WebQuest Maker. Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A WebQuest on Iran. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice The graphic novel Persepolis is set in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Back to top Creating a PowerPoint Slide: This handout gives step-by-step instructions for creating a slide in Microsoft PowerPoint.ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool: This online tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.
For Further Reading Firek, Hilve. Harris, Marla. 2007. A WebQuest Starter on the Shah of Iran: Background for Marjane Satrapi's Graphic Novel Persepolis. By Lisa Wynn, IUPUI In groups, you will research the Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)--especially his role in government and reasons for his eventual overthrow and exile. To continue with the ongoing theme of "Struggles and Solutions", we have read Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels, Persepolis I and Persepolis II. In groups of 4, you will create a graphic journal that will be published as part of a class wiki. The journal and research necessary to create the journal will provide an opportunity to travel to a time and place you have never been, and to encounter a historically significant person you've never seen--namely, the Shah of Iran.
You will be required to make detailed observations concerning the history or Iran, and, perhaps, even geography, anthropology, literature and the arts. PHOTO Source: WebQuest Search Results. Webquests - ESL Web Directory. Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level. One of the hardest things to teach, in my opinion, is research. I have been teaching in a computer lab for going on five years and I have never taught research the same way twice. This is partially because I never teach anything the same way twice, but it's also because each year I learn something new. Sometimes I learn the hard way when things don't pan out the way I planned in the classroom, sometimes I learn because something I didn't plan arose and worked out well, and sometimes its due to my own self-education as I prepare to teach my annual research unit.
I begin teaching research skills in third grade -- just at the time where my students' reading skills are such that they can feel successful and just at the time when they have mounds and mounds of natural curiosity. In the past, I have done your typical find-information-and-regurgitate-it-to-me kinds of projects, all in the name of teaching students how to locate information. Choosing a Topic, Creating Keywords and Search Terms.