The document summarizes a lesson plan for teaching the poem "The Village Blacksmith" to 8th grade students. The teacher aims to make students aware of the importance of hard work through the poem, which depicts the daily life and hardship of a village blacksmith. The teacher begins by asking questions about blacksmiths, provides context about the author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and then recites the poem while explaining vocabulary. Comprehension questions follow to ensure student understanding before an assignment to identify figures of speech and write a short summary of the poem.

2. The Village Blacksmith

3. Name of the teacher trainee : Vishnupriya Std : VIII
Name of the school: N.S.S H.S.S Karuvatta Strength : 30
Subject : English Period : 2
Unit : Seeds and Deeds Duration : 45min
Subunit : The Village Blacksmith

4. The Village Blacksmith is a poem
which gives us a beautiful picture of
the life of a village blacksmith and
his hardship.

5.  To make the students aware about the importance of
hardwork .
 To make them familiar about the life of a blacksmith
and his toil in the smithy.

6. The teacher asks the students some questions to test
their previous knowledge and to bring them to the
new poem.
1.Is their anyone from the family of a blacksmith?
2.Have you seen the workplace of a blacksmith?

7. Today we are going to learn a new poem by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet
and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's
Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
 Born: February 27, 1807
 Died: March 24, 1882
 Books: The Song of Hiawatha,
Evangeline, A Tale of Arcadie etc.

9. The teacher recites the poem with
proper, pronunciation,
intonation, stress and pause

12. smithy : a blacksmith’s
workshop
sexton : a person who looks after a
church and churchyard, typically
acting as bell-ringer and
gravedigger.

14. To make the content clear the teacher asks certain
questions :
1.Where is the smithy situated?
2.Give a small description of the blacksmith’s
appearance?
3.Whatdoes the line ‘a tear out of his eyes’
suggest.

16. The teacher asks the students to find out the
figure of speech used in the poem

17. The teacher assigns the students to write a
short summary of the poem The Village
Blacksmith.