| Body | This activity has students reading an article about an upcoming festival and organizing the pertinent details they would need to plan a weekend at this festival. Then they must discuss and develop a plan with their partner to attend this event, working within certain constraints.
Learning objectives:
- Students will be able to identify key information in an article to help them plan a trip
- Students will be able to discuss and develop a trip plan for the weekend with a peer
Modes: Interpretive, Interpersonal Communication
Materials needed: Handout
Procedure:
- Introduce topic of planning a weekend trip to see a specific event. What type of information is important?
- Pass out the handout to student. Students first should read the article, highlighting important details that they would need to plan a weekend at the Rose Festival.
- Next students should fill in the chart on the handout with the pertinent information.
- Review details with the class as needed, especially if there is some confusion or missing pieces.
- Now have students use the chart to work with a partner to develop a plan for attending the Rose Festival over the weekend. They must discuss the plan and record their conversation. They need to keep in mind the constraints on the handout.
- They should also record a short speech (one minute or so) where both students take turns to answer questions: (a) What different plans did each of you have in mind? (b) How did you decide on the plan that you have now as a pair? Why did you make that decision? (c) Was it difficult or easy to make a plan together? Why?
- Once recorded, students can turn the recordings into the teacher and/or post the short speech on a discussion board where other students can hear it too.
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