If you are a newcomer in a new community, or if you are already part of the community but “different” in some respects, how might you try to fit in?
Area of Interaction
Human Ingeniuty: What skills, abilities, and characteristics must someone have to be able to fit into a community and be accepted into it?
Health and Social Education: What must one do to help others to fit in into the community?
Aims
Use language to narrate, describe, analyze, explain, argue, persuade, inform, entertain and express feelings.
Express ideas with clarity and coherence in both oral and written communication.
Use and understand an appropriate and varied range of vocabulary and idiom
Show awareness of the need for an effective choice of register suited to the audience in both oral and written communication.
Content
Through the study of a novel, students will read about and empathasize with a character who has trouble fitting in with a certain group of people. They will also use journals to put themselves into the characters’s positions, and also decide how characters could have acted differently.
Summative task
Students in groups of 3-4 are to write a short script based on a section of the novel they are reading, very important that they are not all using similar points for variety in the final performances. Each person in the group should have a character for the performance of their short play (5 minutes length rec.) The purpose of the play is to highlight how characters in the novel are finally able to overcome his/her difficulties - or the struggles they face. Students should spend approx. one week writing scripts once they have finished reading the novel they are working on. The performance of the play will be filmed- using props/music/costumes. Students will be expected to know their lines and not to use scripts.
