Author Topic: Compilation of Lessons--Boy's Middle School (Read 1546 times)

onbeingtrue · « **on:** November 28, 2011, 09:57:23 am »

Hi everyone,

I'm about out of here after two years and wanted to give back after all I've taken from this site. So, I will be posting a handful of lessons that have worked well for my students. I will post all of them on this same thread over the course of the week. The majority of my lessons are inspired by things I find on this site. Sometimes I don't change much from the original, sometimes I use bits and pieces from several lessons I find on the same topic and then make my own.

I wasn't going to post the lessons that were more or less the same as the originals, but then decided that I would for any newer teachers on here who haven't seen some of the work people posted a year or two ago. I will try to note which lessons these are.

I apologize, because I can't really remember where I found things or whose work I've used. Feel free to claim ownership if it's yours! For anyone else, it should be easy enough to use the search function and find the originals.

All of these lessons were used at a boy's middle school, class size 34-38. I will try my best to provide explanation where necessary. I never used a textbook, so there's no connection to a book.

And finally, a huge THANK YOU to everyone on this site who contributes, and from whom I've taken and borrowed from. I certainly could never have finished two years without all of your great ideas and lessons!

Lessons, in no particular order (or, rather, alphabetical order from my computer):

1. Animal Idioms: I used this for 1st grade. I had them take notes and write the idiom and definition before playing the review game at the end. This is pretty much the same as the original lesson posted, aside from some smaller changes I made, so you can search for the original if you'd like!

2. Color Idioms: Also used for 1st grade. They filled out the worksheet while we went through the PPT. Then, we finished with the Wheel game (made my somebody on this site).

3. Dentist Lesson: This was from early on and my reason for doing this was that I had a friend visiting from the States who is a dentist. BUT, maybe somebody will find it useful in some capacity. Pretty straight-forward... Lesson, Mr. Bean, questions about the video.

Many more to come soon...

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2011, 12:41:28 pm »

4. Fortune Telling/Palm Reading: This was taken from here, as well... Just changed a few things and the PPT, etc. Worksheet to go with it. Students really enjoyed this lesson--and took it so seriously sometimes, haha. They were very curious about their "fortune." I went through the lesson, had them fill out the worksheet while we did the PPT, then in pairs read each other's palms. I didn't end up having them do the dialogue, but I left it on the worksheet in case somebody wants it.

5. Halloween #1: This was used for 1st grade. Simple. Went through the PPT, had them fill out the worksheet during PPT and then had them fill out bingo cards. They love bingo! Thanks to whoever gave me a lot to work with on this lesson...

6. Halloween #2: This was for 2nd grade. Went through vocab on the PPT, gave them the worksheet, had them watch the episode in three parts (went over each part of the worksheet after watching the corresponding part of the episode; never actually did the true/false questions as we ran out of time). The worksheet is definitely from somebody on this site... somewhere...

tiffanymaxwell · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2011, 01:00:34 pm »

Wow! Thank you so much for putting these all in one place! I'm so new at teaching, and I've got a couple all-boys middle school classes that have proven to be difficult for me. I'm definitely going to use these ideas!

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2011, 01:42:27 pm »

Tiffany, you're welcome! I'm just giving back what people have given to me!^^

I've got a lot more coming, but it will take me a few days to get all of them up

dapto1 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 28, 2011, 02:17:44 pm »

Cheers these look good. Thanks!

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #5 on:** November 28, 2011, 02:42:41 pm »

7. Geography Trivia (Hearts, Bombs game): Search the site for the original. The only thing I changed was the questions. I found them too easy for my students, so I tried to make them more challenging. AMAZING game by the original author^^

8. Introduction to the Environment: Students filled out the worksheet as I went through the lesson. Then, we finished with a "Taboo" or "Don't Say the Words" game. In case you don't know how to play this game, I divide the class in half. One student from a team will stand in front of the television, not looking at the screen. His team will describe the picture/word at the top of the slide without saying the list of words. One point if he gets it... I have the other team be "judges" and tell me if the team uses Korean, gestures, or whatever else I told them they can't use. I used things from several lessons already posted on this site.

9. Konglish: Students fill out the worksheet as we go through the PPT lesson. Then, we finish with the "Taboo" or "Don't Say the Word" game (same as above). I used a few different lessons from this site and combined them to make this into my own.

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #6 on:** November 28, 2011, 03:21:30 pm »

10. Man vs. Food: Taken from somewhere on here, adapted for myself and my classes. Pretty self-explanatory, I'd say...

11. Mr. Bean Random and Mr. Bean Swimming Pool: Just some more Mr. Bean... Definitely got stuff from here but can't tell you where/who from...

12. Predictions: Adapted/taken from this site. Put students into groups. The way I did it was have each group decide an answer for #1, then I wrote all of the groups' answers for that question on the board to keep score. I had them all give me their answers at the same time, holding them up, to prevent 'copying.' Showed the video; gave a point to any group who guessed the answer correctly.

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #7 on:** November 29, 2011, 09:48:00 am »

13. Extreme Sports

14. Summer Vacation Last Man Standing Game: I did this our first week back to school after the vacation. The students--1st and 2nd grade--loved it! I think I got the idea from this site, or another. I go through the slides (I removed some of my pictures) and we talk about the past tense verbs used. It's really more of a review of verbs, not teaching anything. Then, I have them give me some more verbs (e.g., played, watched, studied) and I keep a list on the board. Then, they each get 1-3 papers (I found that in a class of 35 students, one paper per person was enough, but I usually did two... three was far too many). They each have to write one thing on each paper that they did during the vacation--the point is to make it as unique as possible. Then, I collect all of their papers into a bag, and everyone stands up. I had students choose a paper from the bag and read it aloud. If a student did NOT do that thing during their vacation, they sit down. I kept going until I'd have about 3-5 students still standing. This lasted the entire 45 minute class.

