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Lesson Plan Topic/Theme of lesson Changes brought about by technology (Poem) Background Information Teacher: Kwok Ka Tsun Level of students: Key Stage 4 (Form 5) No. of students: 40 Date: 25th November, 2006 Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm (40 mins/lesson) Learning Objectives To learn the structure of a poem To use imaginary and link up poems with pictures To develop comprehensive and presentation skills To generate a personal poem with creativity Teaching Materials Worksheets PowerPoint CD-room Activities (procedures) Time Steps *Interaction Purpose Allocation 10 mins T C Introduction: Teacher asks students get into groups taking in turns to describe the technology nowadays and in future Teacher elicits the description from the students and writes them on the board Teacher gives samples of technology poems to students to read 10 mins Listening to the poem Teacher will read out and repeat the poem 3 times and stops awhile after 15 mins technological terms Initiate students to think how the technological terms can be linked up in a poem. TC each time to let students feel it. 15 mins Motivate and Stimulate students to get involved in the topic Arouse students’ interest. Allow students to imagine more and brainstorm of the technology development in future Let students familiar with some Picture Poem Teacher asks students to pair up and distributes a technology poem builder to each pair. Teacher explains the instruction written on the task. S (P) “I am ” Poem Teacher distributes another task called “I am” poem and introduces the examples of other people’s works. Teacher asks student to follow the template given S (I) Facilitate students to feel and imagine the content of the poem Make the poem more understandable to students. Demonstrate to students of how a poem should be delivered. Arouse students’ interest and stimulate students to brainstorm of the content by drawing pictures. Ensure students are on the right route in their task. Students are able to express their own feelings. Make the poem writing easier for students to try. Free for students to think and imagine in their literature writing. to write a poem of them. 30 mins 10 mins Presentation (Assessment) Teacher asks students to seat in groups of four or five to have a sharing on their works. Teacher then asks one student from each group to come out and present his/her work. S (G) Conclusion Teacher gives a general feedback to students Teacher rounds up all the things taught in the lesson and gives a summary TC Students can learn the ideas from each other. Train students’ presentation skills of poem. Students are learnt to appreciate others’ arts work. Inform of students’ performance Consolidate what students have learnt in the lesson *Key explanation T=Teacher C=Whole Class S=Student I=Individual Work P=Pair Work G=Group Work =Two-way interaction /=Single-way teaching Assessment Students are asked to hand in both the individual and group work after the lesson. (i.e. “I am” Poem & Technology Poem Builder) Follow-up activities Nil Sources taken/adapted from Hayhoe, M., & Parker, S. (1988). Words large as apples: teaching poetry 11-18. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. Murphy, M. (Ed.) (1993). Using poems in schools. Hong Kong: ILE, Education Department. Jim Burke, Ron Klemp & Wendell Schwartz. (2002) Reader's Handbook: A Students Guide for Reading and Learning. Great Source Education Group Seth Lindstromberg. (2004). Language activities for teenagers. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vicki L. Holmes and Margaret R. Moulton. (2001). Writing simple poems : pattern poetry for language acquisition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Language Arts---Poems by you about you. Retrieved 10th December, 2006, from http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/LanguageArts.html Remember When---A Poem About Technology. Retrieved 10th December, 2006, from http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/rememberwhen.htm Technology Poem Builder. Retrieved 10th December, 2006, from http://teacher.depaul.edu/TechnologyPoemBuilder.pdf
