Clarity Game
(You can adapt it to topics of your own classes)
Age: 12 and over
What we will need
- apaper and pencil/pen to take notes.
- one copy from a text for each student. (In order to bring a text you have to research your topic before class.)
What we gonna do
- Make a circle in the floor with the children and ask for one of them to leave the room.
- Those that stay in class will choose an object or a word to describe to that person that left. Each one will think in one of its qualities or in an adjective that characterizes this object/word, but they should not tell the others nor even say the object/word's name or its synonym.
- That one who left now has to return to class and sit in the center of the circle. Each student will describe to him/her the object or word and give clues to the person figure out what is the object/word. Meanwhile, the teacher will be taking notes of the clues.
- When the word or object will be discovered, all the clues must be read aloud. The teacher will ask: "What was the clue that helped you to figure out the word/object? Was there any clue that did not help you at all? Was there any clue that made you confused?"
- The teacher will explain that when we talk about any subject, there is always information that is basic, essential or unnecessary. The teacher will ask the group: "In this subject, is there any information that is essential?" Let's write them down?"
- Now the teacher creates a text and asks the group if they think that the text gives an accurate idea of that object/word.
- Give the text to the students read it at home. Ask them to highlight in blue the essential information of the text and in red the other information. The text will be discussed in the next class.
Note: After working with texts like this with or without games, the class can begin to analyze texts from the newspapers. In the future, you will ask the class to highlight in red which is the author's opinion.
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