#20 Second Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / National and Historic Heroes / Grade 8

#20 Second Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / National and Historic Heroes / Grade 8

Overall Objective: Students will be able to  compare Past Simple and Past Continuous forms, construct the text about a hero containing Past forms, guess the meanings of new vocabulary, learn about Rosa Parks and define why is she in their opinion a hero.

Language Objective: Students will be able to make comparisons between Past Simple and Past Continuous forms, construct the text, guess the meanings of new vocabulary.

Civic Education Objective: Students will learn about Rosa Parks and define why is she in their opinion a hero.

Curriculum Connection: English curriculum.

Class Context and Needs : A 2 level. Secondary students. 24 students. No disabled person, no students with special needs.

Materials: Handouts, markers,mini white- boards, papers, pens, chalk,a computer, a projector.

Activities: Slide-show,group work, reading, matching.

Assessment: Asking students why is Rosa Parks in their opinion a hero.Writing opinions in groups on the mini white-boards.

Overall Objective: Students will be able to compare Past Simple and Past Continuous forms, construct a text about a hero containing past forms, guess the meanings of new vocabulary, learn about Rosa Parks and define why she is in their opinion a hero. Language Objective: Students will be able to compare Past Simple and Past continuous forms, construct the text , guess the meanings of new vocabulary Civic Objective: Students learn about Rosa Parks and define why she is in their opinion a hero.
Stage of Lesson	Activity	Time
Warm Up	Looking at the slideshow containing pictures about  ,, black ,, and ,,white,, people and about Rosa Parks. They write their associations connected to these pictures on the mini white-boards	5 min
Activity 1	Dividing the class into 5 groups. Giving instructions. Distributing papers containing information about Rosa Parks. Each group has to put the paragraphs in the right order to construct the text. Posting the texts on the board and checking.	10 min
Activity 2	Teacher makes a ,, T- diagram,, on the board. Reviewing differences between Past Simple and Past Continuous.	5 min
Activity 3	Distributing handouts about Rosa Parks. Giving instructions. Students should identify and highlight the Past Simple forms in the text using green markers  and  the Past Continuous forms using pink markers in groups. Teacher makes  a  “T- diagram” on the board. Students draw the similar diagram in groups and fill in with the examples from the text. One person from each group makes a presentation. Checking. Giving feedback.	15min
Activity 4	Distributing new vocabulary and their definitions in groups. Students  have to match new words with their definitions. Teacher posts the right definitions on the board. Self- checking.	7min
Assessment	Asking students why is Rosa Parks in their opinion a hero. Group number 1, 3 and 5 have to make a  sentence using Past Simple and define why is Rosa Parks in their opinion a hero. Group number  2 and 4 have to make similar sentences using Past Continuous.	3min

                               It all started on a bus

Rosa Parks, 42, was on her way home from her job in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, USA on 1^st December 1955. At 6 pm she got on a bus for Cleveland Avenue, paid her fare, and sat down in the first row of ,,black,, seats.

In Alabama, as in most states in the USA at that time, there were laws to keep white and black people separate. For example, they could not eat in the same restaurants, sit in the same railway carriage or play pool together. White and black man could not even use the same toilets. And on the buses in  Montgomery, the front four rows of seats were for whites and the seats behind them were for blacks.

After the third stop, all  the ,, white,, seats on the Cleveland Avenue bus were full and a white man was standing. The bus driver told  Rosa  and three other black people to stand up. The others were doing  what the driver told. Rosa was moving…But only to the window seat in the same row.

The bus driver asked if she was going to stand up.  Rosa said, ,,No,,. And he said, Well, I am going to call  the police. She said, ,,You can do that,,

The police arrested Rosa Parks . As a result of her arrest black people refused to use buses in Montgomery for 381 days. The boycott ended when the US Supreme court decided that it was illegal to separate whites and blacks on buses.

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