This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching the poem "Even Past Fifty" to students. The lesson plan aims to help students comprehend the poem, which describes an Indian woman dealing with difficulties in her life past age 50. Students will read the poem individually, discuss it in groups, learn the meanings of new vocabulary words, and engage in activities like enacting scenes from the poem. The lesson concludes with students writing about the significance of the poem and reading it aloud with proper expression.

1. Name of the teacher : Revathy .B.S
Name of the school : K.T.C.T
Serial number : 1
Subject : English
Unit : 11, Breaking Barriers
Topic : Even Past Fifty
Issue : The Issues of Marginalised
Sub Issue : Gender Inequalities
Curricular Statement : The pupils
 develop four fold skills listening, speaking, reading and writing
 get the new words, its meaning and pronunciation
 recite and enjoy the poem ‘Even Past Fifty’
 develop an oral communication in the target language
Learning Outcomes : The pupils
 comprehend the poem ‘Even Past Fifty’
 Recite the poem ‘Even Past Fifty’ with correct stress, intonation,
pronunciation and modulation of voice.
 Get the meaning, pronunciation and spelling of the words like
‘fatigue’, ‘catastrophe’ ‘tangle’ etc.
Content Analysis : ‘Even Past Fifty’ is a poem written by ShantaShelke. In this poem,
The poet describes how a woman deals with the difficult situation
in her life even past fifty. Here the poet presents Indian women
and their problems.

2. Pre requisites : The pupils
 might have read stories and poems of the same kind
 might have known the difficulties faced by the women.
Teaching Learning
Resources : Course book, Sourcebook, Power point presentation of the two
stanzas of poem, picture of the author f the poem etc.
Formative Evaluation
Procedure : Comprehension question, Classroom activities, Review questions etc.
Classroom Instruction / Procedure Pupil Response
Informal Interaction
Teacher communicates with the students
and makes a good rapport with them.
Teacher : Good morning..
Do you like poems?
What type of poems do you like?
Have you ever read women
centred poems?
Good morning..
Yes/ No
Students give various answers.
Yes/ No
Entry Activity
Teacher asks the students to enact the
woman’s struggle to manage things at home on
a busy morning.
Students enact as a woman
Link Talk
Teacher introduces the poem ‘Even Past
Fifty’. Here the poet describes how a woman
deals with the difficult solutions in her life
even past fifty.
Students listen carefully

3. Mcroprocessing of Input
Model Recitation by the teacher
Teacher recites the poem with correct stress
intonation, pronunciation, and modulation of
voice.
Students listen carefully
Track Reading
Teacher asks the students to read the
poem individually and keep track of their
reading. They can put ‘  ’ for the line they
understand, ‘ ? ’ for the line they do not
understand and ‘ ! ’ for the line have any
surprising idea.
Students read silently and keep track of their
reading
Sharing with groups
Students share their ideas with their
group members, teacher megaphones the
doubts to the whole class and helps the
students to understand the poem.
Students share their ideas with their group
members
Vocabulary
Fatigue |fati:g| - tiredness
Catastrophes |kәtæstrәfi| - Terrible misfortune
Wipe |waip| - clean or dry by rubbing
Teacher using PowerPointPresentaion to show
the pictures that are apt for the meanings of the
words. Teacher first provides the situations in
order to help the students to get the meaning of
the words.
Students got meaning and pronunciation of
new words

4. Scaffolding Questions
Teacher asks one or two students from
each bench and provides some situations to
enact that are related to the poem. Teacher
selects some students to identify the scene
enacted by their friends.
Students enact well
Pair work
Teacher asks each group to take a lot
from the box. Each lot contains the names of
famous woman in india. Teacher asks them to
say some words about that woman.
Students enact well
Group work
Teacher asks the student to write the
significance of the poem ‘Even past fifty’.
Students write the answer
Editing
Teacher helps the students to make
necessary correction.
Students make necessary correction
Loud reading
Teacher asks one or two students to read
the poem with proper stress, intonation,
rhythm, pronunciation and modulation of
voice.
Students read the passage with correct stress,
intonation, pronunciation and modulation of
voice.
Follow up Activity : Prepare an album containing the words and pictures of famous women in
India.