Choose Their Adventure

This is just my own versions of a choose your own adventure type story. It was heavily inspired by Meglamb's Pusheen's Adventure activity. The way I do the activity is pretty much the same as their activity, so you don't have to read below if you've already looked at their activity.

Materials / Preparation

• 2 sets of a story and a worksheet.
  
• I know that the schools have a machine that can magnify the prints. So you can print the story part on A3 paper to make it easier to see for the groups.
  

How I Did the Activity

1) If you haven't explained the grammar, make sure you do it before starting the activity. A quick skit with the JTE should hopefully teach the students the grammar.

2) Explain how a choose your own adventure story works. The students are helping the main character, and at the end of each part they can "Let" them do something or they can "Make" them do something. Depending on their choices, they will get different endings.

3) Split the class into groups of 3 or 4 (I think that's the best number, but obviously this depends on class size) and give each group a dictionary. Either choose which groups get Sakura's story and which groups get Taro's story, or let them choose. Only give the the groups one of the stories, not both. And, only give them the story, don't give them the worksheet yet.

4) The groups work together to read the story. When they reach the end of one part, they decide as a group on what to do. Based on their decision, they go the next part and continue until they reach an ending. Each ending is marked with "Finish / Go to 1." If the students have extra time, they can read it a second time to see a different ending.

5) After a group finishes reading, they'll come to you and you give them the worksheet. They use the top half to trace what path they followed in the story and write about the story in Japanese on the bottom half.

6) After the groups are finished writing, have them present their story to the class. In Japanese is okay. Alternatively, after they finish writing, rotate the members of the groups and have them share their stories with each other that way. They're just reading the Japanese, so that part should be easy.

Other Notes

• There are two stories. One is about Sakura and one is about Taro. You should change any names to make sure your students don't think you're writing about them. You could do English names too, but that might confuse the students and distract them from the story itself.
• All images are taken from Irasutoya. What an amazing website.
  
• I know that my NH textbook doesn't teach "Make," but I think Let and Make are a pair, so I decided to make them the focus of the story.
• Thank you Meglamb for the original activity. It's a great idea, and I loved it. Would not have thought of this without them.

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