Anwar S H English KTCT College OF Teacher Education

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INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
Name of the teacher: Anwar. S. H 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.
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
- 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

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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.
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?
Students give various answers.

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Entry Activity
Teacher shows the video clipping of the film ‘How
Old Are You’ and asks questions
Teacher: Which is this film?
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.
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.
Students give answers
Students listen carefully
Students listen carefully
Students read the poem silently
and keep track of their learning.
Students actively participate in
groups and share their ideas.

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Vocabulary
Wilderness = un productive/ aimless
Content = 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.
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.
Students get the spelling,
meaning and pronunciation of
new words.
Students give answers.
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.

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Review
Teacher asks questions to the students gives a
summary of what he taught.
Students give answers and
listen carefully.
Follow – up Activity: Draw a picture of what you understand from the first two
stanzas of the poem.