V5B 17-2-2025 45 min

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome! You need: laptop, notebook, pen

Program

1. Learning goals

2. Introduction to this week's topic (20 mins)

3. Assignment (10 mins)

(4. Vocabulary)

5. Rounding off together (5 mins)

Learning goals

At the end of this lesson...

- I will have practised my listening skills

- I will have gathered background information about one of the most        

   famous speeches in history

What do you remember:
Civil Rights Act, segregation

Paying tribute to the generations of African Americans 

who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship 

in American society

An annually observed commemorative month

www.blackhistorymonth.gov

Watching a video 0:00-1:15

Make a note of a sentence / phrase that stands out to you

A remark that stood out to you:

"They threw away their dignity and it landed on us."

Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter Little Rock School on 4 Sept 1957 (photographer: Jack Jenkins)

Last speaker we listened to: Mrs Brown, member of the historic Little Rock Nine.

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Initially, the students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower.

The picture was taken just a month before Elizabeth, the girl in the picture, turned 16.

Eckford only spent one year at Little Rock Central High where she and the other black students were tormented throughout. In the years since, she has struggled through life, and twice attempted suicide. She was subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. (Wiki)

B)

 

Look up on the Internet: the 4 topics mentioned below. Draw a timeline and add the information you find. 

1. Declaration of Independence.

a. The date and a short explanation (including the link with the British Empire).

b. The sentence that starts with “We hold these truths”.

2. Emancipation Proclamation.

a. The date, a short explanation and the name of the president who initiated it.

3. Jim Crow Laws (history.com)

a. The time period and a short explanation.

4. Civil Rights Act (history.com)

a. The date and a short explanation.

I will check homework for today (Wasp 77A+C, 79)

You are going to watch a video (5 mins) about one 

of the most influential speeches of all time: 

"I have a Dream", by Martin Luther King Jr.

Location - date - content/structure of the text

To do:

A)

Please write in your notebook:

- “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

- Location, date and content/structure of the speech as mentioned in the video.

- Add the date, speech and name to your timeline.

To do: read text + questions

Please do assignments C & D

Finished? Check your homework (Wasp 77A, 77C, 79)

Check Wasp homework

(If time: study exam idiom)

Vocab goal today:

Know at least 10 more words well that

you were not (so much) familiar with

7 minutes in silence

Exam idiom list
ENGLISH - DUTCH ONLY

Well done! You...

- have practised your listening skills

- have gathered background information about one of the most

   famous speeches in history

Every lesson, please bring: 

• Wasp
• Grammar booklets 
• Notebook / pen
• Working laptop
• Good vibes

Watching the news

- listen carefully

- we will discuss each news item together

- this way, you also practise understanding of exam texts

www.bbc.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk

edition.cnn.com