Class 1-4 Seoul Visual Media High School :Who is my role model (a hero in my life)?

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My Role Model - Mr. Gang won il
my middle school teacher

Da-min Shin

Have you ever met your best teacher? I have met my best teacher in my middle school third grade and his my hero, too. I respect him because he always took care of his class students. When I was middle school students, I always calm and resolved myself so many teachers did not attention to me. but he is different. He attention all of his class students. Even if me. When my friend had a bad happening, he helped her as if it was his matter. My friend and I was impressed him solved that happening. at that time, He was so kind. He always think about "How can I get closer to my students." so, he told his stories funny, helps to life to us. And he always help to get good memories in middle school third grade. so we took camping in school, eat bacon, watch movie and go hiking. Because of him, we have a good memories to him and school.

He looks to other people. He never says negative words to other people. and When he reproached someone in rude words, he would apologize first before the other do. He always say "I'm sorry." even if his students. That is impressed to me. No one teacher doesn't say sorry to students before I met him. That is change my mind to teacher. and he didn't like someone worries him. When he was so sick, he didn't say crybaby words.

Now he passed away in september 28th, 2010. My class students will don't forget memories with him, and we congratulate his the last student.

 

 

My role model - my mother
                      Yongseon Baek

    Have you ever thought about your role model? I think my role model is 'my mother'. First, every day, she is very busy. in the past, I couldn't see rest her. she is very hard, bus every day she sat" this is undemanding work" I listening that,
somehow, I'm very stupid. because I often delay a homework and to do study. So I
wish to delay things, I think my mother. and reflect on oneself about me. and whenever I see her, she is smile to me, always. Although it seems tired, she is smile, every day. that a very amazing. I don't see a rest her, very well. I saw she always working. that a very grow uneasy. I want to rest by she. whenever, I saw her to respcted.
   Second, i'm very sick a long time, my mother took care of to me, also, she had a cold. but she doesn't look like to sick. Although she had a cold, she does to work. every day and took care of me. whenever she concerned to me, I also worried to her. because she does to work without a stop. when I sick, she doesn't seem to be thinking of she's condition. when I think, mother's love is the greatest thing in the world. I want to be like her.
Now I'm respect my mother.
  I love you mom!

 

My Role Model - King SeJong the Great

Tae-woo In

Topic setence 1 : I want to learn spirit of King Se-jong.

a. His Family is two sons and one daugther
   - To talk about his family, He is very famous a great man in South Korea. Every Korean knows and respect him. Sejong the Great, who ruled between 1418 and 1450, is the 4th king of the Chosun dynasty. He is the son of King Taejong and Queen Won-Kyung, and the husband of the daughter of Shim-on, Seo-hun. King Sejongs given name is Doe, and his adult name is Won-Jung.

b. His Achievements
  -Sejong loved his people and dedicated his entire rule to working as one with them. Amongst many other accomplishments, Sejong gathered all the agricultural and medical knowledge scattered throughout the country and created a complete, unified system molded specifically for the Chosun Kingdom. However, his best known and arguably most important feat is the creation of Hangul, considered one of the most advanced written languages in today’s world. Historically speaking, the creation of Hangul is Korea's foremost cultural heritage and one of the great intellectual achievements by the human race.

c. Other Achievements
  - He recruited talented geniuses to develop the nation. For example Rain Gauge, Sundial, and Jagyeokru etc. Also He sent Jong-Mu Lee to explore and invade Tsushima Island. Then He expanded the empire to the north and installed 4 armies and 6 camps
d. Thinking of me
  - I think Sejong is the one of the best great people. Because he loved all his people and made Hangul. Hangul is very comfortable language in the world. but sad point is made the Korean language in secret so there aren't many records on the exact date.

Conclusion.
   - Every Korean respects him and pride. Let's learn Hangul's excellence and love the Hangul.

