4. The Journey begins here….
NAME OF THE TEACHER: Anitha Rajan STANDARD : VIII
NAME OF THE SUBJECT: English DURATION: 45 min
NAME OF THE UNIT: On the Wings of Wishes
NAME OF THE SUBUNIT: Dreams
5. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To make teaching- learning process interesting
To make the content more clear with technology
To create a visual impact on the students
6. Step I- Entry Activity
Do you all enjoy music? Let’s listen to a track
then…
Teacher plays the song ‘Swapnangal’ from the malayalam
movie ‘Kavya Mela’ and starts a discussion on Dreams….
7. A few quotes on Dreams….
“There is nothing like a dream to create the
future.” – Victor Hugo
“The future belongs to those who believe in
the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor
Roosevelt
“You can design and create, and build the
most wonderful place in the world. But it
takes people to make the dream a reality.”
8. Do you like to see dreams?
Do you have the habit of daydreaming?
Can you share any such experience?
Write down a few words about your dreams….
9. Step 2:Link Talk
So you all have dreams in life. How about listening to a poem on dreams? It
discusses the importance of dreams in life. And the poet is…
10. Langston Hughes
•Born: February 1, 1902, Missouri, United
States
•American poet, social activist, novelist,
playwright, and columnist
•One of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry.
•Works: Black Nativity, I Wonder as I
Wander, The Dream Keeper and Other
Poems
•Awards: Spingarn Medal, Anisfield-Wolf
Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship.
11. Step 3
Teacher recites the poem with proper stress, rhythm and intonation
12. Step 5:Individual reading by the learner
Students recite the poem individually with proper, stress, rhythm and intonation
13. Step 6: Tracking the reading
Teacher asks the pupils to read the text and track their reading.
14. Step 7:Sharing with pair or peer
Learners share their ideas within their group
15. Step 8: sitting in groups( collaborative learning)
Learners sit in groups and discuss their understanding. Teacher
megaphones their doubts to entire class and clarifies them.
16. Step 9: Glossary Reference with the help of the teacher
The students find out the meaning of difficult words with the help
of the teacher.
Barren /ˈbærən /- not good enough
for plants to grow on it
18. Step 10: Scaffolding Questions
Teacher asks a few scaffolding questions to make the learner predict
and establish thoughts and important facts
If dreams die what happens to our life?
What makes us feel that our life is a barren field?
19. Step 11:Appreciation
Teacher makes the learner identify rhyming words, rhyme
scheme, figures of speech and other poetic devices
Rhyming words
Lie- fly
Go- snow
Rhyme scheme
The rhyme scheme is irregular (ab cd ad ed)
Figures of speech
Metaphor- ‘Life is a barren field’
20. Step 12: Reading aloud by the learner
Teacher makes the learner recite the poem aloud with proper
stress, pronunciation and intonation
21. Step 13: Discourse level activity
• Prepare a profile of the poet
• Write a similar poem
