Today we worked on our websites some more as well as learned about new tech. One of the new things we learned was the WebQuest. We now have to create a webquest of our own. For this upcoming year, I will be teaching three new classes; two of them are similar to ones I have taught before. As a result, I think that I will work on developing some of my content for one of the new classes. I will be teaching a popular fiction class, and the focus will be on older texts that have remained popular for a long period of time. Two texts are Beowulf. One is a novelization of the epic while the second is a graphic novel. Beowulf is one of the oldest popular fiction pieces taught regularly in the classroom. Also, we will be reading War of the Worlds, Planet of the Apes, Alice in Wonderland, and The Hobitt.
In a webquest, I would be looking for students to learn about reasons/ways that the works became so popular initially, and possibly why they have remained so popular since then. One of the major projects that students will need to do is write a paper discussing how/why several of the novels are considered to be popular fiction using time period infromation. The problem that I am having with creating this webquest is the usefulness of it. Most of what I can think of to have the students do would be just as beneficial as a class discussion. How would it be more beneficial for students to go to a Google Books page and read that Tolkien was the first to really fully use his style, when instead I could just have that quick conversation with them?
Any ideas?
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