This is an innovative lesson plan prepared by Anwar.S.H of KTCT College of Teacher Education as a part of B.ed works for the academic year 2014-15.

2. INNOVATIVE LESSON
PLAN
ANWAR . S.H
KTCT COLLEGE OF TEACHER
EDUCATION
ENGLISH

3. UNIT : 2, BREAKING
BARRIERS
TOPIC : WOMEN
AUTHOR : LOUISE
BOGAN

4. HOW IT IS INNOVATIVE!!!
THIS LESSON TEMPLATE IS BASED ON THE
INNOVATIVE METHOD TO TEACH THE
STUDENTS THROUGH THE ADAPTATION
OF INTERSTING AND RELEVANT FILM
CLIPS FROM THE MALAYALAM FILM ‘HOW
OLD ARE YOU’ AND SUCCESSFUL WOMEN
IN HISTORY. IT HELPS THE STUDENTS TO
GRASP THE THEME OF THE POEM
‘GENDER INEQUALITIES’. AND THE
LESSON TEMPLATE ALSO INCLUDES THE
PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE
IMPORATANT LINES FROM THE POEM
‘WOMEN’.

6. ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS??
>WHICH IS THIS FILM?
>WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT
>WHO IS THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE FILM?
>WHATs HER AGE?
>ANY ONE ACCEPT HER DREAMS?
>HOW SHE TACKLES ALL HER PROBLEMS?

7. THIS IS A FILM WHICH DESCRIBES THE LIFE OF 36 YEAR OLD NIRUPAMA
SAJEEV WHO FACES ALMOST EVERY SITUATION THAT AN AVERAGE
MALAYALI
WOMAN OF HER AGE GOES THROUGH.
The movie focuses on society's obsession with
attaching gender and age specific stereotypes to
women
HERE WE ARE GOING TO STUDY A WONDERFUL POEM
‘WOMEN’ BY LOUISE BOGAN WHICH DESCRIBES THE LIFE
OF WOMEN LIKE NIRUPAMA WHO HAVE NO FREEDOM TO

8. WOMEN –LOUISE BOGAN
 The poem is written against the
pathetic plight of women in a
male dominated society where
what the male enjoys is denied
to women

9. LOUISE BOGAN
Born: August 11, 1897,
Died: February 4, 1970,
New York City, New York, United
States
Books: The Blue Estuaries: Poems,
1923-1968, more
Awards: Bollingen Prize, United
States Poet Laureate, Guggenheim
Fellowship for Creative Arts, US &
Canada
Education: Boston University (1915–
1916), Boston Latin Academy(1910–
1915)

10. Women
BY LOUISE BOGAN
Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.
They do not see cattle cropping red winter
grass,
They do not hear
Snow water going down under culverts
Shallow and clear. >>>

11. >>> They wait, when they should turn to
journeys,
They stiffen, when they should bend.
They use against themselves that
benevolence
To which no man is friend.
They cannot think of so many crops to a
field
Or of clean wood cleft by an axe.
Their love is an eager meaninglessness
Too tense, or too lax.

12. >>> They hear in every whisper that
speaks to them
A shout and a cry.
As like as not, when they take
life over their door-sills
They should let it go by.

13. WILDERNESS
Women have no wilderness in
them,

14. PROVIDENT
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread

15. THEY DONOT SEE THE CATTLE
CROPPING RED WINTER GRASS

16. They do not hear
Snow water going down under culverts
Shallow and clear.
CULVERT

17. They wait, when they should
turn to journeys,
They stiffen, when they should

18. They use against themselves that
benevolence
To which no man is friend.

19. They cannot think of so many crops to a field
Or of clean wood cleft by an axe.
Their love is an eager meaninglessness
Too tense, or too lax.

20. They hear in every whisper that
speaks to them
A shout and a cry.

21. As like as not, when they take
life over their door-sills
They should let it go by.