Hi, I looked at this week's 'Story time' lesson for my 5th and 6th grades and thought- wtf? really?
So I started the lesson by threatening the class that if they were bad, then they would have to do the text book things (noooo!/aneeee!). I first got them to do a few physical activities (arrange themselves in birthday order etc.) Then watched the first 8 or so minutes of each movie. For classes that are normally running riot while the home room teacher sits and does marking at the back they were silent! It was beautiful.
Ok, so here are the the work sheets I made:

I tried the Ponyo lesson in my 6th grade and 4th grade class. 4th grade loved the movie and complained a lot about stopping it to do the worksheet ^_^ told them they could watch more if they finished, it was the most motivated I have ever seen them. I made a second worksheet (will post in a bit) and tried the same trick again today with the next part of the movie, but it didn't work as well. I think I may just show the rest of the movie in my afterschool class and then make them write reviews and stuff. Thanks for the great idea and worksheet! It's really good to have a movie which I can show in English with English subtitles and have even the low level students following along.

The 6th grade lesson flopped because of, of all things, loud anti-Japanese sentiment from some of the students. Sad to hear from such young kids.

Could you, please, provide the links for the cartoons? I am not familiar with this anime so I am not sure what to look for.  ::)

Hi, I looked at this week's 'Story time' lesson for my 5th and 6th grades and thought- wtf? really?
So I started the lesson by threatening the class that if they were bad, then they would have to do the text book things (noooo!/aneeee!). I first got them to do a few physical activities (arrange themselves in birthday order etc.) Then watched the first 8 or so minutes of each movie. For classes that are normally running riot while the home room teacher sits and does marking at the back they were silent! It was beautiful.
Ok, so here are the the work sheets I made:

I'm new here, and would like to try out the Ponyo lesson plan for my kids, I am homeschooling them. I don't see the lesson plan that you posted...

Most of the kids i teach don't know much about the Miyazaki films but they seem to only know Totoro ^^

Hi all

I figured out how to download the file. You click save link as and then type over index.php and save it as the file name that you see in the link. I don't know how or why I thought to do that, but it was a on a whim and it worked!

Best!

This is such a great idea!  I have only been in Korea for a week and been involved in four days worth of classes so far, so getting some ideas for lesson plans is really helpful!  I feel very lucky--I can't think of a single class that I can't look forward too-- they're all so eager to learn!