Innovative lesson plan basedon the memoir 'Only Daughter' Prepared by me as a part of my B.Ed curriculum.

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INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
Name of the teacher: Sinsha. S.S Standard: 9
Subject : English Time : 45 mns
Unit : 2- Breaking Barriers
Topic : Only Daughter
Issue : Issue of marginalised
Sub Issue : The representation of gender
in different genre of literature.
Curricular Statement: The students
- develop the four fold skills, listening, speaking, reading
and writing
- get an idea about the functional use of the words
- get the new words, its meaning and pronunciation
- comprehend the passage ‘Only Daughter’
- develop oral communication in the target language
Learning Outcomes: The pupils
- comprehend the passage ‘ Only Daughter’
- read the passage with correct stress, rhythm, intonation,
pronunciation and modulation of voice
- get the spelling, meaning and pronunciation of the words
like ‘anthology’, ‘circumstances’, ‘aloneness’ etc
- speak out their view about family and relationship among
siblings
- try to understand the position of women in the society
Content Analysis: ‘Only Daughter’ is a memoir written by Sandra Cisneros. It tells
about her experience in life of being only daughter in a family
of six sons. ‘career’, ‘anthology’, ‘circumstance’ etc are new
words introduced in the first three paragraphs.

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Pre requisites: Children might have an awareness about the previous lessons that
they have learned in relation with the issue of women. They might
have an awareness about what a memoir is? They might understand
the importance of family relation.
Teaching- Learning Resources: Course book, source book, power point presentation
of the picture and profile of writer. Picture of famous women, video
showing the intimacy between a daughter and father .
Formative Evaluation Procedure: Comprehension questions, classroom activities,
review questions.
Classroom Instructions/ Procedures Expected Response
Informal Interaction
Teacher communicates with the students and
establishes a good rapport with them.
Teacher: How are you?
How many siblings do you have?
Do you think that a girl child faces
discrimination even at her home?
Do you think that it is right to treat girls
in a different way from boys?
Entry Activity
Teacher shows a power point presentation of
famous and successful women who changed the world
and their contributions.
Teacher: What do you think about this?
Do you think that women are inferior to
men?
Link Talk
Teacher introduced the memoir ‘Only Daughter’
by Sandra Cisneros. Teacher tells that it is an
Students give various answers.
Students give answers
Students listen carefully

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experience of a woman who was only daughter among
six brothers. It was about how her family treated her
and her experience. Let’s see what her experiences are.
Micro Processing of Input
Track Reading
Teacher asks the students to read the first three
paragraphs individually and keep track of their
learning. They can put tick mark for the lines they
understand, question mark for what they didn’t
understand and exclamation mark for the lines having
surprising idea.
Sharing with Group
Students share their ideas with their group
members, teacher megaphones the doubt to the whole
class and helps the students understand the passage.
Vocabulary
Career = Series of jobs that a person has in a
particular area of work.
Anthology = Collection of writings.
Circumstances= Situation.
Allow = Give permission.
Model Reading by the Teacher
Teacher reads the passage with correct stress,
intonation, pronunciation and modulation of voice.
Scaffolding Questions
1. Who is the author of this memoir?
2. What is the profession of the author?
3. What is this memoir about?
4. Is being an only daughter in a family of six
sons good or bad for the daughter?
Discourse Construction
Pair Work
Teacher shows the video of a father and daughter.
Teacher asks the students to prepare a casual
conversation between a father and daughter and enact
that in front of the class.
Students read the passage
silently and keep track of their
learning.
Students actively participate in
groups and share their ideas.
Students get the spelling,
meaning and pronunciation of
new words.
Students listen carefully.
Students give answers.
Students prepare conversation
and enact the roles.

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Group Work
Teacher asks the students to present a situation
where ‘six brothers are playing cricket and a girl is
going there to play with them. But the boys try to
avoid her.
Editing
Teacher helps the students to correct their mistakes.
Loud Reading
Teacher makes one or two students to read the
passage with correct stress, intonation, pronunciation
and modulation of voice.
Review
Teacher asks questions to the students gives a
summary of what he taught.
Students discuss in groups and
enact the role of brothers and
sister.
Students correct their mistakes.
Students read the passage with
correct stress, intonation,
pronunciation and modulation
of voice.
Students give answers and
listen carefully.
Follow – up Activity: Write about your memorable moments with your sister.

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