1. DA public school O&A levels phase Viii
Lesson Plan
By Tahseen Akhtar
DA public school O&A levels phase Viii
subject: English
Syndicate 2
Venue: da skbz

2. Action plan for grade III term 2011-2012
BOOK: OLW Launch into Literacy book 2
by Jane Medwell and Maureen Lewis
Unit 1: Writing to express
First term:
Unit 2: Writing to inform
Unit 3: Writing to entertain
Final term Unit 4: Writing to explain
Unit 5: Writing to persuade

3. Expression of ideas through poems
Writing to Express
Unit 1:
Expression of ideas through poems
Writing a travel poem Pg
Date: 22nd -26th August 2011
Duration: 8 periods

4. Goal
To adopt 21st century approaches to enhance students English reading, writing and comprehension skills.
To change strategies with students to promote critical thinking.
Focus on encouraging students instead of praising.
Encourage collaboration among students.

5. Objective Analyzing : To read, distinguish and comprehend the poems.
Evaluating:
Compare the common theme and different ways of exploring it.
Creativity:
Composing and assembling a poem.
To use language creatively and effectively in writing the poems.

6. Instructional strategies and tasks
To Plan:
The students will be asked to read travel poems in order to analyze and evaluate the theme.
They will brain storm all the different ways of travelling and different means of transport.
The students will decide which of their ideas they will use from the brain storming.
They will be given more choices of processes products and content in projects.

7. Instructional strategies and tasks
To Draft:
To compose a poem, students will work on language of the sentences playing around with lots of different ideas.
Students will draft the poems.
To Revise:
Revise the poems making alterations for improvement.
To Publish:
They will publish the poem for final display.
They will display in the form of any travel vehicle
eg: car, plane ship etc. ;

8. Anticipated challenges and solution
Parents might not like the idea of composing a poem by grade III students.
Solution:
Teacher will inform the parents prior to the starting of the project.

9. Timeline Analyzing the poems Evaluating the poems unit1 pg. no 16-17
Week 1
Week 3
Week 2
Week 4
Analyzing the poems unit 1 pg. no 11-15
Creativity
Publishing a poem

10. Evaluation Assessment Points Criteria:
As the children work, the teacher may wish to observe to what extend they can do the following:
Plan
First Draft
Revise
Edit
Final draft
Publish

11. Resources
OLW Launch into Literacy book 2 by Jane Medwell and Maureen Lewis.
Teachers Guide OLW Launch into Literacy book 2 by Jane Medwell and Maureen Lewis.
Intel teach program getting started course manual.
Internet.
Word processing and multimedia.

12. Conclusion
By implementing the newly acquired 21st century teaching approaches students will be empowered and will appreciate and gain better knowledge in writing a travel poem.

13. Thank You!