Lesson5. Guess Who?

✓Chapter

<Guess Who?>

✓Topic

<Novel>

    

✓Lesson information

This is a novel chapter. It introduces one of the Sherlock Holmes story for the main text. Students may enjoy this chapter because it is students' favorite genre (a detective and mystery story). However, as you know about the problem of the main text, it has limitation of introducing novels as many as possible. This chapter is very closely related with an extensive reading which is represented by the word 'fun reading', so I will supply reading materials for fun and more reading.

 

✓What are these reading materials?

I prepared 4 reading materials.

The first one is <Who is Sherlock Holmes?>. I chose this material for stimulating and building schema. The main text is related with Sherlock Holmes story, so it will help students to understand 'Sherlock Holmes and his story'.

The second one is one of the Sherlock Holmes story. I chose <A Scandal in Bohemia>. Students may enjoy reading this story and have fun.

The third text is for the great author <Ernest Hemingway>. The reason why I chose this text is that I want to introduce another kind of novel not just only detective or mysterious. So, before reading another kind of novel, I planned to introduce author and the brief information of new novel. This text takes this role. It can introduce briefly about new novel and its author. For this step, students can build schema of another novel.

The forth text is <The Old Man and the Sea>. It is Ernest Hemingway's most famous novel and it is so called 'masterpiece'. Just reading this novel itself is valuable. I want students to read many masterpieces of novel.

 

✓How can we use these reading materials?

When I designed this lesson first time, I planned to let students write an essay after reading these materials. I wanted to check students impressions or opinions. However, I changed my mind. This chapter is really good for just fun reading. I just let them read these materials with fun. "Read for Fun".