15. Superstitions: This ended up being a two-part lesson. The first week I experimented with Prezi (I think you can access the presentation here: http://prezi.com/s-k1ttmuvyw1/friday-the-13th-superstitions-3rd-grade/ ) and the second week was review and them coming up with their own list of superstitions in Korea. Again, I took a mix of other people's work on this site and combined them into my own.

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #8 on:** November 29, 2011, 09:52:17 am »

Oh, and a crossword puzzle for the extreme sports lesson...

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #9 on:** November 29, 2011, 10:08:08 am »

16. Rhymes and Syllables: I used slightly different lessons for my 1st and 3rd graders. I reviewed syllables with 1st grade, as they didn't know what it meant. They had fun with the little syllable exercise on slide 8, surprisingly. I never made it to the poem in any class. For the 3rd grade lesson, I talked about rhyme and had them listen to the song... That was as far as we ever got in that class. The first time I played the song, they didn't get a lot of the words, but the second time around the high-level students got most of them and the lower-level got a handful. I seemed to have lost the Word document of the lyrics w/blanks, sorry. All of the students had a hard time with slant rhyme, so it might be a good idea to not do it at all depending on your students' levels.

17. Wonders of the World: I used a few different lessons posted on here to make my own on this topic... So thanks to those folks. Went through the PPT, had them fill out the worksheet as we did that. Pretty self-explanatory, I hope. In the 45-minute class, we only got though half the second part.

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #10 on:** November 29, 2011, 10:19:23 am »

18. World Festivals: Went through the PPT, then put students into groups to make their own festivals. This turned into a two-part lesson. The last 15 minutes of the first class they worked in their groups to make their own festival and a poster to go with it. The second class I gave them a bit more time and then they presented their festival and poster to the class.

19. World Food: This was also a two-week class. First week was going over the PPT and world food, the second week was review and the game (that I definitely did NOT make myself... props to the original author of the Mario Game!).

20. English Games: Taken straight from other peoples' work. Just put a few things together for a random post-exam day. Easy to find on here, but the kids like the games so figured I'd post anyway. Thanks to the original authors!

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #11 on:** November 29, 2011, 10:57:50 am »

21. Top-Five Game: Idea/content taken from someone else... Made my own PPT with what I found on here. A game that students loved. Once I got through the instructions, the kids got into groups, etc., we only got through about 5-6 rounds.

dapto1 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 29, 2011, 12:54:20 pm »

I've used two of these so far, thanks a million. Excellent commitment, very good of you to go through the effort of putting all these up.

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #13 on:** November 29, 2011, 02:46:40 pm »

Glad they could be of some use to somebody. And that "commitment" is a direct result of having two weeks left on a contract and no new lessons to plan because of exams!

phillberto · « **Reply #14 on:** November 29, 2011, 02:53:18 pm »

This is what Waygook is all about. Way to go!

panic button · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2011, 06:17:41 pm »

Like the others said; thanks a lot mate. Some REALLY useful stuff here

Kalona13 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 30, 2011, 08:43:11 am »

Thanks so much for uploading all your lessons! Great work! I'm also at an all boys' MS and I could use a couple of these.

onbeingtrue · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2011, 09:46:17 am »

Some other lessons I used that have worked well for the boys (and that you should be able to find through searching on this site):

--deserted island
--zombie survival (where student groups must decide which four people to take with them on their boat to Jeju-do)... And then show an episode of The Walking Dead after exams or something--they'll love it!
--they seemed to enjoy the optical illusions lesson
--bucket list
--they always love riddles (there are some good riddle PPTs on here)

Also, I've used the old game of MASH here and there if I find myself with some extra time at the end or something, THEY LOVE IT!!!! They go crazy! If you don't recall this from your own middle school days, here's how I play:

Bring a student up to the front and tell him that the class will help determine his future. Write "MASH" at the top of the board in big letters, draw a big box underneath. Explain that these letters will determine in what type of place he'll live (m=mansion, a=apartment, s=shack and h=house). Then, I draw four lines to the left of the box and tell him this is who he will marry. I let him choose one person and the class choose the other three. I draw a few more groups of four lines around the box to fill in the same way with numbers (how many kids, or salary), countries/cities (where he will live), modes of transportation, animals (pets), jobs... anything you can think of. When everything's filled in, have the volunteer student turn his back to you and tell him he can say stop at any time. Start drawing a spiral in the box. When he says stop, count the lines from the middle of the spiral outward. This is your "magic number." Start with the "M" from MASH and count to that number and the cross our/erase whichever item you land on (e.g., if the number is five, count through the items to five, then cross off/erase each fifth item thereafter). Do this until you have one item left in each category... And then tell him his future!

Once they understand what's going on, they come up with crazy answers... Marrying some teacher, celebrity or friend's younger sister... Living in Togo... "infinity" amounts of children... getting around in a shopping cart... They LOVE this activity.

muchobenny · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2011, 10:23:54 am »

I'm new to Waygook, and new to Korea. I haven't been given any textbooks to teach from so as somebody that is having to come up with lesson plans from scratch I'd say this is one of the most most useful posts I've read on this site and I'm sure I'll be using it plenty. Thank you!

MLynTeacher · « **Reply #19 on:** December 15, 2011, 01:30:27 pm »

This is phenomenal. Thank you so much for this!

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