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Unit Plan Class: X Subject: English Unit: 1. Personality Development No. of periods required: 30

A. Reading: Attitude is Altitude B. Reading: Every Success Story Is Also a Story of Great Failures C. Reading: I Will Do It

Expected outcomes:

1. Involvement of children during the transaction of all components. 2. Children should be able to listen and express their views and ideas freely.

3. Children should be able to read and comprehend the given reading text individually and collaboratively.

4. Children should able to use appropriate vocabulary and grammar in oral and written discourses.

5. Children should be able to Creative expression through construction of oral and written discourses i.e., Debate, News Article, conversation, interview, Biographical sketch, etc.

I. Period wise Details

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Content/activity/discourse Strategy Resources/TLM required

01 Face sheet Picture inter action Whole Class Activity

Text book,Black Board

02 Discourse: Debate on - “Disability an obstacle for success”

Interaction & Group Activity Charts

03 Discourse-Editing (Feedback) Interaction & Negotiation

Charts

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No Content/activity/discourse Strategy Resources/T

LM required

04 A. Reading : Attitude is Altitude; Segment 1: Imagine having no arms to stretch in the morning......... and is a huge fan of the English Premier League.

Individual,Group and Teacher reading,

Text Book,Charts,Pictures/videos of Nick

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05 Discourse: Writing a News Article about Nick

Interaction, Individual,Group Activity

Charts

06 Discourse-Editing- News Article

Interaction,Negotiation,Individual,GroupPresentation

Charts

07 Reading segment 2: His parents decided not to send him to a special school. ….. become an international symbol of triumph over adversity.

Individual, Group and Teacher reading

Text Book

08 Discourse: Construction of a conversation between Nick and his mother when he wanted to kill himself when he was 8 years old.

Interaction, Individual, Group Activity

Charts

09 Discourse: Editing-Conversation

Interaction, Negotiation, Individual, Group Presentation

Charts

10 Reading – Segment 3: ‘When I was 13, I read a newspaper article …..If I can encourage just one person then my job in this life is done.


Text Book

11 Discourse : Write a TV interview with Nick Vujicic

Interaction,

Individual, Group Activity

Interview clippings from News papers/magazines,Charts

12 Discourse-Editing TV Interview Interaction, Negotiation, Individual, Group Presentation

Charts

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No Content/activity/discourse Strategy Resources/T

LM required

13 Transaction of components-vocabulary


Text Book

14 Transaction of components-Grammar


Charts

15 Transaction of components-Writing :Biographical sketch of Stephen Hawking


Text book, Black Board, Charts

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16 Editing The Biographical Sketch

Interaction, Negotiation, Individual, Group Presentation

Text Book

17 B. Reading – Segment – 1: Failure is the highway to success …. we tried as hard as we could?


Text book, Black Board

18 Discourse: Writing Biographical sketch of Abraham Lincoln


Charts, Note books

19 Discourse-Editing: Biographical sketch

Interaction, Negotiation, Group Presentation

Charts, Note books

20 Segment – 2: As a young cartoonist…. a weak desire cannot produce great results.



21 Discourse: prepare a speech on “failures are the stepping stone of success”


Charts, Note books

22 Discourse-Editing (Feedback) Interaction & Negotiation

Charts

23 Transaction of components-Study Skills


Text book, Black Board ,Charts

24 Transaction of Listening and Oral activity.

Teacher and whole class activity

Text book

25 C.Reading: Segment -1: He was short. He was sharp ……His heart was bleeding but he did not get angry with anybody.



26 Discourse: Write the conversation between father and son, the son convincing his father to permit him to join IIT.

Individual, Group Activity Charts, Note books

27 Discourse-Editing The Conversation


Charts, Note books

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28 Segment – 2: The day came. …………. a leading IT company in the world.



29 Discourse: Write an essay on “Poverty is not a hindrance for education”

Individual, Group Activity Charts, Note books

30 Discourse-Editing: Essay And Interaction Required For Assigning Project Work


Charts, Note books

Note: Project work shall be reviewed after giving sufficient time to the learners to carry it out. II. Period wise Teacher’s notes /Interactive questions Period 1: Face sheet 1. What do you know about the persons in the pictures? 2. What common qualities did you observe in all of them? 3. What qualities have made these persons great? 4. Do they inspire you? How?

