Alienation & Isolation – searching for a place in the world Reading & Writing Collaboration Unit

What is this collaboration project? You choose a book from the three to read. Organize in-class group discussions about the book. Maintain a group wiki to compile your group’s ideas and thinking.

You choose a book from the three to read.

Organize in-class group discussions about the book.

Maintain a group wiki to compile your group’s ideas and thinking.

What should you come to understand at the end of this unit? People discover their own identity through experiences, both positive and negative, and by figuring out where they fit in the world around them. Characters in literature face many of the same conflicts and experiences that we do. Sharing our thoughts and purposefully collaborating can help us develop a greater understanding of our own ideas.

People discover their own identity through experiences, both positive and negative, and by figuring out where they fit in the world around them.

Characters in literature face many of the same conflicts and experiences that we do.

Sharing our thoughts and purposefully collaborating can help us develop a greater understanding of our own ideas.

Essential questions… How do we know who we really are and what we believe in? What are some common human conflicts faced by the main character? What makes this like things I've experienced? What can I learn from my classmates? How do I learn it?

How do we know who we really are and what we believe in?

What are some common human conflicts faced by the main character? What makes this like things I've experienced?

What can I learn from my classmates? How do I learn it?

Why use a wiki with this unit? It’s an easily accessible document that can be edited by multiple people Promotes sharing of ideas between people Uses technology to encourages collaboration of ideas

It’s an easily accessible document that can be edited by multiple people

Promotes sharing of ideas between people

Uses technology to encourages collaboration of ideas

Materials needed One of three novels – Black Boy or The Color of Water or Frankenstein Class wiki at: http://bhsenglish10.wikispaces.com An open mind and willingness to collaborate with one another

One of three novels – Black Boy or The Color of Water or Frankenstein

Class wiki at: http://bhsenglish10.wikispaces.com

An open mind and willingness to collaborate with one another

This is what you will see when you log on…

Start by having one group member create a new page here…

Give your group’s page a name – the book title and class period Black Boy – period 4

Select the assignment template

Now you’re ready to edit. Type right into page… … Press save when you’re done.

At any time navigate your way back to the main page over here

Good luck and enjoy…