Writing project 'raise your voice'

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• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Writing project 

Raise your voice

This is what we’re going to do:

• Watch a few videos about protesting / demonstration and talk about it.

• Brainstorm about actions and demonstrations you know.

• Talk about how far you can go to stand up for something.

• Choose a theme that you feel strongly about.

• Plan your own demonstration and write your protest letter.

Before we start:

• Prepare everything on paper in class. 

• Don't take your notes home --> hand it in every lesson.

• Study the information on classroom for your writing test!

Introduction

Protesting is not something new, and it can be done in many ways...

Greenpeace against Shell at a  Formula 1 award ceremony in 2013.

It can be about a lot of things...

Question 1a: Which reasons for protesting do you hear in this video?

Question 1b: Where lies the strength in this type of protest?

Discuss

• Have you ever been to a large demonstration like this?
Or would you like to?

• Why do you think people protest?

Lesson 2

Protesteren is niet alleen iets van nu en het kan op veel manieren…..

Question 2a: Which reasons for protesting do you hear in this video?

Website

https://fb.watch/kKMubwcDuw/

Question 2b: Where lies the strength in this type of protest?

Question 3: Discuss these questions with your neighbour and write down short answers on your paper: 

• What did you see?

• What did these activists protest against?

• What do you think of their actions?

• Which impact /result could have an action like this have? Why?

• Can you think of other ways to stand up for what you believe in?

With your neighbour, discuss which forms of protest you know.

Question 4: Make a ‘wordweb’ on your paper and include:

• Subjects

• Forms of protest

• (inter)national or local

• Successful?

Question 5: Come up with your own demonstration about a theme you care about. Try to come up with a realistic form of protest. 

These questions can help you in creating your action plan:

• What is the goal of my protest?

• How can I grab attention?

• What will I do and where will it be?

• What do I need and what will I say?

Question 5

AFTER THIS QUESTION YOU HAND IN YOUR NOTES TO YOUR TEACHER AND IT WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU BEFORE YOU START WRITING YOUR TEST!

Lesson 3

Question 5: Come up with your own demonstration about a theme you care about. Try to come up with a realistic form of protest. 

These questions can help you in creating your action plan:

• What is the goal of my protest?

• How can I grab attention?

• What will I do and where will it be?

• What do I need and what will I say?

Question 5

AFTER THIS QUESTION YOU HAND IN YOUR NOTES TO YOUR TEACHER AND IT WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU BEFORE YOU START WRITING YOUR TEST!

How to write a protest letter

Je schrijft een protestbrief in op papier (behalve de lln. die Coolcheck mogen gebruiken) en je levert dan ook je ‘notes’ in. 

How to write a protest letter

• 3 paragraphs with a total number of words between
  140 – 170 words with the ‘10% rule’.

• The first paragraph is the introduction.
                  1. Start with Dear Sir / Madam, (= 0,5 p)                2. Leave a blank line and say who you are and why 
                       you are writing. Be careful that you DO NOT write a
                      ‘conclusion’ yet, only the reason why! (= 1 p)

How to write a protest letter

Leave a blank line and then start the second paragraph with ‘the body’. This is the actual information. (= 4 p)

Make sure you clearly explain yourself:

                a. WHAT EXACTLY are you protesting against.

                b. What are the effects of this ‘bad’ situation.

                c. WHAT EXACTLY do you want to change.

                d. What RESULT you hope to get with this change.

How to write a protest letter

Leave a white line again and then start the the third paragraph with the conclusion.

                 e. CLEARLY say what you expect from the reader. (= 1 p):

Leave a white line again and end with Kind regards, (= 0,5 p) and then put your first name and surname under that. 

Example:

Dear Sir / Madam,

My name is …. and I am writing to you because….

I am protesting against …. (a. WHAT are you protesting against) . I think this is a bad thing because ….. (b. What are the effects of this ‘bad’ situation). I would like to see that ….. (c. WHAT EXACTLY do you want to change) because then ….. (d. WHAT RESULT do you hope to get).

I hope that you can / will ….. (e. Clearly say WHAT you expect the reader to do) so that …….

Kind regards,

….. …..

The teacher will also pay attention to:

Your grammar ( I / correct use of the present and past simple / no ‘gonna’/

‘wanna’ etc.) (= 1 p)

The vocabulary and register: do you use the correct words (remember the strong adjectives like ‘horrendous’, ‘disgusting’, ‘cruel’ etc.) / are your

questions and reasons clear to the reader / do you only use short

sentences, etc. (= 2 p)