R.K. Laxman was an Indian cartoonist best known for his daily cartoon strip in The Times of India. This chapter discusses the storyteller Iswaran, who was portrayed in one of Laxman's works. Iswaran was a helpful servant who accompanied his employer Mahendra during job postings. He was skilled at finding vegetables and entertaining with his storytelling, which he had developed from reading Tamil thrillers. The chapter objectives are to understand creative writing and storytelling techniques, enhance vocabulary, and learn about tenses and composition. A variety of activities are outlined like group discussions, role plays and presentations to teach the chapter concepts.

1. GRADE-IX
ENGLISH (MOMENTS)
LESSON- 3 ISWARAN THE STORYTELLER
( R.K. LAXMAN)
 BY:
ARCHANA SHARMA

3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman[1] (24 October 1921 –
26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and
humorist.[2] He was best known for his creation The Common
Man and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of
India, which started in 1951.[3]
Laxman started his career as a part-time cartoonist, working
mostly for local newspapers and magazines. While as a college
student, he illustrated his older brother R. K. Narayan's stories in
The Hindu.[4] His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist
for The Free Press Journal in Mumbai. Later, he joined The
Times of India, and became famous for The Common Man
character which turned out to be the turning point in Laxman's
life

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Total pages : 10
Chapter – 3
Total Periods: 2
Assessment period: 1
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Classification of
activities
Pre introductory activity(sho
the keyboard manually to the
students )
Home Work : How many keys in
the keyboard.
Hands-on:3
Assessment:3
3
BREAK UP OF ACTIVITIES
Chapter :3
Total period
required :6
Total pages:6
Assessment
Period :4
Activities:3
CLASSIFICATION
OF ACTIVITIES
1.PRE-READING
2.LISTENING
ACTIVITY
3. SPEAKING
ACTIVITY
4. GRAMMAR
BASED ACTIVITY

5. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. To learn about the story telling
technique.
2. To enhance vocabulary.
3. To learn structure of tenses
4. Introducing the students with terms
as creative writing.
5. To learn how to compose an
interesting story .

6. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:-
The special objective of teaching this
lesson is to make the students understand about
creative writing. How to praise a piece of prose how
it is created successfully . The must be taught the
writer's qualities to play with words and use of
gestures and body language with the change in tone
and mood of the speaker

7. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:-
To enable the students to read English
properly
To enable the students to comprehend
the English language properly.
To enable the pupils to write speak
English clearly.
To enable the students to obtain good
marks in exams

8. INTRODUCTION

9. INTRODUCTION
Iswaran is a very interesting character
portrayed by Laxman. He was an asset for
his employer, Mahendra. He was a
multipurpose helping hand, wonderful
housekeeper, cook, companion and
entertainer. He accompanied Mahendra
wherever he got his new posting. He
managed to get vegetables even in desolate
places. His hobby of reading Tamil thriller
made him an excellent story teller.

10. METHODOLOGY
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EXPLANATION
GROUP DISCUSSION
INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSION
ROLE PLAY
POWER POINT PRESENTATION
AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS
QUESTIONAIRE
SILENT LOUD READING

11. A BRIEF SUMMARY

12. PICTURE TO CLARIFY THE
CHAPTER

13. PICTURE TO CLARIFY THE
CHAPTER

14. PICTURE TO CLARIFY THE CH.
CHAPTER

15. REFERENCE
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TIME REQUIRED------ 5 Mins
CLASSWORK----- PRE – READING TASK
( A ) QUESTIONAIRE RELATED TO TITLE
( B ) DISCUSSION ON TITLE
( C ) DISCUSSION ON 'BEFORE YOU READ'
( D ) DISCUSSION ON QUALITIES OF
ISWARAN

16. REFERENCE
 CLASSWORK---- WHILE READING TASK
( A ) READING ACTIVITY
( B ) LISTENIN ACTIVITY
( C ) SPEAKING ACTIVITY
( D ) WRITING ACTIVITY

21. SHORT ANSWER TYPE Qs.

22. SHORT ANSWER TYPE Qs

23. LONG ANSWER TYPE Qs.

24. CONTINUED....

25. HOMEWORK
 Frame textual Q./Ans. Of chapter 3 'Iswaran the
Story Teller' in your notebook and write a story
on 'A Ghostly Tale' to be read in the classroom
the next day.

26. HYPERLINKED VIDEO FOR
RECAPITULATION
waran_the_Storyteller__English_Supplimentary_Reader_Chapter_3_CBSE_NCERT_Class.mp4

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