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Preparation/Planning: LESSON TITLE: 100 Days of Rejection Lesson #: 1

1. The document outlines a lesson plan about handling rejection. The lesson introduces a TED Talk video about a man named Jia Jang who conducted an experiment where he purposefully sought out rejection over 100 days. 2. Students will watch the video, discuss their own experiences with rejection, and learn vocabulary. They will then answer comprehension questions about the video and consider something they have avoided due to fear of failure or rejection. 3. The lesson aims to help students understand how to handle rejection in life by applying concepts from the video about intentionally exposing oneself to rejection and becoming desensitized to it over time.

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Preparation/Planning: LESSON TITLE: 100 Days of Rejection Lesson #: 1

1. The document outlines a lesson plan about handling rejection. The lesson introduces a TED Talk video about a man named Jia Jang who conducted an experiment where he purposefully sought out rejection over 100 days. 2. Students will watch the video, discuss their own experiences with rejection, and learn vocabulary. They will then answer comprehension questions about the video and consider something they have avoided due to fear of failure or rejection. 3. The lesson aims to help students understand how to handle rejection in life by applying concepts from the video about intentionally exposing oneself to rejection and becoming desensitized to it over time.

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LESSON TITLE: 100 Days of Rejection Lesson #: 1

TEACHER NAME: Brittney Gibson DATE: April 7th, 2017

Attach any handouts or materials required for this lesson.


Preparation/Planning
ESL Course: Advanced
Class for Adults in a Non- Level Beginning Intermediate Advanced Multilevel
Profit Program
Topic/Theme:
Handling Rejection
Listening Listen to and understand the speech by Jia Jang:
Objectives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZXgApsPCQ
Speaking Students will discuss journals with partners, as well as discuss the
content of the video and how it relates to their lives.
Reading Read vocabulary sheet and explore vocabulary, as well as read the
questions for the worksheet assessing understanding of the video.
Writing Students will write the answers to comprehension questions on the
worksheet.
Bridging
What background knowledge Some students will be familiar with Youtube videos, TED Talks, and
do the students already have? the types of content usually found within a TED Talk video.
What will you do to activate The class with a journal: Has there ever been a time you were
or link students prior rejected? What happened and how did you deal with this? After 10
knowledge or experience to minutes of writing, students will be asked to share their thoughts with a
upcoming content? partner.
Engagement with New Material
What will you do to engage Students will work in partners to speak after their journals. In addition,
students in the active learning we will go over vocabulary as a class and check students
of the new material? understanding by asking them to give examples of the vocabulary in a
sentence. Students will perform mini-skits using vocabulary words.
What will you do to ensure I will play the video one time. I will then ask students questions to
that all students are engaged? check their understanding of the video. Then, after watching the video
again, I will play the video section by section to ask students the
answer to the comprehension questions. Students that do not
understand will receive answers to words and phrases that are unclear.
Application
What opportunities will you After checking their comprehension of the video via discussion and
provide students to practice worksheet, students will be asked to consider something that theyve
and apply their always wanted to do, but did not because of the thought that they might
knowledge/skill to meet the fail or be rejected. They have to write down what could happen in the
objectives for this lesson? To worst scenario and what could happen in the best scenario. They will
apply to other contexts? share with the class.
Assessment
How will you assess their Students will be assessed by their ability to share their fears/rejection
learning of the objectives? scenarios based on the following:
1) Accurate and applicable Fear
2) Applicable Worst Case Scenario
3) Applicable Best Case Scenario
Closing
How will you help students I will encourage students to consider the lessons learned in Jias speech
recap the learning and link it and apply concepts learned within the lesson to their language learning.
back to the original purpose of
the lesson?
Appendix A
100 Days of Rejection Vocabulary
Entrepreneur- a person who organizes and manages
a business

Marketing manager- Someone who manages the


marketing of a business or product

Inspirational- to fill with a feeling (to produce a


feeling)

Desensitized- to make unaware of, to make


indifferent

Engaged- busy or occupied, involved with

*Make your own skit with a partner using one of the


vocabulary words.
Appendix B
100 Days of Rejection

1. What was Jias teachers idea for her class?

2. What happened to Jia during this activity?

3. What did Jia write in his letter to his family?

4. What was the idea behind rejection therapy?


5. What did Jia do on day 1?

6. What did Jia do on day 2?

7. What did Jia do on day 3?

8. Why did the men reject Jias request to plant a flower in

his yard?

9. What did Jia learn after he taught a college class?

10. What do you think Jia is trying to say about being

rejected in life?

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