This lesson plan is for teaching the poem "Follower" to 9th standard English students. It involves showing pictures and asking questions to engage students and establish rapport. Students will read the poem individually and in groups, discussing their understanding. The teacher will clarify vocabulary, address student doubts, and facilitate comprehension through additional readings and questions. Students will participate in activities like writing conversations between the father and son, and presenting their understanding of the poem. The lesson aims to develop students' appreciation of the poem and attitudes toward work.

1. INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
Name of the teacher: CHINCHU PURUSHOTHAMAN Standard: IX
Name of the school: SNHSS, Srekandeswaram Division: F
Subject : English Strength: 44
Unit : 3, Tales of toil Duration: 45min
Sub-unit : Follower Date: 17/9/15
Issue : Lack of human resource development.
Lack of cohesive universal vision.
Sub-issue: Dignity of labour
The need for soft skills in the development of a proper work place.
Curricular
Statements: Develop proper attitude towards work
Construct various discourses like description, narrative, skript etc.
Content Analysis: The poem ‘Follower’ is written by Seamus Heaney. It is a poem of a
Son who has shouldered the work of his father. His father was a
Farmer .He strives to be like his father, at first, tripping, fallin and
Yapping and eventually becoming an expert farmer.
Pre-requisites: The learner is able to read, write and express his ideas in English.
Think and evaluate critically the issues related to human resource
Development.
Teaching/learning
Resources: Chart
Slides
Course book
Black board

2. Classroom interaction procedure Assessment/Expected Responds
Informal Interaction: Learners respond well.
Teacher establishes a good rapport
by asking some questions related to every
day life activity.
Entry activity: Teacher shows a picture Learners write and present it well.
and ask the learners to write a few Sentence
about your father.
Link talk
Teachers show a picture and ask the Pupil answers well
Pupils to interpret it. Then teacher
gives the profile of the author and
asks one or two pupils to read it
loudly.

3. Micro processes sing of the input: Pupil listens carefully.
Model reading by the teacher:
Teacher read the poem with correct
Pronunciation, stress and rhythm and also
Shows the slides of the poem.
Silent reading by the pupil: Pupil reads silently.
Teacher asks the learners read the
Poem silently and rapidly with
Comprehension.
Track reading: Learners track the reading according to
Teacher asks the learners to track the level of their understanding.
Their reading using symbols x,!,?
x- don’t understand,!-interesting,
?-doubtful
Sitting in group and sharing with peers. Learners share their ideas in groups.
Teacher ask the learners to sit in
Groups and share their understanding with
The members of the group.
Glossary reference

4. Teacher introduce new vocabulary
Items through conduct.
1. pluck-remove
2. furrow- a narrow trench made the soil to
Plough
3.Mapping-watching carefully
Mega phoning the doubts: Learners clarify their doubts.

5. Teacher goes to each group and
Megaphones their doubts to the entire
Class and helps them to understand well.
Facilitation by the teacher
Teacher helps to clarify the difficult areas students listened carefully to the
Which no groups could effectively tackle further explanation provided by the
Teacher also explains the difficult areas. Teacher.
Second Model Reading By The Teacher
Scaffold questions: Learners answers well.
Teacher asks scaffold questions to
Learners to realise the level of their
Understanding.
1) Who is the author of the poem?
2) What is the poem about?
Ans;1) Seamus Heaney.
2) the poet describes the toils of his
father who worked with a horse.
Presentations by the pupil
Randomly students are selected from Students presented well
Each group and they are asked to
Present their answers for scaffolding
Questions.
Discourse: Editing and presentation:
Learners write and present it well.
Teacher asks the learners to prepare
A conversation between the father and the
Son in this poem.
Generalisation and conclusion:
Teacher summarise the lesson with the
Help of the students.
Today we learnt a new poem students helped the teacher to
‘Follower’ written by Seamus Heaney. It summaries the story.
Is an address to a father by his son
Admiringly. His father was an expert
Farmer.
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Assignment: Write an appreciation of the poem.