5. What qualities do you think a person requires, for becoming successful?

Period 2: Discourse: Debate (oral discourse) Do you think everyone can succeed like Sudha Chandran or Stephen Hawking? So my proposition is this: Disability is an obstacle to success. How many of you agree with me? How many of you disagree? I think we need to debate on the topic. 1. What are the main points to be discussed? 2. What examples would you give to support your statement? 3. What quotations would you add? 4. How will you defend your point?

5. How do you express your agreement/ disagreement with others? Period 3: Discourse-Editing- Feedback on the Debate 1. The theme – Does the description communicate the theme? 2. The language – Whether any changes are needed in the sentences presented?

3. What changes would you like to make in your presentation? 4. Were you audible to all the others in the class?

5. Did you use proper phrases to agree or disagree to the others’ views? 6. Did you supply sufficient arguments and ideas to your team? 7. Was your speed in control so that others could follow you easily?

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8. Did you modulate your voice while speaking? 9. Did you pause wherever necessary?

Period 4: Reading Segment – 1 (paragraphs 1 to 13) 1. What is the passage about? 2. What are the problems faced by Nick Vujicic? 3. How was he born? 4. What did he call the small foot on his left hip? Why did he call it so? 5. Where was he born? 6. What did Nick’s friend say about his girl friends?

7. Apart from water sports, what is Nick interested in? 8. ‘I call it my chicken drumstick’, joked Nick. What does ‘it’ refer to ? How does it help him? 9. What other things can Nick do? 10. Did his Physical disability stop him from achieving success? Support your answer with examples? 11. Do you think Nick is too ambitious? Give reasons? 12. Can we say that his identity was the chicken drumstick? Explain? 13. According to Nick what qualities was he expecting in a woman to be his better half? 14. Is it possible to manage without hands and legs? Explain? 15. Do you think Nick was depressed about his physical appearance? Why? 16. Will any woman like to marry a person like Nick? Give reason?

Period 5: Discourse: Construction of a News Article 1. What would be the headline? 2. How do you begin the article? 3. When and where was he born? 4. How was he different form normal children? 5. What was he able to do armless and without legs? 6. What are your reflections on his attitude to life? 7. How do you conclude the article? 8. Will you write all these ideas in a single paragraph or will you go for more?

9. How would you organize your ideas into paragraphs?

Period 6: Discourse-Editing: Construction of a News Article 1. Does it have a title? 2. Are the ideas organized into paragraphs? 3. Are the sentences well-structured? 4. Have you used proper word forms?

Period 7: Reading segment – 2 1. How did Nick’s mother hold him?

2. What did Nick’s father do after seeing him? 3. What is Nick’s disability known as in medical science?

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4. How did Nick’s father train him to swim? 5. Being a computer programmer how did his father teach Nick to type? 6. How did his mother help him to write? 7. Which school did they join Nick for education? 8. Whom did he blame for his disability?

9. At the age of ten what did Nick try to do to himself?

10. What could be the plight of Nick’s parents when he was born? 11. How did Nick’s parents help him to be independent? 12. ‘His parents decided not to send him to a special school.’ Was Nick happy about his parents’ decision? Why or why not? What did you think about this decision? 13. Pick out the symptoms of Nick’s depression. Do you think his depression was normal or something unique about him? Give reasons for your opinion. 14. What efforts do you think Nick’s parents made to make him independent? 15. What qualities would help us to be strong and find the purpose of our life?

16. Nick hated God for making him disable. Do you think he was right? If you were Nick what would you do? 17. What would have happened if Nick was successful in committing suicide? 18. If you are teased and bullied how would you overcome the depression?

Period 8: Discourse: Description of thoughts 1. What was the incident? 2. When did it take place? 3. What made Nick to make an attempt to drown himself?

4. What could be his thoughts after the attempt failed?

Period 9: Discourse-Editing: Description 1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to write again in terms of the following? 2. The theme – Do the ideas communicate the theme? Are there any ideas which Ihave put in my version but you haven’t? Are there any ideas that you wrote but I didn’t? 3. The language – Are any changes needed in the sentences presented? 4. There is a word missing here. Can you identify it? 5. There is an excess word in the sentence. Which is that? 6. There is a word order problem in this sentence. Can you reorder the words? 7. Did you check the word forms? 8. Did you check the punctuations?

Period 10: Reading – Segment 3 1. What did Nick read in the newspaper article? 2. What did he decide to do? 3. What did Nick win in 1990?

