Stories Webquest (4 Lessons)

 Introduction  

Hi kids! This webquest has got as aims to get you involve in "stories world" and to practice skills like reading, listening and writing in the most funny way.

We are going to work with different stories and tales, from several authors and each one with its own characteristics.

This is an activity focused on the Sixth year, with twelve years-old students.
We will work with this along three days.

So, come on! Let's go to learn something about stories :)

 Task

You will get into groups of five (so there will be five groups). Each group will have got a story or tale for work and they will have to search the information I ask for. Then, you will have the opportunity to create your own story ending and to represent the story making a performance. 

Process

1) You will get into groups of five (so there will be five groups). 

2) Each group will work with a different story.

• Group 1 "Little Red Riding Hood"
• Group 2 "The mouse and the lion"
• Group 3 "Hansel and Gretel"
• Group 4 "The three little pigs"
• Group 5 "Jack and the beanstalk"

3) You will have to match these stories with these authors:

• Charles Perrault
• The Brothers Grimm
• Aesop

4) Search information of these authors (each group of their story). 

• When and where was he/she born?
•  What other stories did he/she write? (Write three or four)
• When and where did he/she die?

5) There are two stories which have got anonymous authors so, if your group have got it, you will be able to make up a name for the author and to create his/her own live. At the section where appears the second question (What other stories did he/she write?), you will have to mention three or four stories which are anonymous.

6)  After hearing and listening the story, you will have to answer these questions about it:

• WHO are the main characters?
• WHERE does the story happen?
• WHEN does the story happens?
• HOW does the story end? 

7) The final activity will be create your own final to the story (each person from each group will write his/her own individually).

8) You will have to organize the information that you have got and to make a mural (one mural for group) with an image of the author and writing the most important facts about he (those that answer the questions in step 4). When you have finished, you can start to prepare the performance for the next day.

9) You will represent the performance of your story. Each performance will last 10 minutes.

10) We will end with a kind of assesement. First, each children will read his/her own ending of the story, and we can make comments about them. Also, each child will have an opinion about the performaces in the previous lesson.    

 Timing

• In the first lesson, we will follow the steps from 1 to 7.
• In the second lesson, we will follow the step 8.
• In the third lesson we will follow the step 9.
• In the fourth lesson, we will follow the step 10.

 Resources

----------------Stories----------------

Little Red Riding Hood

The three little pigs

Jack and the Beanstalk

The mouse and the lion

Hansel and Gretel

  ----------------Authors----------------

Charles Perrault

The Brothers Grimm

Aesop

Evaluation

In the final evaluation of the activity, I will take into account the participation in the project besides the proper writing, the hability to understand the stories and the creativity.

Conclusions

So, I hope you will enjoy this project and I will appreciate you to write your opinion at the end of the webquest. 

Let's go to work!