0.2 El crimen del siglo: the case of the stolen art slide presentation

El crimen del siglo: the crime of the century

The case of the stolen art

Your team’s tasks are as follows:

Pick up your clues from e-mail on a daily basis;

Follow directions for your team on el crimen del siglo web site;

• Identify the thief, country of origin, name and dossier (case file);
• Determine the thief’s location, including city and country (this could change on a daily basis); and
• Determine the location of the stolen artwork, including the city, country, building and buyer.
• Record your findings on the Clue Data Sheet on the Web site under your Team Notes .

Clue for day 1:

<<Busqueme en el museo del prado.>>

Core activity

• Each day or week I would play the criminal and send my students a clue in the form of a riddle or a question.
• The groups would follow their directions from my Web site and write their information on worksheets (these would be printed from website to turn in at the end of the week).

When the groups have discovered their answer, they write it on their worksheet and post it to the website.

• In this activity the students would work in groups of three to access my Website and then follow their group’s directions which would take them to another specified site.

Core activity

• Example: Students would access Web site, find their group name and clue, write down the message on their worksheet and then do a keyword search on a specified search engine to search for “Museo del Prado”
• Groups then compose, in the target language, a short essay on the worksheet about the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Following the directions on the worksheet.

Worksheet para el proyectoel crimen del siglo

Clue for day 2:

The thief is somewhere in spain, but where?

The artwork has been stolen from el prado museum, but what artwork?

<<Go to the place of the “dreams and the windmills” to discover who i am.>>

(answer would be don quijote de la mancha.)

Core activity

• Example: Students would access Web site, find their group name and clue, write down the message on their worksheet and then do a keyword search on a specified search engine to search for ”Don Quijote de la Mancha”.
• Groups then compose, in the target language, a short essay on the worksheet about Don Quijote. Following the directions on the worksheet.

Clue data sheet

Team notes: remember to record daily

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