Today, Isabella and I tried to finalize our ideas from our literacy project. Isabella wants to focus on the energy and time that she devotes to crew. We found some pictures online of the U.S. Women Rowing Team to serve as examples and inspiration for the project. Here is a photo of the 2008 Olympic gold metal-winning team:

These women worked incredibly hard to be the best!

In addition to searching for photographs, we also found videos of the national team on YouTube, which we may be able to incorporate into our final project. For our digital story, Isabella wants to combine examples of workout schedules, maps of the team’s daily running route, and her teammates perspectives to demonstrate the commitment of being on a high school crew team. Before our next meeting, Isabella plans on talking to her coaches about copies of practice write-ups and team photos that we may be able to include in our story. Next time, I hope that we can create a narrative arc for the digital story, so that we know exactly what media and information we need to collect. I am still pushing to see some of Isabella’s writing or poetry in the story. I hope that once we finalize our plan, she will identify gaps in the digital story that can be filled with her own voice.