Interactive Oral

Guidelines Interactive Oral

You must conduct some research to explore the context of the works you have studied. You will work together with some of your classmates to explore the background of the work. You will be permitted to choose the classmates you would like to work with – yet there are guidelines you must follow. Research:

I will prescribe the number of members in the group. You must be able to communicate with one another outside of the classroom. Each person in the group must have a role (job). Every group must be ready to present on Feb. 27 (even day) whether all group members are present or not – no excuses Group Guidelines:

Relevant elements of the writer’s biography • The historical aspects, political or social, of the work • The geographical backdrop against which the work is set • The sociological or anthropological situations of the characters • Cultural issues and practices having to do with economics, gender, class, or race (these are all separate topics) • You may come up with a topic, but I must approve it Suggested topics:

You might assign particular aspects for a brief presentation to the class, then open up to a whole-class questions-and-answer discussion period. You may choose to present views within your research and have different members of a panel present various views of those ideas. Presenting your research to the class:

You may offer some short presentations and then involve the whole group in some activities such as role playing, forum theatre (In this process the actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way. The audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of what they were seeing), and written reactions.

The essence of this activity is to explore and clarify the cultural situation that is the backdrop and texture of the work on which you are focused. Your teacher will participate in this activity. You may choose some supplementary visual material to help, and you might also want the rest of the class to have a t hand some printed or visual material that you have prepared. Goal

Choose your groups: choose a group name • Determine your topic: no two groups can have the same topic • Determine your roles: everyone must research • Discuss how you will communicate • Report this information to your teacher: • One person will record all of the information above on a sheet of paper and turn it in. • Time – 20 minutes Your Task

Interactive Oral