My Role Model - My Mother by Jeonghye Yoon

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                                  My Role Model- My Mother

     Do you have a role model? Who is your specific person who inspired you a lot in your life? If someone ask me who my hero is, I would say "My mother" without hesitant. I admire her because she has strong personalities. She never waists her time. She was always busy in taking several roles at the same time: mother, wife, teacher, herself. I think it is a person's basic desire to be relaxed and often to be lazy. However, in my entire life, I never saw her doing nothing and just relaxing.
She also has a strong will power to put her goals into practice. She went to a graduate course when I was 10. I often observed her reading books and writing reports and thesis. She got her driver's license on her first trial in her early 50's, while I got mine on my 5th trial in my early 20's.
     I respect her because took two models in a perfect way : a devoted mother and a professional teachers. She was a breadwinner when all family members suffer from father's failure in business. She always tired to teach her 3 children good manners, motto, behaviors, and positive attitude toward our lives. She took good care of 3 children so they received good education and had established careers in their life.
     My mother passed away last year. her lessons and attitude will be always remain in my whole life. I am the sum of her devotion and efforts. There in no one who can be the replacement of my mother as my role model. She is the most powerful person in my whole life. Mother, are you doing fine up there? I miss you a lot!!

written by: Jeonghye Yoon  

To read more click the following link:

http://foro.iearn.org/webx?14@@.1ebbe1c9/0

My Partner- Introducing herself and her class

I am Mrs. Jeonghye Yoon, an Korean English teacher at Seoul Visual Media High School, Seoul, South Korea. Me and my class 1-4, 15 students are writing a short English essays about their role model and best friend. I think we can define a hero in may ways. A hero can be supernatural existence like god and goddess. We also can think of a movie character, superman, easily. But, here, we want to narrow down the meaning into someone who inspired you, and someone whom you want to learn everything about him/her.

<Procedure>
1. Basic writing: writing a first draft based on outline and brainstrom
  * Goal: Let's make your writing better-organized.
2. Post your writing to a discussion in My Hero Project.
3. Partner teacher : Zainab_Al-yahmedi (Al Billah school, Barka. Oman)

My hero: Mary Kingsley

My hero: Mary Kingsley

A hero is a person who cares about people and who has a kind heart for poor people. He/She is a person who wants to make the world a better place to live in. There are many qualities that can be used to refer back to a hero which are: a visionary, confident and intelligent. There are many actions that a person can do in order to consider him/her as a hero. A hero is a person who helps poor people and teaches uneducated people. He is also a person who fights for the rights of his/her people. These are just few examples of some of the actions done by a hero. In this essay I am going to write about my hero. Her name is "Mary Kingsley".

Mary Kingsley was born in London on 2^nd of October 1862. She didn't go to school but she read all the books in her father's library. She was a clever girl. When she grew up, she decided to become an explorer.  She went to many countries, to have more information about the things that she studied. She also wrote many books to spread her knowledge about the things that she saw while she was traveling by writing them down in books.

  

I choose this person as my hero because she was a woman who achieved her dreams to go and explore the world although she was young.

Note: The information I mentioned here about Mary are taken from grade 12 for post basic education which was published by the Ministry of Education in Oman first semester. 

To read more about her please click the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kingsley

Name: Ahlam Khaleefa Al Dorwishi

Grade 12/2

Al Billah School (11-12)

Submitted to: Tr. Zainab Al Yahmedi

My hero: Dr. Tariq Asswidan

My hero: Dr. Tariq Asswidan

The word "hero" has a lot of definition and it may differ from one person and other according to his/her point of view. For me a hero is someone who has an impact on someone else's life. A hero can be a visionary, unselfish, confident, brave, popular and educated person. Some may disagree with me regarding some characteristics but this is my point of view. It is not something fixed. However, but what makes a person a hero? It is difficult questions to ask but is you ask me, I will say that a hero is a person who helps poor people and saves the lives of unfortunate people. Moreover, a hero is a person who gives advice for people who need help. In this essay I am going to write about my hero. His name is Tariq Asswidan.

My hero name is An Arabic figure. His name is Tariq Mohammed Asswidan. He was born in Kuwait in 1953. He has a PHD in Oil Engineering from Telsar University, Oklahoma (USA).

