OH! Mr. Valentine...

WEB-QUEST

Who is Mr. Valentine? As we discover this answer, we will look at Mr. Valentine's life and discover why we have Valentine's day.

Introduction

Lovers WANTED!!! Here you will learn fun facts about Valentine's Day. When you go through each step you will gain knowledge about Valentine's Day and Mr. Valentine himself. As you go through each step think about a time in your recent past where you had a meaningful Valentine's Day.  

Task

      Research the life of St. Valentine. Discover why Valentine's Day is named after St. Valentine. What life struggles did St. Valentine have in his life? How did we get Valentine's Day from St. Valentine?

Create a poster that hightlights this information:

     *A picture of him

     * Where he lived and what he did

     * How he helped his lover

     * Interests/hobbies of his

From a website link design a heart-shaped card and present it to the class on the appropriate day.

Process

Find out who St. Valentine was...

       easy read... http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day

           1 Work on poster in task section of this quest.

How did St. Valentine become associated with this holiday? What happened to St. Valentine while in prison? What was something interesting about his life?

           2 Answer these questions on the poster you create.

What is the idea of "Your Valentine"? 

http://holidays.kaboose.com/valentines-day/history/val-history.html

3 On this website, you will see a worksheet. Print this worksheet off and complete it on the heart. Turn it in when it is due. 

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/hunt/hunt065.shtml

4 In the following website, browse through each word that is underlined. Pick two words out of the eight words underlined and write a summary paragraph of what you read.

http://whyfiles.org/033love/

5 On your own time, interview three different people about their Valentine experience on February 14th.  

      Some Questions you could ask:

          *What does a Valentine mean?

          *How does if feel to have a Valentine today?

          *What year was your first Valentine's?  

After you interview those three people, write a page about what you have learned.

Evaluation

This is how your work will be evaluated.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Qualified 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Creativity	Very little creativity	Little creativity which include some pictures and words.	Creativity which include some colored pictures and only 10 words	Excellent creativity which include all colored pictures and more than 10 words
Title of poster	Title included. Many mispelled words.	Title included with at least 80% of the words spelled correctly.	Title written neatly with all words spelled correctly	Title written clearly and neatly. All words must be spelled correctly.
Picture of character	Copy of character's picture	Color copy of character's picture.	Hand drawn illustration colored with map pencils.	Hand drawn illustration, colored NEATLY with map pencils.
Vocabulary	Three or less vocabulary words and their definitions included.	At least four vocabulary words and their definitions included.	At least six vocabulary words and their definitions included.	At least eight vocabulary words and their definitions included.
Overall appearance of poster	Pictures are colored neatly.	Background is colored, pictures are drawn neatly.	Background is colored well, pictures are drawn neatly, and clean	Background is colored well, pictures are neatly drawn, no erasure marks, appearance is neat and clean.
Heart Worksheet	Two questions complete and no complete sentences	Four questions complete and two complete sentences	Six questions complete and four complete sentences	ALL questions complete with ALL complete sentences
Writing Page/Paragraphs	Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of performance.	Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting development and movement toward mastery of performance.	Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance.	Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of performance.

Conclusion

There is much more information that you can browse through about St. Valentine and the heart holiday.  

Additional resources to look at:

--> Video on You tube about the history of Valentine's Dayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6xesanxNM&feature=related

--> Valentine's Day : A Day of Friendship and Love by Sievert, Terri

Share the poster you created along with the information to the class or with your teacher.

THE WINNER WILL GET THE SECRET SWEET PRIZE!!!

THE 6th GRADE 

WEB-QUEST!!!

PAST SIMPLE

Introduction

Dear students,

 

You're now going on a trip, a very interesting one , in which you will face one of the basic tenses in English .."Past Simple Tense" ..Imagine that there is no past form of verbs !!! How can you talk about your last holiday, visit to the zoo or the previous day?!! 

 

So prepared and get excited because you will have FUN ..

 

Task

On this trip you are about to do the following:

1- revising the Past Simple Tense as it's been given to you in the class.

2- reading a comprehension passage using The Simple Past.

3- extracting the past form of verbs.

4- giving the infinitive form.

5- playing with verbs.

Process

A. Review

 Revise the Past Simple tense by watching this  VIDEO!

                                   

B. Act:

1- Read the passage and make 2 lists of past form verbs (v2): regular & irregular

read me 

2- Give the infinitive forms (v1) of the listed verbs: 

cutting, cuts

works, worked

making

sang

C. Play:

1-  Choose the correct verb "to be"

GO!

2-  Fill in the blanks by the correct form of the verb

 WIN!

                              

                                             Evaluation

student's name:

Rubric	Excellent 3 mrks	Good 2 mrks	Average 1 mrk	Poor 0 mrk	MARK
watching the video	fully	most of it	half of it	never
reading the passage in the specific time	in 5 minutes	in 10 minutes	in 15 minutes	in more than 15 minutes
extracting the past form of the 25 verbs	25 verbs	20 verbs	10 verbs	5 verbs
giving the infinitive form of the verbs	25 verbs	20 verbs	10 verbs	5 verbs
play well and finishing the game with	10 scores	8 scores	5 scores	less than 5 scores
Total

Conclusion

 

The simple past tense is used to show an action done sometimes in the past. Therefore regular verb  can be identify by  adding -ed or -d. But the irregular verb is just different in so many ways..

Write 5 sentences about what you did yesterday:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.