V5B 10-3-2025 45 min

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome! You need: laptop, Wasp, notebook, pen

Homework on your table please

Wasp assignments 65, 66

+ exam questions (handout)

Supporting yourself & others

= this week's theme

Writer and actor Natasha Rothwell talks about

 things that helped form her identity & what supported her

Video (0:00 - 3:30)

1. Summarize her answer to each question in 1 sentence max.

2. What does she mean when she says 'main character energy'?

3. What is her final lesson / advice?

To ignite: (doen) ontbranden / ontvlammen

Insationable: onverzadigbaar

'Pinch me' moment: ........

www.ted.com

In pairs, discuss:

1. Summarize her answer to each question in 1 sentence max.

2. What does she mean when she says 'main character energy'?

3. What is her final lesson / advice?

Let's hear your answers...

Summarize her answer to each question in 1 sentence max.

- What ignites your creativity?

- What does TV need more of? What does she mean when she says 'main character energy'?

- Describe a 'pinch me' moment. What is her final lesson / advice?

- ignite creativity: curiosity about the human condition

- TV needs more: representation

- Pinch me moment: seeing herself mentioned as a writer on the credits list of Saturday Night Live (TV programme)

Be the main character in your own story, take up space

Final lesson: don't wait for someone else to acknowledge you, go & do what you want to do

Speaking exercise

- What ignites your creativity?

- What makes you feel confident? 

- Who is an example to you and why?

- Do other people's opinions influence your behaviour?

- Who or what supports you?

- Are you usually supportive of other people's plans? In what way could you be (even) more supportive?

Program

1. Learning goals

2. Video + checking homework (15 - 20 mins)

3. Reading practice (10 mins)

4. Rounding off together

Learning goals

At the end of this lesson...

- I will have learned from my previous reading task

- I will know more about the American Civil War era

 Civil War: 3-minute video

- Secession / to secede: to withdraw formally from membership of a       federation or political body

- Conscription: forcing people by law to join the armed forces

Q1

Checking together: exam questions "Freed People"

- I will send you the answers to assignments 65 + 66 in Teams

- check them today

Q2

Q2

Suggestion:

Q3

Women: 

People of colour: 

Plantation owners: 

Q3

Women: managed household, coped with shortages, husbands/brothers fighting, nursed soldiers, supported war efforts by fundraising / sewing 

People of colour: worked as labourers, farmers, servants, fought as soldiers, were enslaved. Aim: escape slavery and achieve freedom & justice

Plantation owners: managing the plantation, overseeing enslaved labour, agicultural production; they strove to protect their economic interests.

Well done! You...

- have learned from my previous reading task

- know more about the American Civil War era

Homework for Thursday: 

Watching the news

- listen carefully

- we will discuss each news item together

- this way, you also practise understanding of exam texts

edition.cnn.com

www.bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk

edition.cnn.com