Dr. Tariq sifted his interests from focusing in his career into focusing in the progress of his nation and its youth. Some may wonder what kind of a person who leaves his career in order to advice some people about certain issues related to their religion and life which they can gain this knowledge at school or through dealing people. All I can say that this person is a great visionary person. He held a lot of conferences and seminars regarding this issue. He is the author of the following books: "Success Making", "How do you change yourself' and "The Art of Impressive Recitation".

I choose this person as my hero because he has the ability to a waken minds, wills and shipment of the mind. He also has the ability to influence people and helps them to follow the right tracks in their life by holding seminars. All of his work is presented in a renewed revolt against the inertia of creativity and revolution on the simulation. I really would like to follow his track. I also wish to have the ability to influence people and take apart in changing their life as he did and still doing. 

At last, it is very important to have a hero in our life. Our heroes will always guide as to right way and make us do the right things.

To read more about him click the following link but the information are in Arabic:

http://www.suwaidan.com/

Name: Butheena Khalfan Al Badri

Grade 12/2

Al Billah School (11-12)

Submitted to: Tr. Zainab Al Yahmedi

My hero: Helen Keller

My hero: Helen Keller

A hero is a person who you want to be like her/him in the future. He/She is a person who you consider as a model to follow. The word hero is given to a person who does whatever he can in order to help people and tries to solve their problem, so there are many qualities can be used to describe a hero. A hero can be honest, brave, visionary and helpful person. In this essay I am going to write about my heroine "Helen Keller".

Who is Helen Keller? Helen Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small town in the USA. She was a normal, healthy baby but she got ill when she was nineteen months as a result she lost her sight and hearing. She became blind and deaf. Her parents took her to doctors to help her but they couldn't. So Alexander Graham Bill suggested to them to ask for a teacher from Perkins School for the blind. They found a teacher for their daughter, her name was Annie Sullivan. In 1887, Annie arrived to Tuscumbia and immediately she started to use finger spelling in Helen's hand to name objects. Helen quickly learned the finer spelling pattern but she thought it was kind of a game and did not understand that it was the names of the objects. One day she discovered that it was not a game but the names of the objects that she touched since then she never stopped learning till she learned how to read and write with Braille. By the age of 8 years she went with Annie to the Perkins School for the blind. At the end of the school, Helen decided to go to collage where normal study. She graduated in 1904.

While Helen was in collage she wrote a book called "The Story of my Life" .later on, she wrote another two books about her life. Helen became very famous and spent much of her life traveling all around the world giving lectures and telling people how they could help the blind and deaf. When she got older she spent her time in the USA helping to raise money for deaf and blind people.

If you asked me why I choose this person as my heroine all I can say that she deserve to be a heroine. She faced a lot of challenges since her childhood and   also in the collage but that did not stop her from achieving her dreams. She also supported blind and deaf people by giving lectures about helping them while she was traveling. Moreover, she lived to raise money form them when she was old. I really admire her that is why I decided to be a teacher for blind and deaf children in the future. I hope that I will achieve this dream.

At last, it is very important to have heroes or heroines in our life because they are a model for us to follow. We can also learn from them good things about life. So, if you have a hero or a heroine and you love them so much try to be like them and follow their steps.

To read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

All the information I mentioned in my essay are taken from grade 6 for Basic Education which is published by the Ministry of Education in Oman. 

Name: Latifa Al Rashidi

Grade 12/2

Al Billah School (11-12)

Submitted to: Tr. Zainab Al Yahmedi

My hero: John Cena

My hero: John Cena

 A hero is a person who you want to be like him/her in the future. He/She is also a person who you always imitate and whom you love very much. In brief, a hero is a person whom you consider as a model to follow. There are many qualities that can be said about a hero such as the hero should be positive character, honest, helpful, thoughtful and brave. The hero does many things such as he/she tries hard to help others. He/She also thinks of people around him/her and tries to make them happy. However, in this essay I am going to write about my hero, his name is John Cena.

