The lesson plan is for an English class on the poem "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" by John Keats. The plan aims to familiarize students with new vocabulary from the poem, help them understand the central theme of appreciating nature's beauty, and realize nature's value. Students will analyze the poem by reading it aloud, defining difficult words, discussing it in groups, and answering questions about the comparison of the grasshopper and cricket in different seasons. The plan utilizes various teaching methods like pictures, group work, games, and student presentations to engage students in analyzing the poem.

1. Innovative Lesson Plan
Name of the teacher : Harsha C V Standard :IX
Subject :English Strength :
Unit : IV Glimpses of a Green Planet. Period :
Sub unit : On the Grasshopperand the Cricket. Duration : 45 mts
Issue :lack of eco-friendly industrialization Date :
and urbanization
Curricular statetements
The people,
 Recites and analyses the poem.
 Create an awareness of the beauty, glory, and grandeur of nature
expressed through the various forms, mood, landscape, seasonal rhythm
etc.
Learning Outcomes
The learner,
 Familiarizes new words jaint, hedge, etc.and its usage.
 Realizes the value of nature’s glory.
 gets an awareness of the central theme of the poem.
Content Analysis
‘On The Grasshopper and Cricket’ written by John Keats is a beautiful
poem which deals with the beauty of nature.
Pre-requisites
The pupil’
 may know the different seasons.
 is able to recite the poem.
 has the study skill of referring a dictionary.
Teaching learning Resource
Course book std: IX, Source book std; IX, Chalk board charts pictures,
Laptop, Activity card.

2. Classroom process Responses
Informal interaction
Good morning.
Are you all happy?
Have you had your break fast?
Take your numbers.
Entry activity
Teacher shows pictures regarding four seasons. Teacher asks them to
identify these pictures.
Then asks which are the different seasons of a year? Can you say
something about summer season?
Link Talk
Can you name a creature which we can see in the picture?
Can you name a creature we can see in the winter?
Then the teacher writes the title of the poem on the black board.
‘On The Grasshopperand TheCricket’
John Keats
Micro processing of the input
Modelreading by the Teacher
The teacher recites the poem with proper pronunciation, musicality,
feeling and rhythm. The theme and necessary detail are also forwarded
to the students.
Student
interactio
n well
with the
questions.
They
observed
the
pictures.
They
answered
to the
questions.
They
listened to
the model
reading.

3. Track reading by the people
Students are asked to read the first stanza individually and silently and
they are also marked accordingly, That is they have to put tick for what
they have understood, question mark for what they haven’t, exclamation
mark for what they found interesting or surprising.
Glossary Reference
Now teacher helps the learners to refer glossary and find out the
meaning of difficult words. The difficult words are,
 Faint:weak,kiddy
faint
 Hedge; arrow of bushes or trees planted cross together

They
marked
according
to the
teachers
instructio
n.
They
understoo
d the
meanings.

4. Moun: To cut grass using a machine or an implement with a blade.
Collaborative learning
Students are asked to form groups and share their ideas in groups. Students are also
asked to write down the word in the personal word list.
Mega phoning the doubt
Each group asked doubts to other groups and others answer to it. A game
is held on the basis of this doubts.Eg-teacherasked the students to match
the word with their meaning.
 Mead - 1, the fainting birds
 Moun - 2, Grasshopper
 Faint - 3, a meadow
 Hedge - 4, summer
 All the bird are faint in - 5, weak or
giddy
 He takes the lead in
summer luxury - 6, a row of
bushes or
planted together
 Hide in cooling trees - 7,to cut grass
 Using a
machine
Facilitation by the teacher
Teacher helps to clarify the difficult areas which no groups could
effectively tackle. Teacher also explains the difficult areas.
Scaffolding questions
In order to make the content clearer scaffolding questions are asked to
the students. The students are asked to write down the answers.
 Who take the lead in summer?
The grass hopper
 Who hide in cooling trees?
All the fainting birds
 Who breaks the silence of winter?
The cricket.
 Where can we see the grasshopperin summer?
In the new moun mead.
Presentation by the people
Randomly students are taken from each group and they are asked
Student
share their
ideas.
They
found the
answers.
They
answered
to the
questions.
Students
presented
the
answers.

5. to present the answers for the scaffolding questions.
Review
This poem identifies the real poets of the earth. That is the grasshopper
never be tired, he sings song even in the summer season. He leads in
summer luxury.
Assignment
What are the sights and sounds related to summer that you find in the
poem?