INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

Curricular Statement: The students

- develop the four fold skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing- get an idea about the functional use of the words- get the new words, its meaning and pronunciation- comprehend the poem ‘Women’- develop oral communication in the target language

Learning Outcomes: The pupils

- comprehend the poem ‘ Women’- read the poem with correct stress, rhythm, intonation, pronunciation and modulation of voice- get the spelling, meaning and pronunciation of the words like ‘wilderness’, ‘provident’, ‘content’, ‘cropping’, ‘culvert’

etc

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Name of the teacher : SAMEER.K.M Standard : 9

Subject : English Time : 45 mns

Unit : 2- Breaking Barriers

Topic : Women

Issue : Issue of marginalised

Sub Issue : The representation of gender in different genre of literature.

- speak out their view about the position of women in our society- understand the life of women without freedom and their agony

Content Analysis: ‘Women’ is a beautiful poem written by the American poet Louise

Bogan. She presents the life of a woman without freedom and about

her agony in life. She says that it is very hard to break these barriers of

life for a woman. ‘wilderness’, ‘content’, ‘provident’ etc are the new

words introduced in the poem.

Pre requisites: Children might have awareness about the life of unemployed middle

class and lower class women. They might understand the agonies of

women who are denied freedom.

Teaching- Learning Resources: Course book, source book, power point presentation

of the picture and profile of writer, video clipping of the film ‘How

Old Are You’, video showing the name and photo of famous and

successful women, pictorial representation of the lines in the poem,

picture of vocabulary items.

Formative Evaluation Procedure: Comprehension questions, classroom activities, review questions etc.

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Classroom Instructions/ Procedures Expected Response

Informal Interaction

Teacher communicates with the students and establishes a good rapport with them.

Teacher: How are you?

Have you had your breakfast?

What are the things you had for your breakfast?

Who prepared breakfast for you?

Do you like your mother?

Do you think that your mother get freedom to enjoy her life without any freedom?

Did you ever think about the hopes and dreams of your mother?

Entry Activity

Teacher shows the video clipping of the film ‘How Old Are You’ and asks questions

Teacher: Which is this film?

Students give various answers.

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What is the film about?

Who is the main character in the film?

What is her age?

Did anyone accept her dreams?

How does she tackle all her problems?

Link Talk

Teacher introduced the poem ‘Only Daughter’ by Louise Bogan. Teacher tells that the life of a woman is confined to the limited world of domesticity. And their life without freedom is hard and painful. Louise Bogan tells us the agonies of women who are denied freedom.

Micro Processing of Input

Model Recitation by the Teacher

Teacher recites the poem with correct stress, rhythm, intonation, pronunciation and modulation of voice.

Track Reading

Teacher asks the students to read the poem silently and keep track of their learning. They can put tick mark for the lines they understand, question mark for what they didn’t understand and exclamation mark for the lines having surprising idea.

Students give answers

Students listen carefully

Students listen carefully

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Sharing with Group

Students share their ideas with their group members, teacher megaphones the doubt to the whole class and helps the students understand the passage.

Vocabulary

Wilderness = un productive/ aimlessContent = satisfied.Crop = plant that grow in large quantities.Culvert = a tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under road or railway .

Scaffolding Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem ‘Women’?2. What are the things the poet says about women?3. Why does the poet say that women have no wilderness?4. Women miss many things in her life. What are some of the things the poet

mentions?

Discourse Construction

Pair Work

Teacher asks the students to imagine that after your studies one of you became a doctor and another became housewife. Now you met after a long time. Then you have to prepare conversation between these two friends and enact that.

Students read the poem silently and keep track of their learning.

Students actively participate in groups and share their ideas.

Students get the spelling, meaning and pronunciation of new words.

Students give answers.

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Group Work

Teacher shows the video of the famous and successful women and asks the students to say a few words about the women in that video.

Editing

Teacher helps the students to correct their mistakes.

Loud Reading

Teacher makes one or two students to read the poem with correct stress, rhythm, intonation, pronunciation and modulation of voice.

Review

Teacher asks questions to the students gives a summary of what he taught.

Students prepare conversation and enact the roles.

Students discuss in groups and say about the women in that video.

Students correct their mistakes.

Students read the poem with correct stress, rhythm, intonation, pronunciation and modulation of voice.

Students give answers and listen carefully.

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Follow – up Activity: Draw a picture of what you understand from the first two stanzas of the poem.