Blog Post 3

The first part of the lesson was not very interesting because it was a continuation from the previous lesson. The Literature department has come up with a set of rubrics to mark the students’ answers for Lower Secondary. As a result, I went through the rubrics with the students sitting in their groups, and asked them to assess another group’s answer on Characterisation that they have done the previous week. This is to help them to be aware of the marking scheme so they will know how they are graded.

After that I gave them a worksheet and asked them to predict what ‘Alma’ is about before showing them the short film. I paused when Alma stretched her hand towards the doll and asked the students to predict the ending. Then I showed them the ending. Many of them were able to predict accurately. The students were engaged and they enjoyed the short film. I asked them how they were able to guess the ending and introduced foreshadowing to them. I went through a few PowerPoint slides to explain to them the meaning of foreshadowing, and related it back to “The Monkey’s Paw”.