period plan model

1. 1
Class: VIII Subject:English
Unit: family No. of periods required:26
A. Reading: The Tattered Blanket
B. Reading: Poem- My Mother
C. Reading:Letter
Expected outcomes:
1. Involvement of children during the transaction of all components
listens and expresses their views and ideas freely.
2. Children should able to read and comprehend the given reading
text individually and collaboratively.
3. Children should be able to use appropriate Vocabulary and
Grammar in oral and written discourses.
4. Creative Expressions; Construction of written Discourses
Description – narrative – conversation – letter - paragraph
I. Period wise Details
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
01 Face sheet Picture interaction
Whole Class Activity
Text
book,Blac
k Board
02 Discourse: Description
of my family
Interaction,
Individual,Group
Activity,
Charts

2. 2
03 Discourse-Editing Interaction,Negotiatio
n
Individual,Group
Presentation,
Charts
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
04 Reading Segment 1:
Para 1 to 13;
When he arrived
..…..…………. dream
of making her unhappy.
Individual,Group and
Teacher reading,
Text
Book,Cha
rts
05 Discourse: Construction
of a narrative
Interaction,
Individual,Group
Activity
Charts
06 Discourse-Editing-
Narrative
Interaction,Negotiatio
n,Individual,GroupPr
esentation
Charts
07 Reading segment 2:Para
14 to 32;
I got
promotion…………
?.said to him
exasperatedly.
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
Book
08 Discourse: Construction Interaction, Charts

3. 3
of a conversation Individual, Group
Activity
09 Discourse: Editing-
Conversation
Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts
10 Reading – Segment 3:
Para 33 to 48:Gopi
placed his
briefcase….your
Amma?
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
Book
11 Discourse : Description
of the character of Gopi
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts
12 Discourse-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
13 Transaction of
components-vocabulary
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
Book
14 Transaction of
components-Grammar
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts

4. 4
15 Transaction of
components-Writing
:Paragraph
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
book,
Black
Board,
Charts
16 Paragraph-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Text
Book
17 Transaction of
Listening activity..
Teacher and whole
class activity
Text
book,
18 Transaction of
components-Study
Skills
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
book,
Black
Board
,Charts
19 B. Reading Poem: My
Mother
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
book,
Black
Board
20 Discourse: Writing the
script of choreography
Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
21 Discourse-Editing:
Script of choreography
Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
22 c. Reading: Letter to a Individual, Group and Text
book,

5. 5
Friend Teacher reading Black
Board
23 Discourse: Letter
writing.
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts,
Note
books
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
24 Discourse-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
25 Transaction of Project: Individual, Group
Activity
Charts,
Note
books
26 Project Work-
Presentation
Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
II. Period wise Teacher’s notes /Interactive question (
Period 1: Face sheet
1. What do you observe in the pictures?
2. What kind of families do you observe?
3. What is a small family?
4. What is a large/ big family?

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5. Which kind of families do we find in the present society? Small/
big families? Why?
6. Which family do you like to live in, small or big? Give reasons.
Period 2 : Discourse: Description of my family .
1. How many members are there in your family?
2. Who are they?
3. Who are the bread winners of your family?
4. How many sisters do you have?
5. What do your sisters do?
6. How many brothers do you have?
7. What do your brothers do?
8. What are your father and mother?
9. What do the other people in your family do?
10. What do your grandparents do?
11. How do you help your parents?
12. How do you help your grandparents?
13. Do you like your family? Why?
14. How is your family different from other families?

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Period 3: Discourse-Editing- Description of your family
1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does the description communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4. Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 4: Reading Segment – 1 (paragraphs 1 to 13)
1. Who are the people in the passage?
2. How are the characters related?
3. What are the main events in the story?
4. What are the description s involved in the story?
5. Who came home?
6. How did he arrive?
7. Where was the man coming from?
8. Why didn’t mother recognize Gopi?
9. Why didn’t he write a letter to his mother?
10. How was the situation when the man arrived?
11. Why did the old woman loss memory
12. Why did Gopi travel all the way from Delhi to
Thiruvananthapuram ?
13. Whose school was closed for vacation?

