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The final test is done.  The kids stopped bringing materials to school.  The weather is nice.  It must be the summer…

Think again!!

We still have 2 partial weeks of school.

As far as the PACT test goes…I think most of my kids nailed it.  I received a pretty warm response to the test.  Of course, I had some students claim that I didn’t teach them anything this year, but those were the ones who didn’t bother to learn my name, let alone learn some history.  The kids that wanted to learn something…did learn something.  Now, I’m not saying they’ll remember it for next year, but I hope they’ll remember some of the major topics.

My plan for the last days of school are to work on a radio advertisement for a city in South Carolina.  With a little begging and handiwork, all of the computers in the Media Center have been equipped with audacity.   Let the games begin!!

I’ve decided to start a new project with the kids for the remaining 10 days of school after our state-wide testing is finished.   We’re supposed to start next year’s curriculum, which is South Carolina history.

I’m thinking about having the students create a radio commercial about a city in South Carolina.  After doing simple research on a city, they’ll have to put together a 60-second advertisement about their city of choice.  They’re main goal will be to attract tourism to their city.

The only part I’m struggling with is finding the proper program that has the ability to record, bring in music, and export as an mp3.  The only one that I’ve used is audacity.  This is a great little program, but it might be a little too hard for most of my 7th graders to get a grasp on.

Eventually, I’ll make them available as podcasts.

I might just have to suck it up and use audacity!!

I hope the kids enjoy this little project…it’ll keep them out of trouble during the last days of school.