Students discuss the status of the magazine and problems they are having. I encourage them to try and figure out different alternatives to solve the problem. I try to give them additional alternatives on ways to solve the problems after they have articulated the problem and ways to solve the issue. I don't think I can come up with any additional opportunities for instructional conversations that I have not already built into the project. Discuss how you have provided opportunities for student directed activities.
Students decide on positions, target audience for the magazine, age of the audience.
While I have directed two articles, interview and Zuni Story. Students are required to come up with additional articles they feel are appropriate for the target audience and the magazine. The group then decides on which articles will appear in the first issue of the magazine along with appropriate graphics. Each student is required to prepare a cover for the magazine and then the group gets together and decides on which cover will represent the magazine. Business will put restrictions on some aspects of their projects and I retain some consistency aspects of the magazine as well as spelling, sentences and grammar.