English - Class C GEL

Dear students, welcome back to our eclass!

In this lesson, we will be answering the question you asked me after working on the  texts of Chapter 6, pages 84-90. In case you don't remember the question was: "Are there no women leaders in the civil rights movement?" So here is one: Rosa Parks!

Our goal for the Rosa Parks lesson is for you to be able:

• to understand specific information in the video you are going to watch and the text you are going to read,
• to learn the vocabulary of the text,
• to use this information to write a biography, or make an infographic, a voice message, or a poster of Rosa Parks,
• to practise using our wiki, chat and forum,
• to practise using Google forms, canva, or other collaborative online tools,
• to communicate and collaborate in your group during our webex meeting and after it,
• to conduct online reserach on other female civil rights movement figures,
• to assess yourself and evaluate the lesson.  

There are 3 Phases to the lesson:

Phase 1 conducted on your own at home before our webex lesson (Friday 12/2/2021) (10-15 mins),

Phase 2: the webex lesson on Friday 12/2/2021 where we'll be working as a whole class and in break out sessions in groups (40 mins),

Phase 3: after the webex lesson, on your own at home and collaboratively in groups (40 mins).

Don't forget to do the evaluation of the lesson before our lesson on Monday 15/2/2021.

You are about to watch a short TV news programme about Rosa Parks.

Some questions are going to pop-up. Answer them and continue to watch the video.

If you cannot answer a question, watch again the short part before the question pops up.

When you finish with the questions, press the green button "Υποβολή Απαντήσεων" and your answers will be recorded. This is the only way I can check that you have done the exercise.

Click here to do the viewing activity. 

Study these example sentences to see if you understand the meaning of the underlined words. If not, you can always look them up in a dictionary. Here are some you can use:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/

https://www.dictionary.com/

https://www.wordreference.com/engr/

• You are only allowed to park in the designated spaces.
• The movie's production company threatened Kate with a suit if she kept being late.
• The government has promised to uphold the principles of democracy.
• She will be remembered as an unrelenting opponent of racial discrimination.
• He was released from prison after serving two years of a five-year sentence.
• He lost his job and in the ensuing months became more and more depressed.
• He was arrested but released on bail of $100,000!
• Inarguably, he is the world's best football player.
• We have inserted certain provisions into the agreement to safeguard foreign workers.
• Lack of sleep or too much sleep can trigger a migraine.
• We are obliged to comply with these rules, we can’t do otherwise.
• If you are a good seamstress, you can make your own dresses and get exactly the look you want.
• They were charged with violating federal law.
• If someone harms you, don't retaliate! Just turn the other cheek!

These sentences were adapted from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ and https://www.thefreedictionary.com/

As explained at the end of our webex lesson on Monday 8-2-2021 we are about to create a wiki about Rosa Parks. You can find it in the wiki section or our eclass. There you will upload your piece of work: the infographics, posters, biographies, voice messages or pictures I have asked you in the personal message I have sent you. You will upload them in the appropriate section of the wiki, as we have previously done. In class on Friday we will then chose the best to publish on our school website. Don't forget to always cite your references.

And don't forget the assessment exercise on the exercises part!

As explained at the end of our webex lesson on Monday 8-2-2021 you have a group assignment: in your group choose another female civil rights movenent figure and collect information (in a google document) about her to be able to use in class to collaboratively write a biography of her. You can use the following pages or any other you choose to.

https://www.biography.com/

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

http://www.womenshistory.org/

https://classichttps://classic.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/pioneers.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/pioneers

Don't forget to always keep your references.

Use the chat to talk to your partners.