Val Garcia

Writing to Learn Strategy

The types of writing that are done in history (social studies) tend to be from readings.
These being articles, a textbook, and passages with historical significance. The types of writing
strategies that are mostly used and that I’ve seen, tend to be annotation-based strategies. As
well as others, such as cornell notes, exit slips, and thinking maps to name a few. The thing is
History is a subject that has a lot of reading, that’s why many of the writing strategies tend to
be note-taking and annotating based.
One Strategy from the resource that I converted to a digital online activity is the
storyboard strategy. Where students are given a number of boxes to sequence and retell the
important elements from a reading. Now, to make it into a 21st-century learning experience. I
used the Presidential Election Process as the context for my activity. This would be great since
the 2020 Election is happening right now, which makes the activity relevant to students. My
setup for the activity is to give a reading on how the election process works and after, have my
students do the storyboard activity. So for example, students will start the first box with the
presidential requirements Age, Birth, and Residency. Then the next box will be that Primaries
and Caucuses, keep doing that until it gets to the last box the electoral college and
inauguration. Also, since this is an online activity, students will gather online images to put in
the boxes which describe the election process. It’s a simple activity with the intention to explain
the election process to students.
 Name:
Election Process Story Board