#5 Fourth Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / Diversity / Grade 6-7

Overall Objective:  students will be able to express themselves by exposing own ideas, likes or dislikes and personal views over different things.  They will create, and share a” full portrait” of themselves.

Language Objective: students will finish sentences using own knowledge and point of views. They will also answer questions and write a paragraph according the framework.

Civic Education Objective:  students will be able to get the idea that everyone is special in some way. They acknowledge the concept that “It’s Okay to be different”.

Curriculum Connection:

Class Context and Needs: 3o students. Mixed ability class.

Materials: flip-charts, board, white –board markers, handouts, sticky tape, colored pencils, glue and scissors.

Activities: warm up, writing, speaking, gap filling, answering the questions, creating a self-portrait and sharing.

Assessment: students will fulfill several writing (handout 1) tasks during the lesson. It includes creating a self-portrait and writing a paragraph about themselves. At the end of the lesson they will share their works for the whole class and then the teacher will assess their works individually.

Overall Objective: students will be able to express themselves by exposing own ideas, likes or dislikes and personal views over different things.  They will create, and share a” full portrait” of themselves. Students will understand the importance of accepting differences. Language Objective: students will finish sentences using own knowledge and point of views. They will also answer questions and write a paragraph according the framework. Civic Objective: students will be able to get the idea that everyone is special in some way. They acknowledge the concept that “It’s Okay to be different”.
Stage of Lesson	Activity	Time
Warm Up	Students sit in groups.(4-5 ss in each group) Teacher introduce the topic of the lesson by saying 2 or 3 sentences like these: -If you are wearing black boots, stand up! -If you are 12, stand up! -If you’ve eaten pizza today, stand up! _if you have a sister, stand up!                                                      Then T writes on the board “IF you(have\are\’ve been to\’ve eaten\are wearing\like\don’t like\..., stand up!”  And encourages the students to say different sentences using the structure. Volunteers say own sentences and the rest of the class either stand up or sit according the true facts about themselves. Teacher sticks randomly large pieces of paper, with a single word on each of them, on the board, and tell the students to rearrange the words so that to make a correct sentence. After accomplishing this activity teacher tells them that it is the main topic of the lesson.  (students must build the following sentence- It’s Okay to be different)	5
Activity 1	Teacher tells them that they are going to answer questions in groups and distributes the cards with the questions on them. Students don’t know what is written in each card. In turns they blindly pick up the card, read the question in a group and answer it. (questions do be distributed in groups: What I like about me? What I like to eat? What I like about my family? What I like about my country? What I like to wear? What I’d like to be in future? ) while students are working , teacher  sticks the flip-chart on the board with the same questions and when all the student are done,  teacher once more goes through all this questions and the volunteer students answer only one question for the whole class. After this, teacher distributes handout 1 and tells them to look at the page 3,(what I like?) read the questions and write the answers on their own.	10-12
Activity 2	After accomplishing the first activity, teacher writes on the board “I’m a special one” and brainstorms the students and tells them that they will realize their uniqueness after managing doing the following task.  Teacher sticks the flip-chart on the board and tells the class to look at page 1, (I’m a special one) in the same handout, and explains the task.  After explanation, Teacher says that they have only 5 min to finish this assignment and sets the time.   Students must write a paragraph about themselves using the framework.  After this they must draw a simple self-portrait inside a given frame.  Students will share their works in a group and some volunteers will read out, what they’ve written, for the whole class.	10
Activity 3	Teacher distributes handout 2 for the task on page 4 and sticks the flip-chart on the board with the same wording what is given in handout 2. Explains the task and makes sure that everyone knows what these words mean.  Then gives handout 2. Students must write one suitable word in each line. After they finish writing all the words, teacher tells them to cut out these words carefully. And only then T tells the students to look at page 4 (my created story) and stick these words in a proper place.  Each student will create his\her own, different story. (students must be careful with numbers as each word is numbered and must go to its place) Those students, who accomplish this task earlier, can share their works with each other.	10-13
Activity 4	For the final activity, Teacher tells them that we are all different and these differences make us special.  Teacher sticks another flip-chart on the board with the same task that is written on page 2 and explains the activity. Then tells the students to look at page 2 (It’s Okay to be different) and finish the sentences using own ideas.  For the last question students must finish the drawing using their own imagination and views over the things. T warns them not to copy their group members’ ideas while accomplishing this task.   Then T randomly asks different students to read out their sentences for the whole class. At the end of the lesson all the students share their self-portraits in a class by sticking them on the wall so that everyone can have a look at each other’s work. As the wrap-up of the lesson the teacher once again goes through all this sentences and asks students to express their ideas openly in the class.	10
Assessment	Teacher assesses students’ works individually, according how well they accomplished their assigned tasks.

                                           My Created Story

Food		1
Animal\Pet		2
Small thing		3
Teacher’s name		4
adjective		5
Your friend’s name		6
Sport		7
Adjective		8
Clothes		9
Verb		10
Verb		11
Number		12

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