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Planning and programming
Suggested activities for responding to Rap point 3
Term 2, Week 8: week beginning 16 June, 2008
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Listening sticks illustrations created by Western Sydney Region Aboriginal students. |
Read and enjoy the text, Respect - Encouragement - Action in order to respond to Rap point 3. During this week we will reflect on and respond to the following questions:
- Who has been a special person in your life? What do you admire about them? What do they believe in? How do they behave? How do they keep going when times get hard?
- What has your mentor seen in you? How have they encouraged you to be the best? What changes have happened because someone has believed in you?
- Is there someone you are mentoring or would like to mentor? Why?
- What are the qualities of a good mentor?
Teaching focus
As well a sense of belonging and making good choices, we build a strong identity when a mentor reaches out and encourages us to be the best we can be.
Teach students that to build a strong identity we need five things
- to have pride in who we are and where we come from
- to learn the values that our culture passes down
- to take action to build a good life for ourselves
- someone who encourages us to be the best we can be
- ways to keep going when times get tough
Activity 1: Responding to texts
Students respond to the ideas in Respect - Encouragement - Action. They discuss times when someone has mentored them and they have changed. They discuss the five aspects of identity in the teaching focus. This lesson’s special focus will be mentoring.
Activity 2: Interviewing mentors to find out their beliefs and strategies
Students interview the person who they admire and who is a mentor to them, to discover what their beliefs are, how they keep going in times of trouble. Students record their answers on Rap sheet 10. Students can also write about someone that they mentor, if applicable. Rap sheet 11 can assist with this.
Activity 3: Students write about changes in their own lives
- What has your mentor seen in you? How have they encouraged you to be the best? What changes have happened because someone has believed in you?
Rap sheet 12 can assist with this activity.
Activity 4: Discussing how mentors bring out the best in people
Students share the individual work they did about mentoring in a whole class discussion. They discuss issues such as:
- Who has been a special person in your life? What do you admire about them? What do they believe in? How do they behave? How do they keep going when times get hard?
- How does mentoring change people? What happens when someone believes in us?
Activity 5: Individual student writing – Optional
Students write about Someone I know and really admire OR Someone who inspires me to be the best I can be OR X has changed my life, for a class magazine to be published at the end of the rap. The rap writers Maureen, Daphne and Lizzie will read the magazines and send a response to each class.
Posting response to Rap point 3
As a class, confirm the qualities of a good mentor and the difference a mentor can make to a person’s life.
- prepare the response to Rap point 3 with the class
- student/s (rap representative) word process the response, edit and save
- teacher facilitates the student/s use of the word processor and blogging procedures to post the response to Rap point 3 once the teacher has approved the final text.
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