Lesson Plan and Learning Materials

I started the lesson with a group activity in which there were five groups. Each group was tasked with enacting a scene from the movie we would discuss later in the lesson. However, at that point, they did not know where those scenes were taken from. I decided to use this activity to incorporate art into my lesson and to stimulate the students about the topics to be discussed. This was also my way of allowing students to use their psychomotor skills and creativity.

The activity was followed by the analysis. Here, students were asked to narrate their experiences about the activity and to answer the trigger question: "Why do you think it is important for actors to receive an award such as the Oscars?" This question allowed my students to recall their schema about the Oscars, which was essential for their participation in class.

The abstraction followed by presenting the topic explicitly in class with the help of a Canva presentation. To facilitate reading, I conducted an interactive activity called “Pass the Ball.” To select the respondent for each question, students had to pass a ball around while music played. When the music stopped, the student holding the ball had to answer the question, but first, they had to read the passage. To shift the discussion into the next topic, which was Titanic, the movie, I played the trailer of the movie and asked if they had watched the movie before and what they could remember from it. Instead of me presenting the history and timeline of the real-life incident of the Titanic and how it was turned into a movie, I let my students uncover it themselves through an activity. In this activity, I asked my students to arrange the jumbled papers containing the events of the Titanic, and they had to present it in front.

For the application, I gave an assignment wherein students had to create an alternative ending to the movie Titanic. This activity was used to practice their writing skills, as I believe that writing is a prerequisite for better speaking skills. I also wanted to give my students a chance to uncover their inner writer and to encourage them to be creative and engage in arts.

I ended the class by asking for their reflections about the topic and by awarding a DIY Oscars award to the group that performed well during the first activity, which was an acting challenge. As you can see, the application part was only for Titanic as I also used the pre-activity as an application for the Oscars Night.