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Title: A lesson plan for Born to Succeed: Henry Sy’s Biography
Topic: Born to Succeed
Learning Objectives:
Expressive Objectives
- Experience the world of Henry Sy through reading his biography
- Become aware that nothing comes easy and all hard work pays off
- Inculcate the value of hard work, perseverance and determination
Instructional Objectives
1. Define the difficult terminologies
2. Fill in information in the graphic organizers
3. Name the four types of listening discussed in class
4. Infer character traits
5. Write a justification about a choice or stand made
Subject Matter:
The biography of Henry Sy is under the topic Born to Succeed. The message essentially advocates to the students the value of hard work and perseverance. Henry’s life and works demonstrate his positive attitude. His role in the community highlights his diligence that failure will never overtake his determination to succeed. His inspiring and motivating courage to pursue is a proof that , at the end of it all, dreams embrace you.
Materials:
a copy of the biography of Henry Sy (Appendix A), graphic organizers, copies of worksheet, writing materials
Procedure:
PREREADING
- Building Background Knowledge
Pair work – Graffiti Board
Given the name of HENRY SY, the students will write words/phrases that they may relate to the name. Sharing in class will be done after a couple of minutes.
- Developing Vocabulary
Individual Work
Directions: Have the students answer the exercise on Vocabulary Enhancement.
- Developing a Purpose for Reading
Motivation Questions:
1. How do you describe successful businessmen?
2. What qualities do you think a successful businessman have?
Motive Question:
1. Did Henry Sy start off “big” in his career? What made Henry Sy succeed in the business world? What qualities does he possess?
READING/VIEWING THE TEXT
Task 1: Divide the class into small groups. Each group should have at least 5-6 members.
Task 2: Distribute the printed reading materials to the class. Then have them read the part assigned to their respective groups.
Task 3: Allow each group to silently read the text assigned to them.
Task 4: Afterwards, have them summarize what they have read to assess how well they have understood the given reading material.
POST READING
- Engagement Activity 1 (Small Groups)
Group 1: Problem-Solution
As you may recall from the text, Henry Sy’s life is no different from an ordinary Filipino - it is beset with problems or conflicts. As a group, identify the problems Mr. Sy had to deal with and how he had dealt with them. Use the graphic organizer provided to your group.
Group 2: Sequencing Events
Using a Timeline Organizer, trace the major events that transpired in Henry Sy’s life. Write them in the order in which they happened. Add additional details as you see fit.
Group 3: Comprehension Questions
Discuss among yourselves each of the questions written below. Share your output with the whole class afterward.
Group 4: Pyramid Organizer
Written on the peak of the pyramid is the word SUCCESS. As a group, identify life experiences, events, etc. that may have steered Mr. Sy towards success. Write them on the space provided.
- Engagement Activity 2 (Whole Class Discussion)
Each group shall be given time to present their output to the whole class. Questions may be raised anytime during the presentation to gauge how well they understood the material.
See Appendix C (RUBRICS FOR DIFFERENTIATED ACTIVITIES)
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY/CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
- Social Studies
In a group of 5 people, make a 3-page report on the impact Henry Sy has made in our society nowadays. Write your comprehensive report on a short bond paper, following a single-spaced format.
- Research/Interview
Ask 2-3 local businessmen in your area. Ask them how they started and what challenges they have encountered. Write a report about the interview and present it to the class through a PowerPoint presentation.
From among the 3 interviewees, choose one and compare and contrast his/her life with that of Henry Sy’s. Highlight how they started; the challenges they both encountered and their own definition of success. Then record the interview using a voice recorder. The recording should not exceed 6 minutes and not be less than 3 minutes running time.
EXPLICIT SKILLS INSTRUCTION: TYPES OF LISTENING
1. Presentation
Task: Have the students listen to the following: a classical music, a short recording about baking, a politician delivering a short message.
Ask: What information/takeaways did you get from the recordings you have just listened to? What have you observed the way you listened to each material? Did you listen to each the same you did with the other materials?
2. Teaching/Modeling Listening is a visual as well as auditory act, as we communicate much through body language. We thus also need to be able to discriminate between muscle and skeletal movements that signify different meanings. Like any other skill, we also listen for purpose. Here are four types of listening, starting with basic discrimination of sounds and ending in appreciation of sounds.
Here are four types of listening, starting with basic discrimination of sounds and ending in appreciation of sounds.
a. Discriminative listening
Discriminative listening is the most basic type of listening, whereby the difference between difference sounds is identified. If you cannot hear differences, then you cannot make sense of the meaning that is expressed by such differences.
We learn to discriminate between sounds within our own language early, and later are unable to discriminate between the phonemes of other languages. This is one reason why a person from one country finds it difficult to speak another language perfectly, as they are unable distinguish the subtle sounds that are required in that language.
Ask: Give at least three examples of discriminative listening. How important do you think it is to understand the given message?
b. Comprehension listening
The next step beyond discriminating between different sound and sights is to make sense of them. To comprehend the meaning requires first having a lexicon of words at our fingertips and also all rules of grammar and syntax by which we can understand what others are saying.
The same is true, of course, for the visual components of communication, and an understanding of body language helps us understand what the other person is really meaning.
In communication, some words are more important and some less so, and comprehension often benefits from extraction of key facts and items from a long spiel.
Comprehension listening is also known as content listening, informative listening and full listening.
Ask: How can you develop or enhance comprehension listening? Cite an example by which comprehension listening can be manifested?
c. Critical listening
Critical listening is listening in order to evaluate and judge, forming opinion about what is being said. Judgment includes assessing strengths and weaknesses, agreement and approval.
This form of listening requires significant real-time cognitive effort as the listener analyzes what is being said, relating it to existing knowledge and rules, whilst simultaneously listening to the ongoing words from the speaker.
Ask: What is the drawback of critical listening? Is critical listening considered as constructive criticism?
d. Appreciative listening
In appreciative listening, we seek certain information which will appreciate, for example that which helps meet our needs and goals. We use appreciative listening when we are listening to good music, poetry or maybe even the stirring words of a great leader.
Ask: What type of music do you listen to? What do you feel whenever you listen to your favorite song/s?
3. Guided Practice
Have the students answer the exercise below.
4. Independent Practice
Task (Teacher): Choose two from among the interview recordings submitted by the students. Then have them listen to each. Ask the students to identify which of the four types of listening they used the most to understand the message of the audio material.
Say: You’ve just heard a sample recording from the outputs you’ve submitted. Now, rate the different types of listening you used to understand the message of the material from the most important to the least important.
5. Application
Directions:
In 100 words or less, have the students write a justification about their rating. Have them write their answers on a short bond paper.
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