外文三乙 D0561673 北野原碧
(1) Why?
Our group choose“Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry as our main topic for educational institution. This story’s theme is the difficulty of growing up in the world with faith and discrimination. Two and half years has already passed since I came to Taiwan. I spent a lot of time with many Taiwanese people, and learned the importance of valuing the relationships I have even our culture and faith are different. However, I know it’s very difficult to avoid meeting the discriminatory people in the world because discrimination is made from education by school or parents. It is impossible that everyone knows correct history completely. Furthermore, the opportunity to know the real war and discrimination is decreasing year by year, a lot of children don’t know how ignominious discrimination is. I think this book can tell children the importance of respecting another faith through this story, and also can give them idea of how we make peaceful world bravely. This book is very suitable for education.
This is the reason why we choose this book.
(2) How?
We present our idea through the teaching plan for education. Teaching plan is very useful way to teach students the important points of story, and also can make them think about the feelings of story’s characters. Moreover, we can teach new adverbs through the sentences. To study adverbs is very useful for students because students need to know many words if they want to improve their English ability. Our teaching plan would be used at the class of short-term English camp that English center of Global Village Organization organized for junior high school students at Feng Chia University.
(3) What?
First, we tell students the summary of this book, and ask them how they feel about war and discrimination. Students talk about own idea with classmates, and write down on the paper. After that, we start teaching adverbs appear in the story with teaching materials like work sheet. Because most adverbs are appear with behavior of
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characters, students can know the feelings of the characters in each scene deeply.
Students pay attention to emotional changes even a small one. They also can know a lot of adverbs that would be helpful in their writing and speaking. We prepare a list of adverbs, and make students study new words. Moreover, we use “Kahoot” as a teaching material. It will help students to notice their weak points.
(A) Questions related to authors, background, and cultural perspectives;
Q1. Where is the story setting?
A. Copenhagen, Denmark Q2. When is the story happened?
A. In 1943, during World War II.
Q3. What did Germany do to Denmark?
A. Germany invaded Denmark, and the Jewish people fear for their lives.
(B) Questions related to the text and context, vocabulary, expressions, and so on;
Q1. How do the Rosens keep from being caught by the Nazis?
A. They escape to Sweden.
Q2. Why the soldiers stop Annemarie on her way to Uncle Henrik's boat?
A. Because they are looking for Jews who escaping.
Q3. Why Annemarie hid Ellen’s pendant?
A. Ellen’s pendant is a symbol of the Jews. If it was noticed by soldiers, she will be caught. And also it is a very important for Ellen, so Annemarie hid it to keep safety.
(C) Questions related to students’ responses to the text, such as questions connected to students’ lives, learning styles, reflections, and more.
Q1. If you are Annemarie, can you be brave for Ellen as real Annemarie?
A. I can’t. Because it’s too dangerous, and perhaps my behavior affects my family’s safety.
Q2. Do you think teenagers would grow up in a time of war faster than normal life?
A. Yes. In “Number the Stars,” we can see some scenes that Annemarie’s way of thinking turns into more maturing way. It shows us teenagers would grow up in short time because of the experience of war.
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(4) Your Role?
I think I did my work when we discuss the contents, prepare presentation and make ppt. Because I did CDIO last year, I know how to present our idea. I offered idea of work sheet, how to practice and more. When we prepare the first presentation about the book, I wrote two chapter’s summary as extra work. Some members didn’t know what should we do for this topic, and also didn’t do their own work occasionally, so I think my work helped our team’s work. However, my speaking is not good, so when we hold a presentation, I didn’t speak anything except my question and idea.
Some members speak a lot instead of other, so I want to practice more.
(5) Reflection
I think it is important to understand the contents of the book, and to make an idea of how we use it as a product or as a teaching material effectively. When we reading a book, not only read a book, but also understand the feeling of the character, and imagine. It would cultivate our creativity. The book has various merits for students.
About our presentation and group works, I did my works seriously, and could create our teaching plan for students, so I am contented with my work. It is very significant to create new thing with other classmates. However, some students didn’t cooperate with us. For example, they didn’t give us their questions for first presentation on time, and use questions that other member had. Although I can understand what professor was saying, but it is a problem that can be disturbed us.
(6) Pictures or Photos in group works; (this is optional) I’m sorry, I don’t have pictures of group works.
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Students’ Individual Report -2
D0549560 劉冠妏 外文三甲
Children and Juvenile Literature Individual Report
(1) We choose this topic is because our book “The Graveyard Book” is mainly about a
child growing up in a graveyard and learn the world from his “home”. We want to
demonstrate our presentation by focusing on the adventure that Bod have and the
theme of home. Home is always a haven.
(2) After we participated in the speech which briefly talked about children’s book, we
realized that we could use children’s book to demonstrate our presentation in order to
learn more from the project. The organization we choose is Joy English Institute since
this institute has provided a wide variety of theme to teach children English in a
different age. We could tell stories to the children in the institute and play some
activities which are related to English and the book.
(3) The contents of our project are that we draw our own children’s book by choosing
a theme “home” to teach not only English but also some morals behind it.
(A) Q: Silas is a vampire, while Miss Lupescu is a werewolf. In legend, vampires and
werewolves are sworn enemies. However, Neil Gaiman put these two species together
as friends. Silas even asks Miss Lupescu for help to take care of Bob. Why? (p.65
line1)
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A: From my perspective, I think the author tries to portray a kind of peaceful
surrounding for children to understand that there are no permanent friends or
permanent enemies. Although the ghouls are nice to Bob they tried to lead him to the
road which there is no way to turn back.
(B) Q: Why the author had this role of setting that the ghouls named themselves after
famous men? (p.74 line17)
A: The author didn’t mention it in the book. But from my perspective, maybe the
author wants to express a concept of no matter how famous a person was, he or she
still became ghouls’ food when they die.
