Speak

> This is a story of a high school girl who got raped at a summer party but didn't speak up. She was being bullied and isolated by her friends after the party because she called to police after she got raped, and the party was ruined. She was under peer pressure and in the book, she shows a lot of depression and hide her emotions. At the end, she finally find her way to express herself through art and the guidance of her art teacher. She was relieved and able to face the reality again.
 * __ SPEAK - Cynthia Wong __**
 * ** Brief Summary of the Text: ** 

> This is an English reading class targeting at ESL Level 5 students. The aim of this lesson is to train student’s reading and oral skills through doing worksheet and group discussions and projects. This book also brings up the sexual abuse issue to students. The story is situated in a high school summer party, which is very close and related to the students themselves. Students should be tau ght about how they should deal with this kind of problems in order to prevent tragedies from happening.  1. Students should have started reading the book before this lesson starts 2. they should have some basic knowledge on literary terms :  plot, climax etc. to facilitate their discussion in class. 3. They should have the ability to understand most of the vocabulary items in the book to understand the context. 4. They should have basic skimming/scanning skills 5. They should have debating and compromising skills for discussion and team work in class.
 * **Grade and Level of this English Course:**
 * Prior Knowledge ****: **

  There might be potential s exual abuse victims in class <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">There might be students who have been sexually abused in class <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> that we didn’t know about before class <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">Teachers should be prepared that reading a sexual abuse scene might lead to emotional problems of some students in class. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> There <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">fore, to solve this problem, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> students should be notified about this issue before class. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">Also, students are encouraged to speak up if they have been sexually abused before and seek for professional help, e.g. help from social worker at school.
 * Risks of Teaching This Book:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;"> Students form groups of 4/5 to do a project on this book: An advertisement on prevention/solution of sexual abuse. (can be a poster/commercial etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">Presentations of the advertisement will be made by each group after they have finished <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">Studen'ts themselves will summarize the things they have learnt in the book and through the activities in class and teacher gives comments to each group. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: ZH-HK; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-HK;">Students will have time for self reflection and sharing ideas of their projects
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Outline of a Culminating Task: **