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// ** Journal for ECOMP355 ** - The following wikispace is not currently being used in a classroom. It was created by an University Student for an assignment for an eductaion class. The wiki space was designed to give students a creative and unique way to do novel study assignments.The hope is that this space will not only enhance students learning of a novel but also allow others to view, respond and appreciate the students hard work. When I, the student, first started this assignment my only goal was to create an interactive Google map that applied to novel studies. When I started this class I didn`t even know what a wiki was but the more I learned the more my teacher brain thought how useful a wiki space could be along with my google map ideas. Therefore I took what I did know about novel study activities and applied these assignments to technology. It took a lot of trial and error and hours of time but I think that I have created a wiki space that I could one day utilize in my own classroom. As I continue to add and enhance the space I get more efficient and am able to problem solve and trouble shoot better. Hopefully even after this class I will contiue to build on my internet knowledge and establish this wiki space and others. I hope if anyone who visits this space will give me constructive criticsm on how I could make it more student, parent and teacher freindly. The books listed in the space are ones that would work well with a wiki space type novel study unit. The grade level at which these books are intended are for grades 5 through 8 but wiki space novel studies could work with any grade level depending on the books chosen to study. // //The assignments posted on the sight were created by the student as an example to how this wiki space can be used. The novel showcased in the examples is Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic. * Note the written portions in yellow on each page are journal entries applicable on to the University class ECOMP355. These entries would not appear in a wikispace being used with students in a classroom.//

__**Purpose & Benefits of a Novel Study Wiki Space are as follows**__: 1. Students are able to showcase their work by posting their assignments for an auidence such as teachers, parents or other classes via the wiki space or tools like [|Skype.] 2. The teacher has access to regular monitoring and viewing of the student work. 3. The wiki space provides access to a variety of dynamic and creative web tools that enhance novel study style learning. 4. Students are building on and enhancing their computer and internet abilites and knowledge while learning traditional classroom subjects like reading, writing and researching. 5. Students are building on their reading and communication skills through creative and fun activities. 6. This wiki space will be a place where students can get connect with and receive feedback from their own communities and those abroad. 7. Provides easy access to the students work creating efficient and effective peer editing and mentorship programs. 8. So many benefits. Too many to list! ( feel free to add the list if you think a new one. It is a wiki space after all).

 Welcome! This is a wiki space designed to showcase the novel studies being studied in Mrs. Munchinsky's class. The follwing pages will demonstarte the who, what, where and the why of what the students are learning from a variety of novels.

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This years theme is __Social Injustice__. The novels and the (mock)dates we are studying them is listed below: June- August 2009- [|Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic]- **related topics: war, geography, journaling, autobiographies


 * September-October 2009- [|Underground to Canada by Barbra Smucker]**-related topics: Underground Railroad, African American History, Civil Rights, Slave Trade past & present.


 * November- January 2009- [|Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis]-**related topics: Afghanistan, Muslims, War, Refugee camps, injustice in education.


 * February- March 2010- [|A Long way Gone by Ishmael Beah]-**related topics: Child Soliders, Civil War, Poverty, Memoirs.


 * April- May 2010- [|Goodbye Buffalo Bay by Larry Loyie]**-related topics: Aboriginal(Cree) culture,  Residential schools, Poverty, Discrimination, Abuse, Storytelling