lesson 2

OUR PLAN

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lesson 2

Our plan

Lesson venue

Classroom

Lesson duration

60 minutes

Student prior knowledge

Students will need to be familiar with how to write or type a letter, or email if they chose not to use the templates provided to promote their art exhibition to their community.

Students will also need to have knowledge about the information and, understand persuasive and visual elements of a promotional poster if they choose not to use the template provided.

WALT - We are learning to...

Confirm a plan to organise and promote a Melbourne Victory art exhibition.

WILF - What I’m looking for...

TIB - This is because...

It will give us a coordinated approach to planning our art exhibition and promoting it to our community.

Lesson preparation

Prior to the lesson teachers should organise the following:

• Activity sheet 1.1 - Our exhibition plan - completed from previous lesson

• Teacher information - Templates to promote your event.

Lesson delivery

The following provides you with a suggested plan on how to deliver this lesson. You are encouraged to take a flexible approach and modify this lesson and its timings to suit the needs and abilities of your students.

1. Presenting points of view (40 minutes)

Project Activity sheet 1.1 - Our exhibition plan on the interactive whiteboard or data projector for class reference.

With teams referring to their completed worksheets address each question with the class. Ask teams to justify their opinion and record decisions when consensus has been reached.

Please note: The scheduling of the exhibition will be largely determined by the number of external parties the students wish to get involved. Involving parents, sponsors, local media and suppliers of food, will take time to organise therefore teachers should factor in a longer lead in time to the event.

2. Using the standard letter, email and promotional templates provided (10 minutes)

Provided with this lesson is a range of standard letter/email/promotional templates (See: Teacher information - Templates to promote your event) to assist teachers and students with their planning. Once the class confirms its plan the appropriate template can be used to inform people about the event and invite them to get involved.

You may decide to assign one or two templates per team so that students can take responsibility for following up invitations.

The following templates have been provided:

1. Invitation to junior class

2. Information letter to the community

3. Promotional poster

4. Letter seeking sponsorship

5. Letter seeking help from parents

6. Invitation to special guests

7. Invitation to footballers or coaches from local clubs, A-League and W-League clubs and state federation

8. Invitation to local and mainstream media

9. Thank you letter

All invitational templates should be followed up within a week of sending them out.

An alternative for teachers

As part of an integrated teaching program you may decide that the letter templates should be created by students as part of their English class.

Persuasive writing, grammar, sentence structure and communication with others (such as, follow up letters and invitations) could be the focus of this activity.

teaching and learning plan

• I can work with my team to present and justify our ideas to the class.

• I can help the class arrive at a consensus for a plan.

• I can use letter or email templates to promote our art exhibition to the community.

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The creation of the promotional poster could also occur as an art project. The brief for students could be to create a range of promotional posters that appeal to specific audiences such as, preps, Year 3 or Year 6.

3. Student reflection (10 minutes)

To conclude the lesson students are given the opportunity to reflect on what they have learnt in the past two lessons. They can do this by writing in their workbooks or orally within their teams.

In their reflections they should consider the following questions:

• What did I learn about exhibition planning?

• What excites me most about our exhibition?

• What role interests me most?

• Did my team work well together? If so what qualities did we show? If not explain why?

• What will our team do differently next time we work together? What will we do the same?

• What positive quality did I bring to my team today?

• What can I improve on for next lesson?

To prepare students for the next lesson tell them that they will be learning how to create a football team logo for their exhibition. They will have to be at their creative best so they will need to work as a team.