English Jeremia Alexander

35 minutes Grade 6

Day: Two
Lesson: Chapter 14. Moral Issues: Taking/Stealing?
Instructional Mode: Discussion
Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
While appreciating the novel Journey to Joburg as a work of literature, not only Interview Assignment
will the student analyze human rights and social justice issues in the novel but the Making a Poster
student will also learn to value other people as the image-bearers of God.
Biblical Framework
This unit is directly connected to the Great Commandment Biblical Framework. The first and the greatest
commandment is that we shall love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our minds (Mat.
22:37). If we confess we love God, we know we also shall obey the second great commandment: to love our
neighbor as ourselves (Mat. 22:39). Loving other people as we love ourselves should not be a problem if we
believe everyone is created equally unique in the image of God (Gen. 1:27). In this unit, the student will be
challenged to love other people as the image-bearers of God.

Lesson Overview
Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)
1. What is chapter 1 to 4 about? The student will:
2. How do we describe moral issues in chapter 1. Know what chapter 1 to 4 is about
14? 2. Describe moral issues in chapter 14

Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies

1. Write the agenda on the board:
1. Two hypothetical questions
2. Read chapter 1 to 4
3. Discuss chapter 1 to 4
4. Preview
Beginning the Lesson
10 mins. This opening activity is to teach students to think about hypothetical questions
seriously, not to make silly remarks
1. Tell students the teacher will read for them a hypothetical question. Tell students they
will be given a few moments to think.
2. Show a hypothetical question using a PowerPoint slide: At lunchtime today (11:10), a
stranger will come to you and give you 75,000 USD (around 1 billion IDR). What
would you do with that money?
3. Have students think. Have students share their answer.
4. Show a hypothetical question using a PowerPoint slide: Suppose World War III breaks
out. The Dutch comes and colonizes Indonesia again. They do not allow you to use any
communication devices. Everyone in Tangerang lives in poverty. Your baby
sister/brother was just born a week ago, but your mother and father have to go back to
work in East Java (very far from here). You live with your siblings and your
grandmother in Tangerang. What would you do if your little brother or sister you love
so much has a fever for one week?
5. Have students think. Have students share their answer.
10 mins Developing the Lesson
6. [Procedures] State the objectives of todays lesson.
7. Have students read chapter 1 to 4. Tell them they have 10 minutes to read.
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5 mins. 8. Have students be prepared to summarize one of the four chapters

9. While students are reading, the teacher will supervise them.
5 mins. 10.Have four students summarize four chapters
11.Make groups. Have students count off from one to six.
12.[Discussion] Assign one of the two questions below to three groups. The teacher will
print the two questions on small pieces of paper, one question on one small piece of
paper. Have students prepare to share their discussion with the class.
1. Some questions about chapter 1.
1. Is it wise that Naledi and Tiro are going to Johannesburg on their own? Why or
why not? Give some reasons!
2. Suppose Naledi and Tiro decided to stay in the village. What are some
suggestions you might give to them to help their baby sister Dineo?
2. Some questions about chapter 3.
10 mins. Is it acceptable for Naledi and Tiro to take some oranges? Are they stealing? What
does stealing mean? Who owns the orange field? Make a judgment about Naledi
and Tiro taking some oranges!
10 mins. 13. Have students wrap up their discussion. Have students share his/her answer. Show the
questions using PowerPoint slides so that everyone can read the question.
Closing the Lesson
14. [Closing Activity] Show some pictures of some places using PowerPoint slides.
15. Have students guess the place. Have students raise their hand if they have been to that
place. Ask how they feel about arriving in another city.
16. Ask the final question to prepare them to read chapter 5 to 8: Have you been to any of
those places on your own, without your parents?
17. Tomorrow we will see Naledi and Tiro, only two of them, arriving in Johannesburg!
Will they have a pleasant journey in Johannesburg?
Formative Assessment Differentiation
2. Reading in class 1. Have students who read fast and finish reading
3. Worksheet early be prepared to summarize a chapter. Also,
4. Students participation in discussion have them take notes of their summary so that
they will not be idle and distract other students
who have not finished reading.
2. Students make groups by counting off 1 to 4 so
that the grouping will be fair
Resources
Journey to Joburg by Beverly Naidoo

Some questions about chapter 1.

1. Is it wise that Naledi and Tiro are going to Johannesburg
on their own? Why or why not? Give some reasons!
2. Suppose Naledi and Tiro decided to stay in the village.
What are some suggestions you might give to them to help
their baby sister Dineo?

Some questions about chapter 3.

Is it acceptable for Naledi and Tiro to take some oranges?
Are they stealing? What does stealing mean? Who owns
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the orange field? Make a judgment about Naledi and Tiro

taking some oranges!

Some questions about chapter 1.

1. Is it wise that Naledi and Tiro are going to Johannesburg
on their own? Why or why not? Give some reasons!
2. Suppose Naledi and Tiro decided to stay in the village.
What are some suggestions you might give to them to help
their baby sister Dineo?

Some questions about chapter 3.

Is it acceptable for Naledi and Tiro to take some oranges?
Are they stealing? What does stealing mean? Who owns
the orange field? Make a judgment about Naledi and Tiro
taking some oranges!

Some questions about chapter 1.

1. Is it wise that Naledi and Tiro are going to Johannesburg
on their own? Why or why not? Give some reasons!
2. Suppose Naledi and Tiro decided to stay in the village.
What are some suggestions you might give to them to help
their baby sister Dineo?

Some questions about chapter 3.

Is it acceptable for Naledi and Tiro to take some oranges?
Are they stealing? What does stealing mean? Who owns
the orange field? Make a judgment about Naledi and Tiro
taking some oranges!