Due to time constraints caused by the alternate tutorial/lecture week system and unforeseen circumstances such as public holidays and school events, I have had little opportunity to conduct a creative lesson for my Secondary Two students.
The closest thing to a creative lesson is probably my 'crash course' lesson on Unseen Prose while teaching the PIE technique (Personal Response, Interpretation, Evidence) and Characterization. This is also the first (and possibly, the only) lesson on Unseen Prose for the Secondary Twos before their Mid-Year Examinations.
For this, I introduced the short film INSIDE for the trigger activity. After a very quick introduction as to what an Unseen Prose is, I screened the film and later conducted a class discussion where students had to share their opinions about what they thought was going on, who the characters were, what the relationship between the characters was like and what feelings they had for the main character and about the film as a whole. I wrote down the responses on the whiteboard and arranged them according to the different categories of the PIE technique but without labeling them as such. Instead, I asked the class to explain the link between my arrangement of the answers and how the PIE technique was to be applied. Since they are generally uncertain of their own abilities, this was to get them to first realize the connection between the individual components of the technique and to also realize that their answers given were of relevance and that they only needed to structure their answers in a proper manner. Once they came to that realization, I noticed that they became a little more confident of themselves and participated even more during the main activity where we applied the PIE technique in answering short-answer questions for another Unseen Prose.
Interesting - why use Inside?
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