Video Journal

Lesson

1. Class: 38 students of 2-6 in HSHS
2. Date: April 25th, 2006
3. Textbook: Unicorn English II p/b BUNEIDO
4. Allotment: Part 4 of Lesson 5
5. Lesson Objectives

  • To understand the whole story of George Dawson by finishing all the parts of this lesson.
  • To improve the skills for essay writing by giving the feedback of the previous essay and letting them write on the new title.

6. Teaching Objectives

  • To minimize the usage of Japanese, eliminating unnecessary explanation and fillers.
  • To effectively move around the classroom during the lesson by not standing on the same place.

7. Outline of the procedure

0:00-0:15 Sentence memorization test and marking
0:15-0:20 Pair parallel reading of Part 3 as review
0:25-0:35 Review the story of part 3 with QA by Columns and Rows
0:35-0:40 Question time for Part 4
0:40-0:50 Translation by recasting
0:50-0:55 Pair sentence-by-sentence reading
0:55-0:65 Checking the structure of each sentence
0:65-0:70 Pair reading with read-and-lookup
0:70-0:80 Comment on the previous essay
0:80-0:90 Essay writing on the story of George Dawson

8. Post-class reflections with the video
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