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14. Why didn’t Gopi visit his mother over the years?
Period 5:Discourse: Construction of a narrative
1. Kamala’s brother Gopi was not writing letters to their mother for
long. How did Kamala feel about it?
2. What is the mood of Kamala now?
3. Do you think Gopi loves his mother?
4. What are her thoughts about Gopi?
Period 6:Discourse-Editing: Construction of a narrative
1. How did you begin the narrative?
2. Are all the events in a proper order?
3. Did you use any linkers (then, suddenly, at last, finally etc.) to
connect
the ideas/ events?
4. What other expressions did you use?
5. How did you end the paragraph?
6. Do you want to make any changes in your paragraph?
(Such as rephrasing the sentences/ re-ordering the ideas.)
Period 7:Reading segment – 2 (Paragraphs 14 to 32)
1. Who are conversing in the passage? What is it about?
2. Why did mother ask, who did Gopi marry?
3. Did Kamala receive a letter from Gopi on that day?
4. Who was terribly upset if she didn’t get/receive a letter from Gopi?
5. Why did the old woman pose questions? Who is your amma?
6. Do you find any events/ descriptions in the passage?
Period 8: Discourse: Construction of a conversation
1. Who are conversing in the passage?

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2. What are the characters ?
3. What are they saying to each other?
Period 9: Discourse-Editing: Conversation
1. What modifications will you make in the conversation if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does theconversation communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
Period 10: Reading – Segment 3 (Paragraphs 33 to 48)
1. Who are conversing in the passage? What is it about?
2. Why did mother ask, Who did Gopi marry?
3. Did Kamala receive a letter from Gopi on that day?
4. Who was terribly upset if she didn’t get/receive a letter from Gopi?
5. Why did the old woman pose questions? Who is your amma?
6. Do you find any events/ descriptions in the passage?
Period 11:Discourse : Description of the character of Gopi
1. You have read the story completely now. Do you think Gopi
remembers his Amma?
2. Why do you think so?
3. What kind of a person is Gopi?
4. Why did he come to his village from Delhi? Did he really want to
meet his mother and sister?
5. What other features of Gopi could you identify from the story?
6. What made him behave like that?
7. Attempt a description of Gopi’s character?

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Period 12 : Discourse-Editing - Description of the character of Gopi
1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does thedescription communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4.Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 13:Transaction of components-vocabulary
Period 14:Transaction of components-Grammar
Period 15: -Writing a paragraph
1.What is the impact of economic pressures?
2.What are the reasons for lack of love and affection?
3.What happens if we miss the human relationship?
Period 16: Discourse-Editing- Writing a paragraph
1. What modifications will you make in the paragraph if you have to
Write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does the paragraph communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4.Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?

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Period 17: Transaction of Listening activity.
1.What is the announcement about?
2.What are the features of Prashanth?
3.Where do you generally listen to such announcements?
4.What are the other ways to trace the missing persons or things?
Period 18: Transaction of components-Study Skills
1. Who lives in your family?
2.Is your family a nuclear family or joint family?
3. What do the other people in your family do?
4. Do you like your family? Why?
5. Which type of family you prefer and why?
Period 19: B. Reading Poem: My Mother
Interaction based on the picture:
1. What is the poem about?
2. What ideas do you get from the picture?
3. What ideas do you observe in the first picture?
4. What ideas do you observe in the second picture?
Interaction based on the poem:
1. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
2. Who are the woman and the boy?
3. What do the woman and the man refer to?

