How to teach a:
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Novel / Play.........Chapter....
Act. ..........Title........................
SB page....WB page...............
Today's lesson is a lovely lesson.
It talks about .........................................
Let's enjoy it.
2. Learning Objectives
Implementing critical thinking skills
By the end of the lesson, learners will become able to :
1-Read for pleasure, guessing and skimming.
2-Read for scanning, analysis and synthesis.
3-Do exercises and solve problems and do projects.
4-Act the scenes as practical learning.
5-Learning about American culture through our story
and comparing it with Egyptian culture.
3-Strategy used:
1-Active learning
It includes individual, pair and group work, playing
and changing roles.
2-Practice:
Acting the scene, solving problem, making a decision,
self-expression, playing roles, dialoguing and doing
projects
3-Critical Thinking skills :
Applicability, analysis, synthesis, imagination,
creation, innovation, doing projects , solving
problems and evaluation are implemented.
SB, WB, my site, my blog, my social media like YouTube
channel and Facebook, cassette tape, (AI) ChaGPTt,
Video tape, the library, Google PowerPoint, Google Slides,
real / actual /authentic things and authentic real situations.
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My global education site link:
1-http://www.bchmsg.yolasite.com/
My global education site and blog with a data show
screen can be used as a teaching material, resource,
modern technology in teaching and learning and as a
training workshop, assessment or evaluation:
2-YouTube Videos
5-Material and aids used:
SB, cassette tape, magazine, maps, CDs and the
flip chart, my site, blog, YouTube channel, online
platform, Google PowerPoint, Google Slides, and
social media like Facebook
The set-book, blackboard, drawings, mind mapping, CDs,
video film and illustration.
All the learners enjoy watching that part in a video.
The Fourth group learners evaluate the answers and
performance of each group and correct the errors.
They can photograph the acted scenes with their mobiles
and store them on a CD to be presented on the
computer screen for other learners in other classrooms.
Learners can get personalized learning through asking
Using and dialoguing with: ChatGPT, ( AI)
5-Standards: For middle standard.
6-Time: 45 minutes
A) Warm up : 3 Minutes
I ask students to recall the previous chapter.
I show or read a key line/title from today’s
chapter and ask:
1- What do you think of your story?
2-What would you do if you were......?
3-Why do you think it is a detective story?
4-What do you think will happen next?”
Values: Co-operation-Loyalty-Belonging-
Life-skills: Communication-Playing roles-
B-) Reviewing: 3 Minutes
1-What roles were played by....., ....and.... in the
previous chapter?
2-The teacher assesses the participation of the
learners.
Activity 3
C-) Viewing:
1- Pre - reading: 3 Minutes
Learners check the chapter title and study the
chapter scene pictures of the text.
Learners imagine and guess what events that
are going to happen in today's chapter.
The teacher assesses the participation of the learners.
New Vocabulary: 15 minutes
I use pictures, cards, technology, real situations,
acting the scenes and lexical approach to
present new vocabulary.
I point to the vocabulary and its picture on the screen
(Projector or PowerPoint) and act it for you to learn
the meaning and pronounce each to learn to speak.
I divide the new vocabulary according to
their derivatives:
I select 4–6 useful words from the chapter.
Students predict meanings from context, then check
definitions and make brief example sentences.
Activity 5
Guided Practice
A-Extensive reading: 5 Minutes
learners in 3 groups read the 3 parts of the chapter
silently and extensively for skimming. They use their
critical thinking(Analysis) to extract the 3 main ideas.
B- Simple questions: 3 Minutes
The teacher elicits 3 main ideas out of 3 groups'
answers to the 3 questions on the BB.
C- Intensive reading:
Learners in 3 new groups do an intensive reading to
the same 3 parts of the chapter for scanning the
specific details (synthesis) to help them answer the
3 next exercises.
Students read silently or follow while the teacher
reads selected passages aloud. They identify the
setting, characters, and main problem.
D- Comprehension check:
In pairs, students answer questions such as:
“What happened first?”
“What decision did the character make?” and
“Which detail supports your answer?”
Activity 6
3-Post reading: 9 Minutes
Free Practice
1-Answer these questions. The teacher assesses the
participation of the learners.
2-Complete these sentences. The teacher assesses
the evaluation of the learners.
3-Read this quotation and answer the 3 questions below.
Analysis and critical thinking:
Groups discuss one character’s motives or feelings
and the chapter’s central idea. Each group supports
its interpretation with a quotation or detail from the text.
Story theater:
(Characterization) 6 Minutes
1-In 3 new groups, each group act the scene of the text
part they have read in group audio-visually and physically.
2-Learners do characterization analysis for the characters
to show likes and dislikes.
3-Practical learning, solving problems, Discovery,
innovation and humor are seen.
Story telling (Synthesis):
Role-Playing : (Acting the scenes)
1-A group of 9 learners can present the 8 scenes of
the chapter through looking at 8 cylindrical attached
charts or small flip charts laid on the ground and
learners are all around. Look at the picture above.
OR
Learners go to the library to work in groups and do
projects about the next part of the chapter.
They use their curiosity to explore the
next events by themselves.
1- Group 1 do a report.
2- Group 2 answer the 4 Pre -Viewing questions.
3- Group 3 learners do a wall chart for the next part events.
4-Group 4 will interview the 3 other groups in the form
of a debate.
Summary:
(I assess synthesis)
Students write a 3–4 sentence summary or
an exit ticket:
one important event, one new word, and one question
What have we learnt today?
What else?
What American cultures did we learn today?
Assessment:
A-Assessment areas to improve:
Responses to comprehension questions
Participation in pair and group discussion
Use of textual evidence
Exit-ticket summary
(Learners' participation, interaction, share, dialoguing,
applicability, solving problems, analysis, and self
reflection).
DifferentiationSupport: Provide a vocabulary list, sentence starters,
or a short chapter outline.
Extension: Ask students to compare a character’s
choice with an earlier decision or predict how
it may affect later events.
B-Assessment Tools:
1-Performance tasks.
2-Discussion and periodic quizzes.
3-Weekly reports and baseline assessment.
4-Check points or grade books.
5-Learners' standards register and portfolio.
6-Formative interviews.
Extension:
1-Learners act the scenes of the novel chapter on
the school stage.
2-Learners do a characterization for the novel
characters they studied about showing their likes
and dislikes in a report for each and giving the reasons.
3-The teacher enables the learners to share in a
practical situation that is similar to that of the lesson
of the text and which is relevant to their environmental
daily life. The learners share and practice and the
teacher observes and encourages.
Home Assignment :
As a home assignment or homework task, Learners
do a summary, write a report or evaluate the roles
the characters have played .
The homework is important as it is a means of
assessment. It is part of the learner's portfolio.
It is a means of a contact between the teacher, the
parents to know about the learner's progress daily
and regularly.
Write a short paragraph explaining whether
you agree with one character’s decision.
Give at least one reason from the chapter.
Replace “the chapter” with the title and events of the
novel chapter being taught.
The teacher asks himself if :
1-The learners enjoyed reading for pleasure, skimming,
scanning, analysis, synthesis and did projects and
evaluation or not.
Other resources:
1-How to teach new vocabulary.
2- How to teach grammar.
3- How to teach an"exercises" lesson
4-How to teach writing
5- How to present a lesson.
Internal links:
1-Classroom rules.
2-Disruptive learners.
3-Classroom discipline.
4-Students' behavior VS Management.
External Links:
1- English and Urban Slang online.
2-Positive Reinforcement i
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