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Appendix1. Teacher observation checklist. Student's name ________________________________________. Positive Aspects. Negative Aspects
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Appendix1
Teacher observation checklist
Student's name ________________________________________
Positive Aspects
ü Completed the individual role-card.
ü Used extracts from the text to support his/her ideas.
ü Asked open-ended questions.
ü Listened while others talked.
ü Encouraged peers to share their ideas.
ü Added his/her own comments and ideas to other student's comments and ideas.
Negative Aspects
ü Didn't complete the individual role-card.
ü Didn't appear to be listening or interrupted when others were speaking.
ü Did not use text to support his/her opinions.
Comments __________________________________________________
The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov
Margie wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, " Today, Tommy found a real book! "
It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
" Gee, " said Tommy, " what a waste. When you're through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't throw it away. "
" Same with mine, " said Margie. She was eleven and hadn't seen as many telebooks as Tommy had. She said, " Where did you find it? "
" In my house. " He pointed without looking, because he was busy reading. " In the attic. "
" What's it about? "
" School. "
Margie was scornful. " School? What's there to write about school? I hate school. "
Margie had always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse.
The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the mark in no time.
So she said to Tommy, " Why would anyone write about school? "
Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. " Because it's not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago. "
Margie was hurt. " Well, I don't know what kind of school they had all that time ago. "
«They had a teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man. "
" A man? How could a man be a teacher? A man isn't smart enough. "
" Sure he is. My father knows as much as my teacher. "
" 1 wouldn't want a strange man in my house to teach me. "
Tommy screamed with laughter. «The teachers didn't live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there. "
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" And all the kids learned the same thing? "
" Sure, if they were the same age. "
" But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently. "
" Just the same they didn't do it that way then. If you don't like it, you don't have to read the book. "
" I didn't say I didn't like it, " Margie said quickly. She wanted to read about those funny schools.
Margie went into the schoolroom. It was right next to her bedroom, and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. The screen was lit up, and it said: " Today's arithmetic lesson is on the addition of proper fractions. Please insert yesterday's homework in the proper slot. "
Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather's grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things, so they could help one another on the homework and talk about it.
And the teachers were people...
Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had.
1. Complete the summary with words from the text:
Tommy has (1)...................... a real book that (2)................ (3)...................... school, the (4)............................ (5)........................ of school. Then, instead of being taught by a (6)...................... teacher, children were taught by a (7)............................. , all together in the same (8)......................... First, Margie is (9)....................... but then, she wants to learn more about these (10)........................... schools and thinks children (11)........................ school then.
2. When does the scene take place?
3. Explain who the main characters are.
4. " Tommy found a real book" What information can you deduce from this sentence?
5. True or False? Justify by quoting from the text.
a) The real book used to belong to Margie's grandfather.
b) Margie and Tommy read on a TV screen
c) Margie understands why someone would choose the topic of school.
d) Margie goes to school in a special building.
6. Choose the right answer.
1) Where are Tommie and Margie taught?
A) In a school called “The Mechanical Teaching School”
B) At home in their bedrooms
C) In a special schoolroom inside their house which is located between the kitchen and the dining room
D) In two different schoolrooms inside their houses
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