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- This project is intended to take multiple weeks. Preliminary
activities of reading and evaluating literature could take several
days.
- Introduce the driving question. Provide students with information
about problem-based learning. Explain the final outcome and project.
Break students into groups. Distribute materials for them to read.
- Provide copies of "Crackling Day." Ask students to read
the story and log in their journals how conformity relates to the
story.
- Provide copies of "By Any Other Name." Ask students to
read the story and compare it to "Crackling Day." Their
journal entries should reflect the different approaches and
consequences in each story to conformity.
- Provide copies of Robert Frost’s poem "The Road Not
Taken." Read this aloud. Discussion should focus upon the concept
of conformity and nonconformity. Robert Frost’s poem is a metaphor
for the decisions and choices in life. Have students explain the
metaphor. Focus the discussion on the final stanza:
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two road diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference."
- Assign a research project requiring students to answer the
driving question. They will need to focus on a narrower question that
they will answer. Some groups might select an individual, group, or
event in history who/which has addressed the conformity vs.
nonconformity issue. Students should select an individual, group, or
event in which they are interested. Students should be encouraged to
look at those creative minds in the areas of science, math, writing,
music, art, photography, medicine and computers.
- Focus the research on several key ideas:
- What is the significance of this individual, group, or event?
- How has this individual, group or event been accepted in society?
- How has society influenced this particular individual, group or
event?
- In what areas of life does this individual, group or event
conform?
- In what areas of life does this individual, group or event
non-conform?
- Does this particular individual, group or event have any advice
for society?
- After the students have completed their research, assign a project
and presentation. Provide copies of the evaluation forms or rubrics
that you will be using to assess their progress if you have not
already done so. Have the students present their findings
incorporating examples of the selected creative individual’s work,
i.e. show an artist’s painting; listen to a musician’s song; share
the scientist’s invention.
8. Evaluation forms:
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Project 1 Sample Project 2
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