4. In 2008 whom did he meet to learn surfing? 5. What was his specialty in performing surfing? 6. Why did he travel to other countries? 7. What is his message to people?

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8. How was Nick inspired? 9. What is your opinion about the challenges in life? Did you face any challenge in your

life ? How did you overcome it? 10. In the beginning Nick hated God. Later he realized his mistake. Give reasons in

support to this statement. 11. ‘I want to concentrate on something good that I had’ what does Nick mean by this? 12. What made Nick choose Bethany Hamilton as his teacher to learn surfing? 13. What do you learn for the life of Nick Vujicic? 14. Why do you think Nick has changed his mind from being a football fan to a

motivational speaker? 15. ‘Try again and again and again’ do you agree/disagree with this statement? Explain?

Period 11: Discourse : TV interview WITH Nick Vujicic Note: One or Two interview samples will be shown to the students. 1. Whom would you interview? 2. How would you start the interview?

3. What further questions would you ask? 4. What are the other things that you like to know about him? 5. How would you introduce yourself? 6. What terrible things did he experience in his life? 7. How did he overcome his depression?

Period 12: Discourse-Editing - TV interview 1. What modifications will you make in the interview if you have to write again in terms of the following? 2. The questions – are they appropriate and to the point? Are they crispy and probing?

3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences presented (both questions and answers).

4. Whether the questions help in binding the whole interview as a unit? 5. Whether sentences/phrases used to change or shift the topic?

Period 13: Transaction of components-vocabulary Period 14: Transaction of components-Grammar Period 15: -Writing a Biographical Sketch 1. Where was Stephen born?

2. When was he born? 3. Who were his mother and father? 4. How was he in his studies? 5. What did he do at the age of 16? 6. Whom did he marry? 7. How was his health? 8. What was his research about? 9. What did he discover?

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10. What are the awards, prizes, and honors he received? 11. What was his contribution to the field of science and society?

Period 16: Discourse-Editing- Biographical Sketch 1. What modifications will you make in the Biography if you have to write again in terms of the following? 2. Are the events in a proper sequence? 3. What are the main points written in the first paragraph, second and the third? 4. What are the linkers used? 5. How is the sentence structure? 6. Did you use the right word forms?

Period 17: B. Reading – Segment – 1 1. What did Tom Watson say?

2. What happened with Lincoln at the age of 21, 22, 24,26,27,34,45,47,49 and 52? 3. What do you think is the greatest achievement of Lincoln? How could he achieve it?

4. What did you learn from the life of Lincoln?

5. What did Lee De Forest invent? 6. What problem did Lee face? 7. What did New York Times question Wright Brothers? 8. What was the experience of Colonel Sanders? 9. Can we give the credit to Wright Brothers for the invention of aero plane? Give reasons 10. If Colonel Sanders did not try again and would he successful? Comment. 11. Do you really feel that we should double the failures to gain success? Give reasons. 12. ‘To Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.’ Justify this statement from the Life of Lincoln 13. If you face failures in life what will you do? Period 18: Discourse- Writing Biographical Sketch of Abraham Lincoln 1. Where was Lincoln born? 2. When was he born? 3. Who were his mother and father? 4. How was he in his studies? 5. What did he do at the age of 21,22,24,26,27,34,45,47,49,52? 6. Whom did he marry?

7. How did he become successful? Period 19: Discourse-Editing: Biographical Sketch of Abraham Lincoln 1. Are all the events included?

2. What are the main points to be written in the first paragraph, second and the third?

3. What are the linkers used? 4. How is the sentence structure?

5. Did you use the right word forms?

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Period 20: B. Reading – Segment – 2 1. How did Walt Disney come out of his failures?

2. How did his mother help Thomas Edison? 3. When Thomas was rejected from school, what did his mother do?

4. How can we learn for the mistakes? 5. What did Socrates suggest as the secret to success? Do you agree or disagree with it? Give reasons for your answer.

