As a class, brainstorm questions for students to ask about jobs in the community. Have them set priorities and choose the most useful questions for obtaining the information they want. Use these questions to create a class framework or chart to record the data they will gather. Have students work in pairs to practise asking their questions, then use the questions to survey community workers. Invite each student to tell, dramatize, or write two short stories one real and one fictional.
Students present their stories, and the class decides which ones are real.
In small groups, ask students to brainstorm and list school issues. Groups should each select one issue that is important to them and support their positions by providing several reasons. Divide the class into groups. Give each group three randomly ordered parts of a story about British Columbia or Canada. Each group then works to assemble the story into the correct sequence and present it to the class.