DEMONSTRATION TEACHING MANUAL 2
Name of the teacher: Anju Jude Subject:
English
Name of the school :St.Mary’s
CGHSS Unit : I
Standard : IX
Date :
Strength :
20/20 Lesson:
A Shattered Dreams
(Para 1-2)
Duration :40 mts (Non detailed Prose)
Content Generation
Ideational Content:
‘ A Shattered Dream’ is an anecdote from the
life of Mr. Anil Kumar who had been afighter pilot in the Indian Air Force. He
faced the challenges in his life with cheer even after a fatal accident. Anil
Kumar recalls his experiences in the form of a narrative. This narrative highlights
the importance of will power and determination.
Linguistic content :
Vocabulary Items: anecdote, crash, wrench,
cervical spine.
Structural Item: Past tense
(Simple Past)
Additional content:
Parallel narrative
Synthetic Content: Profile Writing .
Curricular objectives
Learner:
Gets sensitized to
the issue posed and responses to it.
Develops awareness about the importance of
will power and dedication to
address real life issues.
Develops reference skills.
Listens
to story with comprehension.
Reads and analyses
the literary text and identifies the theme.
Learns new
vocabulary
Prepares profile.
Pre-requisite
Learner
: Knows how to read write and understand English passage.
is familiar with the hardships faced by
different people.
Instructional strategies
Individual
work, group work, questioning, editing.
Learning aids
Text book,Charts, black board,
flash card. OHP, Video Clipping, PP, (computer, projector)
Process/Activity
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Assessment
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Entry Activity
After preliminary formalities
teacher establishes rapport with
students by presenting a newspaper article.
Teacher shows the picture of
Sudha Chandran and asks the students to identify her.
Then she presents the narrative
of Sudha Chandran’s life
“Sudha Chandran is a great dancer. She is a
successful actress too. Once while she was returning from Tamil Nadu, she
met with an accident. As a result her
right leg was amputated. She was disappointed initially. But she started
to dance with the help of an artificial
leg. In 1984, she did the movie ‘Mayuri’. She won the special jury award at
the National Award.”
Teacher shows the video clipping
of Sudha Chandran’s dance performance in the film ‘Mayuri’.
Teacher introduces the author
and provides the gist of the passage as follows:
“Today we are going to learn a similar story. M P Anil Kumar is the hero
of his story. He narrates his own
story of an accident which changed his life.”
Reading
Model Reading
Teacher reads the passage with
correct stress, intonation, pause, accent
and emotion.
Silent reading.
Students are asked to read passage silently with out lip movement. They are asked to keep track of their
reading.
Collaborate learning
Teacher divides the whole class into groups
and ask them to discuss what they understood
Scaffold learning
Teacher shows the picture flash
cards in PP to teach new words.
Anecdote: An anecdote is a short and amusing
or interesting story about a real
incident or person.
Crash
: to hit something very hard.
Wrench: injure ( a part of the body )
as a result of a sudden twisting movement.
Cervical Spine: strong structure that
begins from the skull and allows movement of the head in all direction.
Teacher shows the flash cards to the students and asks them to find
out the meaning.
Comprehension Questions
Answer the following questions:
Teacher
shows the picture of Anil Kumar in his paralyzed state as well as in Indian
Army.
Preparation of Discourse
Students are asked to construct a profile of Anil Kumar.
Teacher provides hints to aid the students.
Presentation of Discourse
Teacher calls the students
at random to present the discourse
before the class.
Editing
Teacher initiates the editing
process by correcting the group version selected at random.
Teacher’s Version
Teacher presents her own
version:
M P Anil Kumar
M
P Anil Kumar was born in 1964 at Chirayinkal
, Trivandrum. In 1973, he entered the Sainik School at the age of 9. He joined the Indian Air Force as a
fighter piolot in 1984. He met with an accident on 28th June 1988.
The accident wrenched his neck and broke his cervical spine which led to
paralysis.
Follow up
The students are asked to write a letter to Anil Kumar appreciating
his will power and determination.
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DISCUSSION TEACHING MANUAL (POEM)
Name of the teacher:Flemine
Gracious
Unit:1,Root,Poem: Those Winter Sundays
Name of the School :St.Marys Ernakulam Sub-unit
: 14Lines(Stanzas1 -3)
Subject : English
Standard : XI
Strength : 39/40
Duration : 45
minutes
Date : 16-6-2014
Content Generation
Ideational Content
In the poem, ‘Those Winter
Sundays’ by Robert Hayden, with a sense of
grief, he fondly recalls how he never appreciated his father’s love, when he
was a boy.
