the specific topic dealing with self-esteem and image that your work will address.
4. If doing a performance piece, you will need to develop a skit, to ensure that the production flows smoothly. If submitting your work for publication, follow the writing process. If creating a picture/painting/collage, determine what emotions your work will contain and how to capture it (follow the drafting/sketching process).
5. Use appropriate language and representations for your work (no explicit language or illustrations).
6. Make sure your work is a “finished product”, (work is free of grammatical, structural, and spelling errors (unless it is apart of the dialect), production of the project is seamless, the final collage/painting/drawing is neat).
7. Post your project on YouTube, or submit to me for possible publication.
Reporter
- Decide what topic you want to focus and report out on. If you are undecided on your main topic, conduct surveys with students’ in class to see what issues they feel are the most important to address, choose one of the topics for your presentation.
- Decide if you want your project to be formatted in: Powerpoint, a Prezi, use a Photostory as a backdrop, talk show style, or will contain a mixture of the elements (Have fun with this, so be as creative as you wish! The more creative, the better!).
- Research statistics on the topic that you are researching (ex: eating disorders), try to include, global (international), national, and local statistics in your findings.
- Watch online interview clips of female celebrities that promote/ discuss self-esteem. You may include some of their tips in your presentation, or you can insert the clips into it.
- Conduct interviews with adult women in your school, community, or family. Ask them about some issues they dealt with when growing up, mistakes they made, and any advice that may help girls who are going through similar situations. If doing a talk show, maybe you can invite these women to be apart of your panel.
- View websites that are geared towards promoting self esteem in girls and teens, provide tips and resources that can be used in your presentation.
- In your presentation, include images that can be positive and/or negative representations in the media to facilitate some discussion with the class.
