This document outlines an English lesson plan presented by teacher Anitha Rajan about dreams. The 45-minute lesson involves students listening to a song and quotes about dreams, reading and discussing the poem "Dreams" by Langston Hughes, and analyzing poetic devices. Students will read the poem individually and in groups, discuss its meaning, look up unfamiliar words, answer questions about the poem, identify rhyme and figures of speech, and present a profile of the poet or write their own poem.

2. On the wings of wishes…

3. Innovative lesson plan on Dreams…
Presented by Anitha Rajan

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

17. Frozen /ˈfrəʊzn/- extremely cold

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

22. Assignment
Collect some quotations regarding
dreams