Online Adventures with Jules Verne

Response to Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days Jr. Ed. Classic Literature Library online. http://www.jules-verne.co.uk/

Grade Six Language Arts

GLO: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance clarity and artistry of communication.

SLO: Present and Share

• Present Information – use various styles and forms of presentation, depending on content, audience and purpose
• Enhance Presentation – emphasize key ideas and information to enhance audience understanding and enjoyment

Activity: In groups, students will read and discuss Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. The class will discuss the purpose of online texts and novels. The students will then respond by writing an alternative chapter about one of a place that Phileas Fogg did not visit on his adventures. These adventures will then be posted online in a blog format which is similar to that of the novel. The students will add photos of the places that they are writing about.

ITC GLO: Students will become discerning consumers of mass media and electronic information.

· Recognize that graphics, video and sound enhance communication

· Describe how the use of various texts and graphics can alter perception

ITC GLO: Students will compose, revise and edit text.

• Create and revise original text to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques
• edit and format text to clarify and enhance meaning, using such word processing features as the thesaurus, find/change, text alignment, font size and font style

I believe that an assignment like this will allow student to understand the uses of technology to share literature and to publish their own writing. It is a common type of assignment for Language Arts but there is no reason that a teacher cannot involve technology. Students will read the text online, research their chosen location on line, use a publishing program such as Microsoft Word and then post their stories on line. Over all the use of technology makes this assignment more interesting for students and meets a larger number of course learning objectives.