Linguistic Content
Vocabulary items: blue-black cold, cracked, ached, blazed, splintering,
chronic, austere, lonely.
Aesthetic items: Poetic
devices like: Figures of speech,
Imagery,
Additional Content
1. Videoclipping of the film
song ‘Suryanayi’ Satyam Sivam Sundaram .
2. Poem ‘Achan’ by Balachandran
Chullikkadu.
Synthetic Content
Writing a poem about one’s own
father.
Learning Objectives
The learner:
- Analyzes the literary text and identify the theme of the poem.
- Gets acquainted with the new vocabulary given in the poem.
- Improves his/her literary skills and creative writing skills.
- Appreciates the aesthetic aspects like imagery.
- Develops his/her creativity through writing poems.
- Appreciates the parental love and care and develops healthy family relationships.
Pre-requisites
The learner:
- Has experienced parental love and care.
- Has written poems on his/her own.
- Is familiar with poetic devices like imagery. .
Instructional Strategies
Group
work for collaborative reading, individual work for poetry
writing, recitation , peer
correction
Learning Aids
PowerPoint Presentation, Blackboard, flashcards, charts,
pictures, video clipping.
Process/Activity
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Assessment
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I.
Entry
activity
The teacher
creates rapport with the students by engaging in informal conversation. The teacher asks some questions in order to
introduce the topic.
Do you like
songs ?
Listen to the
song and identy the theme?
The teacher
plays the videoclipping of the film song
‘Suryanayi’ Satyam Sivam
Sundaram.
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Can any own
recite any parallel lines from mother tongue?
Recites the Poem ‘Achan’ by Balachandran
Chullikkadu.
Who is it about?
Do you like your father very much? Why?
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The teacher mentions the gist
of the poem as follows: Today we are
going to study a poem, a beautiful poem, written by Robert Hayden about his
father. The title of the poem is ‘Those Winter Sundays’.
It is about a son’s grief for,
he had never appreciated his father’s love, when he was a boy.
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The teacher shows the picture
of the author and gives a brief description about him. The author’s name is Robert Hayden.
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The teacher shows a flash card
with the title of the poem and the author details.
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II. Reading
Model Reading
The teacher reads the poem loudly
with proper intonation , rhythm and tone.
Individual reading
The teacher asks the students
to read the poem silently.
Collaborative Reading
The teacher divides the
students into groups and asks them to read the passage. They are asked to put a ( ü
) mark if they have understood, a ( ? ) mark if they do not and an (!) mark
if they find anything surprising or interesting. The teacher helps the students to clarify
the meaning of new words/usages.
The teacher then asks the
students to highlight the important ideas of the poem.
Who is the
author of the poem?
What is the
poem about?
What do you
mean by ‘Sundays’ too?
Scaffolded Reading
The teacher further asks
scaffolding questions in order to provide an in depth idea about the poem.
How did the father support the family?
Which lines shows his hard
work?
What was his son’s attitude
towards him?
How did the family treat him?
What are the word pictures used
in the poem?
What do you call these word
pictures? These word picture are called
images .(Shows the chart)
Do activity 1(page-22).List the images in
the poem.
Classify these images in to visual, auditory, tactile, as they appeal
to different sense organs.
Teacher introduces the new
words as follows:
Blue- black - severe
In winter we wear woolen clothes to protect
us from severe cold.(shows pictures).
‘Blue black cold’ means ‘severe cold’.
Cracked- parched (
(shows pictures of parched
hands.) look at these hands! They are parched because of hard work. Cracked means ‘parched’.
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III. Preparation of Discourse
Write a poem about your father.
The students are asked to
prepare the discourse individually. They
are then expected to discuss their discourses in groups and to select the
best product of the group. After this,
they refine the product within their groups.
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Presentation of the Discourse
The students present their
refined discourses before their peers.
Editing
The teacher helps the students
to edit their discourses. The students
discuss about the ideas to be incorporated in the discourse as well as
aspects like thematic editing, syntactic editing, morphological editing, and
spelling and punctuation errors.
Presentation of Teacher’s Version
The teacher presents her own
version of the discourse.
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My Sweet Dad!
Those cold hands with warm
touch
Help me with my homework and
other tasks
Whose gentle smile caress my
heart
At times when I lose hope
The abundant love as the
showers of rain
Unconditional and so true
All he wants is my happy face
And all my troubles depart.
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Follow-up activity
The teacher asks the students to prepare a greeting card for
Father’s Day.
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