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introduction           task                   process          evaluation                  resources         conclusion

 

 

Heroes

 

 

Developed by

Rawda Sraih

English teacher  e-mail:

 [email protected]

overview

content area :art and language

grade level:  -1st secondary-2nd secondary literary and scientific

class time:2class periods

 

introduction

Each of us should be fan of those famous people who are successful in  sport, history, policy...etc

?who is your favorite hero

?At any rate are you a real fan

what is your opinion to accompany you in an exciting quest through the Web sites to know a lot about those people

 

task

dear students

  At the end of your quest ,you are supposed to have well knowledge about heroes  from different  communities and fields

  and you will be able to give the right description about  them /names-jobs-nationalities- personality and deeds; realizing the real meaning of heroism

In addition, dear, you are expected to use  tenses correctly     ( past simple ,past continuous and present perfect tenses) 

tip: each group has the choice to find the suitable technological way of writing (front page-power point-word) to show  the others what they did

 

process

In groups  ,dear, you are expected to accomplish the following missions

first mission

Have  a quest through this site

http://www.nufcpics.com/pictures_95422/Michel-Owen.html

Once you begin your quest

find pictures of the  famous people in sport and have information about them .

you could also use the search engine for more info

www.yahoo.com

pele'

Michael_Owen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen

David Beckham

http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/sport/1068.php

Bobby Charlton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Charlton

zinedine-zidane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane

 

second mission

search these sites for

  information about these famous national heroes  and campaigners

 Yusuf al-Azmah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_al-Azmah

Martin Luther King

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

Mother Teresa

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html

 Gandhi

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html

 then give full description about

 .their characteristic and heroic actions  in order to be able to tell where does their heroism lie

 

 third mission

                 ?Have you ever been a hero/heroine

 Dear students, each of you must have a heroic situation one day. In a short paragraph mention that action that you  or any other person offered somebody a help 

or saved one's life; then think of this question

"what makes a hero?"?.

"the really great person is the person who makes everybody feel great"

do you agree?

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Resources

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_al-Azmah

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html

a  grammar website may help

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensetext.htm

 

Non-web resources

 print resources (school books-magazines-newspapers

&

  students' memories

posters and other motivational techniques can also be used if possible just like: audio cassettes or videos

Evaluation

dear all, look! your work is going to be evaluated according to the following criterion

acceptable

Good

Excellent

Category

Responses covers some of the task suggested

Response covers most of the task suggested

Responses cover all of the task suggested

Task response

each student is active and helpful for his own

  actively existed among students in their groups

 

 

actively existed

among  all groups  in the class

Cooperative work

present and

covers some of the responses

response to most of the purposes suggested

sufficient and response to all purposes suggested

 

Images

 

 

achieving  the purpose of searching  but tardy.

using, in writing,  passable

effects and coordination

purposeful searching of information approximately on time. 

using good effects and coordination  during writing

searching the  websites given purposely on time

using  the programs of writing with charming effects and  well coordination

 

technology

Knowledge of grammar

but with some errors

Accurate

 but with few  errors

Accurate  with no errors

Grammar

 

 

 

conclusion

my dear

as they say "we learn by doing-but we learn even better by talking about what we did''

now ,give answers to these points

would you like to suggest ways of doing your activities differently to improve the lesson?

how might the outcome have changed if the roles were interpreted differently ?

?were you flexible enough to compromise with the group, or did you yield  to group pressures ?

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blog

and

discussion forum
http://www.network54.com/Forum/594805/

and

postal group e-mail

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to join the postal group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uptal

 

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samples of students' output

http://www.geocities.com/halasraih/sport.htm

http://www.geocities.com/halasraih/MAG.htm

Heroic situations

 

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the end

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