Alternative Education
students completed their small-scale project-based learning (PBL) lesson in their English Language Arts class this week: Saving Permian Basin
through Literature. In this PBL lesson, students acted as a team of staff writers of The Odessan Magazine (http://www.theodessan.com).
Worried about the news concerning the current oil industry decline in Permian Basin, their Editor-in-Chief assigned their team to research about the
situation and individually publish a literary piece of their choice that
encourages investors to stay and invites other businessmen to invest in the
region. Using local newspapers or internet, students researched about the oil
industry situation and other possible investments in Permian Basin. They
reviewed elements of selected literary genres using workstations. Students ended up
producing poems and dramas and presenting these outputs to the teacher who
acted as the Editor-in-Chief. Their writing outputs were sent to their
international learning partners for further feedback.
