Thursday, July 11, 2013

VALUE EDUCATION LESSON PLAN BASED ON VALUE ORIENTED APPROACH

VALUE EDUCATION LESSON PLAN
 BASED ON VALUE ORIENTED    APPROACH

Name of the teacher: Deepthi VG                  Subject: English
Name of the school :St.Mary’s CGHSS         Unit : I
Standard         :   IX              
Date                :                                              
 Strength:                                                       Lesson:  A Shattered Dreams
                                                                                     (Para 1-2)
Duration          :40 mts                                               (Non detailed Prose)
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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: anecdote, crash, wrench, cervical spine.
                       
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 isues.
                            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
Response
Preparatory phase
Entry Activity    
        
After preliminary formalities teacher establishes  rapport with students by presenting a newspaper article.


Developmental Phase
 Presentation of the narration

              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’.

Orientation

             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 tis story. He narrates his wn story of an accident which changed his life.”

Reading 
Silent reading.
           
           Students  are asked  to read passage silently  with out lip movement.  They are asked to keep trackof 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:
  1. What is the message that Anil Kumar is trying to convey?
  2. What  was his profession?
  3. What happened to him?

Teacher shows the picture of Anil Kumar in his paralyzed state as well as in Indian Army.

Model Reading

         Teacher reads the passage with correct stress, intonation, pause, accent   and   emotion.  

Creative Activity
 Preparation of  Discourse

        Students are  asked to construct a profile of Anil Kumar.      
        Teacher provides  hints to aid the  students.


BIODATA

M P Anil Kumar

Born:                1964, Chirayinkil, Trivandrum
1973 :                Entered the Sainik School at the age of 9.
1984:                Joined the Indian Air force as a fighter pilot.
28th June 1088: Met with an accident.
                          Accident wrenched  his neck and broke
                          his cervical spine which led to paralysis.

 
Presentation of Discourse

               Teacher calls the  students   at random to present the discourse  before the class.


Teachers 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.


      Editing
              Teacher initiates the editing process by correcting the group version selected at random.

Follow up
   
             The students are asked to write a letter to Anil Kumar appreciating his courage.




ACHIEVEMENT TEST -II

ACHIEVEMENT TEST
                                                                                                  MAXIMUM MARKS : 20
                                                                                                  DURATION : 40 MINUTES



I  Varun is a student of standard VIII. His teacher has given him an assignment based on O.Henry’s short story “ After Twenty Years.” The assignment is to find out the answers to a few questions based on the passage given below. Can you help Varun to find out the answers?
  
           “Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here exactly twenty years from that               date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance
               we might have to come.We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our destiny worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be.”
                     
                              1. Who are the two men referred to as ‘we?’
                              2. What was the relationship between the two men?
                              3. Did they have their ‘destinies’ worked out?
                              4. What had life made of them?
                    ( 4x1 = 4)

II     Students of Standard VIII decide to publish a masnuscript magazine.Varun wants to     contribute a critical appreciation of Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “ Where the mind is without fear”,to the magazine. As he reads the last few lines of the poem, certain questions arise in his mind.Help him to find the answers of those questions. The lines and questions are given below.

                    Where the clear stream of reason
                     Has not lost its way into the
                     Dreary desert sand of dead habit

                    Where the mind is led forward
                     by thee into ever-widening
                      thought and action,

                      Into that heaven of freedom,
                      My Father,let my country awake.

                                    5. What does the poet express in these lines?
                                    6.Why are ‘dead habits’ compared to a ‘ dreary desert?’ Explain the
                                        Metaphor.
                                    7. What is the poet’s vision when he speaks of ‘ever-widening thought   
                                         And action?’ 
                                                                                              (3x2=6) 
                    

   
   III Varun’s English teacher gives him a few sentences and asks him to find                                           out the meaning of the underlined words in them. Help Varun to find out their meaning.The sentences are given below.
  
