Lesson Topic: Heroes/
Kakutsa Cholokashvili
Overall Objective: students will be able to analyze and describe
a hero according to general ideas defining the characteristics of a hero
Language Objective: students will use a variety of verbs and
tenses , as well as new vocabulary and phrases targeted by the lesson and write
an essay and prove why this heroic
person is considered to be a hero
Civic Education
Objective: students will apply the concept of “hero” to people in their
national life
Curriculum connection:
English Curriculum S VI&VII 3, 5,10
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Class context and
needs: Intermediate (B1) level, Secondary students
Sequencing: students
have different verb tenses and
vocabulary
Materials: a
brief biography of a famous Georgian hero Kakutsa Cholokhashvili
Activities: warm up, pre-reading brainstorming, post
reading discussion, writing an essay.
Assessment: writing
samples
Reflection:
Stage of Lesson
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The aim of the activity
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Teacher activity
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Student activity
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Resources
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Warm up/
3 min
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To introduce the topic, have an idea about heroes and revise some
vocabulary.
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Teacher hands out question slips that guide student pair speaking.
She asks students to use questions and discuss and speak about heroes in
pairs.
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student A asks a question and student B answers, then vice versa. students B ask and students A answer.
So they discuss heroes
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Handouts 1
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Activity 1/
3 min
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Pre-reading brainstorming.
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Teacher asks the students to name all characteristics that a person
should have in order to be considered as a hero
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Students name all characteristics of a hero.
Possible answers:
He is brave, persistent, is not
afraid of anything, inspires people, has lots of accomplishments, sacrifices
his life, stands up for his principles, has moral courage and so on
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Activity 2/
4 min
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Students will be able to identify which activities of a hero
demonstrate specific characteristics.
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Teacher distributes handouts 2 where there are several examples of
heroes’ activities in jumbled order.
Below there is a chart of three main characteristics of a hero. Teacher
explains that they have to discuss a
hero according to the following characteristics:
1. He faces challenges and doesn’t give up
2. Teacher asks students to re possesses
moral courage
3. He faces personal risks
She tells them
to read examples and then identify which activity is an example of the
characteristics given in the chart.
After students finish filling in the chart, teacher shows them the
same chart with answers on the board. Students check up their answers.
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Students read heroes’ activities and fill in the chart, put
appropriate example in the correct characteristic column.
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Handouts 2
Poster on the board with correct answers
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Activity 3
7 min
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To get known Kakutsa Cholokashvili’s
biography, identify what activities of his life demonstrate specific
characteristics. To prove that he is really a hero
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Teacher distributes handouts 3 (brief biography of a famous Georgian
hero- Kakutsa Cholokashvili) and tells them that they will discuss Kakutsa’s
heroic activities according to three main characteristics mentioned above in
the chart. She asks them to work individually, read the biography, then in
pairs select which facts and activities go with the specific characteristics.
She advices them to put numbers 1,2 or 3 (they show characteristics of a hero
that are given in the chart) at the beginning of each heroic activity of this
hero.
At the end teacher discusses with students and they check up if their
decisions were right.
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Students read the biography silently, then select specific examples
and decide which characteristics they go with.
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handouts 3
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Activity 4
3 min
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To introduce the structure of an essay
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Teacher introduces the students the structure of an essay. She shows them
the poster (here handout 4) which shows this structure.
Teacher tells them that an essay consists of three main parts: the
introduction, the main part and the conclusion. The main part consists of
three paragraphs, each of which begins with the topic sentence. At the end
she elicits the answers from the students
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Students listen to the teacher’s explanation and then discuss the
structure of an essay
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Poster
( handout 4)
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Activity 5
25 min
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To show evidence how well the students understand the topic
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Teacher distributes handouts5 and asks students to write an essay
considering all the information mentioned above. She also shows them criteria
for grading essays
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Students write an essay individually
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Handouts 5
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Assessment after
the lesson
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Teacher collects the essays and assesses according the criteria made beforehand
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Student A
1. Who is your hero? Why?
2. What makes a hero a hero?
3. Do you think soldiers and police
officers are really heroes? Why?
Student B
1. Who is your country’s national hero?
Why?
2. What do you think an unsung hero is?
3. Do you think rock stars are really
heroes? Why?
Handout 2
Read the examples and
put them in an appropriate place in the chart below
1. This
heroic person stands for principles such as justice and fairness for all people
or principles of equality of treatment between races, ethnic groups or men and
women.
2. This
person can be a General or a king or a President whose army has been defeated
in battles, but he finds solution, he organizes better army and goes on to
defeat the enemy.
