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