I have done storyboard assignments before. Several details implemented in this lesson made a big difference in the success of the overall project. Prior to this, I would collect storyboards and scripts as students finished the video editing and were ready to turn in a finished project. This year I collected the scripts and made suggestions before students were allowed to proceed to storyboard stage. All of the groups except one needed to go back and concentrate more on adding historical detail. I was able to bring them back to the definition of a treatment, emphasize again the purpose (education) and the audience (6^th grade history students) and have them revise to more clearly target the objective.

        Next, I collected the storyboards after the first class that students worked on them. This was for two reasons. One, I had witnessed too many groups in prior years having to begin again after losing their initial effort. Second, I wanted to look over the students’ work so far. I was able to make some corrections early on from which students could learn and then implement for the rest of the project.