WELCOME

Name of the teacher trainee : Vishnupriya Std : VIII

Name of the school: N.S.S H.S.S Karuvatta Strength : 30

Subject : English Period : 2

Unit : Seeds and Deeds Duration : 45min

Subunit : The Village Blacksmith

OBJECTIVES

• To make the learning process interesting and effective•To develop an awareness about gender inequalities•To engage pupils in various discourse activities

PHASE 1Are you familiar with these women? How old do you think they are? They are all past fifty

Women engaged in different works

Phase 2Today we are going to learn a new poem "Even Past Fifty

"by Shanta Shelke

Born on October 19,1922, Indapur , IndiaMarathi poet and writerJournalist , professor, composer , story

writer, translator, writer of child literaturePenned novels like Punarjanma and

DharmaFamous poems include Varsha and GodhanDied of cancer on 6 June, 2002

A Brief history of the poet

Phase 3The poem is about the toil that women

suffer in our society. They endure everything for the the sake of their family

Phase 4The teacher recites the first stanza with proper stress, rhythm, and intonation

She’s past fifty;

Yet she 's still a little girl at Heart

For whom the house is a doll's house,

and running the household

a childhood game.

Phase 5Silent reading by the learner

Doll’s house : a toy house with small furniture to play

Childhood : a state of being a child

PHASE 6 :Track reading / Glossary ReferenceThe students find out the following words :

Students sit in groups and share their thoughts

Phase 7Collaborative Learning

Students clarify their doubts

Phase 8Megaphoning the doubts

The teacher asks certain questions

? Who is the ‘she’ in the poem? Is it only the

woman in the poem? Or does she represent all women?

Is it possible for a woman of fifty to be ‘a little girl at heart’? How?

PHASE 9Scaffolding questions

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Phase 10Reading aloud by the Learner

Images used to describe the middle aged woman?

Language Activity/Discourse Construction

Write a paragraph on your mother’s activities during the course of a day.

Assignment