Sample Lesson Plan for Student-Created Web Pages

 

(You may substitute any text for the one given.  Also, your objectives might differ depending on the focus of your class.)

 

 

Lesson Topic:

 

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

 

Lesson Goals/Objectives:

 

Web publishing of students’ essays on costuming in the portraits of the pilgrims.

 

 

Readings/Preparation Materials:

 

Students should have already read the General Prologue and the portraits of the pilgrims.

 

 

What is Required of the Instructor Before the Class Meets:

 

  1. Consider the assignment you’d like to create, and consider how many days of class time you need to spend on it.  Teaching students to create web pages always takes time.
  2. For this example, you will have assign students to write a paper on costuming in The Canterbury Tales.  You may consider the web page a part of that assignment, or you could consider creating the web page as a secondary step, converting the original paper into a published format.
  3. Consider which web publishing tool you’d like to use and how long it will take your students to learn how to use it.

 

Segment #1 of the assignment:  Assign a paper dealing with costuming in The Canterbury Tales.  Encourage your students to find images of the characters from manuscripts, from later publications, or from books dealing with the period more generally.  The web page your students create could combine the text of their essay with illustrations of costume and links to other useful sites.

 

Segment #2:  Plan to devote an entire class period to teaching your students how to create web pages.  Things to consider: web space for publication, web publishing tools, and file transfer options.

 

Segment #3:  More specifically, demonstrate how to assemble the kind of web site you asked for in your assignment.  If you want your students to include pictures, show them how to insert images.  When you discuss the publication of their papers, don’t forget to mention issues of copyright.  They cannot copy without documentation from outside sources; that stipulation includes texts as well as images.

 

Segment #4:  Link your students’ web pages together so that the whole class can view them.  Such an assignment could possibly remain published on the instructor’s website for future use.

 

 

 

Students will need to:

 

  1. Complete the assignment
  2. Consider how completing the assignment affected their reading of Chaucer.
  3. Perhaps view and respond to classmates’ projects.

 

The instructor will need to:

 

  1. Check up on the students’ progress.
  2. Be available for questions, should they arise.