Pre reading activity 4 : Watching Movie Trailer

Watching Movie Trailer

Aims: To stir student's curiosity towards the graphic novel.

Times: 40 minutes

Materials: Black Beauty trailer

Steps:

1. Students watch the movie trailer of Black beauty.

2. Students share their favourite scene in the trailer. They will also explain why they like the scene.

3. Students that choose the same scene will get into a group.

4. In the group they will ask to draw their favourite scene on a piece of mahjong paper.

5. At the end of the lesson, each group will present their drawing.

Black Beauty movie                                                                                                                      trailer

Pre reading activity 3 : Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Aims: Teaching students the important vocabulary that used in the novel.

Times: 40 minutes 

Materials: worksheet 1

Steps:

1. Students brainstorm a lexical set which is important in the story (eg. about horse) by referring to the graphic novel.

2. Students came up with a list of 10 words each.

3. Students try to guess the meaning of the words before using dictionary.

4. Students share the list with the whole class and teacher will explain the words that they still cannot understand.

Worksheet 1

List down 10 words that you find important in the graphic novel and then find their meaning.

1.________________ means _______________________________________________________________

2._________________ means _______________________________________________________________

3. ________________ means ________________________________________________________________

4. ________________ means ________________________________________________________________

5. ________________ means ________________________________________________________________

6. ________________ means ________________________________________________________________

7. ________________ means ________________________________________________________________

8. _________________ means ________________________________________________________________

9. __________________ means ________________________________________________________________

10. _________________ means _________________________________________________________________

Pre reading activity 2 : Predicting Story

Predicting Story

Aims: Creating students interest in the story

Times: 40 minutes

Materials: The cover of the graphic novel

Steps:

1. Teacher shows students the cover of the graphic novel.

2. Students study the cover of the graphic novel, Black Beauty. Using the visual clues, students predict what might happen in Black Beauty.

3. Students have to explain the question, 'How does the cover help us imagine what the author "sees"?'

4. Teacher discusses with the whole class whether the title is suitable for the graphic novel.

5. Teacher pointed out a few themes occurs in the novel and explain it briefly to the students.

Cover of Black Beauty

Themes that can be discuss: 

Mistreatment of Animal 

Evidence of abuse that causes pain and suffering for horses is found in nearly every chapter: tail bobbing, blinkers, double bits, check or bearing reins, risky jumps for sport, and long-term confinement in stalls. 

Upright Behavior

Discuss the proper behavior of humans in general. The lessons given by Duchess to Beauty, by the coachman John Manly and the cab driver Jerry Barker, among others, were purposely placed in the novel for the edification of the reader

Pre reading activity 1 : Map and Places

Map and Places

Aims: Helping the students with cultural back ground and setting

Time: 40 minutes 
 

Materials:

• England Map
• Picture of significant(places) in Black beauty

 

Steps: 
1. Teacher shows the map of England to the students and asks them to guess where the story took place.
2. Students give their respond and then teacher will explain about the cultural background.
3. Students divided into 4 groups and each group will be given a picture representing the setting in the graphic novel.
4. Students will be asked to write description about the picture. They will be given 15 minutes to discuss before presenting to the whole class.

Map and Places

1.England map

2. Picture of significant setting

• Picture of a meadow

• Picture of Birtwick Park

	Picture of Earlshall Park Picture of London
	Teacher guidelines for description on the cultural background: WHAT WAS ENGLAND LIKE IN THE 1800S?
	WOMEN: if you want to know about what rich women did you can read up on the Bronte sisters or George Elliot books. Basically women were supposed to be beautiful and graceful, paint, sing, and play an instrument. Her duties were limited to household affairs and her main occupation was to keep the house and family life homely and harmonic - she was supposed to be the "angel in the house" (this image is often stirred in Bronte’s books; they challenged the social conventions by creating independent, free-spirited protagonists). So basically her life was comfortable but also could be very boring and she had no rights whatsoever. Once she was married all her property belonged to her husband. Only very few rich women could get divorced, but even that was extremely unconventional. It was probably nice to be rich if you had a nice husband but if he turned out to be horrible then you were stuck with him for life.

Glossary

Glossary

circumstance                          -the conditions that affect a situation,
                                                 action and event

colts                                        -young male horses

damaged                                -broken male horses

Duchess                                 -the name of Black Beauty’s mother,
                                                 who was named for a duchess,
                                                 the wife of a duke.

filly                                           -a young female horse

ignore                                     - to not notice something or pretend
                                                 that something didn’t happen

lord                                          -a person who had a royal birth or
                                                 had a power over others

pounds                                    -units of money used in England

scolded                                   -told someone that they did something
                                                 wrong, often in a mean way

squire                                      -a country gentleman

stall                                         - a section in a stable or barn where  
                                                  an animal is kept

traumatic                               - an experience that is so shocking
                                                 and upsetting that it affects you for a long time

witnessed                              -to be present when something
                                                 happens, and watch it happening