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4. What emotions does the poem contain?
5. What do you understand the line “I cannot remember my mother’?
6. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the first stanza?
7. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the second
stanza?
8. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the third stanza?
9. What is the central theme of the poem?
Period 20:Discourse: Writing the script of choreography
1.What imagery do you find in each stanza? What does it appeal?
2. Who are the characters involved?
3. Where do the incident happen?
Period 21:Discourse-Editing: Script of choreography
1) Are all the events included?
2) Are there sufficient dialogues?
3) Do you want any changes in the dialogues?
Period 22:C. Reading- Letter
1. Who wrote the letter to whom?
2. What is the relation between the two?
3. What are the events you identified?
4. What are the descriptions you identified in the passage/ letter?
5. What is the letter about?
6.Describe the event of their childhood memory in Manikondavillage?
7. Describe the present situation of the writer?
8. What did they do in the vacation?

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9. What did they do in the schooling?
10. What were their happy moments?
Period 23:Discource-Letter writing
1. Observe the letter that Ramesh wrote to Suresh.
2. How did he begin the letter?
3. How did he wish his friend?
4. What is the first sentence? Would he write the same sentence in
other letters too? Why?
5. How did he write the ideas he wanted to express?
6. Are they in a proper order?
7. Is the language formal or informal?
8. What other features do you observe?
10. Imagine that you are Suresh. Attempt a reply letter to Ramesh.
Period 24: Editing -Letter
1. How did you begin the letter?
2. How does the salutation begin?
3. What ideas did you include? Are they suitable to answer the
letter by Ramesh?
4. Have you used proper connectives like ‘well, but, while, gradually,
so, etc.?
5. Have you used proper pronouns?
6. How did you conclude the letter?
7. Did you use a proper subscription like yours lovingly, your friend,
etc?
Period 25: Transaction of Project:

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We see many people around us living with their own families.
1.What are the different kinds of families?
2.What are the advantages in a small or nuclear family?
3. How are joint families helpful?
4.Are there any disadvantages of living in a joint family?
Display the following questions on a chart:
1. How will you do the project?
2. Where will you get the information from?
3. Who will collect the information?
4. How will you share the information?
5. How will you record the data?
6. What questions will you ask for discussion?
Period 26:Project Work-Presentation
III-Teacher Reflections/ Comments (Period Wise)
Period -1
Period -1
Period – 2

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Period – 2
Unit Plan
Class: VIII Subject:English
Unit: Family No. of periods required:26
D. Reading: The Tattered Blanket
E. Reading: Poem- My Mother
F. Reading:Letter
Expected outcomes:
4. Involvement of children during the transaction of all components
listen and express their views and ideas freely.
5. Children should able to read and comprehend the given reading
text individually and collaboratively.
6. Children should be able to use appropriate Vocabulary and
Grammar in oral and written discourses.
4. Creative Expressions; Construction of written Discourses
Description – narrative – conversation – letter - paragraph
I. Period wise Details

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Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
01 Face sheet Picture interaction
Whole Class Activity
Text
book,Blac
k Board
02 Discourse: Description
of my family
Interaction,
Individual,Group
Activity,
Charts
03 Discourse-Editing Interaction,Negotiatio
n
Individual,Group
Presentation,
Charts
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
04 Reading Segment 1:
Para 1 to 13;
When he arrived
..…..…………. dream
of making her unhappy.
Individual,Group and
Teacher reading,
Text
Book,Cha
rts
05 Discourse: Construction
of a narrative
Interaction,
Individual,Group
Activity
Charts
06 Discourse-Editing-
Narrative
Interaction,Negotiatio
n,Individual,GroupPr
Charts

17. 17
esentation
07 Reading segment 2:Para
14 to 32;
I got
promotion…………
?.said to him
exasperatedly.
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
Book
08 Discourse: Construction
of a conversation
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts
09 Discourse: Editing-
Conversation
Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts
10 Reading – Segment 3:
Para 33 to 48:Gopi
placed his
briefcase….your
Amma?
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
Book
11 Discourse : Description
of the character of Gopi
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts
12 Discourse-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts

