DAY 1

Pupil Teacher’s Name:Group 6

Class: VIII
Topic: Poetry
Sub-Topic: The ant and the cricket
Subject: English
Time Duration: 40 Minutes
Date:11 July, 2022

Content analysis
1. Introductory remarks
The poem “The Ant and the Cricket” is a fable written in a poetic format. It is about a silly young
cricket and a miser ant. The cricket used to sing all day long and enjoy his good times during
the summer season. When the winter arrived, cricket couldn’t find a small amount of food to eat.
So the cricket thinks to go to ant to borrow food and to get shelter. The Cricket knocked on the
ant’s door asking to help. Then the ant questioned the cricket about what he was doing during
summer. The poem ends with the ant asking the cricket to try dancing and singing again during
his hard times.

2. Concepts identified
- Rhyme Scheme
- Poetic Devices

3. Life Skills
Communication skills- The students’ communication skills will improve as they will actively
take part in the class discussion. They will put forth their ideas and thoughts openly with others.
Creative Thinking skills- The students will be able to personify the words given to them by the
teacher, and form unique sentences from them.

4. Subject skills
Listening skills- The students will listen to the teacher carefully as she does model recitation of
the poem. This will help in improving the students’ listening skills.
Speaking skills- The students will actively participate in class discussions, thereby improving
their speaking skills.
Reading skills- The reading skills will improve as the students will read the poem with proper
intonation and pauses.

5. Integration with other subject

Science - by getting to know about different seasons in a year
By understanding features of different insects
Art integration - by drawing an ant and cricket (or any of their favorite insect) in their notebooks

General Objectives
1. To make the students recite the poem with proper intonation and pauses
2. To enjoy the rhythm of the poem
3. To develop imaginative power of a student
4. To improve LSR skills
5. To add to their vocabulary

Specific Objectives
The students will be able to:
1) Cognitive Domain
a. Knowledge
- tell the name of the poem and the poet.
b. Comprehension
- identify the poetic devices used in the poem.
- the students will be able to understand the thematic concept of the poem
c. Application
- apply the concept of personification to different words and objects around them in their real
lives.

2) Affective Domain
- appreciate the beauty of different seasons in a year

3) Psychomotor Domain
- create a dialogue between the ant and the cricket

Concept Map
Learning outcomes
After going through the poem the students will be able to
1. Comprehend the gist of the poem
2. Identify the characters of the ant and the cricket
3. understand the term fable
4. Interpret the message of the poem
5. Identify the features of different seasons like summer, spring and winter

Content Enrichment
1. ‘NCERT Class8 English Unit 2 The ant and the cricket :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYQO9lAv7yM

Methods and approaches used

1. Lecture method
2. Discussion method
3. Questioning method
4. Demonstration method

Teaching Learning Material

Audio visual aid( video)

Set Induction/ Introduction of the topic

Method to be used:
Question Answer Method
The teacher will ask the students:
Q1 Have you ever seen ants around yourselves?
response- Yes ma’am.
Q2 How many types of ants have you all noticed??
Students’ response- usually two (black and red)
The teacher will appreciate all the students’ responses.

Announcement of the topic:

The teacher will then announce the topic “Today we will be reading one such poem where we
will learn about a story of the ant and the cricket. The name of the poem is – ‘The Ant and the
cricket’ by Aesop”
Instructional process
Teaching Method used Teacher’s role Student’s role
phase

Pre Questioning Question: do you know about the Students will come up
reading method(open concept of fables? with different answers
phase ended according to their
(15 mins) questions) understanding

Introduction to The teacher will introduce the Students will listen to

the poem concept of the poem before the teacher actively
(Lecture starting the poem to grab the
method) attention of the students and set
the base for the poem
While Introduction to The teacher will introduce the poet Students will listen
reading the poet to the students quietly
phase (lecture method)
(15 mins)

Model The teacher will do the model Students will pay

Recitation recitation of the poem attention to the teacher
(Lecture
method)

Showing a The teacher will show an animated The students will watch
video YouTube video of the poem. She the video with great
(demonstration will ask the students to watch it attention.
method) carefully.

Close ended The teacher will ask the students The students will
question to name all the characters answer it that it was
mentioned in the video the ants and the cricket

After the students have watched The students will take

the video, the teacher will ask them part in the class
to explain what they have discussion by
understood from the video. answering the question

Discussion The teacher will, then, ask the The students might find
method students to guess the meaning of the words difficult to
the difficult words. explain but they will
Famine, quoth, starvation participate in the
classroom

The teacher will, then, help the This will help to get the
students to reach the meaning of attention of students
the difficult words with the help of more and they will
probing questions. listen to the teacher
properly
 Loud recitation The teacher will, then, ask the This will make the
students, one by one, to read out students to be more
the lines of the poem. attentive

Post Discussion The teacher will recapitulate the Answers to be

reading method whole classroom session discussed in the
phase(10 classroom
mins)

Discussion of homework

Recapitulation and Assessment

It will be done with the help of a few oral questions. The questions are as listed:
Question 1. What was the policy of the ants?
(a) Never borrow, never lend
(b) Always give and take
(c) Share and grow
(d) None of the above

Question 2. What would he die of, if the ant didn’t help him?
(a) Starvation and famine
(b) Starvation and sorrow
(c) Starvation and poverty
(d) Starvation and weakness

Question 3. What did he want from the ant?

(a) Mouthful of grain
(b) Shelter from rain
(c) New clothes
(d) Only a and b

Question 4. When did the cricket begin to complain?

(a) Summers and spring
(b) When he was drenched in rain
(c) When he found his cupboard was empty
(d) All of the above

Question 5. Whose fables is the poem “The Ant and The Cricket” adapted from?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Paulo Coelho
(c) Dan Brown
(d) Aesop

Question 6. What did the ant advise him to do all winter?

(a) Sing
(b) Dance
(c) Sleep
(d) Rest

Question 7. Who said “I am your servant and friend”?

(a) ant
(b) cricket
(c) both
(d) no one

Question 8. Did he wish to repay the ant?

(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
(d) Not mentioned in the poem

Question 9. Which word is closest to the meaning ‘scarcity of food’?

(a) Sarvation
(b) Hunger
(c) Misery
(d) Famine

Question 10. The poet has described the cricket as-

(a) Silly
(b) Young
(c) Accustomed to sing
(d) All of the above

Supervisors remarks and comments