Title: Meeting with the Devil

Lesson plan elaborated by: Magdalena Trysińska

Topic:

How did Twardowski outwit the devil? About Pani Twardowska by Adam Mickiewicz.

Target group

6th‑grade students of an eight‑year elementary school.

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

1. Reading literary compositions Student:

7) talks about the events of the plot, sets the order of events and understands their interdependency;

9) describes the lyrical subject, narrator and characters in the read literary compositions;

11) indicates main and supporting characters in the literary work and describes their features;

12) specifies the theme and concept of the composition;

17) presents his own understanding of the literary text and justifies it;

18) uses his own experiences and elements of cultural knowledge to interpret texts;

19) expresses his own opinion on characters and events;

2. Reception of the cultural texts. Student:

3) specifies the topic and the main theme of the text.

II. Language skills.

2. Language differentiation. Student:

5) recognises set phrases, notices their variety, understands their meaning and uses them correctly in statements.

III. Creating expressions

1. Elements of rhetoric. Student:

1) takes part in a discussion on a given topic, can separate its parts and structural signals that strengthen the bond among the dialogue participants and explain its meaning;

2. Speaking and writing Student:

3) writes creative and imitative plan of the text;

4) creates notes;

5) talks about the read text;

9) uses the language skills in created statements.

IV. Self‑education. Student:

1) perfects loud and silent reading;

2) perfects different forms of writing down the gained information;

3) uses information from different sources, gathers and selects information;

5) uses Polish language dictionaries, both general and specific and the dictionary of literary terms;

7) develops the ability to critically assess the gathered information;

9) develops the ability to effectively use the informational technology and the Internet resources and uses these skills to present his own interests.

The general aim of education

The student gets acquainted with A. Mickiewicz's ballad Pani Twardowska and develops the analysis and interpretation skills of the literary text.

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• consciousness and cultural expression.

Operational objectives

Student:

• guesses the meaning of proverbs and phrases with the word devil;

• reads the message of the Adam Mickiewicz ballad Pani Twardowska;

• creates the plan of events;

• explains the role of the title in the literary text;

• express his own judgment about the characters;

• uses encyclopaedia and the dictionary of foreign terms.

Methods/techniques

• problematic: guided conversation, discussion;

• programmed: using computer, using e‑textbook;

• practical: exercises on subject, work with text.

Forms of work

• uniform individual activity;

• uniform group activity;

• pair activity.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher determines the purpose of the class: students will familiarise themselves with one of the ballads by Adam Mickiewicz. He/she gives students the criteria of success.

2. The teacher asks:

• In which literary texts did you meet the devil? You can direct students to indicate the Bible, legends, fairy tales.

• What features are attributed to the devil in these texts? It is worth mentioning a happy devil from the novel by K. Makuszyński Przyjaciel wesołego diabła.

3. Students use the mind map method to write synonyms of the word DEVIL. They can use a thesaurus.

Realization

1. Execution of the ex. 1. The teacher checks if the students understand the meaning of idioms, he/she asks in which situations they can be used.

2. The teacher tells the title of the ballad of A.Mickiewicz and asks students to identify the subject of the poem before the reading and to describe Ms. Twardowska. Students exchange ideas.

3. The teacher plays the recording from the lesson “Spotkanie z Diabłem” in e‑podręcznik – a film with the ballad recitation. Students listen and follow the text in e‑podręcznik or in the abstract. The teacher asks students to pay attention to the sequence of events. The students check the unknown words and read the text once again to fully understand it.

4. Execution of exercises to the text: exercise 5 – organizing the the sequence of events; Exercise 6. – giving titles to illustrations to the text, ćw.7. – searching for information in the text.

5. Work in pairs. The teacher distributes the dictionaries of foreign terms and encyclopaedias or informs what internet sources can the students use. The students work in pairs and do the exercise number 8 from the abstract: they search the information about Twardowski and Mefistofeles.

6. Writing a note in accordance with the command from Exercise 9.

Summary

1. The teacher asks questions prompting students to summarize, e.g.

• Is this text really about things that you expected after reading its title?

• What other titles could this poem have?

• What qualities did Pani Twardowska have to have that the devil escaped?

2. At the end, students wonder about the problem:

• Why did A. Mickiewicz give the ballad the title Pani Twardowska?

• What is the funcyion of the title of the poem?

The students give different titles and they draw conclusions, for example:

• Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza – information about the heroine and the place of events.

• Obcy – the curiosity of the reader, an indication of the hero.

• Hobbit, czyli tam i z powrotem – preview of the book's action.

• Przygody Tomka Sawyera – an indication of the hero and the type of events that will take place.

Homework

From the point of view of a chosen participant of the events tell what happened in the “Rzym” Inn.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Meeting with the Devil