Artist Heroes: Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel and Peacemaker Hero Loung Ung

by Jon Lambert, SCUN

Grade Level 9-12+
Subject ESL/EFL

Overview

This is a lesson for EFL students interested in studying world peace and fashion. Students practice speaking, listening, communication, creative thinking and lexis, while discussing the stories of Artist Hero Coco Chanel and Peacemaker Hero Leong Ung.

Objectives: Speaking about peace, fashion and women; listening; self-correction and peer-correction.

Procedure

Step One: Questioning

"What do you know about Gabrielle Chanel and Loung Ung?" In pairs, students discuss.

Step Two:

In pairs, students ask and answer questions about each other's story. One student has HANDOUT A; the other has HANDOUT B.

Step Three:

(Teacher monitors and listens to students asking and answering the questions.) When Q & A is complete, teacher provides affective feedback and language feedback, and elicits self-correction and peer-correction.

Step Four:

Students do HANDOUT C individually, then check in pairs, then in open class.

Step Five:

Students use the language chunks to make questions for each other. Teacher monitors then provides affective feedback and language feedback.

Assessment

Teacher visits each group to monitor correction and feedback.

1: Unsatisfactory: Students have not fully completed the HandOuts, are unparticipative, and use little affective feedback and self-correction.

2. Satisfactory: Students have partially completed the HandOuts, are participative, and use affective feedback and self-correction.

3. Exceptional: Students have thoughtfully and fully completed the HandOut, are participative, and go above and beyond in using affective feedback and self-correction.

Standards

Common Core English - Reading 6-12

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Common Core English - Reading K-5

Key Ideas and details: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Craft and Structure: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Range of reading and Level of text Complexity: Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

Common Core English - Reading 6-12

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Range of reading and Level of text Complexity: Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

Vocabulary acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level.

Common Core English - Language K-5

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: 6. Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level;