Kevin Grant

"Lights, Camera, Documentary!" is a three-part program created by Grant where eighth-grade students at Plainfield Central School will incorporate language arts and social studies to develop and produce a series of motivational and inspiring instructional films, historical skits, and reenactments. First students will develop instructional movies on key lessons in reading and writing which will include techniques such as animation, claymation, video clips, news reports, voiceover lessons, and animated text. All of the movies the students create will be edited on their computers using editing software. During the second part of the program, they will focus more on the films by creating historical skits, reenactments and primary source documents. For the third part, the language arts students will write a series of short film scripts and produce the best scripts from each class. The final goal is to design the films as DVDs for the entire student body, community, and for the film festival. Grant, who lives in Norwich, hopes that through the constant exchange of ideas, the development of quality films, and consistent reading and writing, the students' learning will continue to improve.