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How is lesson plan for teaching of Poetry prepared?
- Name of the teacher:
- Class:
- Age of students:
- Date:
- Time:
- Title of the poem:
- General objectives:
- Specific objectives:
- Teaching aids required:
- Warm-up activity:
- Presentation: The teacher reads the poem aloud, paying attention to pronunciation, intonation etc. He then asks one or two students to read the poem aloud. If the poem could be sung as a chorus, the teacher asks groups of students to read it, or if the poem contains a lot of talking (or conversation) between characters. As in classical ballads, the teacher assigns different roles to students and dramatises the whole poem.
- Understanding the poem: The teacher asks students to concentrate on comprehension questions, given at the end of the poem while he makes a second reading. He elicits answers from students to all questions. Any difficulty is sorted out by mutual consultations. Language work, figures of speech, similes, metaphor, alliteration, etc and difficult expressions are discussed through the context of the poem.
- Follow-up work: Depending on what type of poem the teacher handles, he integrates reading of the poem with other skills (writing, for instance) by giving some home assignments. For example, a follow-up activity on Lord, Ullin’s Daughter could be to relate a local folktale, somewhat similar in theme, in writing, for the class to listen to the next morning.
