Mode 9 biography graphic organizer

Strategies

Pivotal Moments

At the beginning of the unit, students will see various scenes where characters are at pivotal points including one scene from Gérard Corbiau's movie Le Roi danse. An excerpt from the autobiographical animated movie Persepolis will be shown. Here students will see the young Marji seeing the unfolding events in Iran – the arrest of her uncle by the Shah and then his subsequent execution by the revolutionaries. The danger of life in Iran subsequently causes Marji to be sent to study in Vienna and face isolation and the difficulties of growing up as a Western adolescent. The events we will see in her childhood in Iran and youth in France will become an integral part of her later life as an acclaimed author. Pivotal moments in her childhood included the execution of her uncle, her departure for Vienna and her discovery on her arrival that she has nowhere to live. Marji experiments with how to live as a Western teenager – trying on identities in an attempt to find her place in a new culture. We have a clear sense of Marji trying to make sense of an absurd world.

This introduction is designed to stimulate student interest in life stories and introduce the idea that individuals are, in effect, "writing" their own lives even in their youth – whether they are aware of it at the time or not. The decisions that they take are determining the course of their lives and the stamp they will put on the world.

An appreciation of the power of images is important at this stage, as in this unit students will be charged with transposing the events from the childhoods of important French historical figures from text into a graphic biography format. In doing so, students will be reading the interpretation offered by a biographer of these lives and then becoming biographers themselves as they cast the events of these young lives and interpret how the youth of these historical figures has relevance to the achievements of the

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Cecep Kuswanda
misterpace18@gmail.com Class: English 01
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Preface

Learning media is an information or learning messages to students that can assist teachers in
improving student learning achievement. Learning media always develops along with technological
developments. Types of Learning Media and forms of Learning Media can also be used in the
teaching and learning process of English.

Graphic Organizers are non-text languages that function as tools used in learning. Visualization
used in learning to facilitate students and teachers in the learning and learning process can increase
learning motivation and make it easier for students to understand a certain concept. Teachers can
deliver material effectively and efficiently because the delivery is assisted by visualization tools in
the form of graphic organizers.

Learning English using graphic organizers makes it easy for teachers to explain and understand
complex and abstract in English lesson materials. Students will find it easier to understand complex
material because the explanation of the material is assisted by visualization that makes it easier for
students to remember and understand the material. Graphic organizers are very effective and
efficient learning and learning tools.

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A. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
1. Short Description.......................................................................................................................2
2. Relevan......................................................................................................................................2
3. Learning Guide..........................................................................................................................3
a. Pre-Act

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I was a boy – Lahakat Hanahal; להקת הנח”ל – הייתי נער

An equally powerful song that has stayed with me since my youth, and is likely to linger for the rest of my life is I wasaboy also sang by Lahakat Hanahal. Lyrics: David Atid; Melody: Yair Rosenblum; Translation: DeAnna L’am

Heart-breaking and beautiful, the song captures the lifelong permanent damage suffered by millions of (the best of the best) young men who have been routinely, every generation, recruited to fight wars all over the world in the past 10,000 years. I am among those millions who were indoctrinated to fight to the bitter end, and to sacrifice our lives for the, often, senseless causes of our leaders, parents, as well as variety of economic forces, including the obvious, military industrial complex.

One of my dissertation topics was: “The Medea Complex and the Cycle of war” where I intended to explore the fact that wars, on average, take place globally in 18-22 years cycles, which is, like Medea who killed her children, the older generation sends the younger generation to war where the ‘best die first’ thereby the challenge to the older generation’s authority and power is significantly reduced.

The Rolling Stone powerfully attempted to address the same ‘post (Vietnam) war’ dynamic in their forceful song I want to paint it black.

Generally, ‘we’, young soldiers are barely 18 years old when we go to war to inflict destruction and to readily meet death: of our brothers, of the “other”, and possibly our own. This song potently describes all that we lost in the process: life, energy, power, innocence, trust, the ability to love, and perhaps most importantly the excitement and exuberance of our adolescence.