INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

Name of the student teacher  : KARTHIKA.S

Name of the school                   : GHSS KAVALAYOOR

Subject                                         :  ENGLISH

Standard                                      :  IX  A

Unit                                               :  Those Winter Sundays

Subunit                                         :  Sundays too …thanked him.

Issue                                              :  Culture

Subissue                                        :  Weakening of family ties

CONTENT ANALYSIS :   Children very often fail to understand properly the deep love of their parents. ‘Robert Hayden’ the famous American poet and educator in this beautiful poem ‘Those Winter Sundays ‘ narrates the real warmth of the love of a father to his son who failed to understand his father.

CURRICULAR STATEMENTS: The learner

                                                 *reads and analyses the poem.

                                                 *identifies the theme of the poem.

PRE REQUISITES :        * think about their own parents and understands

                                           Relationships.

                                        *already they have read different poems.

TEACHING LEARNING RESOURCES:      * Power point presentation contains the

                                                                     Profile of the poet.

                                                                    *Power point presentation contains various

                                                                     related images of the poem.

REFERENCES:        Source book of standard IX.

                               Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary.

CLASSROOM INTERACTION PROCEDURE

Informal interaction

Teacher makes a friendly talk to provide good atmosphere for learning students.

Linking Activity

Teacher asks some questions.

*Are you interested in reading poems?

*Which type of poems do you like most?

 Can you say children’s present attitude towards their parents? Teacher asked some of the students to say answer the above question.

Analysing the topic

 Teacher asks the learners that do they love their parents. Today we are going to learn a poem “Those Winter Sundays”. It includes a father and his child and their daily life. It’s about the author himself.

Have you heard about ‘Robert Hayden” the famous American poet. He was born on 4 August 1913. He is also an essayist and educator. His works often address the plight of African Americans. He has written political poetry , including a sequence on the Vietnam War.

Theme presentation

The poem says that a father is doing all works for his dear son. But the boy did not bother about that.

After become young he remembers it and wrote it as poem.

Recitation by the teacher

Teacher recites the poem with proper pronunciation, stress ,rhyme.

Explanation of the poem

All of you know that Sundays are holidays. Here poet’s father got up early even in Sundays. His father put on his cloths because of cold weather. Black blue here means there is darkness in the sky because it is early morning. Here we can see his hands became cracked because of his hard work in the weekday. He banked fires by using his cracked hands. But any one did not thank for his working.

Clarifying the doubts

Learners read the poem and ask doubts towards teacher.

Clarifies doubts

A child threw stone on the mirror. Then it cracks.

Cracked : something that is damaged.

If we add kerosene for burning waste , it burns strongly.

Blaze  : burns strongly and brightly

Glossary reference

Teacher asks one of the students to find out the word meaning Banked.

Banked  : smoulding, burning slowly  without flame.

Asking questions

Teacher asks some questions to find learner’s understanding

*Who is the speaker in the poem?

*What does the phrase ‘Sundays too’ mean?

Reading by the learner

Teacher asks one of the students to recites the poem.

Group activity

Teacher divides the learners in to groups. And Teacher gives activity.

Activity

Write children’s present attitude towards their parents.

Summary

Teacher gives brief summary of the poem.

Follow up activity

Do you think that the poet’s father led a life of toil?