INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

PRELIMINARY DETAILS Name of the teacher trainee: SUBI DALBIN Name of the school : St. Michael’s H.S.S Subject : English Class : VIII Unit : Wings and Wheels Topic : From A Railway Carriage Duration : 40 minutes

Curricular Statements The learner reads and enjoys poems The learner appreciates the beauty of the poem The learner understands the theme of the poem The learner identifies and understands the poetic devices like rhyming scheme, images, figures of speech etc.

Learning Outcomes The learner develops interest and curiosity in travelling to explore new worlds The learner develops his aesthetic sense The learner realizes how exciting is the train journey The learner understands the beauty of a train journey

Content Analysis The poem “ From A Railway Carriage” is written by Robert Louise Stevenson which shares his experience of a train journey. He describes the amazing speed of the train. He presents the natural scenes as seen from the window of a railway carriage.

Pre-requisites Learner is familiar with train journey Learner is familiar with the scenes they see while travelling in bus or train Learner is familiar with similar poems in their mother tongue.

Teaching-Learning Resources Video of a train journey Video of the poem PowerPoint of the author Picturisation of the poem

LEARNING ACTIVITIES CLASSROOM PROCEDURE Informal Interaction Teacher establishes a co-ordial atmosphere in the classroom by exchanging few dialogues Entry Activity Teacher shows the video of a train journey and asks the learner to observe it carefully.

Link Talk Today we are going to learn a poem “From A Railway Carriage” written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Teacher writes the title and name of the poet on the blackboard Teacher shows the powerpoint presentation of the author

Micro processing of the input Teacher presents the video of the poem Reciting the poem by the teacher Teacher recites the poem twice with correct rhythm, tone, feeling and pronunciation. Silent reading by the pupil Teacher asks the students to read the poem silently and do track reading.

Sharing with peers or pairs Teacher asks the pupil to share what they understood and what they didn’t understand with their peers. Word study Teacher asks the difficult words and writes it on the blackboard. Teacher helps the learner to refer glossary and find out the meaning of the difficult words.

Fairies - angel ( Teacher shows a picture) Witches - a wicked female magician (Teacher shows a picture) Hedges - fence (Teacher shows a picture) Ditch - a small natural waterway (Teacher shows a picture) Daisy - a flower (Teacher shows a daisy) Glimpse - a quick look (Teacher illustrates the word in a sentence)

Teacher shows the power point picturization of the poem

From A Railway Carriage -R. L. Stevenson

Faster than Fairies

Faster than Witches

Bridges and houses

HEDGES AND DITCHES

ALL THROUGH THE MEDOWS THE HORSES AND CATTLE

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain

And ever again in the wink of an eye,

clambers and scrambles There is a child who clambers and scrambles

All by himself and gathering brambles

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Here is a cart runaway in the road

Lumping along with man and load

And here is a mill,

And there is a river

Each a glimpse and gone forever

Second silent reading by the pupil Teacher asks the learner to read once again silently Detailed comprehension questions What is the poem about? What is faster than witches and fairies? What are the natural scenes described in the second line? How does the troops resemble the train? What appeared in front of the poet in the wink of an eye?

Write a 4 line poem about your train journey 6. Who gazed the train? 7. What did the child do? 8. What was there on the road? What was in the cart? What has gone forever? Group activity Teacher gave certain questions as group activity for the appreciation of the poem Follow-up-activity Write a 4 line poem about your train journey

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