Connections Standards Exercises


Read the two exercises below, and then, in the Brainstorming Forum below, comment on how these exercises foster the connections standards. If you don't want to brainstorm, go directly to the Hints, and then to the exercises for other standards.


Connections Standards Exercise:

Option A

     Students divide into small groups (2-3 students in each) in a classroom, or into small conferences on an on-line server (such as in a writing lab with a LAN).

     Their assignment: each group is to find the vocabulary or phrases in a particular website (identified by the teacher) that echo the language and ideas in Borchert's play.  Their job is to find 3-4 examples.  For students with less maturity, who cannot be trusted to both search out and evaluate information they find, the teacher may provide the sites and the answers, allowing the students to discuss why the answers are the answers (and perhaps fill in missing information themselves).


Connections Standards Exercise:

Option B

     Students take key words from Borchert's play, and use them to conduct a web search in Yahoo-Deutschland for relevant web information.  They report on what they have found.


Connections Standards Exercise:

Option C

     Assign the Option B exercise, and have students take notes on each others' reports.  They must identify who gave the report, the type of website located, and one feature that the student reported on that interests the writer.


BRAINSTORMING

     Why do these exercises foster the connections standards, and what difficulties do you foresee in implementing them?

 HINTS