The document provides details about using the animated poem "Some Days" by Billy Collins to teach students. It outlines a lesson plan with the goal of having students understand the poem by watching the animated video, listening, and reading some lines. The plan includes an introduction where students express personal feelings. They are then given lines from the poem and tasked with organizing them in the correct order. Later, students write an introduction with blanks to fill in following the sequence of the poem. They then discuss questions about what they understood and how the persona feels.

1. Activity 2 Topic: Teaching with poetry. “ Some Days “ Animated poem.
Level B1
Literary
Goal
Using poetry to teach in the classroom. In this case it would be animated poems
by Billy Collins.
Technique Use visual animated poems to learn in the classroom.
Objective
After providing students with animated images, they would try to understand the
poem by looking the images, listening and reading some lines.
Segmen
t
Tim
e
Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5
min
-T will askthe students thisquestions
1-How doyou feel somedays?
2-Whendo yougathertogetherto your
familyonthe table?
3-What do youdo whenyoufeel sad,
happy,tiredor angry?
Aftertheyanswerthe questions.
-T will show ananimated
videotoss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB
eaQHdrGo
-Ss will express some
personal feelings
-Ss will share
personal experiences
This section
will introduce
the students
to the topic
before the
story.
First Task 10
min
- T will give to the ss a handout with some
parts of the lines from the video. The ss
will organize them according to the poem.
-All afternoon they face one another,
the man in the brown suit,
-But other days, I am the one
who is lifted up by the ribs,
- or sitting down there amidst the
wallpaper,
staring straight ahead with your little
plastic face?
-Some days I put the people in their
places at the table,
bend their legs at the knees,
- Students are going
to listen the poem
then understand the
order.
- Students can also
provide their insights
about the story they
listen.
- This class
will let the
students to
understand
the
pronunciatio
n of words.

2. Controlle
d written
practice
15
min
- T will distribute a handout with blank
spaces to write an introduction to the
story, following a sequence.
- T will check the possible answers given
by the students.
Some Days-Billy Collins
Some days I put the people in their places
at the table,
bend their legs at the knees,
if they come with that feature,
and fix them into the tiny wooden chairs.
All afternoon they face one another,
the man in the brown suit,
the woman in the blue dress,
perfectly motionless, perfectly behaved.
But other days, I am the one
who is lifted up by the ribs,
then lowered into the dining room of a
dollhouse
to sit with the others at the long table.
Very funny,
but how would you like it
if you never knew from one day to the
next
if you were going to spend it
striding around like a vivid god,
your shoulders in the clouds,
or sitting down there amidst the wallpaper,
staring straight ahead with your little
plastic face?
T. will ask the ss to talk about the poem.
T asks to discuss the answers of the
following questions.
Questions:
What do you understand?
How does the persona feel?
Where is he with the people?
Who looks to the window?
- Ss will share the
possible answers.
-Ss will compare the
answers as well as
discuss them with
the rest of the class
Ss will check answers
with T.
- This section
of the class
will allow to
the students
to know their
different
opinions and
values,
connected to
the story
plot.