Jesus on the Breadcrumb Trail
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What's the problem? | Review Problem-Based Learning Steps

Define the Problem: Jesus on the Breadcrumb Trail

Meet the problem.

You have read the problem. Fill in a GRASPS worksheet in response to it. (Scribbling this with paper and pencil is fine. You will not turn this in.)

GRaSPS
Questions
Notes
Goal
 What is the GOAL of the assignment? What will you be learning as you work on it? In this problem, you are Tracing Action and Argument. You are noticing the flow of a block of text.
Role
 What is your ROLE in the problem? Who are you? What are you to do? Think about why you are paying attention to action and argument in this story? What are you doing? How will that role affect how you read the story?
Situation
 What is the SITUATION in which you find yourself? Describe as much as you know.  
Product or Performance
 What is the PRODUCT of your work to be? The product is (a) what you will present in church, but also (b) what you will show me (since you can't all do a chancel drama for me in St. Paul, MN).
Standards
 What are the STANDARDS by which your work will be judged? Here is the rubric I use in my classes. As you meet the problem, try to relate these general standards to the specific Goal, Role, Situation and Product of this problem. By the way, when you do not work with others on the problem, the standards for collaboration will not be applied to your work.

What do you know? What do you need to know?

Make a list of things you know already. Do you know where the story is? If not, you will need to figure out a way to find it.

Then, just reading the story through will tell you some things about:

  1. Characters.
  2. Lines.
  3. "Scenes" or moments when certain characters are speaking and others are not.

What do you need to know?

In this step, you also list things that you need to know in order to see the scenario through to completion. Are there things you need to know about the characters in the story? About any words in the story? About location?

State the problem.

What are you being asked to do? Make sure you know this and can say it in your own words.

Next: Go to "Address the Problem," coaching page 2.