thanks for lesson plan. why will you get each team to answer every question?

thanks for the lesson... it worked well for the first half... then it went down hill! This was not your fault though... i did this with my extra class yesterday. they are mixed grade, mixed ability. it's hard to know where to pitch the lesson at because if i go too low the able kids are bored, and if i go too high the low kids are bored. they are a really mixed group socially as well. Only some of them bring pens to class, so the listening exercise completely flopped as i had to go around getting the borrow pens from each other! then as we got to the end of the lesson and was about to start the game, i noticed one kid crying at his desk... he is a first grade kid who does not have the language to tell me what is wrong. So i asked two third grade students to translate - they said some girls had been picking on him. he would not lift his head from the desk. The girls denied it, and other girls were patting him to check he was okay. I stopped the class and told them they had to be nice to each other, bullying would not be tolerated etc... but the accused girls did not understand me anyway!! I have no idea what had happened. anyway i let them go two minutes to the bell, and took the crying kid to my co-teacher as he wouldn't tell me what happened (largely cos he couldn't explain in English anyway!)...

i guess if you have an open class the kids will have been told to be on their best behaviour... but i found that the listening exercise was hard work for them.

All in all however, it was a great lesson. You have obviously worked hard on it and i think it will work well... my extra class is a bit of a nightmare for me at times, so not the best example of how it could work!

I had them do the listening exercise on their own - pairs would have been better though, i wish i had done that now.

I like the idea about always keeping spare pens in class. it's a bit of a bug bear of mine as i remember when i was at school my best friend never had any pens and was always borrowing mine!! Clearly, i have never gotten over that!!

i think with extra classes i need to try to pitch the lesson so it is less academic, writing things don't go down well. Something i can work on.

I played the recording twice, and then got the students to shout out the answers as i read through the sheet. normally, when i have done fill in the gaps, i have the words on the screen in PowerPoint and then animate text boxes to fall into the right places after the students have shouted out. Most students are keen to fill in the correct word when they know it, so i guess for some they just don't get it!

I guess if you have a co-teacher in class with you the listening exercise may run more smoothly as there will be two adults to quieten the kids down and make sure they have a writing implement!

I asked the kids some questions at the end of the class to see if they remembered anything about Guy Fawkes and they did know some things....

Today I am attempting Halloween. I will see how that pans out!
Good luck with your lesson - i will be interested to see how it works out.

Hey thanks for this. It was an awesome lesson my kids loved it! They are very mixed ability but I put my students in to pairs to do the exercise and they helped each other out.

Also with the bomb game I adapted it a little bit to make it more entertaining. I had 6 teams in each class and therefore made them play kai bai bo with each other to see who got to answer the question. It went down a treat and they were all engaged.

Thanks again

This is a great lesson. However, it is WAY too long.

The fonts didn't work for me and I edited it all down. (will post later)

I also changed some of the quiz answers as they were confusing. One I remember in particular was that students got a well done for answering November 10th and a congratulations for November 5th which would obviously cause confusion.

However, it is a great idea and one that I have used with great results this last 2 days and will save in my files to use in the future.

I had the teams in 6.. Each team answered at the same time and then results were shown for their possible answers. I ended up with a winner in each class. However, team 1 always got a bad hand 

I'm glad other people are keen to do a Guy Falkes lesson, it's totally overlooked but it's pretty exciting and my students love anything a bit gory!

Thanks for those, Emsy, they're great.
I'm dying for a glass of mulled wine now!

And Hannah, I couldn't agree more about the gore 
I mime being hung, drawn and quartered a few times and they love it...

To quote wiki:

On 31 January 1606, Fawkes and three others – Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, and Robert Keyes – were dragged from the Tower on wattled hurdles to the Old Palace Yard at Westminster, opposite the building they had attempted to destroy.[52] His fellow plotters were hanged, drawn and quartered. Fawkes was the last to stand on the scaffold. He asked for forgiveness of the King and state, while keeping up his "crosses and idle ceremonies", and aided by the hangman began to climb the ladder to the noose. Although weakened by torture, Fawkes managed to jump from the gallows, breaking his neck in the fall and thus avoiding the agony of the latter part of his execution.[36][53] His lifeless body was nevertheless drawn and quartered,[54] and as was the custom,[55] his body parts were then distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors.[56]

Exciting stuff, eh?

I know that the listening exercise says otherwise.
I guess him being burned on a bonfire is more poetic?

I'm afraid I have no idea about the house you mentioned.
I've searched around for ages and have had little luck, unless you mean the Red Lion Inn in Dunchurch? Let me know if you remember it!

I would just like to add something I made for the Poem, a disappearing dialog activity.

I used a modified version of your lesson last year at my old school for an after school class. This year I have no textbook at my new school so I will reuse the lesson again, but with some more modifications giving some background for why Fawkes did what he did, and Catholic and Protestant viewpoints on the Gunpowder plot. I'll post it up next week.

Ok, this is my powerpoint. It is aimed at Middle school students

I simplify the story and just say that he was burned in the fire. The students are too young to fully understand what being hung drawn and quartered means.

Even then, this was rather difficult for everyone but the highest level students