Who is John Cena? John Cena is a very famous wrestler. His full name is John Felix Anthony Cena. He is the second eldest of five brothers: Dan, Matt, Steve and Sean. Cena was born on 23^rd of April in 1977, in west Newbury, Massachusetts. He is the son of Carol and John Cena. John graduated from Springfield in 1998 with a degree in exercise physiology, after which he pursued a career in body building.

John worked as chauffeur for a limousine company before he started his career in wrestling. He participated in some championships and he defeated a lot of heavy weight wrestlers. He won his first Heavy Weight Championship by defeating Chris Jericho. He continued his career in wrestling. He won in some games as well as he lost in some games. In 2001, he signed a developmental contract with the world Wrestling Federation (WWF) and he was assigned to its developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). During his time he wrestled as both the proto type and Mr. P and he held the OVW Heavy Weight Championship for three months.

If you ask me why I consider John Cena as my hero even though I am girl and girls are not supposed to watch wrestling or even choose a man as their hero but all I can say that it does not matter whether you choose a man or a woman as a hero what important is that you choose someone who has great impact in your life and he/she push you forward to achieve your dream. I like John Cena because even though he lost a lot of competitions every time he tries to come back but this does not prevent him from achieving his dreams which is to return his title for heavy weight champion. I admire him a lot for that and I will follow his steps to achieve my own dreams. I will not let anything to frustrated me or discourage me from achieving them.

At last, having a hero is a very great thing to spread the justice everywhere in this world and to fight all the problems that we face every day in our life as our hero or heroine did.

To read more about John Cena please click the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cena

Name: Badriya Hamood Al Badri

Grade 12/2

Al Billah School (11-12)

Submitted to: T. Zainab Al Yahmedi

Lesson ten: Posting in the blog

                                          MY HERO PROJECT
                                       Lesson ten: Posting in the blog

Time:

50 minutes

Grade level: 18-19, students

Materials Needed:

Internet connection
Computers 

Objective:

 

1. To post their piece of writing in the blog

Procedure:

1. Teacher directs participants to go to the website address: www.blogspot.com, then they will enter the user name and the password given by the teacher. After they log in, teacher directs them to click in the link for My hero blog and click on new post. Participants start to post in the blog. They will copy their piece from word processor and paste them in the posting section. They will make the changes regarding size, color, font,...etc. 

2. Teacher circulates throughout the room and checks participants' work before they publish it. Teacher asks participants to check spelling mistakes or fragment sentences before they publish their work.

Lesson nine: Creating a blog

My Hero Project

Lesson Nine: Creating A blog

Time: 50 minutes

Grade level: 18-19, students

Materials Needed:

LCD projector
 

Objective:

 

1. To learn how to make a blog

Procedure:

1.  Teacher explains to participants how to create a blog. Teacher demonstrates to participants how to post in the blog.

Tip: Teacher reserve the learning resource center well in advance.

Lesson eight : Free Writing Exercise (second Draft)

Lesson eight : Free Writing Exercise

                                                   (second Draft)

Time: 45 minutes

Grade level: 18-19, students

Materials Needed:

First draft of their pieces
Papers & pens

Objective:

 

1. To check the 1st draft as a final revision.

Procedure:

1.  Participants will work in pairs to check and revise their pairs final draft to be publish in the blog. Teacher may provide participants with symbols they should use while they are correcting the pairs' piece of writing. After they finish revising, they should write their 2nd draft. After they finish, they should deliver the piece to the teacher for final revision.

 

 

Lesson Seven: Free Writing Exercise (First Draft)

My Hero Project Lesson Seven: Free Writing Exercise

                                                    (First Draft)

Time:

50 minutes

Grade level: 18-19, students

Materials Needed:

Hand Out " Free writing Exercise"
Paper & pens

Objective:

 

1. To write a first draft about their heroes and heroines

Procedure:

1.  Explain to participants that they have to write a first draft about their heroes and heroines.Teacher distributes the worksheets, participants start to write their piece.

