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Where the Wild Things Are Web Quest

Where the Wild Things Are Web Quest. Illinois Learning Standards:. 1.B.2a Establish purposes for reading; survey materials; ask questions; make predictions; connect, clarify and extend ideas .

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Where the Wild Things Are Web Quest

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  1. Where the Wild Things Are Web Quest

  2. Illinois Learning Standards: • 1.B.2a Establish purposes for reading; survey materials; ask questions; make predictions; connect, clarify and extend ideas. • 1.B.2b Identify structure (e.g., description, compare/contrast, cause and effect, sequence) of nonfiction texts to improve comprehension. • 1.C.2a Use information to form and refine questions and predictions. • 1.C.2e Explain how authors and illustrators use text and art to express their ideas (e.g., points of view, design hues, metaphor). • 2.B.2a Respond to literary material by making inferences, drawing conclusions and comparing it to their own experience, prior knowledge and other texts. • 3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes and for specified audiences in a variety of forms including narrative (e.g., fiction, autobiography), expository (e.g., reports, essays) and persua¬sive writings (e.g., editorials, advertisements).

  3. Websites! • http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/4040/7-life-lessons-we-can-learn-from-where-the-wild-things-are/ • http://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are

  4. Questions????? • What causes Max to go on his imaginative adventure? • Why do you think a forest appears in Max’s room? • What are three lessons you can find throughout the story? • How do the author’s pictures/ illustrations relate to the story? • List three interesting facts about Max, the main character of the book. • What are some of your fears?

  5. Let’s Begin!  • Together as a class we have read Where the Wild Things Are, but we have not discussed any of the lessons we have recognized or may have misunderstood. The object of the student’s activity is going to be to explore the story on their own in their partnership, and see what they can come up with as a team.

  6. Your Task: • Each student is going to be paired up with ONE other student in the classroom. • Together you are going to answer all six of the questions and make a poster to present to the class what your answers to the questions were. • After everyone has finished their posters, each pair will go up and explain their poster to the class.

  7. After the posters… • Once everyone has presented their posters to the class and the students have had a chance to see what their fellow students have discovered in answering the six questions, we are going to read Where the Wild Things Are, again as a class. • When we read the story for the SECOND time, we are going to have a class discussion. • As a class, we will go over any questions you may have and we will further explore what lessons Max learned and what the main purpose of the book was.

  8. Extension Ideas • After the posters. You’re going to write a short essay. Your essay is going to be you explaining one of your fears, or a time when you were scared, a lesson you learned from it, and how you think you can relate to our main character, Max. • Develop a Compare and Contrast web between Where the Wild Things Are and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. • Write a short story about any adventure you could ever imagine, whether it be real or not real, and include pictures to develop the scenes of your adventure. • In a group of no more than 3, act out one of your favorite parts of the book, and then explain why this was your favorite part. • Write a letter to the author of the book, Maurice Sendak, and tell him what you learned from his story and what you enjoyed most about his book.

  9. Evaluation • Your evaluation is going to be of the posters you developed with your partner and how you presented it to the class. • It would be beneficial to ask yourselves: Did you answer all of the questions being asked? Did you appear to know the information you were talking about? Does your poster show that you put a valid amount of time and effort into it? Is the poster neat and creative? • You will not be graded on any artistic ability, but it is important to be creative and have fun with the project! 

  10. References for further study… • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. How do the two main characters relate to one another? • How does the movie Where the Wild things Are compare to the book? • How does the book Jumanjihave some similar features as Where the Wild Things Are? • Compare the imagination presented in Where the Wild Things Are and There’s a Nightmare in my Closet.

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