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    Mila Pandzic posted in the group 3.2 My Green Lesson Idea

    2 years ago

    Here is my PowerPoint presentation.
    We have also some different parts of the lesson plan (motivation activity etc.), but you’ll understand it.
    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12d3xVbY3cvvotTVCAoI-rWI56qcRbHmV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116955077244507779320&rtpof=true&sd=true

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    • Mila! The slides are fantastic! I just made some notes!

    • Loved all your ideas!

    • Great stuff @mila-pandzic for getting this posted!

      I’m going to start with a favourite quote of mine, that serendipitously comes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

      « La perfection est atteinte, non pas lorsqu’il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu’il n’y a plus rien à retirer. »

      For the benefit of all, the translation is “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

      Overall, I love your lesson idea, and I think your students will really benefit from it, and I like the way you link the message of the Little Prince to the climate emergency. The reason I include this quote is that I think this lesson will be even more fantastic when you get to the point where there is nothing more to take away. If it was me doing this, here are some things I’d start with:

      1. Outcomes: Depending on the lesson length, could they be reduced. Can they be reduced to 3? In this lesson you will:
      – Make a link between the problems and the solutions the Little Prince deals with and the current environmental crisis.
      – Talk about character using adjectives from the book
      – create a poster with images and text to encourage others to take positive action to deal with the climate emergency
      2. First Impressions. I love this section where they discuss the book and share their feelings. I would look at the questions and consider simplifying them through a concrete to abstract method of Mike Geshon. For example:
      A. What can you see on the cover of this book? (very concrete)
      B. What is the boy looking at?
      C. How is the boy feeling?
      D. What are the most important things you remember from reading the book?
      E. What links can be made between the issue the Prince deals with and our modern world?
      F. To what extent do the solutions in the book apply to our lives? (Abstract)
      What do you think Mila? Feel free to disagree 🙂
      3. Slides 5 to 10. I love the inclusion of these quotes and appreciate your expertise on this and have little experience myself teaching literature. Having said that, I would be tempted to aim for two or three questions to discuss per quote, and make sure one links to the climate emergency. Is it possible? I hope so! Possibly the first, for example, could be:
      A. What does the little prince learn that makes him sad?
      B. What did (X) teach him that can make him feel better?
      C. What parallel can we make with our treatment of the environment today?

      So this is my response, reducing and reducing till it’s perfect. I’ve tried to suggest ways you could approach this if you agree. Anyway, the thing I love about doing this course is what I learn from others and this is a great example. I have never read the Little Prince but I realise I should, and I love the way you draw out the theme of connecting with nature.

      Next step: As soon as you are happy with a final version, you’ll be prompted to add it to the Padlet. Click on Zagreb to upload it!

      @rian-mcguinness and @marcela-villan do you have any feedback to help Mila add the final touches?

      • Thank you, Owain, for your great advices! I will definitely make the changes.
        There were more questions on my slides just to understand the connection of the text with the environment because people cannot get the point only from the quotes. With students who have read the book it would be easier and less questions. As you said, 3 questions are enough to ask them but usually when we discuss, new questions are coming, so that’s the reason for so much material.
        It’s good to have 3 outcomes, I wrote it the way we write outcomes, but I agree with yours, it’s also enough.
        I especially like the method of Mike Geshon and your questions, very interesting.
        I also agree with your comment on questions next to quotes. Also, I have to reduce them, but still, when we discuss this as a literature text, you have to give them enough questions to understand it (maybe I won’t write them on the slides). If I would make this only an environment lesson (after we discuss it as a literary text), definitely only 3 questions would be enoguh to point out the environment topic.
        Thank you for all the advices, I will correct it!

      • And you have to read “The Little Prince”. It has become the world’s most translated book, excluding religious works. I think it has been translated into more than 350 diffferent languages. I thought it’s in the UK curriculum. It is in ours, on our reading list.