1. Impact English
8th Grade
Unit 3 : Magic and Illusion

2. LESSON 1:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
AIMS:
Learn the difference between literal
and inferred meaning
Learn what symbols mean in a
narrative
Create your own symbol

3. ADAPTING

4. The Lord of the Rings

6. Narrator Structure Characters Narrative
“Frodo took it from  Introduction
his breeches-  Complication
pocket, where it
Tells the story in
 Crisis an entertaining
was clasped to a
chain that hung  Resolution way.
from his belt” (ending)

10. LESSON 2
THE NOSE
AIMS:
 Read the poem “DO NOT LET”
 Learn about the style and form of the poem
 Identify different kinds of images in the poem
 Write your own poem

13.  I replaced the poem THE NOSE for DO NOT LET.
The student must read the text DO NOT LET.
DO NOT LET
 Poetry of Walt Whitman
Do not let the day end without having grown a bit, without being happy,
without having risen your dreams.
Do not let overcome by disappointment.
Do not let anyone you remove the right to express yourself,
which is almost a duty.
Do not forsake the yearning to make your life something special.
Be sure to believe that words and poetry it can change the world.
Whatever happens, our essence is intact.
We are beings full of passion. Vivid desert and oasis.
We breakdowns, hurts us, teaches us, makes us protagonists of our own
history.

14. Although the wind blow against the powerful work continues:
You can make a stanza. Never stop dreaming, because in a dream, man is
free.
Do not fall into the worst mistakes: the silence.
Most live in a dreadful silence. Do not resign escape.
"Issued by my screeches roofs of this world," says the poet.
Rate the beauty of the simple things.
You can make beautiful poetry on little things, but we can not row against
ourselves. That transforms life into hell.
Enjoy the panic that leads you have life ahead. Live intensely, without
mediocrity.
Think that you are the future and facing the task with pride and without fear.
Learn from those who can teach you. The experiences of those who preceded us
in our "dead poets", help you walk through life.
Today's society is us "poets alive." Do not let life pass you live without that.

17.  Information about poetry
 This content is shown in the board .
POETRY
• A poems express feelings or emotions you might
have, but are too embarrassed to say it so you write
your feelings in a poetry way.
• A poem can be rhyming or it can be said at a faster
pace, these are mostly children poems, but the
complicated poems are more aimed to an older age
group such as teenagers.

18. A poem contain :
• Imagery is the use of language to represent actions,
feelings that are trying to be portrayed from the
author to the reader.
• Rhythm is a type of way to tell a poem. You usually
have a beat or background music in a rhythm poem.
• Form, can be understood as the physical structure of
the poem.

20.  Questions of the poem “DO NOT LET”
Questions
1. What is the purpose of this poem?
2. What does say the author about the dream?
3. Do you think that the author was very imaginative
with this poem?
4. What does the author mean with the word SILENCE?
Is it literal?
5. What kind of simple things do you enjoy?
6. Would you be able to live without money or
technology?

22. Focus on: building images.
Although the poem is told like a
simple folk tale, it contains
unusual images. Most appeal to
the sense of sight. For example,
the poem opens with:
 Replacing the first verse of the
poem THE NOSE for the poem DO
NOT LET.
 Creating the form about the verse.

23.  Students must create forms with some verses of
the poem.
For example:
• 7. Create different forms
with some verses of the
poem "DO NOT LET“.

24. What do you know about
poetry?
Put the correct number in the box B from box A
What do you know about poetry?

25. 11. Draw an image with your own poem.
Imagine you are in an awesome dream
where you are a hero.

26. LESSON 3:
Trick of the mind
AIMS:
Read a series of explanations
Learn how to separate description from
explanation
Learn the difference between the active
and the passive

27. ADDING

28. We think this lesson doesn’t have a
good engagement. So, we decided to
include some pictures, a video and
some guide questions, before the text
of Darren Brown plays tricks.

29. Activity 1
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MAGIC TRICK?
CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU SAW?

30. Watch the following video and then
explain what you saw

31. Activity 2:
Considering that this text is for native
speakers, they are not going to have problems
with the vocabulary given.
Create one sentence for each word, using the
vocabulary given in page 66, about the text.

32. In this stage we add some exercises,
because there were not enough to
practice the active and the passive,
which is one of the aims. (p, 70,
exercise 7)

33. Activity 3:
Exercises
passive and active
Change the following sentences into
passive
-Once a week the magician cleans all his
utensils.
-The cute girl helps the magician with
the performance.
-The magician rabbit eats carrots.

34. Change the following sentences into
active.
-An original trick was shown to the
audience by the magician.
-A cute rabbit was taken out from the
magician s hat.
-The show will be finish after the
woman is cut into 3 parts.