Innovative lesson plan

Innovative lesson plan

Submitted to

Divya

Optional teacher

B.Ed College of Education

Maruthoorkonam.

Submitted by

Anju.A

English option

Reg no: 13377002

Year: 2013-2014

PTM College of Education

Maruthoorkonam

Innovative Lesson Plan

Name of the teacher    ; Anju.A                                                            Standard :IX Subject                         :English                                                            Strength  : Unit                              : IV Glimpses of a Green Planet.                     Period      : Sub unit                        : On the Grasshopper and the Cricket.            Duration  : 45 mts Issue                              :lack of eco-friendly industrialization                    Date         :                                         and urbanization

Curricular statetements

The people,

·        Recites and analyses the poem.

·        Create an awareness of the beauty, glory, and grandeur of nature expressed through the various forms, mood, landscape, seasonal rhythm etc.

   

   Learning Outcomes

          The learner,

·        Familiarizes new words jaint, hedge, etc.and its usage.

·        Realizes the value of nature’s glory.

• gets an awareness of the central theme of the poem.

Content Analysis

     ‘On The Grasshopper and Cricket’ written by John Keats is a beautiful poem which deals with the beauty of nature.

Pre-requisites

 The pupil’

·        may know the different seasons.

·        is able to recite the poem.

• has the study skill of referring a dictionary.

Teaching learning Resource

Course book std: IX, Source book std; IX, Chalk board charts pictures, Laptop, Activity card.

Classroom process

Responses

Informal interaction Good morning. Are you all happy? Have you had your break fast? Take your numbers. Entry activity Teacher shows pictures regarding four seasons. Teacher asks them to identify these pictures. Then asks which are the different seasons of a year? Can you say something about summer season? Link Talk Can you name a creature which we can see in the picture? Can you name a creature we can see in the winter? Then the teacher writes the title of the poem on the black board. ‘On The Grasshopper and The Cricket’                                                      -John Keats Micro processing of the input Model reading by the Teacher   The teacher recites the poem with proper pronunciation, musicality, feeling and rhythm. The theme and necessary detail are also forwarded to the students. Track reading by the people Students are asked to read the first stanza individually and silently and they are also marked accordingly, That is they have to put tick for what they have understood, question mark for what they haven’t, exclamation mark for what they found interesting or surprising. Glossary Reference Now teacher helps the learners to refer glossary and find out the meaning of difficult words. The difficult words are, ·        Faint:weak,kiddy[shows picture ] faint ·        Hedge; arrow of bushes or trees planted cross together[shows picture]    ·        Moun: To cut grass using a machine or an implement with a blade.  Collaborative learning Students are asked to form groups and share their ideas in groups. Students are also asked to write down the word in the personal word list. Mega phoning the doubt Each group asked doubts to other groups and others answer to it. A game is held on the basis of this doubts.Eg-teacher asked the students to match the word with their meaning. §        Mead         -                           1,   the fainting birds §        Moun         -                           2, Grasshopper §        Faint           -                           3,  a meadow §        Hedge         -                          4,  summer §        All the bird are faint in    -     5, weak or                                                     giddy                                                                  §        He takes the lead in     summer luxury                -    6,  a row of                                                   bushes or                                                                planted together       §        Hide in cooling trees         -  7,to cut grass §                                                      Using a                                                         machine Facilitation by the teacher Teacher helps to clarify the difficult areas which no groups could effectively tackle. Teacher also explains the difficult areas. Scaffolding questions In order to make the content clearer scaffolding questions are asked to the students. The students are asked to write down the answers. Ø     Who take the lead in summer?                        The grass hopper Ø     Who hide in cooling trees?                       All the fainting birds Ø     Who breaks the silence of winter?                        The cricket. Ø     Where can we see the grasshopper in summer?                         In the new moun mead. Presentation by the people             Randomly students are taken from each group and they are asked to present the answers for the scaffolding questions. Language Activity What are the sights and sounds related to summer that you find in the poem? Review This poem identifies the real poets of the earth. That is the grasshopper never be tired, he sings song even in the summer season. He leads in summer luxury. Assignment

List out the names of creatures that we can see in different seasons. Summer- Winter- Spring- Autumn- Rainy Season-