3. This
person shows bravery in dangerous times. He is not afraid and risks his life
e.g. a fireman, a policeman.
4. This
person is defeated in the elections, but he still tries to organize a better
campaign and get more people on his side
5. This
person stands for the independent rights of his country and fights for
independence
6. This
person stands for his beliefs. He believes that slavery should be abolished or
the country mustn’t be divided into two parts
7. This
person shows great bravery during intense fighting and isn’t afraid that his
army is outnumbered.
He
faces challenges and doesn’t give up
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He
possesses moral courage
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He
faces personal risks
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Handout 3
Kakutsa Cholokashsvili
· Was born on 14 July 1888 in Matani, Kakheti,
Georgia
· Born into the aristocratic family of Prince
Ioseb Cholokashvili
· Studied at the Tiflis Gymnasium for Nobility in
1907
· In 1914, when the First World War began, he was
enlisted to fight on the Austrian Front
· Wounded later that year, he was transferred to
the Caucasus Front.
· After
the Russian Revolution of 1917, he returned to Georgian and became involved in
the Georgian Independence movement.
· Cholokashvili believed that Georgia should be
free from Russian control,
· In
1921, the new Soviet government invaded Georgia and this invasion led to the
fall on an independent Georgia.
· After 1922, The Georgian Socialist government
[SSR- Revkom] ruled the country.
· Cholokashvili did not immigrate to Europe and
other countries as his compatriots did.
· Cholokashvili did not give up. He went
into the mountains and organized a guerrilla
resistance to the new Socialist government in Tbilisi.
· Cholokashvili moved the mountainous district of
Khevsureti where he continued to fight against the Soviet government
· Cholokashvili showed moral courage because he believed that Georgia should be
independent and he kept fighting against a Soviet army that was much bigger
than his small guerrilla army.
· In 1924, he showed bravery during intense fighting where Cholokashvili’s small
guerrilla army was outnumbered. There
were more Soviet troops than the independent Georgian fighters.
He faced danger in battle and physical
hardship fighting the enemy. He took the banner [flag] of Georgian
independence to show this small army wouldn’t
give up.
· In the
end, when faced with real defeat by a stronger army, Cholokashvili and his
followers realized that they had to escape into the mountains to avoid being
captured & killed. He realized it
was better to retreat and live to fight another day.
· Later, Cholokashvili went to France to
live. He died in France in 1930.
· Soviet officials wanted the Georgian independent
movement forgotten so the banned his name for 70 years in the Soviet Union.
· To On November 20-21, 2005, his grave was moved
to Mtatsminda Pantheon, in Tbilisi.
Handout 4 (poster)
The structure of an
essay
I N T R O D U C T I O N
( You should give general description of a hero , introduce specific hero
and give thesis statement e.g. Kakutsa is considered a hero because
he possesses three main heroic characteristics ….)
M A I N P A R T
He faced challenges and
didn’t give up. ( the topic
sentence of the first paragraph)
He possessed moral
courage. ( the topic sentence
of the second paragraph)
He faced personal risks.
(the topic sentence of the third
paragraph)
C O N C L U S I O N
( You should repeat the thesis statement and general reason )
Handout 5
Student’s name-
Teacher’s name -
Grade- 11th
Write an essay- Kakutsa Cholokashvili-a famous
Georgian hero
Criteria for grading
essays
Name---------------------------------
4
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3
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2
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1
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total
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Introduction.
Answers the essay question with a thesis statement
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Introduction
mentions the 3 heroic characteristics. Has a thesis statement naming the hero
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Introduction names
two characteristics and a thesis
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Has an
introduction a thesis
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Has no
introduction
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Topic sentence at
each of the three paragraphs
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Has all three
characteristics and three topic sentence for each
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Has two paragraphs
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Has one paragraph
for the body
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Has one or two
sentences for the body
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Use of examples to illustrate heroic characteristics
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Has at least one
or two examples of for each paragraph
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Has a total four
examples
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Has a total of
three examples
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Has one or two
examples
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Grammar, spelling, syntax
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4-5 errors
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6-7 errors
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8 errors
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9 or more errors
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Logic and reasons
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Explains how the
example demonstrates the characteristics in each of the 3 paragraphs
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Explains how the
example demonstrates the characteristics in two of the paragraphs
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Explains generally
the characteristics
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No explanation of
the example
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conclusion
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Has a two sentence
conclusion which repeats the thesis statement and general reason
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Has a two sentence
conclusion bit doesn’t say much
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Has one sentence
conclusion
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Has no concluding
sentence
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