The Moment Before the Gun Went Off - session 2a

• Engels
• Voortgezet speciaal onderwijs
• Leerroute 4

Welcome to Mrs Everstijn's online classroom

Literatures - short stories

Inge Everstijn-Veldhuizen

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Quick Test expressions, idioms, phrasal verbs etc

Jot down answers on lined test paper

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20 minutes

graded by teacher

Read The Moment Before the Gun Went Off again.

Teacher divides the class in pairs/groups.

= collaborative learning

= scaffolding

Differentiation:

Select Mutism students work individually and need to assess the presentations using their research notes and the speaking rubric.

The Moment Before the Gun Went Off

by Nadine Gordimer

Lesson series:

1. Introduction + instruction key concepts + first reading
2. Second reading = reading comprehension
3. Post reading activities
   

Lesson series - learning objectives:

Students can…:

• explain key concept Apartheid
• explain key concept whiteness
• explain key concept core & periphery
• explain the impact of whiteness and core & periphery on key concept Apartheid.
• analyse literary texts using key concepts, STEAL method and the historical lens.
• offer underpinned reader responses
• learn in a collaborative setting

Explain key concept 'whiteness'?

Give an example of the key concept ‘core & periphery’ and explain your answer.

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Reading comprehension class check

Check your answers & participate in class discussion

your team mates/teacher

20 minutes

input for post reading assignments

Read post reading assignments.

Class discussion on:
* What stands out to you. Explain why. (student’s own answer)
* Comparisons with Gordimer’s The Moment Before the Gun Went Off. (Elaborate funeral; luxurious coffin; women dressed in black)

What stands out to you.
Explain why.

Name comparisons between the funeral of Steven Biko and Gordimer’s story "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off".

Session 3 - post reading

This session is focussing on critical thinking, implied meaning and text analyses (Beach, Appleman, Becho & Simon, 2016).

Differentiation - enrichment

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Create your own trailer to this short story

film or design using a editing tool

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shown in class

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