Audio/Visual Recording

This clip was filmed on Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 by Mrs. Morales. We were midway the unit 9.4. "It's a Matter of Opinion!", and we were beginning a new lesson on Active and Passive voice.

I settled on introducing the concepts by preparing a set of sentences as examples. Two of these sentences were active while the remaining two were passive. The students had to guess what the sentences had in common with each other.

However, I quickly realized that the students genuinely did not know. Therefore, I decided to give them some hints by modeling examples of being "active" and "passive".

This video was also filmed on the same day as the prior clip (Wednesday, February 27th, 2019) by Mrs. Morales. I needed to see whether the students understood Active and Passive Voice, so I prepared this game.

Similarly to the Fact and Opinion Game, I had prepared eight sentences to be read. A student was going to read these sentences, while the rest of the class either crouched for active, or stood still for passive. There were no rewards for this game, since it was their first time identifying these skills.

The video was filmed on Thursday, March 21st, 2019 by Ms. Coreano. The debate was the last formal assessment for the unit 9.4. "It's a Matter of Opinion!".

What I did was prepare a bag filled with controversial topics for the students to randomly pick. Some of these topics were repeated. The students that had the same topics were to pick a side and go against each other in the debate. For example, one of the many topics was death penalty versus anti-death penalty; meaning, that one side was in agreement with the death penalty, while the other side was in disagreement with it.

Before participating in the debate, the students had to develop their arguments in a persuasive essay. They needed to reflect on the subject and do research, if necessary, in order to sustain their opinions on the matter. Once the students finished writing their persuasive essay, then the debates could begin. They had to present the most important parts of the essay: their position on the matter, the three reasons justifying it, and any relevant information related to it.

This video was also filmed on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, by Mrs. Morales. Before then, the students were unwilling to participate because they were nervous. Many of them did not want to be the first ones to present, and I found myself in a pickle.

Thanks to a suggestion made by Ms. Coreano, a demonstration was done. The students were visibly more willing to participate. After the first pair of students presented, the students were far more intrigued and engaged in the topics than I had anticipated. The video is a perfect example of this.