LESSON PLAN FOR THE POEM CLOUD

Lesson Plan for the poem THE CLOUD (with Technology)

Bottom of Form

Class (IX-E.M): Teaching Poetry – THE CLOUD          By P.B.Shelley

Duration: 45 mins

In six stanzas of between twelve and eighteen lines each, the first-person narrator of “The Cloud,” who is the cloud itself, describes its various forms and functions throughout its life cycle. The first stanza captures the range of the cloud’s moods. Gentle, it brings rain to nourish the earth’s flowers and shade for the leaves of trees. The cloud can also be ferocious; however, bringing hail that whitens the ground, followed by thunderstorms.

“The Cloud” personifies a cloud, the narrator who explains her moods and abilities which correspond to weather patterns and the time of day and these also correspond to its life cycle

Materials:     Technology component downloaded from/accessed in class at:

• THE CLOUD Song downloaded from YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU)
• THE CLOUD VIDEO - http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz98bck.htm
• Song for Listening:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dssP4WFikGg

 Other Material:

Pictures of different words come across in the Poem the Cloud

Text Document of the Poem

Handouts of the Listening Comprehension

 Handouts of the Lyric with some missing words (gaps)

PROCEDURE

Introduction                                                                                                          Review of previous lesson: Teaching of Poem in context and inductive method of teaching Poetry

Objectives of this lesson (tell students about them): By the end of the lesson

(A) Read Comprehend Appreciate and Interpret a Poem                                      (B) Use the new Vocabulary in their own context                                                (C) After listening to songs, taking part in receipt and read the poem      (D) They should be able to answer the questions in the quiz correctly by    using appropriate direction Procedure

Introduction of the literary devices:                                                            Identifying the figures of speech if any and giving examples to explain the context.                                                                                                                   Ask them to identify the similar items in the poem

(E)Pronounce those new words correctly                                                Presentation (teacher or student), including key vocabulary                                  Problem solving, critical thinking, using appropriate direction, Imagination in context, inductive method of teaching of Poetry.

 Activity (student)

1. Warm up and interaction                                                                                       2. Teacher gives pre-listening instructions; teacher distributes the song ‘THE CLOUD containing gaps to be filled up by the Pupil after listening to the song 3. Students listen to the song twice and fill up the blanks in the song and complete the song. They identify the words used in the song                                     4. Teacher distributes a handout containing the Photographs relating to the difficult words in the poem                                                                                         5. Teacher asks them questions about the Pictures used in the conversation. They identify the related word in the lyric
and analyze the context in which they are used. Teacher generates a discussion in this regard                                                                                                                   6. Teacher divides the class into 6 groups. Each group is given a problem solving activity is to describe a picture using.
Activity 2 is to describe the path of the direction of a river.                         Activity 3 is to describe the direction taken by a soldier for completing
his exercise using appropriate preposition of direction

7. The teacher participants work in group. There will be group discussion. Teacher monitors the group work. They describe the picture
in group using appropriate direction preposition. All the groups present their findings before the class. Teacher consolidate the session                                         8. Discussion in the class regarding the use of Figures of speech indicating the direction                                                                                                                   9. Teacher plays the video of the poem before the class.

 Learning styles addressed: Audio, kinesthetic problem solving, interpersonal communication, etc…

 Technology alternative (in case things don't work as planned): Recorded version of song in CD ROM and pictures

 Review before the end of the class session: How to teach Poetry in second language classroom, need for teaching a poem in meaningful
context, teaching grammar from examples to rule making, teaching grammar inductively, promoting discovery learning, critical thinking, etc…

 Homework:

a) Preparing a poem on cloud in his own experience context                                 b) Identifying online or technology based materials                                              c) Preparing the lesson plan in pairs

 Lesson Plan Format: Deborah Healey; (c) 2010 I.C.T.MODEL

Teachers Details                                                                                                                                       Name of the Teacher :-                                       SURYA PRAKASH.SUSARLA                                                                                               B.Sc;M.A(Litt);B.Ed;PGCTE;PGDTE (M.Phil)                                                                                   Designation                 :-                            S.A,ENGLISH                                                                               Place of working     :-               Z.P.H.S.STATION ROAD, YELAMANCHILI.

Rain rain falls on the street, mud in puddles cleaning my feet. Thunder thunder rumble and roar, close the windows and lock the door. Clouds clouds black and gray, heavy with water to drop all day. Sun sun is breaking through, clouds are moving, the rain stops too. Rainbow rainbow across the sky, see-through colours to tickle my eyes.

When I see clouds in the sky, All big and puffy and white, When I see clouds in the sky, The weather is sunny and bright. White clouds, white clouds, White clouds up in the sky. White clouds, white clouds, White clouds, puffy and dry. When I see clouds in the sky, All big and solid and gray, When I see gray clouds in the sky, The weather is rainy all day. Gray clouds, gray clouds, Gray clouds up in the sky. Gray clouds, gray clouds, Dropping rain from up high

The clouds are passing by, The clouds are passing by, Heigh-ho, just watch them go, The coulds are passing by. The clouds are passing by, Way up in the sky, Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, The clouds are passing by.

What’s fluffy white and floats up high, Like a pile of cotton in the sky? And when the wind blows hard and strong, What very gently floats along? What brings the rain, what brings the snow, That showers down on us below? When you look up high in the sky, What is that thing you see float by?