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Lesson Plan including Prezi
Lesson Plan including Prezi
By Leonel Dáttoli
By Leonel Dáttoli
Course: Upper-Intermediate
Teacher: Leonel Dáttoli
Time allotted: 2 30 hours
Virtual class through Zoom
Communicative goal: analysing literature
Grammar focus: -
Vocabulary focus: vocabulary related to literature analysis
Websites:
WARM-UP (10 minutes)
o Answer the following questions:
§ Do you know what a symbol is? And what about the setting of a story? Is there a character from any book that has left a lasting impact on you? Why?
WEB (35 minutes)
We are going to work in 3 groups. The first group is going to browse the following online PDF document Literary Symbols to answer the following questions in written:
1. What are literary symbols?
2. Give 1 example of each type of literary symbols present in the PDF.
The second group will surf Setting in place and time to answer the following questions in written:
1. What is setting in time and place?
2. Why is setting so important?
The third group will answer the following question by doing research in Analysing a character.
1. What are the five features of a story book character that can be analyzed?
The three groups will present their findings in the next section.
WHAT’S NEXT? (20 minutes)
The groups present their findings to the class orally.
---------------------------A little break ------------------------------------------------
WARM-UP 2
· Discuss: How much has the situation of women in society changed in the last 50 years?
WEB 2 45 (minutes)
Grouping scheme: same groups as before.
Correction: Oral
Read the following short story “The Story of An Hour”.
A. Find in the story literary symbols and analyze them
B. What is the setting of the story?
C. Analyze the main character based on the 5 features model.
WHAT’S NEXT? 2 (20 minutes)
The groups will present their analysis.
FINAL PRODUCT AS HOMEWORK:
Keep the same groups configuration and, each group, choose one of the following short stories. Read it at home and jointly analyse the symbols, the setting, and the main characters. Then, prepare a presentation in which you will discuss the analysis using Prezi. Work collaboratively to create the presentation. In 2 weeks’, time, each group will present each short story with the aid of the Prezi Presentation. Refer to the following tutorial as guide:
Short stories:
1. Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian”
2. Ray Bradbury’s “By the numbers”
3. Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt “
THEORETICAL SUPPORT BEHIND THE CREATION OF A COLLABORATIVE PREZI PRESENTATION
THEORETICAL SUPPORT BEHIND THE CREATION OF A COLLABORATIVE PREZI PRESENTATION
1. SAMR model
SAMR is a pedagogical model that proposes 4 different degrees of classroom-technology integration. The different layers are:
· Substitution: technology acts a substitute without any functional change
· Augmentation: technology acts as a tool that provides functional improvement
· Modification: technology helps redesign the task
· Redefinition: technology helps with the creation of new, previously inconceivable tasks.
The collaborative creation of a presentation on Prezi is an example of modification. By making use of Prezi, students are able to work synchronous and asynchronously online and collaborate in the creation of the presentation. They are able to review each other’s contribution and negotiate the content. This way, technology allows for significant task redesign.
2. The EEEs
This model proposes 3 degrees of technology instrumentation in the classroom.
· Engagement: technology fosters motivation and focuses attention.
· Enhancement: technology adds functional value, assists and scaffolds learning.
· Extension: technology bridges the gap between the classroom and students’ lives outside classroom.
The collaborative creation of a presentation on Prezi is an example of both enhancement and extension. Prezi adds functional value as they are able to work synchronous and asynchronously online. Without Prezi, students would not be able to prepare such a visual presentation to share with the class. The collaborative nature of Prezi also provides students with opportunities to negotiate and discuss the content of the presentation after having analyzed the short stories. The use of Prezi also bridges the gap between the students and their lives outside classroom given than they are able to keep on working collaboratively as if they still were sharing the same physical space.
4. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy is the revised version of the traditional taxonomy to fit the current digital world. These are the different component of the hierarchy from the lower order to the higher order thinking skills:
a. Remembering: In the WEB 1 section of the plan students are instructed to browse a collection of websites to search, find information and define key concepts.
b. Understanding: Once the students have found the information, they must summarize, paraphrase and interpret it.
c. Applying: In the WEB 2, students have to implement what they have learnt to analyze a short story. To do so, they will have to examine the information and the short story and integrate what they’ve learnt.
d. Analyzing: In the What next? 2 students will have to present and explain their analysis.
e. Evaluating: while working collaboratively in the online Prezi presentation, learners will have to:
1. Argue
2. Assess peer contributions
3. Make use of their critical thinking skills
4. Debate and defend their choices
5. Edit the content they will include in the presentation
f. Creating: Learners create the presentation. They have to build the slides, the content and the multimedia format in collaboration. They will be writing while negotiating meaning, what content to include and the format.
References
Bradbury, R. (1951). The Pedestrian. Retrieved from: http://www.riversidelocalschools.com/Downloads/pedestrian%20short%20story.pdf
Bradbury, R. (1950). The Veldt. Retrieved
from: https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf?sequence=1
Bradbury, R. (1950) By the numbers.
Chopin, K. (1894). The story of an hour. Retrieved from:
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/
García, M.L. (2018). Differentiated learning: teacher’s pathways to meaningful technology
integration. In Adapting to meet diverse needs in ELT. FAAPI.
Grow, R. & Wedlock, B. (2017). The technology driven student: how to apply Bloom’s revised
taxonomy to the digital generations. In Journal of education of social policy: vol.7, 2.
H.L. (2017). SAMR Model: A Practical Guide for EdTech Integration. Retrieved from:
https://www.schoology.com/blog/samr-model-practical-guide-edtech-integration
n/a. (n/d). Literary Symbolism. Retrieved from:
http://www.learnstrong.co/uploads/5/3/9/2/53925379/symbols.pdf
Literary Terms. (n/d). Setting. Retrieved from:
Peel, G. (2019). Analysing characters in English texts. Retrieved from:
https://clueylearning.com.au/blog/how-to-analyse-characters-in-text/
Ripani, M. (2016). Competencias de educación digital: Plan nacional integral de educación digital. Ministerio de educación y deportes de la nación Argentina.
Prezi (Information summary and tutorial)
By Leonel Dáttoli
Prezi (Information summary and tutorial)
By Leonel Dáttoli
What is Prezi?
Prezi is a presentation software “which gives users a canvas to lay out ideas and information, mind map-style. Instead of hokey transitions, Prezi zooms in and out on your canvas with a virtual camera”(Mendelson & Duffy, 2020).
Why Prezi?
Signing up is required and the app offers different paid plans apart from its free basic one. Presentations run smoother than in traditional slide-format apps. Consequently, it boasts a more narrative-like approach to presentations. Being an online tool, Prezi allows for asynchronous collaboration. Prezi has a free version you can use for as long as you like, and a variety of paid plans that come with additional features and benefits (Mendelson & Duffy, 2020).
Collaboration
The owner of a presentation can give people permission to co-edit it. However, if you and your collaborators are working on a presentation at the same time, you can't actually have a real-time, in-app conversation about it (Mendelson & Duffy, 2020).
What do I need?
A computer or a phone with internet connection and an account.
Pricing and plans
2. Choose the plan and set up the account.
3 Once you have created your account, click on start creating.
4. You can choose to create a video presentation, a canvas presentation, posters, infographics, dashboards, reports, and poster. To create a classic presentation, you can click on start from scratch or select a pre-made template.
5.
6. Enjoy!
References
Mendelson, E. & Duffy, J. (2020). Prezi Review. Retrieved from https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/prezi
n/a. (2020). Prezi pricing. Retrieved from: https://prezi.com/pricing/
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