(C) Q: “(It) is good for you.” Many parents or teachers often keep saying this over and
over again. Is this a good sentence to teach children? Or is it just confining children?
(p.69 line17)
A: In my opinion, some sentence like “It is good for you, Everything I do is for your
own good” really confine children’s ability to know what’s really good for them.
Their parents help them decide their life path, their interests or even control them
from developing their possibilities. This may cause serious problems not only
between the parents and the child but also between the society and the child.
(4) My role in this presentation is a group leader. In order to run the group smoothly
and decide the content of the presentation, my job is to schedule the appointment with
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everyone and to record our meeting agenda. Furthermore, I wrote the lesson plan in
order to make a film about our storytelling and activities. Moreover, I set up our
website and edit our film. I am satisfied with my own work in a certain role. As a
group leader, I have the responsibility to manage every detail and to distribute
everyone’s role in this project. I understand how to write a lesson plan, edit videos and
set up a website. My strength is that I am willing to do the things that others can’t and
to teach them how to do their job well rather than just do everything myself. However,
my weakness is that I have a bad temper. I get easily annoyed by others who always
have their own appointment that they couldn’t show up while we were in a
shorthanded. Also, because we were in a time rush, I couldn’t assemble some works
for those who needed to learn from scratch. If we have the chance next time, I will try
to distribute the works and to teach others how to do them.
(5) My reflection is that after having a great time with my group mate, I understand
how to be patient and to listen to others opinions. Since I am not always the right one,
it is crucial to adopt others opinion. This is my first time working with them, I enjoy
different points of view and to exchange our idea while we were discussing the
project.
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Students’ Individual Report -3
CHILDREN AND JUVENILE LITERATURE Final Individual paper
外文二乙 D0671887 陳圓融
In our final project, we decided to design a lesson in an English novel based Winter camp. In that camp, students are provided a chance to learn by reading the English novel Number the stars.
(1) Why? Why do you choose this topic (you have the "title", right?) for the advertisement for the “company”, “organization”, or “institution”?
Our project is to write a lesson plan for a vocabulary class. The title is Number the Stars – Adverbs. We have come up this idea when we were reading the book. In this book, the author has used tons of adverbs and adjectives to describe the scene and the mood of the characters, which not only made the story much more vivid and interesting but also let the readers to sense the mood of the situation of the story.
However, Asian students usually have difficulty recognizing the meaning when reading textual materials and using adverbs in a sentence. Also, after analyzing, we found that is influenced by two things. First, it’s the thinking logic of their mother tongue. Second, it’s the deficiency of the vocabulary they know. Therefore, we hope we can let them know the basic usage of adverbs in English and try to inspire them to know the importance of learning new adverbs.
(2) How? How to present your idea through the specific “category”? What is the connection between the “category” and the “company”, “organization” or
“institution”?
Education. We designed a lesson for an English based camp. Although we had made up a fake camp about English novel, actually, it could be taught in any kind of educational camps.
(3) What? Tell us the contents and elaborate your steps which could fulfill your team goals for the “company”, “organization”, or “institution”.
The main content is to guide the students to know more about adverbs.
First, we are going to explain the basic ideas of English adverbs. Then,
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we are going to teach them 15 adverbs chosen from the book Number the stars. Eventually, we are going to impress their memorization through two activities: Playing a guessing game and Kahoot!.
To clarify the "contents" -- please clearly write down "your questions" in different chapters and offer the possible answers or reasons.
There are three major categories of questions to be covered in the critical thinking stage:
(A) Questions related to authors, background, and cultural perspectives;
Lois Lowry, an American writer author of several famous books such as Number the Stars and The Giver, has written many books that are based in different cultural backgrounds. How could she make that?
After doing a research on her life and career, I found that she was born in Hawaii, her family consists of people from different countries, and her mother speaks several languages. I think that is why she is able to talk about various issues and incidents happened in places.
(B) Questions related to the text and context, vocabulary, expressions, and so on;
Could the author use less adjectives and adverbs to describe the story?
It could be, but the atmosphere in the book will be different. The readers won’t be able to “sense” the events as they could do now.
(C) Questions related to students’ responses to the text, such as questions connected to students’ lives, learning styles, reflections, and more.
Will students have any difficulties understanding the culture behind the story background or understanding the meaning that the author is trying to express?
Yes. After all English isn’t our first language. That is why we are trying to design a lesson for them to understand more about the story. We would like to guide reading and explain the meaning in classes.
(4) Your Role? Are you satisfied with your own work as a certain role in this project? What are your strength (the advantages, the contributions) and the weaknesses (the disadvantages, something you could do better)?
My role in our team is to be the one to organize everyone’s work. In the midterm presentation, I collected the questions written by my teammates and correct the grammatical and lexical mistakes in the file. This time in the final project, I am the one to do the presentation and the one to set up
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the website. I think I had done my best efforts.
My advantage is that I have the ability to guide my team to be on the right way toward our goal. My weakness is that I am having more classes than others, so sometimes I’m too tired to do any work.
(5) Reflection
This semester, I have learned a lot from the class. The two movies we watched in class is very interesting that made me also read the two novels afterward. Also, I like the class about children picture books. Professor Zhuang explained the concept of writing picture books in an impressive way. I did learn a lot in that class. Eventually, while working as a group, I found that happy to work with different people. Although we have
different thoughts toward the same issue, we are all finding a way to finish our project. I’m really glad to know my groupmates in this class this semester.
(6) Pictures or Photos in group works; (this is optional)
(P.S.: the "Category" means either in (a) industrious advertising, or (b) education)
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Appendix VI: Students’ Lesson Plan