ORAL DISCUSSION AND DOCUMENTATION OF THINKING
Teacher Talk: With these great ideas in mind, let’s think of other people who
have displayed Perseverance. Take a few minutes to list eight people who
you feel have displayed Perseverance—they could be from your community
or some other part of the world, in the present or the past. Once you have
your eight names written down, cut the paper into eight strips, so that each
strip has one name on it.
In groups, you will each share your list of people. If you’ve duplicated some
of the same names, you may wish to brainstorm as a group to add a name
or two. Your task is to sort these people into categories— categories you
will develop with your group. You’ve been given a sheet of paper to make a
table. The categories your group develops will be the headings on the table.
As a group, place each of your name strips under the appropriate heading.
Facilitation Note: If students are struggling with this task, help guide
them with commonalities and possible headings such as Sports, Arts, Life;
Famous, Not famous; Alive, Dead; Canadian, Different nationalities; Men,
Women; etc.
Anchor Chart: Call upon each group to share their headings and the reasons
they chose to sort their names into those groupings. As each group shares
their headings (and reasons for them?), record them on chart paper.
Step B:
Assessment
for Learning
CONSOLIDATING THINKING TO BUILD NEW KNOWLEDGE
Teacher Talk: Recall the discussion in the last lesson about how your own
example of Perseverance had an impact not only on yourself, but also perhaps
on others, like your family or the community. Some acts of Perseverance and
some of the people you brainstormed may impact only their own lives. The
fact that you named them, however, probably points to these people having
a bigger impact, perhaps on their family or others, or maybe even on society
in general.
Facilitation Note: You may need to review Venn diagrams. Each circle
represents a set of information; the overlapping area of the circles visually
represents the commonalities among the groupings.
Teacher Talk: In your groups you will now look at each person’s name in
your table and decide where he or she had a direct impact: on themselves,
others or society. Remove the name strips from the table and place them in
one of the sections of the Venn Diagram. You should notice that there are
intersecting areas, where a person’s perseverance impacted self and others;
others and society; or self and society. There is one further intersection,
which represents all three sections being impacted.
Black Canadian Curriculum – Intermediate – ETFO – 2014