ࡱ> 685 bjbj . xx Jy{{{{{{$DRFyy[- }2"e0%828-8-88x : A GIFT (Great Ideas for teachers) from 2007 Dr. Rick Kenney Style Stars How to help students collaboratively learn and demonstrate the essence of Associated Press style Rationale: Style Stars forces students to crack open and investigate just a part of the stylebook while reducing their fear that they must memorize all of it. It also gives them choices and makes them take ownership of their learning by creating a study guide for their final exam. The partnering and presentation require them to come out of their shell at least a little. And the performances remind them that even copy editors, who are often disparaged as dull, can and must! be creative. Introduction: Students in my basic newspaper editing course learn to play Style Stars, an interactive exercise requiring that they (1) learn 10 style rules well enough to teach their classmates; (2) create a quiz that becomes part of a take-home study guide for the final exam in style; and (3) present one of those style rules in a classroom performance that includes some audio and/or visual aid or mnemonic. Implementation: To alleviate stage fright, students are partnered with a classmate. Both are assigned a small section of the stylebook. From their assigned sections, the students choose 10 entries they think are most important to know. Each of these points becomes a style star for all students to watch. For each style star, the team must create an original problem statement that requires a quiz-taker to circle the correct choice; 10 problem statements in all. For example: The boy [convinced, persuaded] his friend to switch lunches with him. Enrollment ensures at least 10 teams create 100 statements for a hypothetical quiz. This series of quizzes, in fact, becomes a study guide for all of the students. I collect their work in a standard format, copy and print all of it double-sided, and distribute it as a study guide two weeks before their final exam. Choosing one style star from their 10 problem statements, team members collaborate to script a demonstration of it for the rest of the class. This challenges them to justify the rules significance while explaining its subtleties. At the same time, they get to have fun devising a creative lesson. Mime, music, interpretive dance: All and more are encouraged. Impact: One team took on the task of explaining the confusion among gibe, jibe, and jive by incorporating an audio clip of the BeeGees 1970s tune Jive Talkin and an audio/video clip of Gene Hackmans titular character from The Royal Tenenbaums challenging Danny Glovers Henry Sherman, You wanna talk some jive? Ill talk some jive. Ill talk some jive like youve never heard! By learning an AP rule and getting up in front of their classmates in a performance, the students themselves become the ultimate style stars. The presentations tend to stick in a students mind both performer and learner which leads to learning the style rules. The quizzes, compiled as a study guide, help students take ownership of their learning and prepare them for their final exam. And me? 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