Creative Lesson Plan

My school is currently doing an adapted text of Robinson Crusoe for Secondary 1 students. One creative lesson plan that went quite well in my Normal Academic class was that I actually got students to discuss in groups how they think that they would survive on an uninhabited island with only canned food, coconut trees, fish and a penknife with them. I first got students to read through the 1^st page of the adapted text, and then I showed them pictures of the items that they were able to bring with them to the island. This helped them to remember more clearly what they were allowed to use, as opposed to giving them worded instructions on slides.

After that, I distributed a graphic organizer to them and asked them to come up with solutions as to how they could survive on the uninhabited island using only the items that had been provided for them. After that, I got groups to present their answers using the visualizer so that their classmates could have a look as well. This was quite interesting because some groups managed to come up with very creative answers and they were also able to identify with the experiences of Robinson Crusoe who was trapped on that island.