Protest

Introduction

WHAT is a protest?

A protest is a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.

WHY do people protest?

People protest about things in society they are not happy with. They want change!

HOW can people protest?

petition, letter, protest song, protest march, strike action, nonviolent resistance, protest on social media and so on. There are also more extreme forms of protest: riots, hunger strikes, suicides and bombings.

Task

Creative Assignment: Doodle Video and Pamphlet

I have no name
Until you name me.
I have no form
Until you shape me.
I don't exist
Until you make me,
I am creativity.

Task description:

1. In groups of 6 you will have to create a Doodle Video based on the lyrics of the protest song you chose in class.

First, what is a doodle video? Well, it is a video with drawings that support the lyrics of the song. You and your group members will make drawings for each line and photograph them. Then, these drawings are put together with the music.

Do you want to know more about Doodle Videos?
Have a look at http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/making-a-doodle-video-with

2. Choose a social issue in today's society and create a protest pamphlet to defend your view.

Search the internet for information and to get some inspiration. Some examples: poverty, global warming, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, abortion, broken families, parenting, school related issues.

3. Reflection: you each fill in the self-evaluation form. You also have to make a list of all the words you came across and did not understand. Use each word in a grammatically correct sentence and write the sentence next to the word.
e.g. to protest: A big crowd of demonstrators are protesting outside against the Iraq war.

What do you hand in?

1. video on DVD

2. Protest Pamphlet (min. 250w)

3. Portfolio
- lyrics to the song
- background information on social issue of modern society + references
- reflection: self-evaluation + list of words and example sentences

Process

Group work (groups of six)

PART 1: Doodle Video

1. Find a protest song and listen to it (in groups of 6)
2. Find the lyrics to that song and read it
3. Get organised, get drawing
4. Camera and Production Time
Take a picture of every drawing and upload these from your camera to your computer.
Open up Windows Movie Maker (a free program on every computer), put the photos into WMM, add the mp3 file of the song, add the lines and then 'time' it together. Check your video for mistakes. Finally, 'produce' as a movie.
5. Burn your video to DVD

PART 2: Protest Pamphlet
1. Search the internet to get some inspiration on a modern social problem. Copy and paste the information in Word + mention the sources.
2. Create a lay-out for your protest pamphlet and write a text to put on your pamphlet (+/- 250w).
Your view has to be clear from the text!
Use photos, drawings, attractive fonts to make it more appealing.
3. Check the text of your pamphlet for mistakes and correct them.
4. Make it size A5 and print it!

Individual work

PART 3: Reflection

1. keep a list of words you did not understand
2. make a sentence with each of these words
3. fill in the self-evaluation form
4. answer the following questions:
- What do you think about a song as form of protest?
- What do you think about a pamphlet as form of protest?
- Would you ever go to a protest or participate in a protest march? Why (not)?
- What did you learn from this task? Did your language skills improve? Motivate!
- Give a score to your team members (/2)

Evaluation

Doodle Video (group work)
Creativity	/5
Is everything present? Lines, drawings, music	/3
Relevance	/2
Protest Pamphlet (group work)
Background information + references	/1
Language	/3
Content	/3
Spelling	/1
Lay-out (attractiveness, clear)	/2
Reflection (individual work)
Content (self-evaluation + questions)	/3
Language	/2
Vocabulary list and correct sentences	/3
Peer evaluation (average score)	/2
Total	/30

*Peer evaluation: you can give a score to every group member (/2).

Conclusion

What did you learn?

Well, you learned

- to search the internet for information
- to use ICT effectively
- to work together in group
- to evaluate your own learning process
- to plan and organise
- something more about forms of protest and the effect it can have
- to come up with examples of today's social problems
- to take a stance and motivate your point of view
- to pay attention to lay-out and the correctness of language
- to look up the correct meaning of words in a dictionary or on the internet
- some new vocabulary on your own by making sentences with these new words

Credits

SELF-EVALUATION FORM

DO YOU PAY ENOUGH ATTENTION TO …? ARE YOU GOOD AT…?

Needs improvement

Good

Very good

Language

Content

Spelling

Style

Vocabulary

Team work

ICT skills

Wanting perfection

Dealing with deadlines

Dealing with stress

PEER EVALUATION

SCORE GROUPMEMBERS (/2)

Name 1:                                                                                           0.5 – 1 – 1.5 – 2
Name 2:                                                                                          0.5 – 1 – 1.5 – 2
Name 3:                                                                                          0.5 – 1 – 1.5 – 2
Name 4:                                                                                           0.5 – 1 – 1.5 – 2
Name 5:                                                                                           0.5 – 1 – 1.5 – 2

Remarks: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

REFLECTION

List of words + sentences

Answer the following questions:

1) What do you think about a song as form of protest?

2) What do you think about a pamphlet as form of protest?

3) Would you ever go to a protest or participate in a protest march? Why (not)?

4) What did you learn from this task? Did your language skills improve? Motivate!

Teacher Page

Subject Matter: protest
Target Audience: 5th grade general education
EFL class

Learning method: cooperative learning

Objectives:
- Ps are able to search the internet for information
- Ps are able to use ICT effectively
- Ps are able to work together in group
- Ps are able to evaluate their own learning process
- Ps are able to plan and organise
- Ps learn something more about forms of protest and the effect it can have
- Ps can come up with examples of today's social problems
- Ps are able to take a stance and motivate their point of view
- Ps can pay attention to lay-out and the correctness of language
- Ps are able to look up the meaning of words in a dictionary or on the internet
- Ps are able to learn some new vocabulary on their own and produce it by making sentences with these words

Skills and competences: Reading, Listening, Writing, Culture, Vocabulary, ICT, (Speaking: group work)

Media:
- computer (Word, MovieMaker, ..).
- self-evaluation form

Webquest made by trainee teacher Kim Panis
(Student at the University of Ghent, Belgium)