Lesson plan (English)

Title: Feelings and emotions

Lesson plan elaborated by: Magdalena Trysińska

Topic:

Feelings and emotions. The love story of Eros and Psyche.

Target group:

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

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

1. Reading literary works. Student:

1) discusses elements of the presented world, distinguishes poetic images in poetry;

3) recognizes the work being read as (...) a myth;

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

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

11) indicates the main and supporting characters in the work and determines their traits;

12) defines the theme and topic of the work;

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

15) explains the literal and figurative meanings of the texts;

17) presents his/her own understanding of the work and justifies it;

19) expresses his/her own opinion about characters and events;

20) indicates the values in the work and defines the values that are important for the character.

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);

8) understands the specificity of cultural texts being part of: literature, theater, film, music, visual and audiovisual arts);

12) reads the texts through intersemiotic translation (e.g. drawing, drama, theater performance).

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;

6) recognizes neutral and evaluative vocabulary, understands its functions in the text;

7) adjusts the way of expressing himself/herself to the intended purpose of the utterance.

III. Creation of utterances.

1. Elements of the rhetoric. Student:

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

2. Speaking and writing. Student:

4) takes notes;

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;

2) perfects various forms of recording the information acquired.

The general aim of education

The students learn about the myth of Eros and Psyche.

Key competences

communication in the mother tongue;
communication in foreign languages;
cultural awareness and expression.

Learning outcomes

Student:

describes artistic works (sculpture and painting);
interprets the meaning of the myth about Eros and Psyche;
recognises introduction, the middle part and the end of the text;
defines the theme of a myth;
names the emotions and feelings of the characters of the myth.

Methods / techniques

problematic: directed conversation, elements of drama;
programmed: using the computer, using an e‑textbook;
exhibiting: presentation of works of art (sculptures);
practical: tasks concerned.

Forms of work

uniform individual activity;
uniform collective activity;
activity in pairs.

Lesson plan

Before the lesson

The teacher asks selected students to familiarise themselves with the content of the myth in the e‑textbook and find in the available sources examples of sculptures depicting emotions. Students, working in the intersemiotic translation method, prepare three examples with justification. Their task will be to start classes with the presentation of their impressions or associations and to encourage other students to discuss.

Introduction

1. The teacher defines the aim of the lesson. He/she gives students the criteria for success.

2. Selected students present ready‑made examples of sculptures expressing emotions along with the justification for their choice. Other students can ask them questions, e.g.

What does this example refer to?
What emotions express the presented figure?

Realization

1. Interpretation of Antonio Canova's work „Eros and Psyche” (Ex. 1). Auxiliary questions:

Who does the sculpture represent?
What attributes does the young god have?
What feelings and emotions express the gestures of the character and body posture?

2. Reading the myth about Eros and Psyche in an e‑textbook. Students make a preliminary analysis of the text: they exchange characters, they determine the place and time of events. In this way, they remind themselves what the myth is, what and who it talks about.

3. Composition of the myth: Exercise 3. Students assign events to the individual compositional parts of the myth.

4. Students, depending on their language proficiency, try to tell the myth in their own words (Exercise 4). They also define its topic (Exercise 5).

5. Determination of the emotions of the heroes of the myth. The students write them in the form in the exercise 6. Then, on the class forum, they justify their choice, referring to the text of the myth.

6. A play of sculptures. The teacher before the lesson prepares on the cards names of emotions or states, eg fear, anticipation, disgust, agitation, longing etc. All cards should be twice as many as students. The participants of classes are paired up. Each pair draws two cards. First, one person from a pair is a „sculptor” and the other a „sculptural material”, then vice versa. The sculptor creates his work („sculpts”), touching and setting the other person or showing it on his own example, what effect he wants to achieve. At the end, it provides information about facial expressions. Each pair can demonstrate the effect of their work - an illustration of the drawn emotion or state. Other students guess what emotions „experience” sculpture.

7. Interactive game – puzzles. Students must place a scene from an open image in the content of a myth. The teacher can give the title of the picture if the task proves to be too difficult: „Psyche shows the sisters gifts from Cupid”.

Summary

The teacher helps the class form a common note summarizing the lesson.

The teacher asks students to evaluate their work during the lesson and the level of understanding of the material discussed. He can use the interactive board included in the abstract.

Homework

Draw a comic illustrating the myth about Eros and Psyche; Remember that the costumes, objects and architectural elements refer to ancient Greece. Use the available information sources.

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