Go Lesson Plans 1 Lesson Plans for Go in Schools By Gordon E. Castanza, Ed. D. October 19, 2011 Published By Rittenberg Consulting Group 7806 108th St. NW Gig Harbor, WA 98332 253-853-4831 ©Gordon E. Castanza, Ed. D. 10/19/11 DRAFT Go Lesson Plans 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................... 4 Purpose/Rationale ........................................................................................................................... 5 Lesson Plan One ............................................................................................................................. 7 Basic Ideas .................................................................................................................................. 7 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 11 The Puzzle ................................................................................................................................. 13 Surround to Capture .................................................................................................................. 14 First Capture Go ........................................................................................................................ 16 Lesson Plan Two ........................................................................................................................... 19 Units & Liberties....................................................................................................................... 19 Lesson Plan Three ......................................................................................................................... 24 Capture ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Examples for counting liberties ................................................................................................ 26 Where You Can't Play - Suicide Moves ............................................................................... 28 Recognizing Atari ................................................................................................................. 28 Lesson Plan Four........................................................................................................................... 31 Eyes ........................................................................................................................................... 31 Three-point eye-space ........................................................................................................... 36 Four-point eye space in a line ............................................................................................... 37 Four-point eye-space in a square .......................................................................................... 37 Four-point eye shape in an ―L‖ ............................................................................................. 37 Five-point eye-space ............................................................................................................. 38 Complete six-point eye space ............................................................................................... 38 The unsafe six-point complete eye-space shape (―Rabbit‘s Head‖) ..................................... 38 Unconnected six-point eye-space ......................................................................................... 39 Lesson Plan Five ........................................................................................................................... 40 Seki ........................................................................................................................................... 40 Seki Form 1 ........................................................................................................................... 42 Seki Form 2 ........................................................................................................................... 43 Seki Form 3 ........................................................................................................................... 43 Seki for guided practice ........................................................................................................ 44 Lesson Plan Six ............................................................................................................................. 46 ―No Repetition‖ Rule ................................................................................................................ 46 Three forms of ko.................................................................................................................. 48 Don‘t be afraid of ko ............................................................................................................. 50 Ko threats .............................................................................................................................. 53 Lesson Plan Seven ........................................................................................................................ 56 Territory .................................................................................................................................... 56 Lesson Plan Eight ......................................................................................................................... 63 Influence ................................................................................................................................... 63 Lesson Plan Nine .......................................................................................................................... 68 Scoring ...................................................................................................................................... 68 Lesson Plan 10 .............................................................................................................................. 76 Extensions, Connections, Cuts—Part One................................................................................ 76 Lesson Plan 11 .............................................................................................................................. 83 ©Gordon E. 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D. 10/19/11 DRAFT Go Lesson Plans 3 Lesson Plan 11 .............................................................................................................................. 83 Extensions, Connections, Cuts—Part Two ............................................................................... 83 Lesson Plan 12 .............................................................................................................................. 95 Lesson Plan 12 .............................................................................................................................. 95 Basic Opening Strategy............................................................................................................. 95 Lesson Plan 13 ............................................................................................................................ 108 Endgame ................................................................................................................................. 108 Lesson Plan 14 ............................................................................................................................ 117 Planning .................................................................................................................................. 117 Lesson Plan 15 ............................................................................................................................ 125 Fighting ................................................................................................................................... 125 Lesson Plan 16 ............................................................................................................................ 131 Connecting to the Go World ................................................................................................... 131 References ................................................................................................................................... 137 References ................................................................................................................................... 137 ©Gordon E. Castanza, Ed. D. 10/19/11 DRAFT Go Lesson Plans 4 Acknowledgements I wish to extend my appreciation to the seminal work of Ralph Tyler (Tyler, 1949) for providing the foundation for curriculum design in the form of his four fundamental questions known as the ―Tyler Rationale‖: ―What educational purposes should the school seek to have? What educational experiences will lead to fulfilling these purposes? How can these educational experiences be effectively organized? [And] how can we determine whether these purposes are met‖ (Kridel, May 2000)? Tyler‘s work gave educators the structure for the nascent field of curriculum development. Allan C. Ornstein and Francis Hunkins (Ornstein, 1993) informed my understanding of the instructional theories and instructional models of David Berliner, Benjamin Bloom, Jere Brophy, Walter Doyle, Nate Gage, Thomas Good, Carolyn Evertson, Herb Walberg, Barak Rosenshine, and Madeline