Montreal Massacre
1. Explain how you would you use this article with a class.
I would use this article with a class by staging a 3 sided classroom debate.
The 3 sides being the psychological, sociological, and anthropological sides.
Each side is trying to argue that their explanation, research, and social
science had the most significant impact on the Montreal Massacre killer,
Marc Lepine. This allows students to practice critical thinking skills and
public speaking skills. As well it would keep them engaged, teach persuasion
skills, create a positive classroom atmosphere where opinion is valued, teach
critical thinking skills, and make the learning fun. The teacher will be the
facilitator and not participate in the debate. The teacher has to explain
debate procedures, and rules clearly. After the debate has been exhausted or
class ends, a writing assignment should follow to allow each student to
explain their position.
2. Clearly, there is a great deal of text used in this article. What
accommodations would you use with students who find reading a
challenge?
Accommodations for students who find reading challenging could be
something such as having this article read via an audio tape or a program
such as Kurzweil 3000 that uses text to speech for anything online.
3. What pre, during, and post strategies would make the most sense?
Explain them briefly.
Pre – In terms of pre strategy, I’d have the students research arguments,
content, etc., for their sides that they will use in the debate/write up.
During – Having the students take notes of opposing sides’ arguments, and
any excellent or failed arguments of their own while the debate is going on.
Post – As mentioned in question one, I would have the students write an
assignment to allow each student to explain their position using all of the
information gathered from their research and debate.
4. How would you encourage the use of non-linguistic representations (iegraphic organizers)?
Being that there are many nonlinguistic learners in a classroom, I would
highly encourage the use of Microsoft PowerPoint/Google Slides to visually
make a case for each party’s social science. Visually showing on a projection
screen for example, events in a specific chronological order, cause-effect
patterns, descriptive patterns, images, statistics, etc., all help significantly to
improve understanding and learning.