5. What skills/knowledge must students possess in order
to do this project?
I think the students have to have some fundamental ability to
read. There are some critical thinking and reading skills that are
needed, but the unit was so individualized that students could come
in at just about any ability level and receive the assistance they
needed to go as far as they wanted to go. Some students took it
a lot farther and became very involved in current events and reading
the newspaper and making high level connections, where other students
spent more time just learning about characterization and reading
the books and not reading high-level, nonfiction books to supplement
it. So I guess it doesn't really matter what skill area they are
coming in at.
