1) The lesson plan is for an 8th standard English class on the ballad "The Enchanted Shirt" by John Hay. 2) The plan aims to help students understand others' feelings, appreciate universal brotherhood, and analyze themes through discussion of vocabulary and a summarized retelling of the ballad's plot. 3) Activities include dividing students into groups to dramatize parts of the ballad, defining new vocabulary, discussing the story, and asking comprehension questions to scaffold reading.

1. INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
Name of the teacher trainee: SELEEMEEKH. X.L Standard: 8 A
Name of the school : L M S H S S Amaravila Strength : 50
Subject : English Period : 5th
Unit : On Telling a Tale Duration: 45mts
Subunit : The Enchanted Shirt Date :
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Issue : Lack of cohesive universal vision
Sub issue : Lack of social mingling
Curricular Statement : Creating awareness of feelings, emotions and aspects of ourselves and others.
Learning Outcome : The learner is,
1) remembering the feelings of others while communicating
2) understanding the concept of universal brotherhood
3) applying the words like ‘zest,rage,scamp, panorama’ etc. in new situation
4) analyzing the theme of the poem

2. 5) evaluating the power of a ballad to express a story
6) creating the empathy and purgation of emotions
Content Analysis : Ideational Content
The ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’ by John Hay expresses a story of a king who feels
sick at the first part o the ballad. Physicians came there for identifies and cure kings
disease. They fail in it and the king ordered to cut off their heads. At last one physician
suggests a remedy to the king’s disease is that the king should sleep to wear with a shirt of a
happy man one night. At last they found a man, a beggar who seems extreme happiness. But
he didn’t have a shirt. King understands his problem and become an ideal ruler.
Linguistic Content
 Rhyming words are introduced
bright – night
score - more
 Rhyme scheme – abcb efgf
 New words are introduced

3. Pre – requisites : The learner might have known each and everything from his surroundings.
Teaching – learning
Resources : Source book, Course book, Chart, Oxford dictionary

4. Classroom Interaction Procedure
Pupils Response
Informal Interaction
Teacher creates mental readiness in pupil and she try to sustain
the interest throughout the class.
Entry Activity
Teacher sings a vadakkanpaattu “Aattummanammealea
Unniarcha….” and lead the pupils to the ballad.
Link Talk
Teacher divides the pupils into three groups based on their voting
of love for story, poem and essay. Then the teacher shows photograph of the
author and a chart about him, then teacher asks them to sit with their group
and she provides each part of the ballad to each groups. And asks them to
change that part into a screen play or a dramatized form.
Procedure
Pupils write the screen play and read it in the class room with the
characters in front of the class by each groups.

5. Teacher makes corrections and asks them to sit in groups and enact the
screen play in front of the class.
Sharing and Understanding
Teacher introduce new vocabulary items;
1) Zest /zest/ – enthusiasm or eagerness
Students should take every learning task with zest.
2) Rage /red/ – uncontrollable anger
Keerthi’s father turned red with rage on seeing her report card.
3) Scamp /skæmp/ –a child who enjoys playing tricks and causing
trouble
Aswin finds pleasure by trickling his friends.
4) Panorama /pænərmə/ – an impressive view of a wide area of
land
The cameraman captured the beauty of the panorama of his
shots.
Teacher gives gist of the whole ballad;
The ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’ by John Hay expresses a story
of a king who felt sick at the first part of the poem. But his eyes were clear
and cheeks were red in colour. So physicians came there to find out the
sickness of the king. One who says the king was fine, their heads were cut

6. off. At last two physicians came. From them one prescribe a remedy to the
kings disease that the king should wear the shirt of a happy man and sleep
one night with it. So the spies search out for such a man’s shirt. After weeks
they met a beggar who was seemed to be very happy. The spies ask his shirt
for loan, but the man replies he has no shirt. With these days result, king’s
eyes were opened and understand all the matters around him and become an
ideal king.
Scaffolded Reading
Teacher asks some scaffolding questions to the students:
1) Who is the author of the ballad?
2) What is the problem of the king?
3) Is the king really sick?
4) At last what medicine prescribed by the idle physician?
5) Where the two couriers met the beggar?
6) How the beggar expressed his happiness?
7) How much money offer by the couriers to the beggar for his shirt for
loan?
8) What is the reply of the beggar when the spies ask his shirt?
9) Who was ashamed of his useless life?
10) Whose maladies hatched in gloom?

7. 11) Whom the people blessed at last? Why?
Loud Reading
Teacher asks some pupils to read the poem loudly in front of the class.
Follow – up Activity
Write a story on the basis of this ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’.