Literature Course Part 3 - Friday 26.3.10

Short story - Form 4 - Fruitcake special

Activity 1
1. Asks students the perfumes they wear / models / designters / smell
- students write down on Mahjung paper and pass to other gropus.
- other groups also write about the models - then pass on to other groups.
- paste the mahjong paper in front of the class - discuss ..
- tr then relates these notes to the story - perfume - smell of ... ; made of
fruitcake..

2. Activity 2
- collection of words - mind map - ask ss to make up the title, & what they think of the story by looking at the words from the short story.
- make prediction of the story
- read on to find whether their predictions are true or otherwise.

3. Activity 3 -
- give a diagram to ss.
- ss choose a character - find a quotation and write down what that quote implies.
- find other quotes.

4. Activity 4.
Students choose the character traits of each character.. tick them.


Novel - Form 1 - BLACK BEAUTY - aim of the writer - to change public's attitude of their treatment to animals.

1. Activity 1
Watch the video/ movie on Black Beauty

2. Activity 2 - List the moral values and the themes.

3. Activity 3 - Play detective - find name of author & content etc

4. Act 4 - Match titles given in bold to the clue

5. Act 5 - Sentence strip taken from a box. Rep from groups pick up one strip & read it, other groups & his group guess the place related to the phrase read. 2 pts for winning team.

6. Arranging events according to sequence (plot). The events are pasted in a small piece of paper everywhere in the room. (not more than 7 strips pls!!)


DRAMA -Moving the muscle - Gulps & Gasp.
Intro to Drama in the Classroom - refer ..guidebook.


Part 1. Warm up - ask ss to stand facing one another .. then follow insructions by doing certain ridiculous actions eg. smile, grin, on the brink of tears.... mad at somebody - show different facial expressions.

Part 2 . Pre production - Give 8- 10 situations, Plan the drama in 5-10 mins, Dramatize it... Pairwork...Dramatize in 2 min the funniest conversation..
eg. Husband & wife arguing over tv programmes each of them want to watch
Policeman stopping a driver
An employer sacking his employee
Hairdresser and her customer
Policeman in a room questioning a suspect
etc..

Part 3. Production- read the drama with correct intonation, etc - behind the board - to test throwing of voice.


That's all folks... Nite...N A B