TASK CARD ACTIVITIES
Based on Williams' Teaching Strategies (1990)
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Paradoxes-- Design a visual representation
of one or both of the sayings "You are what you eat" and "no man is an
island" from the point of view of Frankenstein or Dracula.
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Attributes-- Read either Stoker's Dracula
or Shelley's Frankenstein and compile a list of attributes for character
and setting
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Analogies-- List all the things that
make you laugh and all that make you cry. Find similarities/differences.
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Organized random search-- Look for
varying uses of the word "monster"
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Skills of searching--web quest searching
the legitimacy of LochNess Monster or Bigfoot
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Tolerance for ambiguity--read up to
the last chapter of Frankenstein and write and illustrate your own ending;
then compare to the original; AND/OR create a monster for presentation;
determine the type of audience that would benefit from this creation
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Intuitive expression--explore a true
story of "monstrous behavior or proportions"--prepare a newspaper article
from the point of view of the victim, the mayor of the city, and an outsider.Find
similarities/contrasts AND/OR find pictures of people or animals with "monstrous"
looking expressions. Determine what might have caused them to have this
particular facial expression.
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Adjustment-Development--research conditions
such as elephantitis, dowager's hump, leprosy--How has society's view of
these conditions changed over time? How would a person's life be affected
by these conditions then and now? AND/OR Imagine that some major
change occurred in your life in the near future. Describe the change and
what you would have to do to cope with the changes.
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Other possible categories--Discrepancies,
examples of change, examples of habit, provocative questions
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introduction