moduli per seniors

GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE MICRO-MODULES
increase students' knowledge in a series of topics related to Italian theatre traditions help students analyse characters, authors and plays help students generate questions on specific themes increase students' ability to connect information coming from different sources increase students' ability to sum up the content of their searches and increase students' ability to transfer such content into a vehicular language other European students can understand
GENERAL MODEL OF MICROMODULES : CATEGORY CONTENT & SUPPORT
The micromodules listed on this page make up a sample of web-learning environment which falls into the category of CONTENT AND SUPPORT MODEL for online courses.
MICROMODULES A author-based modules	MICROMODULES B theme-based modules (thanks to Rosa Campoli -ITIS A.Einstein)
A: top-down investigation and information retrieval for field-dependent students with tendency to convergent thinking style	B:bottom-up thought-provoking learning activities for critical global and synthesis-prone students, with divergent thinking style
structured teaching materials
lesson-like internal structure
focus on content design
self-scoring tools






FAMOUS ACTORS AND CHARACTERS IN ITALIAN DRAMA TRADITION
TARGET: the micromodules are designed for Italian students wishing to export their knowledge to other non-Italian European peers. They are therefore preliminary to chat and forum sessions.
content structures
sites in Italian related to the actor
open low to medum inference questions
performance activities
autoscoring self-test

Toto' the living puppet	Roberto Benigni
Gilberto Govi	Paolo Villaggio
Aldo Fabrizi	Beppe Grillo
Erminio Macario	Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Vittorio Gassman	Alberto Sordi
Ettore Petrolini	Gino Cervi
Eduardo Scarpetta	Eduardo deFilippo
Anna Magnani	Vittorio De Sica

MASKS AS SOCIAL INTERFACE FOR EVER-CHANGING ROLES AND IDENTITIES

1.open study questions

2.medium to high inference open questions

3 students are exposed to a set of thought-provoking questions (metacognitive skills)

4.after examining the theme and the study questions, students are to produce a concept map of the topic as they see it.

5. students are given a title for an argumentative composition where narratologic methods should encourage them to analyse their choices.

6.students are required to produce an explanatory abstract with logical connections between conceptual nodes of the map

7.students are required to supply websites relevant to every node of the concept map

YOU AND YOUR OWN MASKS (CLASS 1b - ITIS EINSTEIN - Tutor: Rosa Campoli

REGIONAL MASKS & TRADITIONS

MASKS: FORMS & MEANINGS

POLITICAL SATIRE IN ITALY

THE AGE OF SOCIAL ANXIETY

DECADENT THEATRE AND LIFESTYLES

GLOBALIZED NARCISSISM AND COGNITIVE DEPRIVATION: IL COATTO

THRILLERS IN ITALY - IL GIALLO STORICO IN ITALIA E ALTROVE

Task: using the miscellaneous references below, try to brainstorm over the following questions: