MADIBA!

A webquest
by Seiyifa Koroye

Mandela with a child Mandela’s birthplace

PART O"E: OUTLI"E
SUMMARY: A Webquest on the Life and Achievement of Nelson Mandela

LEVEL: Advanced/University

TIME:

o 2 hours: introduction; warm-ups

o 1 hour: poster presentations
o 1 hour: survey
o 2 hours: proposal presentations; follow-up activities
o 2 hours: online research
o 2 hours: homework

LA"GUAGE OUTCOMES:

o Integration of visual and listening comprehension

o Summary and poster writing
o Essay writing
o Public speaking

SITES/TECH"OLOGY USED:

o Various websites, for document, audio and video files

o In class: laptop with internet access, data projector and videocam (to
record presentations, for feedback/evaluation)

http//www.southafrica.info/mandela

http//www.anc.org.za/people/mandela

http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela

http//www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-
lecture.html

http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php

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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Nelson+Mandela

http://time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mandela

www.mla.org/style_faq4.

ICT OUTCOMES

o To develop internet search skills

o To learn to use an email forum
o To introduce students to ho electronic documents/resources are cited
in academic writing.

PREPARATIO"

o Open an account at Google Mail. Use your student number as your

username, in the following format: u.year.xxxxxxx. E.g:
u.2010.1800101@gmail.com.
o Send your full name as a message to seiyifa.koroye@gmail.com and I
will invite you to join the class forum at Google Groups.
o I will put you into 20 groups of 6 or 7 students each.

PART TWO: LESSO" PLA"

SECTIO" 1: I"TRODUCTIO" (in class, 1st session, 2
hours: data projector; laptop with internet access)
1. Who is Madiba?
o You know him! "elson Mandela, first democratically elected
President of South Africa, 1994-1999.
o Madiba is a respectful and affectionate nick-name for him.
o See the batik shirts he is wearing? He wears them a lot and they have
been named after him, as Madiba shirts.

2. Who is the “Asian Mandela” – a little web search

o Kim Dae-Jung?
o Hose Alexandre Gusmao?
o Asif Zardari?

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 o Let us find out by doing a little web search.
o Now we are online, I will search “Asian Mandela”.
o Next, I will call on three of you to come and key in one name each
and we will see what happens.
o So … go ahead! Find out about these persons and write a 200-word
essay on one of them, beginning “xxx is called the ‘Asian Mandela’
because…”
o Hand in your essay one week from today.

o Below: Robben Island where he

was imprisoned for a long.
o Right: the cell where he was kept.

3. “Mandela belongs to the World”!

o Read the following passages while they are projected on the screen.
o Briefly discuss what the passages are suggesting with the members of
your group.

“SECRET WISH: If any hypothetical "ew World Order were to

emerge during his remaining years, we cast an early vote for "elson
Mandela as president of the world. ….”

http://www.askmen.com/men/business_politics/58b_nelson_mandela.html

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“In the canon of human conscience "elson Rolihlahla Mandela is the
most famously revered in the contemporary world. In the 20th
century he was one of the few who, in contrast with those who made it
infamous for fascism, racism, dictatorship and war, marked the era
as one which achieved some human advancement. That is the context
in which his name will live in history, beyond the new millenium.
"elson Mandela belongs to the world.”

"adine Gordimer, South African novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in

Literature, 1991, "Let us now praise famous men ..." (2006).

o Write two sentences to summarise your own impression of Mandela

as suggested by the two passages.
o Now, hand in your answers.

4. … and now a real warm-up!

o Pay very close attention while watching this slideshow with

commentary.
o Answer the following questions:

a. On what day was Mandela born?

b. In what year did he open his law practice, and in which city?
c. In what year did he marry Winnie?
d. The commentator defines apartheid in two words. State the two
words.
e. What are the last five words of his address to the judge at his trial in
1964?
f. In what year did the Soweto riots occur?
g. On what date was he released from prison?
h. On what date was he sworn in as President of South Africa?
i. At his inauguration he called South Africa "a .... nation" - what is the
missing word?
j. After his divorce from Winnie he married again. Whom did he marry
and on what date?

o Now, hand in your answers.

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 Mandela for President

SECTIO" 2: TASK
1. Before the next class … (online)
o Go to the class forum and do the following tasks:
o Open the survey template and post your answer to the question.
o Write out the survey question and get responses from 10 persons who
are not members of this class. Bring your survey results to class.

2. The main task and the way leading to it

o The main task in this webquest is for each group to write a proposal
to the AU urging it to honour Mandela by declaring his birthday a
“Pride of Africa Day” to be celebrated by all African countries.
o Before this individual task the class will conclude the Mandela survey
by analyzing the results and, working in groups of 5, research the life
of Mandela on the Internet and do poster presentations in class.

