

webquest
Heroes
Developed by
Rawda Sraih
English teacher e-mail:
overview
content area :art and language
grade level: -1st secondary-2nd secondary literary and scientific
class time:2class periods
introduction
Each of us should be fan of those famous people who are successful in sport, history, policy...etc
?who is your favorite hero
?At any rate are you a real fan
what is your opinion to accompany you in an exciting quest through the Web sites to know a lot about those people
task
dear students
At the end of your quest ,you are supposed to have well knowledge about heroes from different communities and fields
and you will be able to give the right description about them /names-jobs-nationalities- personality and deeds; realizing the real meaning of heroism
In addition, dear, you are expected to use tenses correctly ( past simple ,past continuous and present perfect tenses)
tip: each group has the choice to find the suitable technological way of writing (front page-power point-word) to show the others what they did
process
In groups ,dear, you are expected to accomplish the following missions
first mission
Have a quest through this site
http://www.nufcpics.com/pictures_95422/Michel-Owen.html
Once you begin your quest
find pictures of the famous people in sport and have information about them .
you could also use the search engine for more info
pele'
Michael_Owen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen
David Beckham
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/sport/1068.php
Bobby Charlton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Charlton
zinedine-zidane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane
second mission

search these sites for
information about these famous national heroes and campaigners
Yusuf al-Azmah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_al-Azmah
Martin Luther King
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Mother Teresa
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html
Gandhi
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html
then give full description about
.their characteristic and heroic actions in order to be able to tell where does their heroism lie
third mission
?Have you ever been a hero/heroine
Dear students, each of you must have a heroic situation one day. In a short paragraph mention that action that you or any other person offered somebody a help
or saved one's life; then think of this question
"what makes a hero?"?.
"the really great person is the person who makes everybody feel great"
do you agree?
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Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_al-Azmah
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html
a grammar website may help
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensetext.htm
Non-web resources
print resources (school books-magazines-newspapers
&
students' memories
posters and other motivational techniques can also be used if possible just like: audio cassettes or videos
Evaluation
dear all, look! your work is going to be evaluated according to the following criterion
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acceptable |
Good |
Excellent |
Category |
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Responses covers some of the task suggested |
Response covers most of the task suggested |
Responses cover all of the task suggested |
Task response |
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each student is active and helpful for his own |
actively existed among students in their groups
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actively existed among all groups in the class |
Cooperative work |
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present and covers some of the responses |
response to most of the purposes suggested |
sufficient and response to all purposes suggested |
Images
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achieving the purpose of searching but tardy. using, in writing, passable effects and coordination |
purposeful searching of information approximately on time. using good effects and coordination during writing |
searching the websites given purposely on time using the programs of writing with charming effects and well coordination
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technology |
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Knowledge of grammar but with some errors |
Accurate but with few errors |
Accurate with no errors |
Grammar
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conclusion
my dear
as they say "we learn by doing-but we learn even better by talking about what we did''
now ,give answers to these points
would you like to suggest ways of doing your activities differently to improve the lesson?
how might the outcome have changed if the roles were interpreted differently ?
?were you flexible enough to compromise with the group, or did you yield to group pressures ?
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please,
express your views through the
and
discussion forum
and
postal group e-mail
to join the postal group
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samples of students' output
http://www.geocities.com/halasraih/sport.htm
http://www.geocities.com/halasraih/MAG.htm
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the end
thanks everybody for following me
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