A Lesson Plan Using Synectics-1

Lesson Plan for Standard 4 English Literature Class using Synectics

The Fruitcake Special by Frank Brennan

Created by: Carolina Melendez & Siti Khadijah Binti Abdul Wahab

Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN Teacher: Miss Siti Kadijah/ Miss Melendez

Class Standard 4 (40 Students)Date 1st April 2010 (Thursday)Time 7:30 am- 8.40 am (2 periods/70 minutes)

Subject English Literature

Topic Literary texts (Short Stories) – The Fruit Cake SpecialSub Topic Character analysis

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:1. Analyze the characters in the story.2. Identify and interpret interactions and relationships with one another.3. Produce a writing piece in response to the story.

Materials Work sheet with graphic organizers for Character AnalysisPaper for final writing piecePower Point Presentation to gain attention at the beginningOverhead Projector

Model of Teaching

Information Processing Family of Models- Synectics

Multiple Intelligences

Verbal/Linguistic Logical/Mathematical

Musical Bodily/Kinesthetic

Interpersonal Intrapersonal

Naturalistic SpiritualBloom’s Taxonomy

Knowledge Comprehension

Application Analysis

Evaluation Synthesis

Reading Strategies

Predicting/ Revising Visualizing

Connect text-text Connect text-self

Spatial Pattering Inferencing

Critical Questioning

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Assessment and Evaluation Strategies

Diagnostic Formative

Summative Peer/ Self Assessment

Checklist Log/Journal

Group Presentations Oral Questioning

Conferencing Other__________________

Homework Worksheet activity for one of the characters: Amos, Momma, Aunt Mimi, Sabina

STEP / TIME CONTENT TEACHER’S ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS

Set Induction

(10 minutes)

Introduction to the topic

1. Teacher present students a power point presentation with quick facts and statistics about marriage age in Malaysia to gain their attention.

2. Teacher asks students about a) what might have cause such a trend

b) in their opinion, when would they get married and why do they choose to respond that way

Teaching Aids:

Power Point Presentation

(10 minutes) Stretching exercise (optional).

Teacher starts with a stretching exercise

a) Ask students to choose, for example food that they love to eat. For each, ask them to compare it to another object and state why.

b) Ask students to be an object, a concept or an event. Ask them to “put themselves in the shoes” of that particular object, a concept or an event and say how it feels.

c) Juxtapose two conflicting qualities of an object, a living thing, a concept, or a man-made or natural phenomenon. Ask students to give their opinions about such compressed conflicts.

Teaching Aids:

White board and markers.

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Worksheet 1

(40 minutes)

Character analysis procedure

Describe situation

Exploring direct analogies

Exploring personal analogies

Teacher goes through the process of coming up with the character analysis of Anna by going through the procedure below.

a) revise with students their previous reading of the short story

b) distribute the graphic organizer/worksheet 1to students

c) by giving evidence from the story, ask students to describe Anna base on the following sub-topics:

- physical description- what do others say about the

character- feelings- actions

d) From the information gathered, ask students to suggest some direct analogy from the animal world that can describe Anna.

e) Discuss students’ suggestions and find a consensus among them on the best direct analogy for Anna.

f) Ask students to imagine being that animal and allow them to explore by asking them to:

- sympathize with the subject by imagining that it has human feelings.

- relate to the subject emotionally and subjectively

- mobilize the physical and psychological tensions of the subject

- apply factors of repetition and progression

- move subject to a new environment and adapt it to a different frame of reference

- move subject out of its normal environment

- transfer subject to a different

Teaching Aids:

Worksheet 1/Graphic Organizers

Exploring compressed conflicts

Explore another direct analogy from the compressed conflicts

time-zone, social or geographical setting.

Teacher write students respond on the white board.

g) Base on the notes on the whiteboard, discuss with students - which 2 opposite words could

they pair up together and produce an integration of both qualities.

- ask students to connect different sensory modes

- ask them to fantasize surreal, preposterous, outlandish, bizarre thoughts

h) Base on the discussion above, ask students to come up with another direct analogy that best describes the compressed conflicts

i) Discuss students’ suggestions and find a consensus among them on the best direct analogy for Anna. State why they choose that analogy.

j) Teacher continues to reexamine the analogies to help students write an essay at the end of the worksheet to explicate their understanding of the interactions and relationships between Anna and the other characters.

Closure

(5 minutes)

Summary of the lesson

Teacher asks students to summarize what they have learnt in the class today.

Homework Worksheet 2 Base on the process of coming up with Anna’s character, students are to try to work on another character, i.e. David Amos by themselves first, before discussing them in the following class.

Enrichment Exercise

Instruct students to work on journal writing.

Teaching Aids:

(1 week) If you were Anna, what are you going to do the moment you realize that the fruit cake perfume is special? You may change the way the story is told and ended.

Students are to write their story in about 500 words.

Writing Journal

Worksheets

Title: ________________________ Author:_______________________

Character: ___________________________________________________

Which animal can best describe her?

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Putting Yourself in the Shoes of Others

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Feelings________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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You have chosen the ________________ as the best analogy to describe Anna in worksheet

1. Now, you be that animal. Fantasise how does it feel to be it? What are some of the

negative and positive qualities it possesses? Write phrases or words associated with the

animal.

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Two Juxtaposing Ideas

From the exercise above, pick two conflicting words. Think of another closest example

of these two combined ideas? Why do you choose that particular example?

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Write an essay of why did Anna have a change of heart about the pizza delivery boy?

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Title: ________________________ Author:_______________________

Character: ___________________________________________________

What type of machine can you compare him to?

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Feelings________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Actions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Putting Yourself in the Shoes of Others

You have chosen the ________________ as the best analogy to describe Anna in worksheet

1. Now, you be that machine. Fantasise how does it feel to be it? What are some of the

negative and positive qualities it possesses? Write phrases or words associated with the

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From the exercise above, pick two conflicting words. Think of another closest example

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Describe the character of David Amos when he is not spell-bound by the Fruit Cake Special.

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