Webquest, Charles Dickens, biography, Victorian time

1. Profesora: LAURA DOSIO
Espacio curricular: Lengua extranjera - Inglés
Año: 2009

2. CHARLES DICKENS’
BIOGRAPHY
Unidad Educativa nº 4: 9º Año
Asignatura: Inglés
Profesora: Laura F. Dosio
INTRODUCCIÓN
TAREA
PROCESO
RECURSOS
EVALUACIÓN
CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCCION
Charles Dickens es uno de los más
importantes escritores ingleses del
siglo XIX. Fue un novelista
excepcional y vivió en una época muy
particular. Es uno de los pocos
escritores de ese momento que
obtuvo un gran reconocimiento por su
trabajo.

4. TAREA
Los invito a investigar sobre la vida y obra de este
importante escritor y su época. Deberán responder el
cuestionario que se encuentra en el módulo Proceso
y luego realizar una presentación tipo power point
con los hechos mas destacados de la vida de Charles
Dickens, su obras mas conocidas y características de
la época Victoriana. Finalmente deberán presentar
una biografía de Charles Dickens realizada en un
procesador de texto de 100-120 palabras
aproximadamente. Deben agregar ilustraciones a
cada trabajo.
Para realizar este trabajo se formarán siete
grupos, integrados por cuatro estudiantes cada uno.

5. PROCESO
Para realizar la tarea asignada deberán visitar las páginas que
se encuentran en la sección recursos y contestar las siguientes
preguntas:
 Dickens’ s life:
1. When and where was Charles Dickens born?
2. How old was Dickens when his family moved to London?
3. What were his parent’s names?
4. What happened to his father?
5. What did Charles Dickens do when his father left?
6. Where did he work as a journalist?
7. Who did he marry?
8. How many children did they have?
9. When did he died?
10. Where and when was he buried?

6.  Dickens’ s literary work:
1. List four fiction work
2. List four short stories
3. Which novels did he wrote in these dates?
1837-39:
1849-50:
1859:
1860-61:
 Dickens’ s time:
1. Read the introduction and summarize it in a paragraph (8-10 lines)
2. Go down the page. You’ll notice “SOCIAL CLASSES”. Name the
three classes and define them.
3. Scroll down the page until you see “MONEY”. List three types of
money used in England during this time.
4. Further down, you’ll see “DISEASES”. List and define the three
mayor diseases of that time.

7. RECURSOS
For Dickens’ s life:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/dickens_timeline_text.html
http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html
http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html
http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
For Dickens’ s literary work:
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
For Dickens’s time:
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm

8. EVALUACIÓN
Power Point
Category Excellent Very Good Good Fair
Makes excellent use of Makes good use of font, Makes use of font, color, Use of font, color,
font, color, graphics, color, graphics, effects, graphics, effects, etc. graphics, effects etc. but
Attractiveness effects, etc. to enhance etc. to enhance to but occasionally these these often distract from
the presentation. presentation. detract from the the presentation content.
presentation content.
Well-rehearsed with Rehearsed with fairly Delivery not smooth, but Delivery not smooth and
smooth delivery that smooth delivery that able to maintain interest audience attention often
Presentation holds audience attention. holds audience attention of the audience most of lost.
most of the time. the time.
Covers topic in-depth with Covers topic in-depth Includes essential Content is minimal OR
details and examples. with details and information about the there are several factual
Content
Subject knowledge is examples. Subject topic but there are 1-2 errors.
excellent. knowledge is excellent. factual errors.
Content is well organized Uses headings or Content is logically There was no clear or
using headings or bulleted lists to organized for the most logical organizational
Organization bulleted lists to group organize, but the overall part. structure, just lots of
related material. organization of topics facts.
appears flawed.
Product shows a large Product shows some Uses other people's Uses other people's
amount of original original thought. Work ideas (giving them ideas, but does not give
Originality thought. Ideas are shows new ideas and credit), but there is little them credit.
creative and inventive. insights. evidence of original
thinking.

9. Biography writing
CATEGORY Excellent Very Good Good Fair
Information clearly relates Information clearly relates Information clearly relates Information has little or
to the main topic. It to the main topic. It to the main topic. No nothing to do with the
Quality of includes several provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples main topic.
Information supporting details and/or details and/or examples. are given.
examples.
Information is very Information is organized Information is organized, The information appears
organized with well- with well-constructed but paragraphs are not to be disorganized. 8)
Organization constructed paragraphs paragraphs. well-constructed.
and subheadings.
All paragraphs include Most paragraphs include Paragraphs included Paragraphing structure
introductory sentence, introductory sentence, related information but was not clear and
Paragraph explanations or details, explanations or details, were typically not sentences were not
Construction and concluding sentence. and concluding sentence. constructed well. typically related within the
paragraphs.
An excellent photo of the A good photo of the author is An adequate photo of the A poor photo of the author is
author is included with the included with the report. It is author is included with the included with the report. It is
Photo of the
report. It is very clear. clear, and not grainy. report. It may not be clear, or unclear and grainy.
author it may be grainy.
No grammatical, spelling Almost no grammatical, A few grammatical Many grammatical,
or punctuation errors. spelling or punctuation spelling, or punctuation spelling, or punctuation
Conventions errors errors. errors.

10. CONCLUSIÓN
I hope you have enjoyed doing this task. You have learned not
only to write a biography but also about an important period in
history, that is the Victorian Age and the industrial revolution.
I encourage you now to read one of Charles Dickens’s novels or
watch any of the films based on his novels. They are wonderful.
Congratulations!!!!!