Inclusion

Inclusion

This book is for grades 8-9 for high level English students.

Inclusion- the action or state of including or of being included within a group.

In this unit we will discuss different ways to think of how we can include others that are different in our society. We will think about what it means for them, and we will discuss the positives and the negatives of inclusion in a school setting.

Students will practice  reading, writing, vocabulary, and listening skills throughout the different tasks in this book.

Vocabulary Words:

1.prosthetic

2.feminine

3.masculine

4.inclusive

5.gender

6.diversified

7.promoting

8.appeared

1. I created a word cloud with the article. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wcnnlg7AkdH9vCIVGNr6wzuQZt-_m1YR

For the students:

1. Take a piece of paper and with a partner try to find all the words you understand and know they’re meaning.
2. Next, make a list of the harder words that you are unsure of or have no idea what they mean.
3. Sometimes an article can have difficult words and we might not understand everything, but from all the words we do understand we can know what the article is about. Listen to the story being read by the teacher and write down what you think this article is about.

2. https://quizlet.com/_7fca2t

I created a quizlet for the students to get acquainted with the words. After having read the flashcards and reviewed and understood them, they can play the matching game where they need to match the word to its definition. I will split the class into eight groups and have them come up with the best sentences that they can think of with the words and review them.

Now, after understanding all the words in the article , we will read the article again. The students will need to compare and contrast the differences between Barbies from the 1950’s to the new Barbies .

Barbies and Gender

Available online at https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/barbies-and-gender-level-3/

Barbies and Gender

https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=10277605C2787373

Question:

What do you think the main character meant when she said “Real girls come in all shapes and sizes”?

Reading Comprehension Questions

Reading Comprehension Quiz

http://www.quia.com/quiz/7444706.html

Click on the link above, it should take you straight to a quiz I have prepared for the class. Enter your first and last name and then press Start Now. Answer the questions. There is only one correct answer to each question. There are six questions regarding the article we read in class on Barbie and Gender. You must answer 5 out of six questions correctly to get a hundred.

Pre Listening Task:

What are two reasons that Meghan has not been coming to school?

Link to a listening on cyber bullying: https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult/cyberbullying/

A Writing Assignment

Link to the animation:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AnNaUeM-3qGnu-KDfH67evgeoFAi0F5Z

After watching the above animation please answer these questions in your notebook:

1. How do you think the children playing in the park feel?
2. What do you like to play in the park?
3. Who do you like to play with?
4. How would a child in a wheelchair feel if they came to this park? Why?
5. What do you think should be done to include people with disabilities in the park?
6. Do you have any friends with a disability? If yes, what is their disability?
7. Write three sentences describing the park to a child that is blind. Use details and adjectives so they can create a vivid picture in their mind.

Forum Assignment

Should Students with Disabilities be Included in Regular Classes?

• After reading Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper for a book report, you need to write an argument either for inclusion of students with disabilities or against inclusion. You must use an example for one of your reasons based on something that happened in the book.

Some points you can address in your argument:

1) Would you want to have a student with disabilities as your classmate or sit next to them in class?

2) Should every kind of disability be allowed into a regular classroom?

3) How do you think the inclusion process would affect the class positively ,negatively, socially, academically?

What do you think should be done to make the inclusion process go smoother for the class?

4) Be honest, would you go out of your way to make them feel like they belong,would you ignore them, or worse yet make them feel like an outsider?

5) If you have a friend or family member with a disability feel free to ask him or her what would help them feel at home in a regular class and what they would like us to know about the inclusion process.

• You make work in pairs and present your argument on the forum, try to convince your classmates of your position. You have one week to present your opinion.
• After that we will have an anonymous vote to decide if kids with disabilities should be included into our classrooms.