Literature Detectives

 Welcome, explorers! In today's Literature WebQuest, you’ll dive into the story "When Rosa Parks Went Fishing" to discover how small moments can shape big changes in history. 

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The aim is to:

• Strengthen reading comprehension and oral skills.

• Connect Rosa Parks’ childhood experiences with her later role in the Civil Rights Movement.

• Practice autonomy, collaboration, and creativity while exploring history through storytelling.

 Your mission today is to become “History Detectives”:

• Work in groups to investigate Rosa Parks’ life and the values she stood for.

• FINAL TASK: With your group, choose a key event in Rosa Parks' life and create a short script about it. Then, act it out for all of your classmates. Think of clothes you can wear and prompts you can use to recreate that scene. 

Step 1: Before reading the story

Do you know these words or concepts?

• BOYCOTT
• RIGHTS
• RACISM
• MOVEMENT
• COLOUR
• SEGREGATION

With your group, go to this link https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ and look for the meaning of the concepts you don't know and complete your detective notes. 

Step 2: Investigation Rosa Parks through the internet

With the help of colleagues, ask Chat GPT: Who was Rosa Parks? 

• Did you know that?

Now, go to this link and watch the informative video about Rosa Parks. 

https://youtu.be/jFlm-GtsUkE?si=-w54uIyoOP5ie5W8

• Complete the "Note-making" about the video: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG5ootNxfY/9tcFv-DP6PvW5GdOFaqPeQ/edit?ui=eyJEIjp7IlQiOnsiQSI6IlBCWTdIbVRaV2p5N2RTQnEifX19 

Step 3: Reading time

• Carefully, read this story https://www.canva.com/design/DAG5or6vMz0/y2P79Cz77W322AWH5-w__w/view?utm_content=DAG5or6vMz0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h4380f322fd 
• Then, complete the "Book Review" with information your group could investigate and learn from the story https://www.canva.com/design/DAG5ootNxfY/9tcFv-DP6PvW5GdOFaqPeQ/edit?ui=eyJEIjp7IlQiOnsiQSI6IlBCVEgwMHYwa05jWjdWalYifX19 

Step 4: Let's be detectives

Through this Venn Diagram https://www.canva.com/design/DAG5ootNxfY/9tcFv-DP6PvW5GdOFaqPeQ/edit?ui=eyJEIjp7IlQiOnsiQSI6IlBCbWN3czh4R2hjYkdoRE4ifX19 compare life before and after the Civil Rights Movement. How different was life before and after the Civil Right Movement?

Step 5 and FINAL TASK: Script and performance

With your group, choose a key moment in Rosa Parks' life. Create a script (dialogue and characters). Then, send it to the teacher. 

Your work will be assessed based on:

• Content: Accuracy of information and connection to Rosa Parks’ story.

• Creativity: Originality and imagination in the final product.

• Collaboration: How well you worked together as a team.

• Communication: Clarity, confidence, and oral skills during presentation.

• Reflection: Ability to explain what you learned and why it matters.

Hello again little detectives... 

Now that you have analysed and compared Rosa's life as a kid, teen and adult and that you have performed your scenes from small moments of her life... I want to know what you trully think about all this process.

What can you say about Civil Rights?

Do all people have equal right nowadays?

How has the Civil Rights Movement helped the world?

Can you imagine your life if Rosa Parks had never gone fishing....?

What did you learn from her story and this investigation?