INNOVATIVE LESSON PLANName of the teacher: CHINCHU PURUSHOTHAMAN               Standard: IX

Name of the school: SNHSS, Srekandeswaram                    Division: F

Subject          : English                                Strength: 44

Unit             : 3, Tales of toil                           Duration: 45min

Sub-unit          : Follower                               Date: 17/9/15

Issue     : Lack of human resource development.        Lack of cohesive universal vision.Sub-issue: Dignity of labour         The need for soft skills in the development of a proper work place.

CurricularStatements: Develop proper attitude towards work          Construct various discourses like description, narrative, skript etc.

Content Analysis: The poem ‘Follower’ is written by Seamus Heaney. It is a poem of a                 Son who has shouldered the work of his father. His father was a               Farmer .He strives to be like his father, at first, tripping, fallin and               Yapping and eventually becoming an expert farmer.

Pre-requisites: The learner is able to read, write and express his ideas in English.            Think and evaluate critically the issues related to human resource                  Development.                                                           

Teaching/learning       Resources: Chart                 Slides                 Course book                 Black board

                                                Classroom interaction procedure         Assessment/Expected Responds

Informal Interaction:                 Learners respond well.     Teacher establishes a good rapportby asking some questions related to everyday life activity.

Entry activity: Teacher shows a picture           Learners write and present it well.and ask the learners to write a few Sentence about your father.

Link talkTeachers show a picture and ask the          Pupil answers well Pupils to interpret it. Then teacher gives the profile of the author andasks one or two pupils to read itloudly. 

Micro processes sing of the input:                     Pupil listens carefully.Model reading by the teacher:

Teacher read the poem with correctPronunciation, stress and rhythm and alsoShows the slides of the poem.

Silent reading by the pupil:                              Pupil reads silently.

Teacher asks the learners read thePoem silently and rapidly with Comprehension.

Track reading:                                                  Learners track the reading according to      Teacher asks the learners to track                   the level of their understanding.Their reading using symbols x,!,?x- don’t understand,!-interesting,?-doubtful

Sitting in group and sharing with peers.        Learners share their ideas in groups.

     Teacher ask the learners to sit inGroups and share their understanding withThe members of the group.

Glossary reference      Teacher introduce new vocabularyItems through conduct.

1. pluck-remove

2. furrow- a narrow trench made the soil toPlough

3.Mapping-watching carefully

Mega phoning the doubts:                                   Learners clarify their doubts.   Teacher goes to each group andMegaphones their doubts to the entireClass and helps them to understand well.Facilitation by the teacherTeacher helps to clarify the difficult areas students listened carefully to the Which no groups could effectively tackle further explanation provided by theTeacher also explains the difficult areas. Teacher.Second Model Reading By The Teacher

Scaffold questions:                                          Learners answers well.Teacher asks scaffold questions to

Learners to realise the level of theirUnderstanding.1) Who is the author of the poem?2) What is the poem about?

Ans;1) Seamus Heaney. 2) the poet describes the toils of his father who worked with a horse. Presentations by the pupilRandomly students are selected from Students presented well Each group and they are asked to Present their answers for scaffolding Questions.

Discourse : Editing and presentation :                  Learners write and present it well.

Teacher asks the learners to prepareA conversation between the father and theSon in this poem.

Generalisation and conclusion:   Teacher summarise the lesson with theHelp of the students.      Today we learnt a new poem students helped the teacher to ‘Follower’ written by Seamus Heaney. It summaries the story.Is an address to a father by his sonAdmiringly. His father was an expert

 Farmer.

_________________________________________________________________________________________Assignment: Write an appreciation of the poem.