ICT Lesson Plan

NAME OF THE TEACHER TRAINEE  : NIMMY ALEX NAME OF THE SCHOOL                    :  GHSS, KOICKAL SUBJECT                                              : ENGLISH UNIT                                                    : IV, DAWN OF HOPE TOPIC                                                  : THE LAST LEAF                                                               (PARA 1-3) THEME                                                : FAITH AND HOPE SUB THEMES                                     : HOPE; FRIENDSHIP

STANDARD    : IX B STRENGTH     : 34 DURATION     : 45 MINUTES DATE               : 26-11-2018

CONTENT ANALYSIS:  ‘The last leaf ‘is a marvelous story by O.Henry, which depicts the treasury of life and the inevitability of faith to tackle the hindrances we battle through our life. The story takes place during the second decade of the twentieth century in New York City’s Greenwich Village and has as its central characters an old artist, Behrman, whose path crosses with that of a young artist, Johnsy, and who gives her an incentive to live when she becomes seriously ill. A third artist, Sue, is another young woman with whom Johnsy lives. In to their midst a cold, unseen stranger called pneumonia appears and touches Johnsy with his cold fingers.

CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES

The learner,

1) Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

2) Generates interest in reading various literary texts like novels, stories and travel diaries.

3)  Identifies the meaning of the new words from the content.

4) Gets familiarized with new words and languages elements.

5) Develops courage and confidence to face critical situations in life.

PRE – REQUISITES

The learner,

1) Has read similar stories of faith and hope.

2) Has read biographies of great authors.

TEACHING-LEARNING RESOURSES

Course book, source book, charts, picture, C.D., dictionary.

CLASS ROOM INTERACTION PROCEDURE INFORMAL INTERACTION           Teacher creates a good rapport by engaging in an informal talk with the students. ENTRY ACTIVITY     Teacher creates mental readiness by asking about pupils’ creative skill in drawing. LINK TALK           Teacher gives a description about the Bohemian life and shows the pictures to the students using a power point presentation :    INTRODUCING THE TOPIC       Teacher introduces the writer O.Henry by showing his picture and writes the title on the black board. THE LAST LEAF                               -O.HENRY MICRO PROCESSING OF INPUT READING BY THE TEACHER         Teacher reads the first three paragraphs with proper stress, intonation and pronunciation. SILENT READING BY THE PUPILS TRACK READING          Teacher asks the pupils to read the paragraphs silently and put ‘√’ mark when they understand a sentence and ‘X’ mark when they didn't understand a sentence and put ‘!’ mark when they find something interesting. SHARING THE UNDERSTAING OF THE PASSAGES IN GROUPS         Teacher asks the students to be in groups and share their ideas and what they found interesting and surprising with their peers. SCAFFOLDING QUEST IONS         Teacher asks a few scaffolding questions to the students :              GLOSSARY         Teacher introduces unfamiliar words from the passage and explains their meanings using slides:                                    GROUP ACTIVITY         Teacher asks the students to be in groups and prepare the profile of O. Henry  based on the hints given in the slide:                       PRESENTATION OF THE PRODUCT        Teacher asks the group leaders to present the products prepared by them. TEACHER’S VERSION             Teacher presents her own version of the answer using a slide:   REVIEW            Teacher recapitulates the passages taken. FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY            Teacher gives the following assignment :

PUPILS' RESPONSE

Power Point Presentation - Phrasal Verbs

                                  

Weekly Reflection 03 Dec. - 10 Dec.

                                      I continued the story 'The Last Leaf' this week.  On 6 th December, I completed the lesson. Notes were also given to the students. On 7 th December, I dealt with an activity from 'The Last leaf'. The activity was about the preparation of 'Story Map'. A video presentation was shown to them. They attempted sincerely to complete the activity. An accurate version of the answer was given to them. Recapitulation of the topic was also done and a few questions were asked to check the students level of understanding. On 10 December, I engaged a class using Role Play Model. It helped the students

Weekly Reflection 26 Nov. - 29 Nov.

                               
                          On this week, the third lesson of the Fourth unit, 'The last Leaf' by O. Henry was taught.This beautifully inspirational tale deals with unselfish sacrifice - how one man was prepared to sacrifice his own well-being and use his talent to save the life of another. This story was really helpful in inculcating the qualities of 'hope', 'companionship', 'sacrifice' and 'empathy' in the students. I dealt with four lesson plans this week. The required teaching- learning resources were prepared for the topic.

Weekly Reflection 19 Nov. - 24 Nov.

                                 This week was  the third week of the internship programme. I continued the chapter 'The Jungle Air Crash'. On 21 November, I completed the chapter and gave the students the notes. The very next day I dealt with an activity on 'How to Write a News Report'. ICT was used to teach the activity.

On 23 rd November I started the poem 'Another Chance' by Helen Steiner Rice. All the necessary learning aids were used for teaching the poem.

Weekly Reflection 07 Nov. - 16 Nov.

                                         As part  of the B.Ed curriculum, we, the second year students were sent to different schools to be engaged in the second phase of our internship programme. We were assigned to practice at Govt. H.S.S., Koickal. There were fifteen of us from our college in which four of us were from English optional.
                                        7 November, 2018 was the day of commencement of the second phase of school internship programme. On the first day we met the Head mistress. She gave us necessary instructions and a separate staff room was allotted to us. 
                                         I was assigned to take classes in standard IX B, the same class allotted to me during the first phase. That day I started the class by introducing the IV th unit ( Dawn of Hope) of their course book. From the next day onwards I began the chapter 'The Jungle Air Crash' by Juliane Koepcke. On Children's day, the classes were handled by students themselves.

Azif Anver, a student of IX B handled the  English class on 14 November.

By the end of the second week, I completed 15 th paragraph of 'The Jungle Air Crash'. Sufficient teaching- learning resources such as charts, pictures, flash cards, video clips, power point presentation slides, activity cards etc. were used for enhancing the understandability of the learners.

Innovative Work Report

    A work of innovation was done by me as part of the B.Ed curriculum. I attempted to picturize the poem ' The Village Blacksmith' which is included in the coursebook of standard VIII. I began the work by providing a brief introduction about the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow along with his picture. Then I wrote the poetic lines on the left side of the page the detailed explanation of the lines was given on the right side. Sufficient pictures were pasted for enhancing visual beauty. It is said that "a picture is worth a thousand words".Visual aids encourage students' learning  process and make it easier and interesting. Therefore I believe that this work will help the students to understand the poem 'The Village Blacksmith' with much ease. I have also introduced a few terms that are related to the blacksmith and his work. Pictures were also added. A crossword puzzle was included at the end of the work for making the work interesting.