Video Diary of the Trip West
Materials:
Poster board, craft sticks, copies of pages 40–43, scissors, tape, colored markers or pencils, stapler
Today, many families document major journeys and events in their lives using video cameras. Imagine the types of things that pioneers might have documented had they taken a video camera on their journey.
CREATING THE VIDEO DIARY
· Take copies of the templates pages 42 and 43. Using the film strip template, you will create six illustrations that detail major events from the journey of a fictional family traveling west by wagon train.
· The six events should cover: the first day of the journey (including the reason for traveling west and who is on the journey) the happiest day of the journey (excluding the arrival at the final destination) the saddest day of the journey, the hardest day of the journey, a major sight or landform seen on the journey, the final day of the journey (including the name of the final destination)
· Next, using the writing strips template, write a descriptive paragraph to accompany each illustration. Your sentences should be written in the first person, as if the videographer were talking about the illustration as it was being filmed.
· Take a copy of the video camera templates (pages 40 and 41). Cut out and assemble the video cameras. To make the frame sturdier, you can glue the templates to poster board.
· Cut out your writing strips, put them in chronological order, and staple them to their video cameras where indicated. Cut out the videotape frames and, following the directions on the template, thread the frames through your camera.
· Tape craft sticks to the two ends of the videotape to prevent it from being pulled through the slots.
· Finally, using the map that you created, you should write a number along the trail to indicate the place where each segment of their video was taken.
· We will hang the maps and video cameras in the hallway- as a new sample of our Text Feature Sequence of Events- under the title “Video Diaries of the Westward Movement”.
Materials:
Poster board, craft sticks, copies of pages 40–43, scissors, tape, colored markers or pencils, stapler
Today, many families document major journeys and events in their lives using video cameras. Imagine the types of things that pioneers might have documented had they taken a video camera on their journey.
CREATING THE VIDEO DIARY
· Take copies of the templates pages 42 and 43. Using the film strip template, you will create six illustrations that detail major events from the journey of a fictional family traveling west by wagon train.
· The six events should cover: the first day of the journey (including the reason for traveling west and who is on the journey) the happiest day of the journey (excluding the arrival at the final destination) the saddest day of the journey, the hardest day of the journey, a major sight or landform seen on the journey, the final day of the journey (including the name of the final destination)
· Next, using the writing strips template, write a descriptive paragraph to accompany each illustration. Your sentences should be written in the first person, as if the videographer were talking about the illustration as it was being filmed.
· Take a copy of the video camera templates (pages 40 and 41). Cut out and assemble the video cameras. To make the frame sturdier, you can glue the templates to poster board.
· Cut out your writing strips, put them in chronological order, and staple them to their video cameras where indicated. Cut out the videotape frames and, following the directions on the template, thread the frames through your camera.
· Tape craft sticks to the two ends of the videotape to prevent it from being pulled through the slots.
· Finally, using the map that you created, you should write a number along the trail to indicate the place where each segment of their video was taken.
· We will hang the maps and video cameras in the hallway- as a new sample of our Text Feature Sequence of Events- under the title “Video Diaries of the Westward Movement”.