INNOVATIVE LESSON TEMPLATE

Name of Teacher Trainee: Selin Susan Jacob

Time of Preparation:

Name Of School : Mar Theophilus Training College.

Date of presentation:

Subject:

Time of recording:

English

Curricular Unit: Seeds And Deeds

Specific unit:

The Sower.

CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES:
THE LEARNER: develops a positive attitude that no work is mean or small.
: develops a need to work with sincerity to reap the fruits of labour at a later stage.
CONTENT SUMMARY:
The Sower a poem by Victor Hugo, translated by Toru Dutt glorifies a farmer whose sincerity
with work is commendable.
RESOURCE MATERIAL:
Course book, Source book, Visuals of Farmers in action and their usual plight was used to set
the mood for discussion about Sowers in my power point presentation. The meanings of
difficult words were made clear using pictures.
Process

Response

INFORMAL INTERACTION:
The teacher establishes rapport with informal talk.

Students respond well to

communication.

ENTRY ACTIVITY:
TR: Do you know what the primary profession of us
Indians is?
St: Agriculture, Farming.
Tr: Let me show you some of the usual
advertisement of famous consumer brands.
( teacher presents the slides)
The teacher then asks the following questions:

What do the advertisements focus on?

What is the state of the workers in these

ads?

Do the love working? Are the happy?

The teacher then shows the actual working

conditions of all labourers especially farmers.

Students respond actively.

LINK ACTIVITY:
You have just discovered the reality life of the

Students listen carefully

powerless. The teacher introduces the lesson to be

studied and writes the heading on the board.
The Sower- Victor Hugo (B.B)
The sower or farmers in general work tirelessly for
others good yet they do not get the respect they
deserve.

GLOSSARY REFERENCE WITH TEACHER SUPPORT:

The teacher helps clear student doubts with the
help of ample pictures.
Porch way: a covered shelter in front of a building.
Linger: stay in a place longer than necessary
because of reluctance to leave.
Silhouette: the dark outline of someone against a
brighter background.

FORMATIVE EVALUATION:
To understand the grasping level and to evaluate the effectiveness of ICT the following questions
were asked to the students

Was the power point helpful in drawing the exact life picture of the sower and what he
does?
(Students responded actively to the various queries from the passage without any
mistakes.

FOLLOW UP:
Students are asked to prepare a short report on various measures that can be taken to improve
the working condition of farmers in our country using ICT.