This is a presentation for a lesson on the poem Africa's Plea using flipped classroom approach. The lesson blog can be accessed here: http://flippedclassafrica.blogspot.com/

1. Africa’s Plea: A Flipped Lesson
By Christine Gapuz

2. Africa’s Plea: A Flipped Lesson
• Subject : English (African and Asian
Literature)
• Level : Grade 8/2nd
Year High School
• Class Size : 30

3. Africa’s Plea: A Flipped Lesson
• Class Ability : Average to Above average
• Duration : 40 minutes
• Unit: African Literature
• Topic : Africa’s Plea (poem by Roland
Tombekai Dempster)

4. Prerequisite knowledge
Pupils are expected to already know how to:
• • read, interpret and write poems
• • use blog features
• • follow instructions on how to create and
upload online media

5. Specific instructional objectives
At the end of the lesson, students should be
able to
• • define the terms “apartheid” and
“discrimination” in their own words
• • discuss their opinion on apartheid and
discrimination in modern society

6. Specific instructional objectives
• • create an online media on apartheid
• • write a poem about a personal
experience on discrimination or apartheid

7. Instructional materials and
technology
• •Video to be shown via TV
• Class blog and personal blogs
• •Blog post containing the poem and links
to online sources on African apartheid,
video on current discrimination and a
study guide

8. Instructional materials and
technology
• • Online quiz on study guide
• • Projector
• PCs with Internet access

9. Motivation
• During meeting before the lesson, teacher
will show a video of Harvard students who
are stereotyped because of their skin color.
• YouTube Video title: #I Too Am Harvard

10. Motivation

11. Motivation

12. Motivation
• • After viewing, teacher will ask: Has
someone made you feel inferior or
unimportant because of your appearance?

13. Motivation
• • Teacher will then say: Tonight in your
study assignment, you will read a poem
about how a certain group of people
experienced of being judged and
oppressed because of their appearance.

14. Flipped: Prerequisite and
Information and Examples
Students will access the class blog at home.
Class Blog Sample:
http://flippedclassafrica.blogspot.com/

16. Flipped: Prerequisite and
Information and Examples
Teacher will provide a blog post containing:
• the poem Africa’s Plea
• slideshow of the poem
• online article on the history of apartheid in
Africa
• an online quiz

17. Slideshow of poem via Slideshare

18. History.com

19. Flipped Prerequisite and Information
and Examples
After reading, students will answer an
online quiz on the study guide questions
via Google Forms.

21. Practice and Feedback
At the start of class, teacher will flash a
slideshow of the poem and guide
questions.

22. Practice and Feedback
The study guide questions will be discussed
in groups.

23. Practice and Feedback: Group
Study guide questions:
• • What is “apartheid”? What is
“discrimination”?
• • How did “apartheid” affect South
Africans? How did they react to it?

24. Practice and Feedback
Study guide questions:
• What do you think about beliefs that put
one group as superior over another?
• • Do you think discrimination still
happens in our day and age? Have you
experienced discrimination?

25. Practice and Feedback: Individual
• Students will write their own poem about
their experience of discrimination.
• If they don’t have a personal experience,
they can choose a specific form of
discrimination.

26. Practice and Feedback: Individual
After writing, students will create an online
media to accompany their poem. Options
for the media are:
• • Comic strip via chogger.com
• • Presentation via Prezi.com
• • Poster via LucidPress or Canva

27. Chogger.com

28. Prezi.com

29. LucidPress.com

30. Canva.com

31. PosterGen.com

32. Blog Post on Africa’s Plea
• The poems will be posted on the class
blog.
• Students will be asked to comment on
each other’s work after class.
• Commenting guidelines will be provided.

34. Summary
Teacher asks the class questions about the lesson:
• • What is apartheid?
• • How does discrimination affect people?
• • What are your thoughts and feelings about the
lesson?