Let’s cut to the chase. Here’s the finished project. Take a peek and come back..I’ll wait.

The moral of this story is be careful what you wish for....This year (08-09) I have requested and requested and received the assignment of teaching Media Literacy to the majority of Primary  classes in our school. Suddenly I was faced with teaching difficult concepts to many English Language Learners...so Media Literacy Class became Message class.

The steps, briefly, for this project were:

1. 1)the students found different messages posted in the classroom.
   

2. 2)We went on a Message Hunt throughout the school looking for, you guessed it, messages, which we photographed.
   

3. 3)We then sorted a subset of our photos into different categories on paper.
   

4. 4)Finally we were ready..it was our chance to  write our own messages. For homework, students wrote 5 messages centered around the 10 Character Traits.
   

5. 5)We typed up our messages, selected one and then wrote them, with chalk, in a prominent spot on the pavement for all to read.
   

6. 6)We reflected on our success.
   

My students truly felt that they had made an impact...that their small messages could actually change someone’s behaviour and make or corner of world a little nicer (at least until it rained anyway!)