1. Topic-
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| What You Won't Learn in High School. - Reading and
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2. Content-
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Reading about School day
Questions to discuss
Match words and phrases
New Vocabulary |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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Talk about their school days by asking and answering questions related
to the school live.
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4. Objectives-
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Students must be able to talk about their school days and how to
debate about educational situations.
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5. Materials and Aids-
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pamphlets
vocabulary and worksheets
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1.What are your best memories of high school? What regrets do you
have?
2)What classifications of students existed in your high school (e.g.
nerds, athletes, etc.)? Which were you part of?
3)How would you compare your high school generation to today's generation
of teenagers?
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B. Development-
Meme: 11 Things Kids Will Not Learn in School
A list has recently spread around the Internet entitled "11 Things
Kids Will Not Learn in School."� The list has been incorrectly attributed
to Bill Gates, who supposedly read it at a lecture to high school
students. Online sources reveal that the list is a hoax: it originated
in 1996 from a different author. Nevertheless, the list provides some
interesting food for thought. It is given below in its entirety.)
"Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about 11
things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how
feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids
with no concept of reality and how this concept sets them up for failure
in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault; so don't whine
about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they
are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes
and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So
before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's
generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but
life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades
and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.
This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers
off and very few employers are interested in helping you "FIND YOURSELF".
Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television and video games are NOT real life. In real life
people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."�
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C. Practice-
1.Read the list again to yourself. Mark which rules you agree or
disagree with. When finished, discuss your opinion of each piece of
advice with your class.
2)The list describes today's youth as "kids with no concept of
reality."� What do you think of this?
3)True or False: The list was actually written in 1996.
4)Idiom: What does it mean if something is beneath your dignity?
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D. Independent Practice-
Match the words with their meaning as used in the article.
1) meme
2) attribute (verb)
3) hoax
4) politically correct
5) self-esteem
6) dignity
7) whine (verb)
8) parasite
9) delouse (verb)
10) bear a resemblance (phr.verb)
11) nerd a) complain in an annoying voice
b) an image or video that is shared online among many users
c) look similar
d) a person who lacks social skills and studies too much
e) a funny or harmful trick or joke
f) an organism that lives off another organism
g) worded in a way that does not harm the audience
h) confidence in one's own abilities
i) regard sth as being caused by sb or sth
j) a sense of pride in one's self
k) clean a person or animal of lice or other insects living on it
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
Debate: The Case of Lynden Dorval
Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton, Canada, has a "�no zero' policy.
If a student does not do an assignment, the teacher must try to arrange
with the student for the assignment to be completed later. If that
method fails, the student gets a code of "not completed"� on
his/her school record instead of a zero.
In early June, physics teacher Lynden Dorval was fired from the school
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F. Checking for understanding-
Student A: You agree with the decision to fire Lynden Dorval. Think
of reasons to support your position. (One reason given by the school:
"just giving students a zero does not help them learn anything."�)
Think of other reasons. You will start the debate when ready.
Student B: You disagree with the decision to fire Lynden Dorval. Think
of reasons to support your argument. Your partner will start the debate
when ready.
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G. Closure-
Discussion Questions
1)What is a chain letter? Do you send or receive them?
2)Do you feel that high school adequately prepares people for "�real
life'? Why or why not?
3)What is the purpose of high school?
4) Is "real life"� as hard as the author of the list suggests?
5)Idiom: "Life is what you make it."� What do you think of this
idea
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7. Evaluation-
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Active participation
work as a team player solving the assignments.
Use of the appropriate vocabulary |
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