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.

Lesson Summary -Grade 10 (14/08/09)

Objective: Helping students getting used to listening to English words without script and preparing them for movie review questions and literary features.

Assessment:

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS –Prince Caspian Movie.

1. After watching the movie ‘Prince Caspian’, do you find an allegory in the movie that is related to some of our beliefs? Which one? How is it related?

2. Is the story a reasoned argument in defense of a theory or doctrine that we know?

3. During the absence of the kings and queens of the first Narnia movie, who reigned over the kingdom? What kind of a king is he? What is the relationship between Prince Caspian and Lord Miraz? How long is one year compared to the years in Narnia?

4. Why does Prince caspian’s uncle want to murder him?

5. C.S. Lewis didn’t think of his Narnia books as being an allegory, strictly speaking. Instead, he though of them as exploring the nature of Christianity and God’s relationship with man in a parallel universe:

"I did not say to myself ‘Let us represent Jesus as He really is in our world by a Lion in Narnia’; I said, ‘Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as he became a Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would happen.'"(Explain the meaning of the above underlined paragraph in your own words).

6.Please read below the meaning of an allusion; which part of the movie is an allusion?

( Allusion= is a figure of speech , reference/ representation of or to a well known . person , place, event or a work of art.(an indirect or implicit reference).

7. Check out the meaning of the following wordsL1) Brigand 2) Chasm 3) Sea farer . 4)Pirates

8. Create a poster of the movie dividing it into the following segments;

1. Plot: Story outline and brief summary.

2. Introduction : What happened in the story

3. Rising action: Starting from the train station

4. Falling action: The Narnians won and finally went back home.

9. Explain in your own words the problems, conflicts and situation in the story.

Lesson Summary ( Thursday :13/08/2009)- Grade 10

Objective: Helping students getting used to listening to English words without script and preparing them for movie review questions and literary features.

Assessment: Watching the movie: 'Prince Caspian-Narnia', to be continued with movie review questions and literary features of the film.

Lesson Summary (13/08/2009-Thursday)

GRADE 8

Objective: (Continued activity)Students were preparing poem questions for debating activities.

Assessment: (Group 3 & 4) Students were asked to generate poem questions in groups of 4 (four) and then they read the questions in class to be debated by the other groups. This lesson was very interactive and lively and students had a lot of fun.

GRADE 9A

Objective: Students learn to answer difficult reading questions.

Assessment: Reading, vocabulary check and answer critical reading comprehension questions.

Lesson summary for grade 9A & 9B (12/08/2009).

Grade 9B

Objective: Preparing students for; debating activity, Question & answer session (critical thinking questions), Vocabulary and writing work, Summary, Movie review Poster.

Assessment: Watching a movie and preparing to answer critical thinking questions and doing the above assessments as written in the objective beginning next class hours.

Grade 9A

Objective: Preparing students to speak better English words and sentences by being able to give opinions and suggestions.

Assessment: Oral presentations and Q.A.

Lesson summary (11/08/2009)

Grade 8

Objective: Students were preparing poem questions for debating activities.

Assessment: Students were asked to generate poem questions in groups of 4 (four) and then they read the questions in class to be debated by the other groups. This lesson was very interactive and lively and students had a lot of fun.

Grade 10
Objective: Students were given time to watch a movie (Prince Caspian) to enhance their listening skills and to prepare for further projects (Debating, critical thinking questions and movie review posters)

Assessments: Watch a movie and answer questions.

Grade 9b

Objective: Students were doing speaking activities; giving opinions and sharing their point of views about children's activities. After that, they answered vocabulary questions from their text books and finally watched a movie; Prince Caspian.

Assessment: Discussions (Speaking activities, writing and watch a movie to enhance their listening skills and to prepare for their poster projects, etc)

Lesson Summary for grade 9A/B & grade 10 (07/08/09)

Grade 9A/B.

Objective:1. Reading and answering questions about a leaflet and vocabulary check.
2. More difficult reading comprehension practice.
Assessment: Students were doing reading and writing from their ICCSE textbooks and after that
they were given worksheets from The English composition book for class practice.