18. 18
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
13 Transaction of
components-vocabulary
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
Book
14 Transaction of
components-Grammar
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts
15 Transaction of
components-Writing
:Paragraph
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
book,
Black
Board,
Charts
16 Paragraph-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Text
Book
17 Transaction of
Listening activity..
Teacher and whole
class activity
Text
book,
18 Transaction of
components-Study
Skills
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
book,
Black
Board
,Charts
19 B. Reading Poem: My
Mother
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
book,
Black

19. 19
Board
20 Discourse: Writing the
script of choreography
Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
21 Discourse-Editing:
Script of choreography
Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
22 c. Reading: Letter to a
Friend
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
book,
Black
Board
23 Discourse: Letter
writing.
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts,
Note
books
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
24 Discourse-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
25 Transaction of Project: Individual, Group
Activity
Charts,
Note
books
26 Project Work-
Presentation
Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Charts,
Note

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Presentation books
II. Period wise Teacher’s notes /Interactive question (
Period 1: Face sheet
1. What do you observe in the pictures?
2. What kind of families do you observe?
3. What is a small family?
4. What is a large/ big family?
5. Which kind of families do we find in the present society? Small/
big families? Why?
6. Which family do you like to live in, small or big? Give reasons.
Period 2 : Discourse: Description of my family .
15. How many members are there in your family?
16. Who are they?
17. Who are the bread winners of your family?
18. How many sisters do you have?
19. What do your sisters do?
20. How many brothers do you have?

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21. What do your brothers do?
22. What are your father and mother?
23. What do the other people in your family do?
24. What do your grandparents do?
25. How do you help your parents?
26. How do you help your grandparents?
27. Do you like your family? Why?
28. How is your family different from other families?
Period 3: Discourse-Editing- Description of your family
1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does the description communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4. Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 4: Reading Segment – 1 (paragraphs 1 to 13)
1. Who are the people in the passage?
2. How are the characters related?
3. What are the main events in the story?
4. What are the description s involved in the story?

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5. Who came home?
6. How did he arrive?
7. Where was the man coming from?
8. Why didn’t mother recognize Gopi?
9. Why didn’t he write a letter to his mother?
10. How was the situation when the man arrived?
11. Why did the old woman loss memory
12. Why did Gopi travel all the way from Delhi to
Thiruvananthapuram ?
13. Whose school was closed for vacation?
14. Why didn’t Gopi visit his mother over the years?
Period 5:Discourse: Construction of a narrative
1. Kamala’s brother Gopi was not writing letters to their mother for
long. How did Kamala feel about it?
2. What is the mood of Kamala now?
3. Do you think Gopi loves his mother?
4. What are her thoughts about Gopi?
Period 6:Discourse-Editing: Construction of a narrative
1. How did you begin the narrative?
2. Are all the events in a proper order?
3. Did you use any linkers (then, suddenly, at last, finally etc.) to
connect
the ideas/ events?
4. What other expressions did you use?
5. How did you end the paragraph?
6. Do you want to make any changes in your paragraph?

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(Such as rephrasing the sentences/ re-ordering the ideas.)
Period 7:Reading segment – 2 (Paragraphs 14 to 32)
1. Who are conversing in the passage? What is it about?
2. Why did mother ask, who did Gopi marry?
3. Did Kamala receive a letter from Gopi on that day?
4. Who was terribly upset if she didn’t get/receive a letter from Gopi?
5. Why did the old woman pose questions? Who is your amma?
6. Do you find any events/ descriptions in the passage?
Period 8: Discourse: Construction of a conversation
4. Who are conversing in the passage?
5. What are the characters ?
6. What are they saying to each other?
Period 9: Discourse-Editing: Conversation
1. What modifications will you make in the conversation if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does theconversation communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
Period 10: Reading – Segment 3 (Paragraphs 33 to 48)
1. Who are conversing in the passage? What is it about?
2. Why did mother ask, Who did Gopi marry?
3. Did Kamala receive a letter from Gopi on that day?
4. Who was terribly upset if she didn’t get/receive a letter from Gopi?
5. Why did the old woman pose questions? Who is your amma?
6. Do you find any events/ descriptions in the passage?

