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Lesson 6
Aim: Why is it so hard to forget the past?
Objectives: Students will
finalize their understanding of the causes and effects of fading traditions, and
explore the hardships of parents and teens through poetry.
Materials: Cause and Effect Worksheet; copies of the poems "I yearn" and "[we who carry the endless seasons]"; Questions worksheet
Do Now: Students should share monologues from the movie.
Procedure:
1. Fill out the
second half of the cause/effect
worksheet based on the students' reactions to the movie. See See student
sample
1 and student
sample 2
2. Free
write the aim question using characters to support.
3. Hand out poems "I
yearn" and "[we
who carry the endless seasons]"
4. Read aloud and discuss.
Summary: Discuss the difficulties that parents and teens face when they are working against each other on the topic of traditions; and how the poems relate to the characters in the movie.
HW: Students should emulate style and write for one of the characters in the movie ("I yearn" should be written from the point of view of the father" and "[we who carry the endless seasons]" should be written from the point of view of the kids). See student sample 1/ student sample 2
Extension: Student poems can be typed and illustrated using a basic web-authoring software program such as Netscape Composer or Dreamweaver, then uploaded to a class web site for an online poetry anthology.
