1. INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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)

13. Teacher shows the power point picturization of the poem

14. From A Railway Carriage -R. L. Stevenson

15. Faster
than
Fairies

16. Faster than Witches

17. Bridges and houses

18. HEDGES AND DITCHES

20. ALL THROUGH THE MEDOWS
THE HORSES AND CATTLE

21. All of the sights of the
hill and the plain

22. Fly as thick as driving rain

23. And ever again in the wink of an eye,

25. clambers and scrambles
There is a child who
clambers and scrambles

26. All by himself and
gathering brambles

27. a

29. Here is a cart runaway
in the road

30. Lumping along with man and load

31. And here is a mill,

32. And there is a river

33. Each a
glimpse
and
gone
forever

34. 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?

35. 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

36. THANK YOU