INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

Name of the teacher trainee: SELEEMEEKH. X.L Standard: 8 A

Name of the school : L M S H S S Amaravila Strength : 50

Subject : English Period : 5th

Unit : On Telling a Tale Duration: 45mts

Subunit : The Enchanted Shirt Date :

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Issue : Lack of cohesive universal vision

Sub issue : Lack of social mingling

Curricular Statement : Creating awareness of feelings, emotions and aspects of ourselves and others.

Learning Outcome : The learner is,

1) remembering the feelings of others while communicating

2) understanding the concept of universal brotherhood

3) applying the words like ‘zest,rage,scamp, panorama’ etc. in new situation

4) analyzing the theme of the poem

5) evaluating the power of a ballad to express a story

6) creating the empathy and purgation of emotions

Content Analysis : Ideational Content

The ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’ by John Hay expresses a story of a king who feels

sick at the first part o the ballad. Physicians came there for identifies and cure kings

disease. They fail in it and the king ordered to cut off their heads. At last one physician

suggests a remedy to the king’s disease is that the king should sleep to wear with a shirt of a

happy man one night. At last they found a man, a beggar who seems extreme happiness. But

he didn’t have a shirt. King understands his problem and become an ideal ruler.

Linguistic Content

Rhyming words are introduced

bright – night

score - more

Rhyme scheme – abcb efgf

New words are introduced

Pre – requisites : The learner might have known each and everything from his surroundings.

Teaching – learning

Resources : Source book, Course book, Chart, Oxford dictionary

Classroom Interaction Procedure

Pupils Response

Informal Interaction

Teacher creates mental readiness in pupil and she try to sustain

the interest throughout the class.

Entry Activity

Teacher sings a vadakkanpaattu “Aattummanammealea

Unniarcha….” and lead the pupils to the ballad.

Link Talk

Teacher divides the pupils into three groups based on their voting

of love for story, poem and essay. Then the teacher shows photograph of the

author and a chart about him, then teacher asks them to sit with their group

and she provides each part of the ballad to each groups. And asks them to

change that part into a screen play or a dramatized form.

Procedure

Pupils write the screen play and read it in the class room with the

characters in front of the class by each groups.

Teacher makes corrections and asks them to sit in groups and enact the

screen play in front of the class.

Sharing and Understanding

Teacher introduce new vocabulary items;

1) Zest /zest/ – enthusiasm or eagerness

Students should take every learning task with zest.

2) Rage /re d / – uncontrollable anger

Keerthi’s father turned red with rage on seeing her report card.

3) Scamp /skæmp/ –a child who enjoys playing tricks and causing

trouble

Aswin finds pleasure by trickling his friends.

4) Panorama /pænə r mə/ – an impressive view of a wide area of

land

The cameraman captured the beauty of the panorama of his

shots.

Teacher gives gist of the whole ballad;

The ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’ by John Hay expresses a story

of a king who felt sick at the first part of the poem. But his eyes were clear

and cheeks were red in colour. So physicians came there to find out the

sickness of the king. One who says the king was fine, their heads were cut

off. At last two physicians came. From them one prescribe a remedy to the

kings disease that the king should wear the shirt of a happy man and sleep

one night with it. So the spies search out for such a man’s shirt. After weeks

they met a beggar who was seemed to be very happy. The spies ask his shirt

for loan, but the man replies he has no shirt. With these days result, king’s

eyes were opened and understand all the matters around him and become an

ideal king.

Scaffolded Reading

Teacher asks some scaffolding questions to the students:

1) Who is the author of the ballad?

2) What is the problem of the king?

3) Is the king really sick?

4) At last what medicine prescribed by the idle physician?

5) Where the two couriers met the beggar?

6) How the beggar expressed his happiness?

7) How much money offer by the couriers to the beggar for his shirt for

loan?

8) What is the reply of the beggar when the spies ask his shirt?

9) Who was ashamed of his useless life?

10) Whose maladies hatched in gloom?

11) Whom the people blessed at last? Why?

Loud Reading

Teacher asks some pupils to read the poem loudly in front of the class.

Follow – up Activity

Write a story on the basis of this ballad ‘The Enchanted Shirt’.