Grade 10.

Objective: Students practice more difficult reading comprehension from their High school English composition w sheets and discuss the meaning of words and phrases and matching work from their IGCSE books.

Assessment: Reading, writing and vocabulary practice.

Lesson summary for the 6th of August 2009.

Grade-8

Objective: Students practice speaking and writing in English by doing their role plays about : The Interview.

Assessment: Students prepare role plays about a television interview between a reporter and
a government official and the topic of the interview is about an epidemic.

Grade -9A

Objective: Students practice reading and writing skills by creating questions from newspaper reading and critical thinking reading material to improve their writing skills.

Assessment: Newspaper reading and reading material from the IGCSE text book and Internet practice ( students were working in partners)

Grade 1o

Objective: Students practice their reading and vocabulary skills.

Assessment: Reading, discussions and vocabulary check from the IGCSE text book.

Lesson summary (05/08/2009) for grade 9A & B

Objective:
Students learn to answer critical thinking questions from reading and writing multiple choice practice material from the IGCSE and IELTS books.

Assessment:
1. Reading (critical thinking questions)
2. Writing and grammar practice.

Lesson summary (4/08/2009)

Grade-8
Objective: students learn to practice speaking and writing.

Assessment:Students continued with their speaking practice and performed a string story telling. All the students were asked to participate. After that the students were asked to create dialogue questions for an epidemic/pandemic, topic (s); Swine flu, Birdf flu, others.

Grade-10

Objective: Students learn about critical thinking questions in reading and language study.

Assessment: Critical thinking multiple choice , vocabulary and reading paragraphs on extended reasoning topics.

Grade 9B

Objective: Reading and language study from the IGCSE text book and doing an oral presentation.

Assessment: Reading and language study, incorporating written practice and discussion.

LESSON SUMMARY (31/07/09) FOR GRADES: 9 & 10

GRADE 9A

OBJECTIVE: Students prepare to do their final preparation for the oral preparation about 'A plot of Land' and learn to answer listening comprehension questions from their IGCSE work books and do reading for vocabulary and grammar.

ASSESSMENT:
1. IGCSE work book, exam focus by reading and grammar practice from page 1-3.
2. Unit 4 from the IGCSE work book, doing listening exercise (Task 2 page 21)



GRADE 9b

OBJECTIVE: Students prepare to do their final preparation for the oral preparation about 'A plot of Land' and learn to answer listening comprehension questions from their IGCSE work books and do reading for vocabulary and grammar.

ASSESSMENT:
1. IGCSE work book, exam focus by reading and grammar practice from page 1-3.
2. Unit 4 from the IGCSE work book, doing listening exercise (Task 2 page 21)

GRADE 10

OBJECTIVE: On that day, students were able to strengthen their vocabulary skills from page 55 Unit 12 of their work books. Besides this students did an IGCSE listening practice from page 63 Unit-14 (Topic: A conservationist being interviewed about the world's smallest Lizard). Besides this students were able to enhance their speaking skills by doing some exercises from the TOEFL book.

ASSESSMENT:
1.Reading and understanding new vocabulary through discussions and review from the dictionary
2. Listening from the IGCSE work book.
2. Speaking exercise from the TOEFL book.

Lesson Summary (Thursday 30/7), grades 8, 9 & 10

Grade-8A

Objective: Students practice speaking and learn to express their ideas into words.
Assessment:Students were asked to finish their summaries on the chosen stories and prepare a complete one according to the diagram that they have sketched incorporating the following important aspects;
plot, rising action, falling action and conclusion.

Grade -9 A

Objective: Students practice their reading skills (Skimming and Scanning) and learn new vocabulary.
Assessment: Students were asked to work on their reading , writing and vocabulary practice from page 1 - 4 (IGCSE workbook).


GRADE-10
Objective: Students practice their reading and writing skills and learn new vocabulary.
Assessment: Students were asked to work on their reading , writing and vocabulary practice from unit 12 (IGCSE workbook).