This document provides an activity plan to analyze the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The plan involves students activating their prior knowledge about heart attacks, then reading the story in pairs and completing a storyboard summarizing the plot. Next, students will work in groups to create character profiles using descriptive adjectives. Finally, students will analyze the story's dialogue, focus on assertive communication, and write a short composition changing the story's ending. The overall goal is for students to understand the importance of language and assertive communication in specific circumstances.

1. Activity 2
Topic: Mortality / Target Content: Language and assertive
communication.
Level B2
Learning
Goal
Interaction of Language of Social Variables
Technique Scanning and inferring
Objective
After providing students with The Story of an Hour in a written form, they
will able to identify the importance of language and assertive
communication in specific circumstances, with 100% accuracy.
Values Happiness and freedom
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min - T will show the Ss. a
picture of a person
having a heart attack and
ask them to think about
possible causes of this
condition.
- T will provide extra
information as Ss. share
their opinions.
- Ss are given the
opportunity to
express what they
already know about
this condition.
- This part of the
class will allow
students to
activate their
prior knowledge
and be prepared
for the further
reading.
Identifying
the parts of
the plot.
10 min - T will distribute a
handout with the story
for them to read it in
pairs.
-T will provide the Ss.
with a handout with the
storyboard for them to
complete it with the
summary of each part of
the plot.
- T will review their
storyboards.
- Ss will read the
story in pairs.
-Ss will complete
the storyboard with
the corresponding
summary of the
plot.
-Ss will share their
storyboards with
other pairs.
- This section of
the class will
enable Ss to
recognize each
of the parts of
the plot.
Describing
the
characters.
15 min -T will distribute a
handout with a character
profile template.
-Ss will identify the
characters and
create their own
personality profile
- Ss will
incorporate the
use of adjectives
to describe

2. - T will ask the Ss to
complete a character
profile in groups.
for each character.
(Ss will use Padlet
as an option)
people and
identify
characters.
Expansion
activity
20 min -T will ask the students
to look for information
about assertive
communication and
language.
-T will ask students to
write a short composition
using assertive
communication to change
the end of the story.
-Ss will analyze
each characters
dialogue and
include the use of
assertive
communication to
change the curse of
the story.
- This section of
the class will
focus students
on the
importance of
assertive
communication
and the use of
language.
 Activity: Storyboard

3. Activity: Describing characters
Story of an hour
Character profile
Name:
Physical Characteristics: Imagine how does
the character look like.
Personality Traits: