module 02

Module Number 2 Assignment 2.1 Version 1.0



Group Members

01. M.H.Dinesh Kumara
02. P.G. Bandula Karunarathna
03. W.N.P. Weerakkody
04. Y.H.N.N. Banduprema


Introduction

This biographical sketch about a great novelist in Sri-Lanka related to the Sinhala literature in grade 10 students. this is a task to students to refer a great person who did yeomen service to the country. Many students prefer to find out information on novelists dramatists poets etc… as they are allocated to study on them.

Writing a biographical sketches students can be able to absorb many benefits . at first students absorb the important event on their lives , the values and qualities of their biographies and take some political social cultural and economical backgrounds of the contemporary society . then they get some ideas how was the past and how is the present and the differences both eras . secondly it is affected that their qualities of lives to students . they try to behave like that. Then it may be a source of building a good society.

On the other hand, this task based on finding information from Internet , libraries ,resource persons etc… So the students automatically involved to find those information on them. That is very important because they must have engage in Internet to search information on the topic and also they have to meet resource persons and gather information , refer libraries and find information. Then their technological skill , communicative skill might be improved .

And also , finally have to set up their results as a type text . then their typing speed and teem work manners is to be improved . and also they have chances to present their task as a text. Specially they have find information by using both Sinhala and English language . then students knowledge of both language is improved. The ability to translating passages , building vocabulary are other benefits of task.

padagogical
Class: Grade 10
Number of students: 20
Number of Groups: 04
Number of students in a Group: 05


Basic requirements

01 Hardware and Software requirements
5 Computers
Accessibility Word 2003 or 2007 Version
Web browser (Internet explorer, mozula fairfox ,Nescape navigator etc…. )
Search Engine ( Yahoo ,Google , Yahoo ligan, )
Printer

02 Other requirements
Martin Wickramasinge’s novels , Dramas , Poems etc….
Resource person
Compact Disks and Visual Compact Disks related to Wickramasinge’s character


Pedagogical aspects
Grouping students is very important manner of learning teaching process because as the topic of the assessment is wide, it is many easy to student to gather information from various ways. And also a tide relationships among students may increased.
When gathering information students can communicate various persons in various post. Then students can absorb some manners of communicating with peoples , respecting peoples etc…
Students may have absorb the characteristics values of Martin Wickramasingha by referring his biographic and try to take his values of character when some problems or troubles arise
Students can improve their vocabulary in English and Sinhalees languages and work and gather information by some language.
Students get some abilities of presenting creative text and increase the typing speed etc… by typing and making the text.


Lesson plan
Step 1 Teacher makes five groups including four members in one group. When grouping the students teacher follow a certain rule to choose them . teacher asks the student who have competence in English, who have the knowledge of computer and internet, who have the knowledge of sinhala typing and choose five from each and devide them balancing the groups.
Step 2
Teacher acknowledge the students on the goals and the topic and explane the tasks that every members have to engage. Under this student s have to write on Abiograpical sketch of Martin Wicramasinghe to present as text to enclose the school magazine or a wall paper. It must be included the birth ,childhood, school education, proffetsion, involvement to writing, his works, awards, the later life on him and Martin Wicramasinghe’s museum
To collect this information students are given two weeks. To find information student can be refered their own ways (see annex 01)
Students can add charts, images, extracts as they prefer.

Step 03. after two weeks teacher asks the student to gather in group wise and conduct a discussion among the group members . then each members has to pay their findings to a discussion finally after discussion students have to make a outline on their presentation in group wise .

Then using Msword, type those outlines in sinhala medium in given computer . (annex 02)
Get the feedback from each groups sharing the ideas with other groups
(annex 03 )
Referring those feedbacks prepare the final copy of the text (see annex 04 )
Then final report should be added to local net and given folder . (see annex 05 )