Analytical Questions: 1. Do you think the teacher did right by sending a note to Edison’s mother? Give reasons for your opinion? 2. You have learnt about many people who are successful after many failures. What are the qualities required according to you to gain success? 3. Do you agree/ disagree that forgetting to put reverse gear made Henry successful? Give your opinion on making mistakes helps us to learn more and better. 4. Does setbacks really help in failing forward? Explain? 5. What was Socrates’ intention when he ducked the young boy in water? Period 21: Oral Discourse - Speech on “failures are the stepping stone of success” 1. How will you address the people? 2. What will be the beginning? 3. What relevant examples will you give? 4. Which proverbs and anecdotes will you use? 5. What is your point of view about the topic? 6. Will you talk form another person’s angle? 7. How will you conclude the speech? Period 22: Discourse-Editing - Feedback on the speech (Depends on the performance of the pupils) Period 23: Transaction of components-Study Skills

1. Where does the story take place? 2. Who are the main characters in it?

3. Can you list the main events that occurred in the story? 4. What do you think is the turning point of the story?

5. Could you trace any irony in the story? What does it reflect? 6. What message do you get from the story?

7. Suggest a suitable title to the story.

Period 24: Transaction of Listening activity: 1. Why was the farmer happy? 2. What did the wise man say about the diamonds?

3. Where did the farmer go in search of diamonds? 4. What happened to him in the end?

5. What was the farmer’s mistake? What moral did you learn from this?

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Period 25: C. Reading- Segment – 1 1. Whose biographical sketch is this? 2. How was his physical appearance? 3. What was his father? 4. What did he want to study? 5. Where did he go for coaching? 6. Where did he write his IIT entrance? 7. Did he get through the entrance? 8. Why didn’t his father permit him to join IIT?

9. How did Narayana Murthy feel? 1. How did Narayana Murthy help the other children in their studies? 2. The author calls Murthy an introvert. Which action of Murhty substantiate this claim of the author about Murthy? 3. How did Narayana Murthy and his friends prepare for the entrance? 4. How did Murthy react when his father refused to send him to IIT?

5. ‘His heart sank in sorrow.’ Whose heart sank in sorrow? Why 6. What is your life Aspiration? What are your plans to achieve it? 7. What must be the thoughts of Narayana Murthy when his father refused to admit him in IIT?

8. Write the feelings of Murthy when his friends were living the station? Period 26: Discourse- Writing a narrative on Murthy’s thoughts 1. Was Murthy eligible to study at IIT? 2. Why didn’t Murthy’s father allow him to study at IIT? 3. Do you think his father did not like Murthy? 4. Do you think Murthy would be able to understand the situation?

5. How would he console himself? Period 27: Editing - narrative on Murthy’s thoughts 1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to write again in terms of the following?

2. The theme – Do the ideas communicate the theme? 3. You have presented your ideas. I have presented my ideas too. Are there any ideas which I have put in my version but you haven’t? Are there any ideas that you wrote but I didn’t? 4. The language – Are any changes needed in the sentences presented?

5. There is a word missing here. Can you identify it? 6. There is an excess word in the sentence. Which is that? 7. There is a word order problem in this sentence. Can you reorder the words? 8. Did you check the word forms? 9. Did you check the punctuations?

Period 28: C. Reading- Segment – 2 1. Why was Murthy upset? 2. Where did he go?

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3. What did Narayana Murthy do at the station? 4. How is the philosophy of Bhagavath Gita applicable to his life? 5. How did he prove himself? 6. What he has become at last? 7. How did Narayana Murthy console himself when all his friends joined IIT? 8. What, according to Narayan Murthy, can change the life of a person? 9. ‘Your best friend is yourself and your worst enemy is yourself’. Give your reason for the statement. 10. Explain the character of Narayan Murthy. 11. What is the ultimate goal of a bright student? And why? 12. How does the motto, “powered by intellect and driven by values” describe Murthy’s life?

Period 29: Discourse- Writing an essay on ‘Poverty is not a hindrance for education’ 1. What is the title of the topic? 2. What thesis statement will you write? 3. What are the points will you write in the essay? How will you organize them? 4. How would you conclude the essay? 5. What supporting details and examples will you add to the essay?

Period 29: Discourse-Editing the essay 1. What changes would you make if you have to write the essay again? 2. Have you used any describing words? 3. Are all the ideas in a proper order? 4. Which sentences in your essay create awareness? 5. Have you used proper linkers? 6. Are all the sentences relevant to the context? 7. Are the sentences well-formed? Transaction of Project: We see many people around us living with their own families.

1. What are the different kinds of families? 2. What are the advantages in a small or nuclear family?

3. How are joint families helpful? 4. Are there any disadvantages of living in a joint family?

Display the following questions on a chart: 1. How will you do the project?

2. Where will you get the information from?

3. Who will collect the information?

4. How will you share the information? 5. How will you record the data?

6. What questions will you ask for discussion? III-Teacher Reflections/ Comments (Period Wise)

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