Topic: Theatre for Teenagers in New York City
Grade:
ESL Intermediate/Varied 9-12
Aim:
How can the Internet be used to prepare students to see a show?
Instructional Objectives: Students will be able to; scan a website and
find information;
review a site and create their own Internet Scavenger
Hunt; e-mail their written assignments
to their teacher.
Standards addressed by this lesson: Use computer technology to create,
manipulate, and edit text; use the conventions of electronic mail; use both
primary and secondary sources of information for research; select and limit topics for informational
writing; analyze and integrate data, facts, and ideas to communicate
information; analyze a variety of texts
using resources such as recognized experts, knowledge from school subjects and
reading, and personal experience.
Materials:
Computer with Internet access; Scavenger Hunt
hand out, e-mail accounts.
Do Now:
What do you think .org and .com stand for? Answer: organization (non profit) and company (for profit).
Development:
Teacher directs the students to go to the first website of the
Roundabout Theatre and answer the questions on the Scavenger Hunt handout.
After they are finished, then they make up a scavenger hunt
of their own by reviewing the “The Bomb-itty of Errors” site and developing
questions based on the information on the site.
The answer to the first scavenger hunt is e-mailed to the
teacher. The questions of the second
scavenger hunt which they wrote is e-mailed to a classmate.
The students who exchanged scavenger hunts orally exchange the
questions and answers.
Homework:
Write a paragraph on – Which show are you looking forward to seeing
more, “Uncle Vanya” or “The Bomb-itty of Errors”? based on the information you learned from your scavenger hunts.
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