A. Intermediate High/Advanced Low
B. Objectives: Students can:
- describe in some detail and analyze the main events in Gandi’s life
- narrate past and relevant present events of India’s history
- state main principles and argue what if…
Language Objectives: Students can:
- use the ergative to narrate a series of past events with focus on compounds and complex verbs with a noun part: Xने की हत्या की, का सहारा किया की मदद कर दी
- use conditional (contrary-to-fact): अगर उनकी ह्त्या नहीं हुई होती, तो क्या होता?
C. Performance Task:
Interpretive: Stu
dents listen to several videos and/or read several excerpts to note down points in preparation for their assigned position in the debate.
Presentational: Students answer to Godse’s last speech from Gandhi’s point of view. They identify 10 points which they argue against or for and elaborate on.
Interpersonal: Debate “Godse’s principles vs. Gandhi’s principles: What seems to be relevant today?”
Rubrics for student work evaluation
D. Learning Scenarios:
1. 10 min. Teacher asks students to brainstorm what they know about him — in pairs. gives them 5 minutes to prepare and have them report. Support with vocabulary on the board.
2. 35 min. Teacher plays the video in chunks of about 2 min., each one is played a second time if needed: महात्मा गांधी की जीवन कथा. Teacher has students in pairs answer orally comprehension questions for each part (handout). Teachers helps with a vocabulary list.
3. 20 min. Students receive excerpts from Gandhi’s biography. Teacher has students create a concept map of Gandhi’s life. In pairs they note main events/details to summarize the segment in the past tense.
4. Students sit in groups of 3 or 4 and tell each other their segment of the story with focus on using compounds and complex verbs in the past tense. They develop a concept map of his life. They choose pics and make a ppt (printer available in the office) for middle school kids.
5. In pairs students listen to his ideas from an assigned link and take notes (5 points they didn’t know about his principles and 5 points they knew). Then they switch partners share and compare their points in a Venn Diagram:
- महात्मा गांधी: हिंदुस्तान ऐसा बने कि सारी दुनिया कहे कि आज़ाद बनना है तो हिंदुस्तान जैसे आज़ाद बनो
- अमर वाणी : महात्मा गांधी
- सत्य और अहिंसा के प्रतीक महात्मा गांधी
6. In pairs students listen to Godse’s last speech and read
http://www.deepawali.co.in/nathu-ram-godse-i-am-patriotic-not-murderer.html. They choose and argue for 5 points and against 5 points.
7. In groups students prepare to participate in a whole class debate “Godse’s vs. Gandhi’s principles”. They share the points they chose to argue for or against. Teacher assigns each group a position to argue for or against.
More materials: गांधी