English Jeremia Alexander

35 minutes Grade 6

Day: Five.
Lesson: Chapter 911. Social Justice Issue: Mass Murdering
Instructional Mode: Discussion
Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
While appreciating the novel Journey to Joburg as a work of literature, not only Interview Assignment
will the student analyze human rights and social justice issues in the novel but Making a Poster
the student will also learn to value other people as the image-bearers of God.
Biblical Framework
This unit is directly connected to the Great Commandment Biblical Framework. The first and the greatest
commandment is that we shall love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our minds (Mat.
22:37). If we confess we love God, we know we also shall obey the second great commandment: to love our
neighbor as ourselves (Mat. 22:39). Loving other people as we love ourselves should not be a problem if we
believe everyone is created equally unique in the image of God (Gen. 1:27). In this unit, the student will be
challenged to love other people as the image-bearers of God.

Lesson Overview
Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)
1. What is chapter 911 about? The student will:
2. How do we evaluate social justice issue 1. Know what chapter 911 is about
using a biblical perspective 2. Evaluate social justice issue in chapter 911
3. Why should I care about other people, using a biblical perspective
African, and my worker? 3. Value other people, Africans, their worker as
human beings
Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies
1. Write the agenda on the board:
1. Brief review
2. Read chapter 9 to 11 together
3. Video
4. Assignment
Beginning the Lesson
5 mins. 1. Read the agenda.
2. [Opening Activity] Have four students one by one tell the class about chapter 5 to 8.
3. Show some pictures about chapter 5 to 8 using a PowerPoint slide.
4. Show another photograph to remind students that a photograph can cause someone to share
something.
20 mins. Developing the Lesson
5. [Procedures] Hand out the novel.
6. Read together: have students read, ask who wants to read, and the teacher reads page 46 and
54.
7. Discuss page 46. Is there any of you who thinks that killing hundreds of Black people is
fine because they are less than human beings? Are they poor and useless, so they are better
die than causing problems?
8. Have students think about Genesis 1:27. Why is killing hundreds of Black people not right?
Who are Black people? Are we different than Black people? Says who?
9. Discuss page 54. Is there any of you who thinks that working too hard is no for Mma since
she is less human than her master? Should Mma be a servant because she is born a servant?
10. Refer to page 28. It is right that the master pays Mma to work, but does it mean that the
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master can shout rudely to her?

10 mins. 11. Speaking of a servant, let us watch a video.
Closing the Lesson
The closing activity is to help students find their motivation to work on the interview
assignment
12. Show a four-minute video. Tell students to let their hearts speak to themselves.
13. [Assignment Introduction] Hand out the interview assignment sheet, rubric, and
questionnaire. Read the interview assignment sheet together.
14. Have students ask questions.
Formative Assessment Differentiation
2. Worksheet 1. For the interview assignment: If the students do not have
3. Students participation in discussion helpers or drivers, they should interview an office boy or
other cleaning service staffs working in grade 6 SPH
2. The teacher will make sure that reluctant students also
participate in the discussion
Resources
1. Journey to Joburg
2. Video: A Helpers Sacrifice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C03Prd8UxeE

INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENT
1. What to do:
Interview your helper, nanny, security guard, or driver. If you have none of them,
you will interview an office boy or a cleaning staff in the school. A questionnaire from
the teacher may help to guide your interview.
2. The assignment:
Write a four-paragraph essay.
3. What to write:
1. In the first paragraph, write the past or childhood life of your worker.
2. In the second paragraph, write what your worker is doing or the tasks of your
worker in the present.
3. In the third paragraph, write what your worker wish he/she could do in the future.
4. In the fourth paragraph, write what you think and how you feel about your
worker. Make some connections with Journey to Joberg.
4. Process:
You must bring your interview results to the class on Day 7. You will be given time in
class to finish your essay.
5. Submission date:
The hard copy of your essay will be submitted on Day 8.

Interview Assignment Rubric Name: ______________________

1. Not Yet
CATEGORY 4. High Competent 3. Competent 2. Developing Evidenced
Paragraph All paragraphs include an Most paragraphs include Paragraphs include The paragraphing
Construction introductory sentence, an introductory sentence, related information but structure was not
explanations or details, explanations or details, were typically not clear and sentences
and a concluding and a concluding constructed well. were not typically
sentence. sentence. related within the
paragraphs.
Details The student uses details The student uses details The student uses some The student uses little
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such as explanations and
examples that are
accurate, appropriate, and
fully support the topic,
reflecting personal
understanding of the
worker.
Relevance The reflection in the fourth
paragraph about the
worker is relevant and
meaningful to the student,
clearly showing that the
student values the worker
Making The fourth paragraph
connections demonstrates numerous,
explicit connections to
Journey to Joburg, in-
class discussions, or the
lines of inquiry.
Mechanics Next to no grammatical,
spelling or punctuation
errors.
such as explanations and details that are accurate; or no detail to support
examples that are some details such as and explain the topic.
accurate and support the examples and
topic, reflecting explanations are not
understanding of the appropriate for the topic;
worker. details do not always
support the topic.
The reflection in the Student attempts to Most of the reflection
fourth paragraph about demonstrate relevance, in the fourth
the worker is somewhat but the relevance is paragraph is
relevant and meaningful unclear to the reader. irrelevant to the
to the student, showing student.
that the student values
the worker
The fourth paragraph There is little attempt to No attempt to
demonstrates some demonstrate connections demonstrate
connections to Journey to Journey to Joburg or connections to
to Joburg or in-class in-class discussions, or Journey to Joburg or
discussions, or the lines the lines of inquiry. in-class discussions,
of inquiry. or the lines of inquiry.
Almost no grammatical, A few grammatical, Many grammatical,
spelling or punctuation spelling, or punctuation spelling, or
errors errors. punctuation errors.

Comments:
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Questionnaire for 6B Interview Assignment

Past
1. What city were you born in? Where did you grow up and what was it like there?
2. Where did your father work? What is your strongest image of your father?
3. Did your mother have a job? What is your favorite memory of her?
4. What were your family finances like growing up and how did that affect you?
5. What was a memorable moment in your life?
6. What is something that you are really proud of and why?
7. What is your last education?
8. What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Present
9. What do you like to do in your free time?
10. What are some favorites? (color, food, hobby, movie, song, sport)
11. Are you happy about your life?
12. What is the most important thing in your life?
13. What do you have to do in your current job?
14. How do you feel about your current job?
15. Do you actually want to be a helper/nanny/security guard/driver?
16. How do you like to be treated?
17. What motivates you to keep working here?
18. What would you like your employer to do to help you?
Future
19. What are the goals you are still working toward?
20. Is there something you wish you could do over again?
21. When people look back at your life, how do you want to be remembered?
22. Would you like to go to college? What do you want to study?
23. What job would you like to have?
24. How would you like your children to be?
25. How could you please your parents?
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26. How do you see yourself in the future?