Discuss what Joint Productive Activities are in your unit. This is not a joint productive activities per say, project. The whole project is a series of different productive activities. In this project, students are required to learn a variety of different tasks. Example, each student has to become the editor of their newsletter, graphic artist duties on finding out which picture they are going to use and the position of that graphic.
Students also have to electronically 'layout' out their design using the computer.
Lastly, they must work with their article to insure that it has accurate facts. By learning these different jobs they become familiar with what they will be expected to do in later projects such as Magazine Project. Discuss what Language Development activities are in your unit. Students are required to prepare articles depending upon their grade level. I stress spelling and sentences structure as well as paragraphs.