Not everybody was a big fan of the presentation task and that's probably also the one weakness of this TU. Every student has to be ready to pick up the retelling where their predecessor left off. In order to make this more interesting, I think the story could have been retold collectively. Moreover, there wasn't much to do for the rest of the class while that one student retold the story that everybody knew quite well by then. In lesson 6, asking one student to retell the story up front seemed rather intimidating to that one student. Lessons 1 through 5 went quite smoothly, but generally the lessons were a bit packed: In lesson 2, we couldn't really go into the details of the song, and in lesson 5, students only got to work in their groups for about 30 minutes instead of 45. They also liked most of the activities and were quite keen on getting to know more about retelling, short story structures and Dahl's style.
I think my students liked the selected stories a lot. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Mrs.Update (end of June 2013): As requested, I am adding some thoughts on how the TU went in practice.
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