Objectives:

1. View and react critically to the short clip presented

2. Expand vocabulary through “word charge” activity

3. Respond to questions raised in a short clip and documentary viewed and in an article read

4. Extract and organize information articles read using graphic organizer

5. Demonstrate appreciation and understanding of the text through group differentiated task

What A Difference A Day Makes (A Letter to

You from Nelson Mandela)

Short clipMake

Poverty History

Nelson Mandela

Understanding the Short clip

1.What are the steps that leaders must take?2. How can we become a great generation?

Word Charge ActivityWrite O if the pair of words are opposite in meaning, S if it is similar in meaning.

S apartheid segregation1. issue crisis2. impartiality inequality3. uneducated illiterate4. imprison liberate5. impoverished wealthy

S

OS

O

O

Who is Nelson Mandela?Watch a short documentary about Nelson

Mandela.

1.Who is Nelson Mandela?2.What is apartheid? 3.What is the ideal that Mandela is prepared to die

for?4.Do you have an ideal that you are willing to risk

your life for? What is it and how important is it for you as a person?

Understanding the short

documentary:

GAP FILLComplete the text taken from the article by filling the gaps. Choose your answer from the box.

actions aid knowledge man medicines debt school look weapons world childMandela says…The world has made great progress in science, technology, (1) ________ and information.But, millions of children die because they can’t get (2) ________ and millions of children don’t go to (3) ________.We spend more money on (4) ________ than on tackling the (5) ________ crisis.Poverty is not natural, it is (6) ________-made.Things that must be done… ensure trade justice and get rid of the (7) ________ of the poorest countries deliver more high-quality (8)________ the leaders of the world should not (9) ________ the other way the world wants (10) ________ not words

knowledge

medicines

weapons

school

world

man

debt

aid

look

actions

Understanding the article:1. In your opinion, why do you

think millions of children suffer despite the great progress and advances we attained?

2. Think about our country, do you think the Philippines is trapped in the prison of despair, disease and hunger?

GROUP DIFFERENTIATED TASK

1.Responding to Literature. Have the group respond to the article read by completing the graphic organizer.

Name________________________________Date_____Group___

RESPONDING TO LITERATURE Directions: After reading the selection, write responses to what you have read by completing the sentence stems below.

__________________________________________(Title of book, chapter, article, story, or poem)

by______________________________

(Author’s first and last name)

I noticed________________________________________A question I have is______________________________I wonder why____________________________________I cant really understand__________________________I know the feeling________________________________I loved the way__________________________________I realized________________________________________If I were__________________________________________I discovered_____________________________________

GROUP DIFFERENTIATED TASK

2. Question the Author. Have the group analyze what was said in the article, how well it was said, and how the article might be improved.

GROUP DIFFERENTIATED TASK

3. SOAPSTone. Have the group use the SOAPSTone tool to analyze the article. Provide the elements asked in the graphic organizer.

GROUP DIFFERENTIATED TASK

4. Cause-and-Effect. Have the group identify the causes and results of poverty.

GROUP DIFFERENTIATED TASK

5. Problem and Solution. Have the group record a problem presented in the article and suggest a solution to address this problem.

GROUP DIFFERENTIATED TASK

6. Oreo Opinion Writing. Have the group discuss their view of the article, state their reason s or thoughts about their opinion, give an example of their reason, and restate their opinion.

CRITERIA1. Communicative competence – ability to

clearly deliver the message of the presentation – 40%

2. Collaboration – group cohesiveness – 30%

3.Correctness of content – accuracy of details - 30%

AGREEMENTWrite a letter to the late Nelson Mandela telling him or

assuring him of your plans and actions to help the poor and how you can make a difference and be part of that great

generation. Continue the first part of the letter below.

Dear Nelson Mandela,

Thank you for opening my eyes to the issues that our generation is facing. Thank you for telling me that I can be one of that ‘great generation’. Here are my plans and actions to help the poor:

I will…