Teaching Values of Civil Rights Movement
Overview
The lesson includes information about the language level of the students, required vocabulary of the topic, warm-up, Jigsaw reading, needed materials and videos, group works and pair works, and reflection. The lesson is designed for a 45 min. lesson. We included the padlet as well as an alternate teaching tool.
Civil Communication
Civil Communication Lesson Plan
Ani Yerknapeshyan
Title of Lesson Plan: Teaching values of Civil Rights Movement
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Audience (Age, English Level):14-16, B1-B2
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Two Sentence Overview of the Lesson Plan: Lesson is created to help students to feel comfortable speaking about controversial subjects and identify the Values of Civil Rights Movement.
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Resources Needed: Emojis on the sticks, projector, whiteboard, computer, posters, pictures showing different subject of discrimination
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Learning Objectives: By the end of the lesson Ss are able to 1.identify Discrimination and non-violence 2.Categorize Positive and negative Criticism 3. Improve/ Use expressions that are friendly for civil communication
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Warm-Up: 7 min Use cards expressing “Who I am” (There are portraits of famous leaders of Civil Rights movement and other world-famous leaders)
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Time
10min
10min
10 min
8 min | Activities/Instructions
The same task in Padlet for online teaching
1.Discuss topic related words Look at the words the teacher has written on the whiteboard that would be the new vocabulary for today’s lesson Ask students the following questions:
2. Read along while listening to Martin Luther King’s speech Do post-listening task answering the following questions.
3. Do jigsaw reading by dividing students into 4 groups and ask them to read different parts of the speech (10 min) asking the following questions.
1. All groups should pay close attention to the highlighted words and expressions on the handouts the teacher has given you of the speech. 2. Individual groups should answer the following questions:
4.For all groups what does “I have a dream” and “Let freedom Ring” mean to you?
5.Using the table given write the positive and negative words and expressions you have in your passage and put your worksheet on the whiteboard group by group in order. Then students approach the whiteboard and read other groups’ analysis.
6.Using the positive words and expressions describe Martin Luther King as a good leader in a mind map. (5min, group work)
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Closing/Debrief 5-7 min Taking what we have learnt and discussed today about Martin Luther King, describe Armenian leaders who have similar qualities to Martin Luther King. Use examples from the words we learnt today to explain why you believe that these Armenian leaders have common qualities with Dr. King.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s