Module 2 Challenges: Courage and Leadership - An excerpt from She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Young Women About Life, Dreams and Success

Download this activity (RTF/PDF/Word).
Non-fiction (interview) by Erica Ehm

Objectives (Key learning outcomes are listed in bold)

• Recognize reading and listening as an active processes that require readers and listeners to find meaning
• Practise the behaviours of effective, strategic readers and listeners
• Respond personally, critically, and creatively
• Recognize the structure and characteristics of an interview
• Relate literary experiences to personal experience
• Write to reflect, clarify, and explore ideas
• Effective communicators know and apply Canadian spelling conventions for familiar and new vocabulary.
• Stylistic choices in language affect the meaning and impact of the message communicated

Assessment and Evaluation

Students may respond to the interview by choosing one of the following options as explained in the Responding Activity handout (RTF/PDF/Word):

• Design a visual or write a poem that pays tribute to your role model or mentor.
• Create a "Help Wanted" classified for a role model or mentor.
• Write a letter of thanks to your role model or mentor.
• Create a "How To" pamphlet for role models or mentors.

Teaching-Learning Strategies

• Questions
• KWL
• Paired Reading
• Discussion
• Brainstorming, Listing, Mapping, Webbing
• Note making
• Discussion Groups

October 4, 2005