Students at Olentangy Liberty High School (OLHS) were lined up as early as 3 a.m. today in hopes of earning the the right to use a favorite historical film as the basis for a multimedia research project. Each of the 143 sophomores participating in this unit had to select a movie, but no movie could be used by more than one student, creating a friendly battle over the most popular films. The film selection process took place before classes began at 7:20 a.m.
Now that the movies are assigned, students will spend the next two months working on research papers and creating multimedia presentations about the historical accuracy of the films. Final projects will be presented the evening of Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Participating in this learning exercise supports the writing process benchmarks of the language arts curriculum and the historical data benchmarks of the U.S. history curriculum.
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- Students camp out in a hallway at OLHS.
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- Students keep their energy up during the wait.
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- Students peer through a classroom window while waiting to make their selections.
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- Students line up to make their selections.
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- The first student in line makes her movie selection.
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- A view of many of the students’ movie selections.