                                    8. The driver riveted the seat belt before starting the car.
                                    9. Ram was mesmerized by the Hindi Ghazal song rendered by
                                        Hariharan.
                                    10. The mosquito dirked Veena when she slept in the afternoon.
                                    11. Dr. Bharathan is one of the most successful surgeons in the medical
                                           Fraternity in Ernakulam.
                                    12. The mountaineer was caught in an intense blizzard while climbing   
                                           the  Himalayas.
(5x1=5)


IV Varun has a testpaper on “ Gulliver’s Travels” tomorrow.He is studying the questions of the first chapter. He is unable to find the answer of the question given below. Provide him with the answer.
                                   
                                     13. Mention five incidents in Gulliver’s life as he finished his studies.
(1x5=5)


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ACHIEVEMENT TEST

 Achievement Test

Page 1 Preliminary Details
Name of the teacher SUSAN JOSEPH
Name of the school ST.ANTONYS HSS ,KACHERIPADY
Standard 9
Division B
Subject ENGLISH
Duration 1 HOUR
Maximum Marks 20 MARKS
Page 2      Content and Curricular / Learning Objectives
( Here content refers to the content of the evaluation tool or question paper- it may differ from time to time , therefore get the latest question paper from a nearby school)
                                    For e.g.
1.      Prose Comprehension
The learner:
a)      reads and understands the passage
b)      identifies the theme of the passage
c)      writes the appropriate answers in simple English
2.      Poem Comprehension
a)
b)
3.      Textual Questions
a)
b)
4.      Discourse Writing
a)
b)
5.      Language / Grammatical items
a)
b)





Page 3      Weightage to Content and Curricular/ Learning Objectives

Sl. No.
Content
Curricular Objectives
No.of questions
Score
Percentage
1.
Prose comprehension
1a,  1c
3(3)
4
20
2.
Poem Comprehension
2a,2a,2a,2(b)
4(1)
4
20
3
Textual Questions
3b,3b,3a,3a
4(1)
4
20
4
Discourse Writing
4a
5(1)
5
25
5
Language / Grammatical items
5a
6(half)
3
15
Total

20
100

Page 4       Weightage to Form of Questions
Sl.No.
Form of Questions
Number of Questions
Score
Percentage
1
Short answer
10
12
60
2
Very short answer
6
3
15
3
Long Answer
1
5
25

Total


100


Page 5       Weightage to Difficulty Level

Sl.No.
Difficulty level
Number of Questions
Score
Percentage

1
Easy
3
3
15

2
Average
14
12
60

3
Difficult
1
5
25

Total


100












ACHIEVEMENT TEST
                                                                                                                                             
Maximum Mark-20
Duration – 1 Hour
 Answer the following in one or two sentences each. Each question carries one mark.   (4*1=4)

1.Who is the she mentioned in the poem, even past fifty ?
2.Princesses behave as princesses should. Do you agree. Why?
3.Why did the brothers of Sandra Cisneros refused to play with her?
4.What are some of the things that women miss in their life as mentioned in the poem ‘Women’?

Fill up the following sentences using the following phrasal verbs.                  (6*half=3)
(put off, put on, put out, put up, put down,put through)
1.The meeting was --------------- beacause of the strike.
2.The theatre group---------------a great show.
3.It took a long time to -----the fire.
4.We can ----- you -------if you’d like to come for the week end
5.The pilot --------the aircraft with great skill.
6.Operator -------- me    -----------to the president!
Prose Comprehension (2*2=4)
1.Was the daughter finally a disappointment to the father.
Quote sentences from the story that justifies the answer.
2. “Give me your hand, forget your fears”. What does this line suggest?
Poem Comprehension(4*1=4)
She has travelled------
----------------------- broken sword

1.Name some of the evil characters in children’s stories.
2.What does the long road suggest here?
3.Is she fatigued of her long journey?
4.What are catastrophes of her life compared to?

Discourse Writing(5*1=5)
Attempt a  monologue that the princess is likely to deliver when she finds that she is ill treated by the villagers.

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