Finishing up Child's Play

Personal Play Narrative -- done
"There Was A Child Went Forth" -- done
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One Pager -- due Tuesday, April 12
Graphic Organizers -- due Wednesday, April 13
FIRST DRAFT, Argument or Persuasion, due Wednesday, April 13
Vocab -- 16 words: turn in vocab work; take test, Thursday, April 14
FINAL DRAFT, Argument or Persuasion, April 15
SPRING BREAK April 16-April 23
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HOW TO DO IT ALL

How to Write a One-Pager
A One-Pager is an exercise in discipline -- writing to fill a particular space: a 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, with 1" margins top, left, right, and bottom. Set your page margins in the word processor under "Page Setup." I should be able to slap down a ruler, and measure 1" all around.

Type your name in the top right corner, and the date; double space, and center a title (don't use the words "One Pager"). Don't bother with my name, the class name, or any of that.

Please use 12 point Times Roman, and SINGLE SPACE. Your finished work will look like a picture in a frame; my advice -- write more than you need, and then edit down to fill the page.

TOPICS:
HOW DO WE SELL STUFF TO CHILDREN?
Watch cartoons this Saturday morning, but pay particular attention to the commercials. Your focus is to see how much time is spent each hour on the programming versus the selling. How do they sell stuff to boys? How do they sell stuff to boys? What do you notice about sales and marketing techniques, methods of persuasion, music, appeals?

Go to Toys R Us, and examine how things are packaged and arranged on shelves. Pay attention to colors used to market toys to boys, girls and babies. Look around with a skeptical mind, like "what is going on beneath the surface here?" Try not to be taken in; keep an emotional distance.

Watch some little kids playing, and observe their interactions. Watch how they decide what do to, who is in charge, how they intereact. Think about what you've read in The Developing Person, Childhood Through Adolescence

TO BE CONTINUED