Website: http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t2prod/wilkinswq.html
This web quest asks students to explore gender roles and issues of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Students work in groups of four to analyze Roe vs. Wade or Virginia Military Institute vs. United States. First, students gather information about their case, researching precedents to support their argument. Then, students use relevant quotes from the novel as “evidence.” The final assignment requires students to create a newsletter that includes their legal brief as well as two political cartoons connected to the case. The newsletter aspect of this product seems to take away from the legal brief aspect because it asks students to fuse two already foreign and potentially confusing forms of writing. I would modify the assignment so that it focuses solely on argumentative writing. I would also insist that students use at least two other quality sources to support their argument. This assignment would be a good fit for my honors 9th grade English students, most of whom will take AP Language in their junior year. The AP test requires students to synthesize information from several documents to create a convincing argument around a particular issue. This web quest will pose a greater challenge for honors students and will provide them with an opportunity to hone skills necessary for the AP Language course.
Here are additional websites I found helpful:
www.learner.org/resources/series111.html#
home.mindspring.com/~chadwick15/_wsn/Conversation.html
http://www3.uakron.edu/noden/strats/strats9/answers.html
www.webenglishteacher.com/
www.hononegah.org/hono2/reynolds/sentpattrns.html
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