Reading+with+Character+in+GarageBand+08+(1st+Grade)

by Mrs. Barrett and Chris Pugh

=Standards=
 * Language**
 * CFU 0101.2.10** Recite poems, stories, and songs.
 * CFU 0101.8.7** Identify the characters, plot, and setting of a story.


 * ISTE NETS**
 * 2d.** **Communication and Collaboration** - contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

=Lesson= Only one laptop will be needed for each reader's theater group. It will be their mobile recording studio.

TSW...
 * 1) Click on the GarageBand icon. (If another student's work opens, click the red close button in the top left corner of the window.)
 * 2) Click "Create New Podcast Episode"
 * 3) Type a name to call your reader's theater in Garageband and click CREATE.
 * 4) Click on a voice track. There are 2 voice tracks to choose. They are optimized for an adult male voice or an adult Female voice. Students' voices will work. It will not matter which they use.
 * 5) Record each part of the reader's theater separately. The student will need to think about the characters in the story, how they act, and what they do to decide what the voice should sound like. Record by pressing the round silver button with a red dot to start recording and the blue triangle to stop recording.
 * 6) When finished, click the button with a black triangle pointing to a vertical line on the left to go back to the beginning.
 * 7) Click the PLAY button to hear your reader's theater.
 * 8) As time allows, click the button in the middle toolbar shaped like an eyeball.
 * You will see sound effects and background music that can be drug to the other tracks to enhance the reader's theater. They will need to be put in the right place to be effective. Play the reader's theater and stop by pressing the blue triangle when the right place is reached for the sound.
 * 1) When finished, click SHARE menu and choose "Send Song to iTunes". iTunes will open and show the song. It can be collected from the student computers by inserting a thumbdrive then clicking and dragging the name to the thumbdrive.