Would You Rather?

Durée de travail estimée

Attente(s)

Oral and Oral-Visual Communication:

• Use active listening strategies and a range of thinking skills to comprehend and respond to a variety of oral and oral-visual communications.

Writing:

• Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
• Write simple texts in a variety of forms and for various media, applying their knowledge of the basic elements and techniques associated with each form.
• Revise and edit their texts, applying their knowledge of language conventions.
• Use their knowledge of publishing and production skills and strategies to enhance the presentation of their work.

Contenu(s) d’apprentissage

Oral and Oral-Visual Communication:

• Recognize and use basic active listening strategies (e.g., maintain eye contact with the speaker, ignore other sounds and noises).
• Contribute ideas and opinions to formal and informal discussions, and respond with courtesy and respect to the contributions of others (e.g., contribute their own ideas to large-group discussions, give respectful feedback to peers on their presentations).
• Express opinions about the ideas and views presented in oral and oral-visual communications, and defend those opinions on the basis of evidence in the communication and their own prior knowledge, experience, values, beliefs, and observations (e.g., state whether they think the portrayal of a character in an audiotaped skit is realistic or a stereotype, and explain why);

Writing:

• Use a variety of pre-writing strategies independently to generate and develop ideas and to select an appropriate topic or form for their writing (e.g., independently engage in free writing;).
• Sort and classify the material they have gathered, listing the ideas and information they intend to present in a logical order, keeping their purpose and audience in mind (e.g., use chronological order for instructions, put the most important feature first in an advertisement).
• Produce short, persuasive media texts in various forms (e.g., classified ads, posters) , using literary/stylistic devices and technological resources (e.g., catchy headings, precise vocabulary, a variety of colours and font sizes) to enhance the persuasiveness of the text.
• Make simple revisions to improve the content, clarity, and interest of their written work, using feedback from the teacher and focusing on the following:
  • ensuring that all relevant ideas and information are included, and deleting unnecessary ideas and information;
  • ensuring that their ideas progress logically and that the text is coherent;
  • introducing new words from their reading into their writing;
  • using synonyms (e.g., big/huge) and antonyms (e.g., long/short) ;
  • using prefixes (e.g., unfriendly) and suffixes (e.g., friendship ) correctly.
• Edit and proofread their written work, using reference material (e.g., print and electronic dictionaries, checklists) and guidelines developed by the teacher (e.g., an editing checklist specific to the writing task, a posted class writing guideline), and applying some language conventions.
• Produce a clean and legible final draft, using a variety of techniques and resources to format and enhance the presentation, with a focus on the following:
  • using headings and subheadings appropriately to help organize the text;
  • using underlining, colour, and/or a different style of lettering (e.g., printing, cursive writing, a different font) to emphasize certain elements of the text (e.g., use underlining or a bold font for titles and headings) ;
  • integrating clip art, photos, and/or diagrams to supplement and help clarify information and messages; labelling diagrams accurately.

Déroulement et directives

Cette activité peut se faire à n’importe quel temps pendant l’hiver.

Connais-tu les activités « Would you rather »?  C’est une forme de question qui te demande d’expliquer ton opinion face à la situation que tu choisis.  C’est très amusant!

Activité(s) d’apprentissage

Étapes à suivre:

1.  Commence par télécharger le document « Would you rather? » afin de lire la page 2 sur les opinions.
2. Lis les directives de la page 3.  Celles-ci t’expliqueront toutes les étapes afin de comprendre comment bien écrire ton opinion sur un des énoncés.
3. Choisis 1 carte qui t’intéresse afin d’écrire ton opinion.
4. Rends-toi à la page 14 afin de dresser un plan de tes idées et un brouillon.
5. Les pages 15 et 16 peuvent t’aider à choisir des mots précis pour expliquer tes opinions.
6. Assure-toi de réviser ton travail à l’aide des critères de la page 17.
7. Écris ton travail au propre et présente-le à quelqu’un de ton entourage.
8. Lorsque tu auras terminé ton premier texte d’opinion, tu peux choisir 3 à 5 différentes cartes pour poursuivre l’activité.
9. Tu peux également poser différentes questions « Would you rather? » à un ami afin de comparer tes réponses.