It was one of the introductory lessons where we touched on characters, conflict and plot. As the names of the characters could get rather confusing, I decided to draw out a mind map of all the characters that they could remember from reading the text. Students would call out the names that they could remember and I would arrange them accordingly on the whiteboard. Thereafter, I prompted them to provide the relationship between each character before highlighting certain motives underlying each relationship (e.g. unrequited love between Abigail Williams and John Proctor leads to the motive of vengeance and jealousy between Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor.) Once everything was on the board, I handed out an A3-sized paper to each student to copy down the mind map. I did not pass them the A3-sized paper before the activity so they could focus fully on the mind map. I told the students that as we study more of the text, they could also add on to the A3-sized paper, and this sheet of paper could act as their quick revision before the examinations.
After that, we did a quick verbal quiz, which tested the basic knowledge of the students (e.g. how old is Abigail Williams) and to assess how much of the text the students had actually prepared. There was also a quote analysis section whereby students would identify the speaker of the quote and provide the context. The verbal quiz went surprisingly well as the students were able to identify and analyse the quotes accurately. While the students were providing the answers to the verbal quiz, I typed in their responses on Microsoft Word, and later printed out their answers for everyone. It saved time, and students were also engaged throughout the lesson.
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