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Instructional Goals:
The students will:
-know how to locate, complete, and submit an online quiz pertaining to material previously studied in the classroom.
-successfully use various media to find the answers to questions on paper handouts.
-independently utilize pre-selected website sources [a] at school and [b]others which are blocked on the school's computer network when they are at home.
Learning Objectives:
The students will be able to
-find answers to ten questions by attentively viewing a videotape designed for students studying "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare.
-independently complete a printed quiz of five (5) questions.
-independently complete an online quiz of twenty-five (25) questions and record his/her score on the given handout.
-accurately complete a chronology of events that occur during the play.
-successfully state identifying attributes about each character in the play.
-discuss various thought-provoking questions with their group members.
Motivational Goals:
-Build confidence level for English class exam on Romeo and Juliet.
-Generate lifelong interest in works of William Shakespeare.
-Encourage appreciation of various live theater performances.
Collaborator(s): Ninth grade English Teacher
Introduction:
-Students will arrive in library and sit near the TV/VCR in random order.
-Welcome them and distribute handout packets as they enter.
-Explain that various methods will be used to help them review for their exam on Romeo and Juliet to be given the next day in their English class.
Body:
-Watch the video, which has been cued up to run the last fifteen minutes of the film.
-Students are to independently answer as many questions as possible during the film.
-Explain students are to individually take the online quiz and write their score where indicated.
-alert students to the directions on handouts noting which websites are accessible from school and which are not.
-Explain that students in the same group will merge their quiz scores and also be able to help each other with answers for the handouts. For the part on the characters, they are to divide the characters among group members (each student will research approximately five characters) and then share the information they find. They can divide the days in the chronology exercise in a similar manner as well as the questions on the printed quiz; when the objective style knowledge level questions are answered they are to hold a discussion using the provided questions as a guide.
-Instruct students that they are to sit near their group members when they go to the computer area.
-Announce that the number written in the top right corner of their handout packets is their group number and that members of the same group should sign the same paper and sit near each other in the computer area.
Conclusion:
-Total quiz scores by groups.
-Remind students further review can be done at home using websites not accessible from the school's student computer network.
-Distribute questionnaires about the review class.
