Unit Overview:
National Public Radio (NPR) is inviting students around the country to create podcasts and compete for a chance to win their grand prize of having their work appear on NPR, and we are going to participate! Between now and February Break we will be choosing a topic, researching that topic and producing a recorded podcast. All students who receive an A on this project will have the opportunity to enter their podcast into the NPR challenge for a chance to win.
How did the term, "PODCAST" originate?
Podcast is a portmanteau word, formed by combining "iPod" and "broadcast"
Learning Targets:
...develop and express an individual point of view on a topic.
... support an individual point of view with credible, research based facts.
... use rhetorical strategies to convince others to see their points of view.