Lesson Summary - 28/08/2009

Grade 9B & 9A

Objective: Students learn to work on ESL IGCSE progressive test to give them more knowledge about the types of topics that they will get later on for their IGCSE examination.

Assessment: Igcse type progressive test.

Grade 10

Objective: Students learn to work on ESL IGCSE type of test to give them more knowledge about the topics that they will get later on for their IGCSE examination.

Assessment: test.

Lesson summary (25/08/.2009)

Grade 9B

Objective: Students learn to evaluate and synthesize reading comprehension and critical thinking and key word questions and do matching work.

Assessment: Students were asked to answer reading and key word questions and after that they did matching work and finished their movie review posters.

Lesson Summary (25/08/2009)

Grade 8A: (3 periods)

Objective: Students learn to create their own drama about a bank and store robbery. The drama was video taped and the best group will receive a prize.. The objective of the lesson is to allow them to express themselves using proper English words. The final outcome of the program will be shown in our blog and face book.

Assessment: Students prepare the story and dialog and play their part in a group for the final resolution of the drama . The narrator explains the story.

Grade 10

Objective: Students were informed about the IGCSE marking scheme continued with an assignment about writing a formal letter to an editor of a local newspaper.

Assessment: Students were asked to make a letter to the editor of a newspaper disapproving the government's decision to break down a community service building in order to build a parking lot. Students need to give their suggestions and opinions and way out of the problem. The letter must be 150 words long (Extended).

Lesson summary for August 21,2009.

Grade 8A: (3 periods)

Objective: Students learn to mimic and act out a play about a bank robbery. The idea is to allow them to express themselves using proper English words and to prepare for Tuesday's video shooting program for their play. This program will be shown in our blog and face book later on.

Assessment: Students prepare the story and dialogue in a group for the final resolution of the play and began to speak out each part with the narrator telling the story.

Grade 9A
Objective: Listening - movie review; Prince Caspian. The idea is that students will be able to answer critical thinking questions and do discussions and oral presentations after they have finished watching the movie.

Assessment: Watching a movie and preparing to answer critical thinking questions.

Grade 10

Objective: Students were lectured about the different types of Narrative, Creative and descriptive writing. Discussion about the three types was done when students started asking questions about the concepts of each types of writing.

Assessment: Students were given free writing topics to write Narrative, creative and descriptive types of writing. Each piece must not be more than 100 words (Core).

Lesson Summary for August 19, 2009.

Grade 9B:

Objective: Students learn to prepare summary and answer literary questions about the movie 'Prince Caspian (Narnia)' which they had seen last week continued with preparing a poster in the first period. In the second period , they were doing reading and vocabulary writing practice from their text books.

Assessment: Students were answering literary feature questions and doing reading writing and vocab practice from their text books.

9A

Objective: Students learn new vocabs and had time to discuss the movie review questions (Prince Caspian-Narnia).

Assessment: Writing movie review questions doing discussions with the teacher and after that continue with the Movie.

Lesson Summary for the Aug 18th,2009.

Grade 8

Objective: Students learn to practice their spoken English through debating and story telling.

Assessment: 1.Debating activity.
2. Reading & Writing a story for a drama.


Grade : 9B

Objective: Students discuss together meaning of difficult words and teacher explains about some of the critical thinking questions and how they are related to doctrinal knowledge that the students have learned in their lives.

Assessment: Students discuss and answer movie review questions and learn new vocabulary by checking them from the teacher and the dictionary.

Grade: 10

Objective: Students learn the meaning of idioms. e.g:Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that are unusual either grammatically, as in "Long time, no see!" or there is a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements, as in "It's raining cats and dogs!" Every language has idioms, and they are challenging for students to learn.

LITERAL MEANING:
Before the bartender made the drink, he broke the ice with a spoon and dropped in into the glass.

IDIOMATIC MEANING:
Before the conference began, the speaker broke the ice with a joke.

After discussing Idioms, students were asked to answer their movie review questions (critical thinking questions).

Lesson Summary (14/08/2009- Grade 9A)

Grade 9A

Objective: Students enhance their listening knowledge by watching a movie :'Narnia-Prince Caspian'. After that they will be discussing and answering critical thinking and literary feature questions.

Assessment: Watching a movie and do some discussion about the chapters/scenes.