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Period 11:Discourse : Description of the character of Gopi
1. You have read the story completely now. Do you think Gopi
remembers his Amma?
2. Why do you think so?
3. What kind of a person is Gopi?
4. Why did he come to his village from Delhi? Did he really want to
meet his mother and sister?
5. What other features of Gopi could you identify from the story?
6. What made him behave like that?
7. Attempt a description of Gopi’s character?
Period 12 : Discourse-Editing - Description of the character of Gopi
1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does thedescription communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4.Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 13:Transaction of components-vocabulary
Period 14:Transaction of components-Grammar
Period 15: -Writing a paragraph
1.What is the impact of economic pressures?
2.What are the reasons for lack of love and affection?

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3.What happens if we miss the human relationship?
Period 16: Discourse-Editing- Writing a paragraph
1. What modifications will you make in the paragraph if you have to
Write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does the paragraph communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4.Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 17: Transaction of Listening activity.
1.What is the announcement about?
2.What are the features of Prashanth?
3.Where do you generally listen to such announcements?
4.What are the other ways to trace the missing persons or things?
Period 18: Transaction of components-Study Skills
1. Who lives in your family?
2.Is your family a nuclear family or joint family?
3. What do the other people in your family do?
4. Do you like your family? Why?
5. Which type of family you prefer and why?

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Period 19: B. Reading Poem: My Mother
Interaction based on the picture:
1. What is the poem about?
2. What ideas do you get from the picture?
3. What ideas do you observe in the first picture?
4. What ideas do you observe in the second picture?
Interaction based on the poem:
1. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
2. Who are the woman and the boy?
3. What do the woman and the man refer to?
4. What emotions does the poem contain?
5. What do you understand the line “I cannot remember my mother’?
6. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the first stanza?
7. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the second
stanza?
8. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the third stanza?
9. What is the central theme of the poem?
Period 20:Discourse: Writing the script of choreography
1.What imagery do you find in each stanza? What does it appeal?
2. Who are the characters involved?
3. Where do the incident happen?
Period 21:Discourse-Editing: Script of choreography
1) Are all the events included?
2) Are there sufficient dialogues?
3) Do you want any changes in the dialogues?

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Period 22:C. Reading- Letter
1. Who wrote the letter to whom?
2. What is the relation between the two?
3. What are the events you identified?
4. What are the descriptions you identified in the passage/ letter?
5. What is the letter about?
6.Describe the event of their childhood memory in Manikondavillage?
7. Describe the present situation of the writer?
8. What did they do in the vacation?
9. What did they do in the schooling?
10. What were their happy moments?
Period 23:Discource-Letter writing
1. Observe the letter that Ramesh wrote to Suresh.
2. How did he begin the letter?
3. How did he wish his friend?
4. What is the first sentence? Would he write the same sentence in
other letters too? Why?
5. How did he write the ideas he wanted to express?
6. Are they in a proper order?
7. Is the language formal or informal?
8. What other features do you observe?
10. Imagine that you are Suresh. Attempt a reply letter to Ramesh.
Period 24: Editing -Letter
1. How did you begin the letter?

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2. How does the salutation begin?
3. What ideas did you include? Are they suitable to answer the
letter by Ramesh?
4. Have you used proper connectives like ‘well, but, while, gradually,
so, etc.?
5. Have you used proper pronouns?
6. How did you conclude the letter?
7. Did you use a proper subscription like yours lovingly, your friend,
etc?
Period 25: Transaction of Project:
We see many people around us living with their own families.
1.What are the different kinds of families?
2.What are the advantages in a small or nuclear family?
3. How are joint families helpful?
4.Are there any disadvantages of living in a joint family?
Display the following questions on a chart:
1. How will you do the project?
2. Where will you get the information from?
3. Who will collect the information?
4. How will you share the information?
5. How will you record the data?
6. What questions will you ask for discussion?
Period 26:Project Work-Presentation

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III-Teacher Reflections/ Comments (Period Wise)
Period -1
Period -1
Period – 2
Period – 2
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