Title: Tell me about your adventures

Lesson plan elaborated by: Magdalena Trysińska

Topic:

Tell me about your adventures. Time of the action and time of the narration.

Target group

5th‑grade students of an eight‑year elementary school.

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

1. Reading literary works. Student:

3) recognizes the work read as a fairy tale, legend, anthem, parable, myth, short story, novel, journal, diary, or novel, and indicates its genre features; recognizes different types of novels and short stories, e.g. classical, adventure, detective, science fiction, fantasy;

7) discusses plot events, determines the order of events and understands their interdependence;

8) distinguishes dialog from monolog, understands their functions in a work;

9) characterizes the lyrical subject, the narrator and the characters in the works read;

10) distinguishes between the first‑person and third‑person narratives and indicates their functions in the work;

14) names his/her feelings after reading the text.

2. Reception of cultural texts. Student:

2) searches for information that is directly or indirectly expressed in the text;

3) determines the theme and main thought of the text,

4) perceives the relationship between the constituent parts of the utterance (e.g. title, introduction, development, conclusion);

II. Language education.

2. Diversity of language Student:

2) uses an official and unofficial style of Polish language;

3) uses a style appropriate to the communication situation;

9) knows and applies the principles of formal and semantic consistency of the text.

III. Creation of utterances.

1. Elements of the rhetoric. Student:

1) participates in a conversation on a given topic (...);

3) creates a logical, semantically complete and ordered utterance, using composition and graphic layout appropriate to a given genre form (...).

2. Speaking and writing. Student:

1) produces consistent utterances - short story;

5) discusses the text he/she has read.

9) uses his/her language knowledge in his/her utterances.

IV Self‑study. Student:

1) perfects reading quietly and aloud.

The general aim of education

The students develop oral and written storytelling skills.

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• social and civic competences;

• cultural awareness and expression.

Learning outcomes

Student:

• recognises the compositional parts in the text of the story: introduction, main body, conclusion;

• uses the tenses in the text of the story;

• specifies the tense of given verbs;

• writes the story according to the rules learned in the lesson;

• specifies emotions accompanying thr reading.

Methods / techniques

• problematic: directed conversation;

• programmed: using the computer, using an e‑textbook;

• practical: tasks concerned, working with text.

Forms of work

• uniform individual activity;

• uniform collective activity;

• activity in groups;

• activity in pairs.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher defines the purpose of the course, which is to create interesting stories. Gives students the criteria for success.

2. The teacher asks students who the writer is and what character traits he/she should have. Free speech is allowed. Then he tells the students that today they will be novice writers and they will learn to write a story from the master, Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Realization

1. The teacher asks the students to close their eyes and remember a fascinating holiday adventure. Then the teacher asks the students to write down the beginning of the story about the adventure in the notebook (ex. 1).

2. Group work: discussion on the texts prepared by students. Loud reading of introductions to stories, selection of the most interesting, indication of strengths and weaknesses (ex. 2).

3. The students read H. Sienkiewicz's story “Przygoda w górach” [e‑textbook]. Due to the fact that reading the indicated text can evoke different emotions, the teacher encourages the students to name them (on interactive board) and determine their scale (ex. 4). Thanks to this exercise, students acquire reading awareness. In the next step, they indicate the introduction, main body and conclusion in the text (ex. 3), thus they notice the composition of the read text.

4. Defining the tense of verbal forms in the story (ex. 5). Students should note that the verbs in the story occur in two tenses – present and past – although they relate to the same events. Discussion about the benefits resulting from the use of such a procedure by the author (ex. 6, impact on the dynamics of events and emotions of the characters).

5. The teacher summarises the students' discussion, telling about the time of the action and time of the narrative and their mutual dependencies (information „important” in the abstract).

6. Students complete task 7 in the e‑textbook which will allow them to review the information about the first‑person narrator.

7. The students, working in pairs, create their own stories (ex. 8‑9). If necessary, these tasks can be asked as homework.

Summary

1. Students evaluate their stories taking into account the following criteria:

• linguistic correctness,

• interesting content,

• interesting title.

In a notebook or e‑textbook, they write conclusions regarding the implementation of the task (what were the themes of the stories that were the most interesting and why).

2. The teacher asks the students what they have learned today and if they found the lesson interesting. The teacher asks the students to perform self‑assessment of their individual work during the lesson. For this purpose, the teacher can use a previously prepared interactive board.

Homework

At home, the students create an illustration for the story “Adventure in the mountains”.

The works can be published on a class drive created with Google tools or on a virtual whiteboard created, e.g. on padlet.com.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Tell me about your adventures

Holidays are usually a time full of adventures, amazing journeys and new acquaintances. You probably want to tell your friends everything. Everyone will be happy to listen to your stories and see your photos, if you will be able to interest them.