Project Title LITERATURE AT OUR FINGER TIPSName/s and Surname/s Lucille Kabelo Mahlatsi

Email address/es kbmahlatsi@gmail.com

Cell phone number/s 58944840

School contact number

School Leqele High School

Town/City Maseru

Country Lesotho

Grade/s 11 and 12

Subject/s Literature in English

Innovation Workshop leader or mentor (if applicable)

Dr Kalanda

Who or what encouraged you to enter the Partners in Learning Forum

The integration of technology in subjects to facilitate learning and the negative attitude of students towards literature in English which results in the extreme failing rate of the subject.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONLITERATURE AT OUR FINGER TIPSEducator Kabelo Mahlatsi

JULIUS CAESAR featuring MOSHOESHOE (students discover that there is a similar character to Caesar in their country)

School Leqele High school is a government school situated at Ha leqele village . It has been extracted through the funding of the government of China to assist the less privileged children, orphans and herd boys to receive quality education. However there are insufficient resources such as a library, science laboratory or computers.

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Students transfigure Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar because they consider the language too composite, the culture too foreign and also wish certain scenes would have detailed portraits of the theme. They reform the play through art, research, , conversion of language and drama. This transfiguration is done in group activities where secretaries and time-keepers are appointed by their members to control them. The 1 st group comprises of artists who make portraits of certain complex scenes in the play. The 2nd group consists of researchers who make a research about Julius Caesar and Moshoeshoe, 3rd group is the debaters while the 4th group entails convertors who convert the composite language of Shakespeare into a comprehensible language and lastly the actors who perform the play .

Objectives i. This project is done by students to evoke the mutual love and comprehension of Shakespeare's plays in students. The kind of activities students engage in, bring it to their consciousness that literature is universal and is also a representation of reality.

ii. To have better results eventually. The extreme failing rate of Literature in English in the country also compelled the students to do this project.

DESIGN OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Researchers and Debaters Convertors ActorsStudents divide themselves into groups in order to make an efficient revolution of Julius Caesar. The 1 st group researches about Moshoeshoe and Julius Caesar, the 2nd group converts the blank verse into prose, the 3rd group perform the play and lastly the artists who draw some detailed pictures. This project is done within two weeks to improve the failing rate and to intrigue the love of literature.Students are also given assessment criteria in advance depending on their tasks in groups. For more information on the project, see:

When students research and analyze the information assimilated then later compare and contrast Julius Caesar and Moshoeshoe they are building knowledge. Initially they knew about these characters but were ignorant about their similarities or contrasts. Again the graph they create on excel to show the failing rate builds their knowledge.The Facebook group they create to communicate with teachers about Julius Caesar helps in consolidating their argument to the debate held later. Eventually this students make a play which will be understood by every student studying Shakespeare and as a result solve the problem of the low passing rate. All groups involved in this project are interdependent and share responsibility. The actors are persuaded by the researchers to change the theme, the converters also communicate effectively with the actors in their own regulated time in changing the blank verse to prose.

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STUDENTS CREATE A GROUP ON FACEBOOKStudents who have a slight idea about computers together with those who do not know how to use them, build their knowledge by creating a group on Facebook which it makes possible for them to collaborate with experienced professionals outside about Julius Caesar. Some even record the play when it is performed to show students in other schools.

STUDENTS CREATE A GRAPH Students are able to compare and contrast Caesar WITH DATA FROM Ecol TO SHOW and Moshoeshoe through the information attained from FAILING RATE OF LITERATURE ANNUALLY Google search and Facebook since there is no library. The information attained from Facebook group and Google search assists students to build knowledge by comparing and contrasting the two characters and to later hold the debate. These debaters are able to collaborate with actors, they convince them to change the theme of the play to their own culture. All this would not have been possible without the ICT created and its beneficial because students are making a solution to a nationwide problem.To see various artifacts portraying the students’ learning process and evidence of learning please see this document:

The contextual play Julius Caesar featuring

Moshoeshoe

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Students already know about Julius Caesar and Moshoeshoe but are ignorant about their similarities and contrasts. They make a research about them, analyze the information acquired then compare and contrast them. Again the debate held to find out if there is a Julius Caesar in Lesotho facilitates critical thinking as well as current affairs.Students have access to only one computer I provided, they use their slight skills about computers to create a group on Facebook in order to communicate with experienced professionals about the book and also to have informed solid arguments in their debate. Again with the slight technology skills students create a graph to show the annual COSC results of Literature. They also enhanced their linguistic competence when converting the blank verse to prose.

Students are solving a real life problem of the extreme failing rate of Literature in English nation wide. They contextualize the play, research, debate about it, perform it and also draw some portraits to make it enticing. They do all this independently. Students perform the play to other students studying the play to show them what they had done in order to make the play interesting and easily comprehended.

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING AND CRITICAL THINKING

EXTENDED LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

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Participants from the proposing side preparing for the debate which will assist the actors.

For more informationplease see: The Actors performing the final outcome which is the play contextualized

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Researchers

Convertors

helping actors

Students from Holy Family &

an old villager

COLLABORATION