Lisa Greenlee/Lisa Hendrix Planning Activity We are working with Statham Elementary School [SES] students in grades 1-5.

We will be doing our video specifically with a fourth grade class participating in the Wax Museum as a way that SES promotes the love of reading. The students at SES fall in varying degrees of reading abilities. We will introduce the Wax Museum performed by a fourth grade class at SES. Other students at SES will be visitors attending the event. Students in the fourth grade class will choose their favorite person in history and read their biography. They will be given a specific amount of time to read their book and then come to school on a specified day dressed as their character. The event will be held in the library. We will line tables up around the room. Each character will stand behind the table. Each student will have an index card placed in front of them on the table with a pretend red button drawn on it. As the visitors enter the room, they make pick a character and press the red button. When the red button is pressed for that character, the character will come to life. The student will begin telling about the character they chose. AASL Standard: Pursue personal and aesthetic growth. 4.1.1 4.1.3 4.1.8 Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth. Respond to literature and creative expressions of ideas in various formats and genres. Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning.

Target Audience: Students in the video are fourth graders between the ages of nine and ten years old. For the videoing purpose, we will use second graders between the ages of six and seven years old as the visitors in the video. Educational Level: Fourth grade students in the video have varying degrees of educational level. All students are either bubble students (barely passed CRCT) or scored average or above on the reading part of the CRCT. There are some ESOL students and very few students who exceeded on the CRCT. Specific Entry Skills: Students participating in the video have prior knowledge of requirements for the performance. They have choice when picking a biography (character) and have sufficient time to prepare by reading about their chosen character. Learning Styles: Learning styles include a mixture of Gardners Multiple Intelligence. The group of students learning styles include: visual/spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, linguistic, and logical-mathematical and intrapersonal.

Motivation (The ARCS Model): Attention Other SES students will find this video appealing when they see the enthusiasm of their peers while participating in the Wax Museum. Relevance Students will have the ability to choose their favorite person of interest to them. The video will prove to be meaningful to students when they see participating students enthusiasm of choice of character. Our desire is to advocate for this to be a school-wide way of promoting the love of reading not only using biographies but also allowing students to read any book and choosing their favorite character out of the book. We plan to work further possibly bringing the Wax Museum into the middle school aged group as well with any necessary revisions. Confidence Giving students choice will boost their confidence level. They can choose a person of interest and reading level allowing students to succeed. Giving students choice will allow for meeting students learning needs and goals (p. 90). Students will own it since they chose it. Satisfaction Students will receive both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation allowing them to feel satisfaction in the end. Intrinsic motivation will come from the accomplished reading and the pleasure of the performance. Free choice of favorite person will also promote intrinsic motivation among students. Students will be receiving feedback from visitors which will allow extrinsic motivation to come from students receiving approval of others. Objective: Given choice of favorite person biography book, students in the fourth grade will read and participate in the performance of the Wax Museum with the expectation of being able to relay at least three important details about their favorite person.