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 * Language Arts Online Lesson**
 * Secondary 1(For Strand 1)**
 * Term 1 Week 9**


 * Team Leader**: Joyce Lim
 * Team Members**: Edmund Teo, Merlyn Sng, Shirley Lim, Kalavathi, Anuradha, Jason Lundberg, Susan Soh


 * Pedagogy Employed**: Differentiated Instruction
 * Platform**: Students’ Blogs

1. To review the elements of the assigned short story (Characterization, Conflict, Point of View and Themes). 2. To enhance students’ understanding of the assigned short story through learning tasks that matches the students’ learner styles.
 * Objectives of the Online-Lesson:**

Students must determine their learner style/preference prior the online lesson. If you have not done your learning style/preference profile last year, please go to the following link to complete the questionnaire: [] Post your learner profile on your blog and write in no less than 150 words the implications or what you feel about the //Multiple Intelligence// test.
 * Pre-requisite:**

The following is a list of tasks designed to suit different types of intelligence. 1. Select a learning task that best matches your preferred learner style. 2. Post your completed work on your personal blog. If you are unable to post your work(eg: you are creating an advertisement), please inform your LA teacher and arrange with him/her on how best to hand in your work. 3. There is no task specified for Logical Learner and students whose Learner Style is Logical should select one task from other Learner Styles.
 * Instructional Strategy:**

**Linguistic[select one]** a. Write a argumentative essay on the ethics of the scientific experiment on Charlie Gordon. b. Choose a scene from //Flowers for Algernon// and adapt if for a play. Write the script for the scene. c. You have conducted an interview with one of the characters in //Flowers for// //Algernon.// Write an interview transcript, taking note to demonstrate the essence of the character and his/her point of view.

a. Write a rap that explores a i. main theme or from ii. the point of view(other than Charlie’s) in //Flowers for Algernon//
 * Musical/Rhythmic[select one]**

b. Listen to the song, //Where Have all the Flowers Gone?// by Peter, Paul & Mary [Lyrics] [] [Listen to the song] []

Answer the following questions: i. What are the similarities in theme(s) between //Flowers for Algernon// and //Where Have All the Flowers Gone//? ii. What do flowers symbolize in both pieces of work? Are flowers an effective symbol in both pieces of work? iii. Using the melody and format of the lyrics of //Where Have All the Flowers Gone//, write another song based on //Flowers for Algernon//. Your song should begin like this “//Where have//…”

Write a 250- word response to the hypothetical question from Miss Kinnian: “I feel sad when I see Charlie lock himself up in his room and refuse to let anyone in. I want to help him, but he does not want to see me and I don’t know else todo. What can I do to help Charlie?” Your response will be published in an Aunt Agony Column of a newspaper
 * Interpersonal**

Do a research on the various types of natural supplements and products(eg: Brand’s Essence of Chicken) that can be consumed to enhance one’s intelligence. Write a newspaper article to strengthen or refute the efficacy of these supplements and products to enhance intelligence.
 * Naturalist**

a. Create a character web for //Flowers for Algernon// b. Create/Draw a comic strip of a significant scene(when a critical turn of events took place) in //Flowers for Algernon//. c. Create an advertisement persuading people to double their intelligence with the same surgery that Charlie had.
 * Spatial/Visual[select one]**

a. Write a journal entry from the point of view of one of the characters in //Flowers// //for Algernon.// The title of your journal is Journal according to… b. Who would you want to be friends with in the //Flowers for Algernon//. Explain your choice.
 * Intrapersonal[select one]**

Identify a person in a posture that represents how Charlie reacts in each of these instances in the story: i. When Charlie is taking a test to determine if he’s suitable for the operation ii. When Charlies realises that his friends had been making fun of him all this while iii. When Charlie realizes that Algernon had died.
 * Bodily/Kinesthetic**

You can use images, photographs or illustrations on the internet. Please remember to quote the source. Briefly explain what each chosen posture means and why you have chosen it.