V5B 7-3-2025 45 min

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

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

Program

1. Learning goals

2. Video + assignment (15 mins)

3. Reading practice (20 mins)

4. Check the answers (if we have time)

5. Rounding off together

Learning goals

At the end of this lesson...

- I will have practised my reading skills

- I will know more about the American Civil War era

Introductory video: 3 mins

Afterwards, you will do an assignment in pairs / small groups

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

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

To do: Wasp assignment 65

- Student File p.20

- work in pairs

(If you finish quickly: do assignment 66, p.20)

Q1

Q2

Suggestion:

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.

To do: reading practice

- Read: "Freed people"

- Wasp Magazine pp.22-23

- I will give you exam questions

If you finish quickly: do assignment 66, p.20

Well done! You...

- have practised your reading skills

- know more about the American Civil War era

Homework for Monday: 

Finish Wasp assignment:

66 A+B 

Student File p.20

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