Seventh Grade Fairy Tale Book

Dear Students and Parents,

As you all know, students are currently typing up their final draft of their original fairy tales. Once students have finished tweaking their stories and adding the final touches to their illustrations, the online book will be ready to purchase on Lulu.com.

All of the proceeds from these purchases will go to Southwestern Middle School, so let’s support our students and our great school!

Coming Soon...

Parents, students, and staff, make sure to get a copy of our second edition of the "SMS Tiger Times Newspaper" coming out after FCAT week. Also, make sure to get any last-minute articles in to be published to Ms. Kirn in Building 2, Room 27.

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Check out these awesome print advertisements the 7th grade students made in Language Arts class. After studying the different types of persuasive techniques that advertisers will use in order to try to persuade their audience to purchase their product, the students created their own advertisements based on one or two of these "tricks of the trade." Great job guys!

Commercials

February 11, 2011

So today in class, the students presented their group commercials. For the past five weeks, the 7^th grade Language Arts students have been learning about persuasive writing and advertisements.

Last week the students created their own print advertisement using one of the persuasive techniques they learned about (i.e. Bandwagon effect, Testimonials, Facts and Figures, Humor, Transfer, and Avant-gaurde). Click below to see a slideshow of some of the masterpieces these brilliant minds came up with.

This week, the students were busy creating and rehearsing their commercials with their group members in class. Each group had to use one of the persuasive techniques listed above to try to convince people to believe their message, whether it was “Come to Write-On,” “Don’t be a Bully,” “Don’t do Drugs,” or “Why it’s Important to get Good Grades.” Today, the students performed their commercials in front of the entire class with their group members. Everyone did a fabulous job and had a lot of fun! After the entertaining commercials were all presented, the class took an anonymous vote on which group had the best commercial. Next Monday, the winners will be announced. The group that created the best commercial will get a pass out of Language Arts class and be videotaped around the SMS campus acting their hearts out. These commercials will then be edited by yours truly, and shown during the next couple of weeks after the morning announcements. Once again, all of the groups did a fabulous job, so the competition is still. I personally can’t wait to Monday to deliver the exciting news!