Tip: Teacher may conduct this activity in two separate sessions, one to write the first draft and one to checking the first draft in pairs.

Sample of the Hand Out

My Hero Project

Free writing Exercise

             

After researching about your hero, now it is time to write about him or her to share it with your classmate. Use this plan while you are writing your piece. Your piece of writing should be clear and interesting.

A plan to follow:

Paragraph one:

What does the word "hero" mean to you?

What are the qualities of a hero (What is a hero like?)

What are the actions of a hero (What does a hero do?)

Paragraph two:

Who is your hero? Talk about his/her family background and educational background.

Paragraph three:

What did he/she do in order to be considered as a heroic? How did he/she do it?

Paragraph Four:

Why did you choose this person as your hero?

Paragraph five:

Why is it important to have heroes in our life?
 

Lesson Six: Pairs presentations

My Hero Project

Lesson Six: Pairs Presentation

Time:

50 minutes

Grade level: 18-19, students

Materials Needed:

copies of the information collected during the visit to the learning resource center

papers & pen

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Objective:

 

1. To learn how to conduct interview for possible interview with the hero (if they can)

2. To check the accuracy of the information they gathered

3. To check the worksheet "My hero search worksheet"

2. To use their notes and the worksheet to draft their heroes and heroines story.

Procedure:

1.  Teacher tells participants that today they are going to share the information they gathered in the other day in the learning resource center. Teacher divides participants into pairs. 

2.  Explain to  participants that they are going to read what they have gathered to their pairs in order to help them regarding the accuracy of the information they gathered as well  as if more details are needed. Teacher tells the both students will check each other work and try to write notes and discuss them with each other. 

3.  Teacher Circulate throughout the room to help those who need help. Participants may return to the teacher after they finish their task. Teacher comments on their work by holding a quick discussion with them regarding the task given. After all the participants finish revising and discussing their work with the teacher, participants may start writing their first draft.

 

Lesson Five: A trip to Learning Resource Center

My Hero Project

Lesson Five: A trip to Learning Resource Center

Time:

50 minutes

Grade level: 18-19, students

Materials Needed:

Computers
Internet Access

Handouts " My hero research worksheet"
Pen & Paper
Copier
Printer 

Objective: 

1. To familiarize participants with the resources available to them in the learning resource center.

2. To help participants learn how to use the internet to do research. 

 2. To search about their own heroes and heroines.

Procedure:

1.  Teacher tell students that they are having a trip to the learning resources center where they are going to learn about different resources available for them in order to do their research. Teacher introduces the participants to the reference librarian and tells participants that if they have any questions they can ask her regarding certain books in the library or borrowing process. The reference librarian will have a quick discussion about the resources available and borrowing process.

2. Once participants decided which hero they are going to write about, teacher distributes the worksheet to them. Teacher tells participants that they have to fill in the worksheet which will help them create their hero story. Next Participants will spend  the time to search about their heroes or heroines by using the internet to answer the questions in the worksheet.Teacher guides students to open the web browser and type in the following address: www.google.com. Then tells them to type the name of their hero into the search field.

3. Teacher gives participants time to find information about their heroes and heroines. Teachers also tells them to view at least two websites and try to save the link in word processor programs as well as writing them down in the specified section in the worksheet.Participants will also have to save images of their heroes and heroines to use them in collage activity as well as in their piece of writng.

4. As participants are working, teacher should circulate throughout the room to help who might need  help. Teacher may ask help from the computer instructor inside the learning resource center.

5. Teacher reminds participants that they are going to present the information they gathered by working in pairs to provide more guidance to each other regarding the information they gathered before start writing first draft. 

Note: I lost the pictures regarding this topic if I find them I will try to post them as soon as possible

Sample of the Worksheet:

Hero Research Worksheet

 

Source	Answer	Questions
		Who is he/she?
		When was he/she born? And where?
		His education
		What did he/ she do to be considered as a hero?
		How did he/she do it?
		Why did you choose him/her as your hero?