Lesson: The Heroes' Dinner Party

Details

Subject: Religion and Ethics

Grade: 11

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Focus Question: What would your hero do?

The Lesson

This was the final lesson preparing students to write an article on their chosen hero. The students had been researching their chosen hero, and were aware that they would be role playing as their hero during the lesson.

Prior to the lesson, I had created four chat rooms. using Neat Chat!. Neat Chat is a simple website where you can make temporary Chat-rooms. Each chat-room was to be a virtual 'dinner-table' where the heroes would converse.

I used tab.bz in Chrome to packed these rooms and email them to the students (although you could use any LMS, or site, or blog for this). I had also prepared questions to ask my dinner guests.

The students entered, were allocated a chat-room, and then the conversations started. I've included some extract from the conversations below.

Initially the guests explained why they have been invited to the heroes dinner.

On Australian Indigenous health

On removing national parks protection

On raising children

Follow Up

The following lesson the students were writing about their hero's life. Hopeful, with a deeper insight into who they were.