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Introducing the lesson:
Present relevant background information, the purpose of
4H
the lesson, and the learning objectives.
Teacher/Learner Activity 1 – Organizing your Sports for Peace Sporting Event:
• Hand out Resource Y and ask various students to read a paragraph
each from the fictitious letter about the Christmas Truce. Ask students
to think about the following questions while listening to the words.
• Think about the first soldier to step up and out of the trenches into
no-man’s-land.
• What might he have been feeling?
• What could have happened to him?
• Why do you suppose people still talk about this event almost 100
years later?
• Introduce the idea of a Sports for Peace school soccer game, or other sporting
event, for Peace Day. What might be some benefits from it?
• Refer to Resource S and Resource T, review, and explain to the class.
• (The whole class could work together on this, or the class could be broken
into Action Committees of 4 or 5.)
• Students should discuss and agree on the objective of the Action Committee
(to organize a Sport for Peace activity for September 21).
• Students should select a chairperson and a minute-taker.
• Read over with the students Resource Z, Sports for Peace Brief, and make
sure each student has a role and participates.
• Students should write down any tasks they agree to complete.
• Students should agree on a date, time, and location for the next meeting.
• At the next meeting, students should be prepared to develop and agree on
a timeline for the project.
Teacher/Learner Activity 2—Opening Ceremony Speech:
• To help solidify learning and to keep the project in focus, ask students to
write a short piece (one to two paragraphs) outlining the reasons for the
class’s decision to organize a sporting event to celebrate Peace Day.
• As they write, ask students to consider the history of sports (and sports
people) as a unifying influence – sports as a catalyst for intercultural
cooperation (the 1914 Christmas Truce, the Olympic Truce, communication
and teamwork). The paragraphs will form the basis of the actual speech
to be made at the Sports for Peace event, and could also be the basis of
other written materials such as articles, posters, press releases, or letters to
parents and community.
• Ask volunteers to read out their draft Opening Ceremony Speech. Are any
lines especially inspirational?
• Keep all the paragraphs together for later use in preparing the written
materials. They can then be given to the students who are responsible for
putting the final written materials together.
Reflection/Ideas to Discuss:
• Review and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the
Action Committee.
• Did the students stick to their objectives?
• Ask various students to share their feeling about their participation in the
Action Committee.
Review the purpose of the lesson and learning objectives to determine mastery.
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