Title: What does it mean to trust? What does it mean to be a trustworthy person?

Lesson plan elaborated by: Katarzyna Maciejak

Topic:

What is trust?

Target group:

8th‑grade students of an eight‑year primary school.

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

1. Reading literary works. Student:

1. distinguishes epic, lyric and drama genres, including: a diary, comedy, epigram, sonnet, song, tren, ballad, epic, tragedy – and lists their basic features and indicates the genre characteristics of literary works read;

2. defines existential issues in the texts being studied and reflects them;

3. uses in the interpretation of literary works references to universal values related to social, national, religious and ethical attitudes and makes them hierarchy.

2. Receipt of cultural texts. Student:

2. organises information depending on their function in the message.

III. Creating statements.

1. Elements of rhetoric. Student:

1. functionally uses rhetorical means and understands their impact on the recipient;

2. collects and organises the material material needed to create statements; edits the compositional plan of his own statement;

3. agrees with other people's views or polemicizes with them, substantively justifying their own opinion;

IV. Self‑study. Student:

1. reliably, with respect for copyrights, uses information;

2. develops the ability to think critically and formulate opinions.

The general aim of education

Students, based on the fragment of the „Lord of the Rings”, reflect on friendship and trust as universal values in human life.

Key competences

• communication in the mother tongue;

• communication in foreign languages;

• learning to learn;

• cultural awareness and expression.

Operational objectives

Student:

• talks about values;

• efficiently uses the Polish language dictionary;

• organises events in chronological order;

• gives what retrospection is and what it is for;

• creates its own definition of trust;

• enriches the vocabulary with new phraseological compounds.

Teaching methods / techniques

• giving: talk;

• practical: practical exercises;

• programmed: using a computer, using an e‑manual.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• collective activity.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher determines the purpose of the class: students will talk about trust.

2. The teacher points out that trust, friendship and faithfulness are universal values that are a common subject of literary or film works.

3. On the interactive board in the abstract, students write out as many associations with the word trust as they can find, then they look for the meaning of the words trust (zaufanie) and to trust (ufać) in the dictionary, form sentences with them, and explain the expression kredyt zaufania.

Realization

1. The teacher begins a conversation about the „Lord of the Rings” fragment, read by students at home, and encourages to perform an interactive exercise: solving the single‑choice test (checking the understanding of the text read).

2. Interactive exercise: ordering events, starting from the earliest (the difficulty may be applied to the text retrospective).

3. Analysis of the characters' emotions. The students, working in pairs, reflect on the motivations of Frodo's friends and the feelings of the main character.

4. Enrichment of vocabulary with idioms from the text of the novel. Students perform exercise No. 6.

5. The teacher tells the students that in ancient Greece, Pistis was the personification of trust and Fides – of integrity and good faith, then the students search on the Internet the images of the Fides and indicate the attributes of the Roman goddess.

6. The students, based on the text read and conclusions from the lessons, try to create their own definition of trust.

Summary

The teacher gives students short surveys with self‑evaluation.

Then he/she sums up the classes, giving students the task:

Justify that trust is the basis of interpersonal relations.

Homework

Which of the „Lord of the Rings” heroes could you trust? Write his/her characteristics.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

What does it mean to trust? What does it mean to be a trustworthy person?

What is the value of trust? Can we reflect on trust basing on the text that belongs to the fantasy literature? Yes, we can! Trust, friendship or fidelity are universal values that will always be valid, regardless of the literary context.

Use the information from the fragment of “The Lord of the Rings” and answer the following questions.