MYSTERY, by Pablo Novo

 

In the attached PPT, there are different activities that can be found. Although there are several slides, I would say that to a great extent they are "Active participation", even though some of them are not strictly (or necessarily) pigeonholed within the framework of "Active participation", since some of them are easier and thus could be interpreted as warm ups. However, in any case, for the sake of clarity, I will be explaining slides 2 and 3.

The proposition included is based on a 4 to 5 class project that guides the students through a research in which they write notes and come up with original ideas to wind it up with an oral presentation. In the context of a project involving "mind-opened" research, there is no question that the students will be engaged affectively; basically, because they are given the opportunity to choice which mystery they are going to delve into, out of a range of 10 possibilities. The project revolves around the idea of investigating an unsolved historical mystery (Jack the Ripper, The Bermuda Triangle, etc), trying to come up with logical explanations.





Therefore, the recognition-representation network will be contributed to as the students browse and surf several websites and texts in English, summarising the investigation, analysing how different agents tried to puzzle out the mystery and creating an outline to simplify it for their own comprehension.

To top it off, the strategic-action & expression axis is the most focused on. Once the students have gone through several stages of investigation and composition, they must fulfill several activities involving creativity and unrestraint expression. Among these steps we can find not only summaries, but also the elaboration of farfetched conspiracy theories, scientific explanations or detective stories using the mystery as the foundation for whatever it is they write.