Impact English

8th Grade

Unit 3 : Magic and Illusion

LESSON 1:THE LORD OF THE RINGS

AIMS:

Learn the difference between literal and inferred meaning

Learn what symbols mean in a narrative

Create your own symbol

ADAPTING

The Lord of the Rings

Narrator Structure Characters Narrative

“Frodo took it from his breeches-

pocket, where it was clasped to a chain that hung from his belt”

Introduction Complication Crisis Resolution

(ending)

Tells the story in an entertaining way.

LESSON 2 THE NOSE

AIMS: Read the poem “DO NOT LET” Learn about the style and form of the poem Identify different kinds of images in the poem Write your own poem

REPLACING

DO NOT LET Poetry of Walt Whitman

Do not let the day end without having grown a bit, without being happy,without having risen your dreams.Do not let overcome by disappointment.Do not let anyone you remove the right to express yourself,which is almost a duty.Do not forsake the yearning to make your life something special.Be sure to believe that words and poetry it can change the world.Whatever happens, our essence is intact.We are beings full of passion. Vivid desert and oasis.We breakdowns, hurts us, teaches us, makes us protagonists of our ownhistory.

I replaced the poem THE NOSE for DO NOT LET.The student must read the text DO NOT LET.

Although the wind blow against the powerful work continues:You can make a stanza. Never stop dreaming, because in a dream, man isfree.Do not fall into the worst mistakes: the silence.Most live in a dreadful silence. Do not resign escape."Issued by my screeches roofs of this world," says the poet. Rate the beauty of the simple things.You can make beautiful poetry on little things, but we can not row againstourselves. That transforms life into hell. Enjoy the panic that leads you have life ahead. Live intensely, withoutmediocrity.Think that you are the future and facing the task with pride and without fear.Learn from those who can teach you. The experiences of those who preceded usin our "dead poets", help you walk through life.Today's society is us "poets alive." Do not let life pass you live without that.

VIDEO

Video of explanation about What is POETRY

POETRY

• A poems express feelings or emotions you might have, but are too embarrassed to say it so you write your feelings in a poetry way.

• A poem can be rhyming or it can be said at a faster pace, these are mostly children poems, but the complicated poems are more aimed to an older age group such as teenagers.

Information about poetry This content is shown in the board .

A poem contain :

• Imagery is the use of language to represent actions, feelings that are trying to be portrayed from the author to the reader.

• Rhythm is a type of way to tell a poem. You usually have a beat or background music in a rhythm poem.

• Form, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem.

Questions 1. What is the purpose of this poem?2. What does say the author about the dream?3. Do you think that the author was very imaginative

with this poem?4. What does the author mean with the word SILENCE?

Is it literal?

5. What kind of simple things do you enjoy? 6. Would you be able to live without money or

technology?

Questions of the poem “DO NOT LET”

Focus on: building images.

Although the poem is told like a simple folk tale, it contains unusual images. Most appeal to the sense of sight. For example, the poem opens with:

“Do not let the day end without having grown

a bit, without being happy,

without having risen your dreams.”

Replacing the first verse of the poem THE NOSE for the poem DO NOT LET. Creating the form about the verse.

• 7. Create different forms with some verses of the poem "DO NOT LET“.

Students must create forms with some verses of the poem. For example:

What do you know about poetry?

Put the correct number in the box B from box A

What do you know about poetry?

11. Draw an image with your own poem. Imagine you are in an awesome dream where you are a hero.

LESSON 3: Trick of the mind

AIMS:

Read a series of explanationsLearn how to separate description from explanationLearn the difference between the active and the passive

ADDING

We think this lesson doesn’t have a good engagement. So, we decided to include some pictures, a video and some guide questions, before the text of Darren Brown plays tricks.

Activity 1HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MAGIC TRICK? CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU SAW?

Watch the following video and then explain what you saw

Activity 2: Considering that this text is for native speakers, they are not going to have problems with the vocabulary given.

Create one sentence for each word, using the vocabulary given in page 66, about the text.

In this stage we add some exercises, because there were not enough to practice the active and the passive, which is one of the aims. (p, 70, exercise 7)

Activity 3:Exercises

passive and activeChange the following sentences into passive

-Once a week the magician cleans all his utensils.

-The cute girl helps the magician with the performance.

-The magician rabbit eats carrots.

Change the following sentences into active.

-An original trick was shown to the audience by the magician.

-A cute rabbit was taken out from the magician´s hat.

-The show will be finish after the woman is cut into 3 parts.