Literature lesson

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• Studiejaar 3

Literature lesson

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Aims

Language:

• Read, translate a poem about failure.
• Expand your vocabulary.  

Skills: 

• You are going to improve your speaking skills by means of discussing an realistic theme about your pov about FAILURE.
• You are going to critically think about the concept of failure and establish a learning moment out of it.

Plan

1. Intro
2. Teaser>  YouTube short & Questions                             5m.
3. Read the poem                                                                     5m.
4.  Quiz about words                                                              10m.
5. T-chart about words                                                            5m.
6. Think-Pair-Share : In-depth questions                          15m.
7. Final writing activity                                                          10m.
8. Exit ticket> 3-2-1 chart                                                        5m.

Short

Watch this short, and we'll be talking about it!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ca9mhizbj34

What is this video about?

Tell us a personal story, or about somebody you know, about failure?

“Failure” by Amos Russel Wells   5m.

• Read the first two stanzas of the poem from the screen. 
• Think about the following questions:
• What did the 1st line of every stanza begin with?
• What did the 2nd line of every stanza begin with?
• Why?
• Which vocab could be important? 

“Failure” by Amos Russel Wells

1. Failure is a rocky hill:

 Climb it! Climb it with a will! 

2. Failure is a broken bone: 

Set it! Grin, and do not groan!

-Difficult words?

-Important words?

Listen to the reading  10m.

• Listen to the reading of the poem                    5m.
• Undeline difficult words.
• Read the vocabulary in the other side of the paper           2-3 m.
• Take the quiz about vocabulary after reading to understand vocab better.

Set it! Grin, and do not groan!

Grin is ......

1. smile
2. cry

Puzzle out the knotted thing!
Knotted means geknoopt.

1. False
2. True

Cross it! There are tufts of grass!
tufts

1. bosjes
2. klontjes

Failure is a treacherous pit

1. false hole
2. real hole

Scramble! Clamber out of it!
Scramble is ...... or .......

1. drift
2. stay
3. climb
4. surrender

Take a paper and a pen      5m.

• T-chart
•  On the left-side write down the word “negative”
• On the right-side write down “positive”
• Read the poem again from your handout
• While reading, list the words from the poem in the right side

Think Pair Share     5m.

1. How did the poet describe failure?

2. After each description of failure, he told the reader to do something, like: " Climb it!", "Cross it!". What do these words represent?

4.Which one suits you the best? Why?

5. " Failure is an ugly coal: Fuse it to a diamond soul!"

Can you mention/ recall a practical example about this last line?

What do you see?

Write down a story of about 100 words on a paper     5m.

• Begin with your name.
• Remember a failure situation (your experience, sb you know) or may be you read about it
• Why was it a failure?
• Write down 3 positive points that you/ the person who experience it would learn from this situation. 

ONE thing you’ve learned
ONE interesting thing
1 question you still have
Thanks!