SECTIO" 3: PROCESS
This part will have four interlinked stages: research; poster presentation;
survey; proposal on honouring Mandela; follow-up individual poster.

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1. Research (online)
o Research the five main phases of Mandela’s life: Early years;
Freedom fighter; Prison years; Freedom and the presidency;
After the presidency.
o Each phase will be assigned to four groups working independently.
o The following websites are recommended, but … you can find more!

http//www.southafrica.info/mandela

http//www.anc.org.za/people/mandela

http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela

http//www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-
lecture.html

http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Nelson+Mandela

http://time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mandela

2. Poster

a) Preparation (group homework)

Discuss in your group what you have found out about the phase of
Mandela’s life that you have researched.

Prepare a hand-written poster featuring at least 6 themes or facts that
characterize that phase of Mandela’s life.

Reproduce the content of the poster as a Word document and have it
photocopied for circulation to all students.

b) Presentation (in class, 2nd session, 1 hour)

Class looks around poster display.

Each group will have one member present its poster.

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The four groups that worked on each phase will discuss their posters
and agree to make one poster out of them.

The five phase-linked groups will each present its new poster.

After a brief class discussion of the issues raised by the posters you
will vote to choose the best of the five posters.

3. Survey (in class, 3rd session, 1 hour)

I will give you the results of the class survey.

We will collate the results you have brought from the survey of
persons outside the class.

Does the outcome of the class survey differ markedly from the larger
survey?

What conclusions can we draw from the survey?

Does it help in any way to prepare us for writing the proposal to
honour Mandela?

4. Proposal (in class, 4th session, 2 hours)

Groups will write their proposals for presentation in class.

The focus should be on circumstances, events and actions that make
Mandela an extraordinary person in your group’s view.

Maximum length is 1000 words.

For citing electronic documents, see www.mla.org/style_faq4.

The posters and survey results will be on display, projected on to a
screen, as a backdrop for the presentations.

You will vote to choose the best of the five presentations.

5. Follow-up: Poster summary

o Summarize the information you have gathered about Mandela. Using
a poster format, present your points in 10 text-boxes, one for each of
the following themes/topics:

o Family background
o Political situation at the time of his birth
o Childhood
o Events that influenced him
o Struggles
o Hardships

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 o Turning points
o Victories
o Achievements
o How he changed the world.

o See the illustrations below. (Yes, you may use different colours for
each of the ten boxes or slides!)

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o Post your document to the class forum, so that your colleagues can see
the findings you consider most important.

SECTIO" 4: EVALUATIO"
The essay task of Part One and the poster, proposal and personal poster tasks will
be assessed, using an adjusted format based on the following chart:

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Below average Average Above average Outstanding
Grades F and E Grades D and C Grade B Grade A

Presentation Presentation Well organised Presentation painstakingly

simply read organised into stages, presentation, with clear researched but presented in
aloud; not easy to clearly illustrated and and detailed rationale, an engaging, even
follow, poorly sufficiently detailed showing evidence of entertaining, way;
illustrated, and/or to give a general idea; thorough research and technically impressive, well
under-rehearsed; evidence of rehearsal rehearsal; attractively resourced; even distribution
work not well and sufficient group illustrated; work well of work, each contribution
distributed collaboration, even if co-ordinated and harmoniously linked to make
between group workload not evenly evenly distributed; a coherent whole; report
members; little distributed; some some reading aloud, but delivered with notes but not
apparent liaison reading aloud, but some improvised read aloud; questions
or collaboration some improvised “telling” handled effectively and
“telling” spontaneously

Further Reading
Hallengren, Anders. "Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture", 2001.
Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of elson
Mandela. Boston & New York: Little Brown, 1994.
Mandela, Nelson. The Struggle Is My Life. New York: Revised, Pathfinder,
1986.

Answers to warm-up quiz:

a. 18 July, 1918
b. 1952, in Johannesburg
c. 1958
d. “racist ideology”
e. “I am prepared to die”
f. 1976
g. 11 February, 1990
h. 9 May, 1994
i. “rainbow”
j. Graca Machel, on his 80th birthday, 18 July, 1998.

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 Survey question: will you agree to sign a proposal
addressed to the African Union calling on it to honour
Mandela by declaring his birthday a “Pride of Africa Day”
to be celebrated by all African countries.

Answer by choosing one out of options A-D:

A. Yes, I agree absolutely

B. Yes, I will
C. Well, I don’t know
D. No, I won’t.

o Thank you for joining me in the Madiba! webquest.

o Mandela’s 90th birthday comes up next year!

Seiyifa Koroye
July 2007

seiyifa.koroye@gmail.com

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