LESSON PLAN
Activities:
1. PARTICIPATE in
learning warm-up activities by asking the students to think about one person
they have not forgiven.
2. REVIEW Lesson
Objectives
a. Describe the power of
hope.
b. Evaluate the
consequences of hope.
c. Explain why a leader
must have hope.
3. REVIEW Key Words.
Define key word:
aspirations, desperate, and eternal.
4. COMPLETE exercises to
assess understanding of Key Words.
Ask the class leader to
write the key words for the day on the board. The class leader then calls upon
students for the correct definitions. The class leader can also test for understanding
by asking students to use key words in a sentence.
5. PARTICIPATE in a
lecture/discussion of the lesson.
Students watch the film
Hope on this site. The instructor facilitates
a discussion of the film referring to quotations at
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hope.
6. COMPLETE practice
exercises to assess understanding lesson concepts.
he group leader selects one student in each group as the group leader.
Segment the lesson into 4 parts. Students explore
hope by: (1) Considering different definitions, (2) How hope leads to
positive change, (3) Hope the absence of hope can be fatal, and (4) Why a
leader must have hope.
The group leader assigns students in the group to one of the
4 segments. The
group leader also is responsible for a segment.
Students are given time to read their segment and outline key points.
Students leave their jigsaw group for 20 minutes to meet with other students
sharing their same segment assignment. Students discuss the main points of their
segment and prepare to report back to their jigsaw group.
Students return to their jigsaw groups.
Jigsaw group leaders facilitate having students present her or his segment
to the group. The group leader also encourages group members to ask questions.
The class instructor observing each group, assists when group leaders need
assistance.
7. PARTICIPATE in a
summary of the lesson (Lesson Review)
1. What did Napolean
Bonaparte mean when he said "a leader is a dealer in hope?"
2. What can a leader
learn from the English proverb, "hope for the best but prepare for the worst?"
3. What does "hope
springs eternal" mean to you?
4. Why is hope the last
and most dangerous thing a person can lose?
