This document outlines a lesson plan about the short story "A Shipwrecked Sailor" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The plan introduces the story, which is about a 20-year-old sailor named Velasco who is washed overboard during a storm in the Caribbean Sea. The lesson aims to develop the students' interest in literature, understanding of difficult words, and self-reading habits. It includes warming up activities to engage the students, reading and explaining sections of the story, defining challenging words, asking comprehension questions, and assigning creative projects related to the story.

1. WELCOME

2. INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

3. NAME OF THE TEACHER :LEKSHMI
GOPAN
NAME OF THE SCHOOL: N S S BOYS
HIGH SCHOOL PANDALAM
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
UNIT: WINGS AND WHEELS
SUB UNIT : A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR

4. CONTENT ANALYSIS
The story Shipwrecked Sailor
tells the saga of Velasco a twenty
year old sailor , who was washed
overboard during a storm in the
middle of the Caribbean Sea .
Clinging to a life raft without
food and water , he survived ten
days on the open sea and
escaped

5. AIM OF THE STUDY
1. To develop interest in literature.
2. To understand the meaning of
difficult words.
3. to develop self reading habits.

6. Pre requisite
the learner:
1) has an experience of travelling
2) knows various adventure in
travelling

7. Teaching learning resources : slides
Reference: Course book of standard
8 and dictionary

8. Warming up
• How are you?
• Do you like travelling?
• Name some means of transportation?

9. Phase - 1
• Do you like travelling?
• What do you see in the picture?

10. Which means of transportation is
shown in the below picture

11. Do you like to watch films
try to identify the film

12. What happened to the ship in this
film?

13. Now let’s go through the profile of
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

14. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
• Born in 1928
• He was a great colombian novelist, short
story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
• He was also called ‘gabo’
• He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature in the year 1982
• One Hundred Years of Solitude , Love at
Time of Cholera is his notable works.

15. Phase 2
• Now all of you know about TITANIC film and
knows what happen to the ship ,
• Here also we are going to deal with such a
story in which a ship wrecks .
• The narrator of the story is Luis Alejandro
Velasco.

16. READING OF THE STORY
• Teacher reads the paragraph with correct
stress, pronunciation and voice modulation
and explains the core idea of the paragraph.

17. LEARNER READS SILENTLY

18. Phase – 2 Teacher explains the
meaning of difficult words with the
help of pictures
• Plunged –
• Abyss -

19. Meaning of words
• Crates –
• Choppy waves -

20. Meaning of words
• Cargo
• scattered –

21. Phase – 3 Teacher ask some questions
to the learners
• Who is the author of the story ?
• Who is the narrator of the story ?
• What happened to the ship in the story?
• Was the narrator alone in the sea ?

22. Learner find out answers to the
questions in group. They find the
answers with the help of the
teacher and text book.

23. Phase 4 teacher give assignments to
the learners
• Draw the picture of a raft.
• Write the thoughts of the narrator during
the time of ship wreck
• Prepare a newspaper report on the ship
wreck