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CLASS-VIII SUBJECT:ENGLISH MONTH: JULY (3 PERIODS)

NAME OF THE LESSON: MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT(POEM)

KEY CONCEPTS:

1) Understanding a poem and its structure

2) Understanding the type of a poem
3) Understanding through the explanation
4) Understanding the concepts through animals as characters
5) Understanding affectionate mocking of something/someone

TLOs:

1) Able to recite the poem

2) Able to comprehend the poem
3) Enriched vocabulary and spelling skills
4) Able to perform composition and writing tasks
5) Able to do analogies between similar descriptions
6) Able to express themselves on related topics
7) Enhanced listening, speaking, recitation/reading and writing skills
8) Ability to correlate other poems/fables with this one.
9) Ability to ask questions in different contexts and situations
10) To participate in Poem Recitation competition
11) Narrate other such animals in the similar wayin English

VALUES EMBEDDED IN THIS POIEM:

1) Humour
2) Exaggeration of cats’ abilities
 3) Adventurous nature of the cats/ animals
4) Affectionate mockery of a favourite animal
5) A sense of affection and curiosity towards animals.

METHODOLOGY
Gist of the Specific Instructional Teacher’s Activity ICT Additional Resources Students’ Activity/
lesson Objective Suggested Projects

Do you have a 1) Admiring the 1. Skilled introduction 1. PowerPoint presentation on 1. Additional video on the 1.Loud recitation by the
pet cat? Have humour of the poem, engage the poem. chapter. students one by one stanza
you ever noticed expressed the students in the 2. Video on the poem. https://youtu.be/6lizSviP_yA wise and later silently.
anything through animals. topic and identify the https://youtu.be/7LjaTP0T3Ew 2. Information about the 2.Perform role play about the
mysterious 2) Enhance the objective of the poem. 3. Audio of the poem. (Sent by poet poem in pairs.
about it? It is not imagination of 2. Model recitation. the RO, Raipur) T. S. Eliot(Wikipedia)
easy to say the students. 3. Involving students by Suggested Project:
whether every 3) To develop the asking them to recite 1. Make a list of the rhyming
cat is a mystery, sense of liking stanza wise. words and find out the
but Macavity is towards animals. 4. Explanation, rhyming scheme of the poem.
one, for sure. 4) To develop the vocabulary work and 2. Explore and write some
What is it that sense of grammar(if required). sentences on the “powers of
makes him a inquisitiveness 5. Silent recitation by levitation” described in the
perfect mystery towards animals. the students. poem. Describe whether this
cat? Let’s find 5) Appreciation 6. Peer discussion. quality(“powers of levitation”)
out! towards 7. ICT work followed by is a possible one or not!
adventurous “Comprehension 3. Write a short biographical
nature of Questions”. sketch of T. S. Eliot, the poet.
animals.. 8. LAT for both high
and low achievers.
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S. NO. TEXT BASED SKILL BASED STRATEGIES FOR EXAM PRACTICE ITEMS LAT QUESTION BANK DIFFICULT AREAS
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1. HONEYDEW 1. Audio clip based 1. All textual exercises 1. Unseen passages Q1. Tick the correct 1. Rhyming
Page No. 51, 52 comprehension and contextual 2. Writing Section antonym for the scheme of the
questions vocabulary and a) Notice Writing bold words: stanzas.
2. Speaking about grammar. b) Bio-sketch 1. Defy: a) agree b) 2. Q3, Page 51, of
related topic, Role 2. Learning the name c)Formal/Informal obey c) deny d) help the exercise (on
play of the poem and the letters 2. bafflement: a) “levitation”)
3. Comprehension of poet correctly. d)Article writing calmness b) 3. Q7, Page 52, of
the poem. 3. Learning the e)Diary Entry achievement c) the exercise on
4. Composition work, rhyming scheme of the 3. Grammar puzzlement d) “exaggeration”.
writing a paragraph poem and poetic a)Textual grammar enquiry
based on the devices(if any). b)Editing Q2. Tick the correct
adventures of 4. Practice stanza for c)Rearrangement of spelling from the
Macavity described in Literature Section. jumbled words following:
the poem. 4. Literature a) deprevity
a) Extract based b) diprevity
questions from the c) depravity
text d)dipravity
b)Comprehension
questions
c)Value based
questions