Newspaper Clipping Generator

Goin on with the use of technology and fairy tales I have created this activity where your students are required to use the "Newspaper Clipping Generator".

You may need to download and place on the desktop's computers (in the computer room) the next fairy tales, remember you can dowload them from the Project Gutenberg's web page ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ ):

• "The emperor's new clothes" (By Hans Christian Andersen)
• "The real princess" (by Hans Christian Andersen)
• "Hansel and Gretel" (By the Grimm brothers)
• "Cinderella" (By the Grimm brothers)
• "Beauty and the Beast" (retold by Andrew Lang)
• "The three bears" (By anonymous)
• "The three little pigs" (retold by L. Leslie Brooke)
• "The Ugly duckling" (By H. C. Andersen)

For this activity you may also need a printer
Aimed at: teenager students (16-17 years)

WARMER

• Prepara flashcards wiht the names of the stories and the writers
• Tell your students they have to match the names of the tales with the correct authors - Do not correct them; if they are wrong, they will find the right answer when they are working with the tales
• Form groups of no more than four students and assign each group a different story, or let them chose one
• Tell your students they have to provide words related to the story, or words they may think are related to the tale they were assign

LESSON

• Take your students to the computer room
• Each group is to work in two different computers, that is, you will have two students in each computer
• Tell them they have to read the story they have chosen or the story they were assign (all the stories must be on the desktop's computer)
• Once they have finished, tell them to go the Newspaper Clipping Generator's web page (http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp)
• Your students are going to be journalists for a moment!: They will have to create a review on the story they have read and provide their opinion about it
• After that, tell them they have to save the "piece of news" they have created and print it

FINAL PART

• We're going back to the classroom!
• Exchange among your students the different reviews
• They will have to read the piece of news and provide an opinion of their partners' work (orally)

EVALUATION

• Students will be evaluated during the warmer - vocabulary use, expressions for agreeing or disagreeing, etc
• Use of the technological tool
• Group work and contribution
• Written assignment (review)
• Oral discussion about their partner's work

As usual, comments are more than welcomed!!