• Name: Ms. Shazia Noman

• Subject: English Syndicate II

• Unit: English Novel • Book: The Wizard of Oz

• Topic: Chapter # 5

“The Poppy Field”

• Grade III• No. of Students: 43

• Date: 01,August,2011

• Duration: 40 Minutes

• Venue: D.A. Model High School Phase IV

Time Line of Lesson Plan(August 01st – 05th , 2011)

WEEKLY LESSON PLANS

Grade: III Topic: Ch No. V “The Wizard of Oz

Subject: English Novel No. of periods: 07

Monday English Novel “The Wizard of Oz” Chapter No. 5 “The Poppy Field”

Instructional Strategy

Reading of the chapter, Children will be asked to read the chapter one by one, Difficult words will be underlined.

Materials Text book, Dictionary, Pencil, Green board, Chalk, Duster.

Homework Find out the meaning of the difficult words of the chapter.

Tuesday English Novel “The Wizard of Oz” Chapter No. 5 “The Poppy Field”

Instructional Strategy

Explanation of the chapter will be done.

Materials Text book, Dictionary, Pencil, Green board, Chalk, Duster.

Homework Learn the difficult words for dictation

Wednesday English Novel “The Wizard of Oz” Chapter No. 5 “The Poppy Field”

Instructional Strategy

Oral comprehension will be done, Children will be asked to come and explain the characters.

Materials Text book, Dictionary, Pencil, Green board, Chalk, Duster.

Homework Do the exercises related to the chapter on page No. 55 & 56

Thursday English Novel “The Wizard of Oz” Chapter No. 5 “The Poppy Field”

Instructional Strategy

Oral questions relating to the chapter will be repeatedly asked to make sure the children understand the text.

Materials Text book, Dictionary, Pencil, Green board, Chalk, Duster.

Homework Do the RTC & Question Answers of the chapter.

Friday English Novel “The Wizard of Oz” Chapter No. 5 “The Poppy Field”

Instructional Strategy

Discussion will be done on the cowardly line, The helpful mice & The poppy field to make sure that the children comprehend what has been done.

Materials Text book, Dictionary, Pencil, Green board, Chalk, Duster.

Homework Complete the chapter in the homework copies.

LONG TERM GOALSTO MAKE THE NOVEL INTRESTING

Ch. 05 “The Poppy field”Ch. 06 “The great and terrible wizard”Ch. 07 “The prisoners”Ch. 08 “Back to the Emerald city”Ch. 09 “The great Humbug”Ch. 10 “The magic of Oz”Ch. 11 “ A way to the south”Ch. 12 “At Glinda’s Castle”

INTRODUCTION

L.FRANK.BAUM was born in New York, USA. He wanted to write a fairy tale that is not too frightening. The Wizard Of Oz, published in 1900, is the first in

his series of Oz stories.

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Won three Academy Awards, and was nominated for best Picture of the Year

STORY BACKGROUND

The story, by L. Frank Baum, was partly inspired by Baum's childhood love of Grimm's Fairy Tales and partly by his desire to provide his four young sons with something a little more exciting to read than the ponderous fiction available at the turn of the century in the United States

STORY BACKGROUNDTHE WIZARD OF OZ has empathetic

characters who serve as archetypes for society. From the Cowardly Lion, to the

Wicked Witch, to Dorothy who learns that "there is no place like home,"

Baum himself was a colorful man who was said to have taken the word "Oz" from a

filing cabinet drawer labeled O-Z. His inspiration for the character of the

Scarecrow also had a real-life source the old-time fairy tale, having served for

generations, may now be classed as 'historical' in the children's library; with all the horrible and blood curdling incidents

devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education

includes morality;Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was written

solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonder and joy are retained and

the heartaches and nightmares are left out.”

OBJECTIVES

• Giving them the full knowledge about the author, the background of the story and characters.

• Encourage individual reading.

• Enable them to compare and contrast the characters and their problems with the society they are living in.

• Help them to understand the importance of a true friend.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE

Dorothy lives on a small farm in Kansas with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. When a cyclone hits, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are carried away in the farmhouse. They

land in a strange place where a good witch and tiny people called Munchkins greet them. Dorothy’s house has landed on (and killed) the Wicked Witch of the

East. Dorothy takes the Wicked Witch’s charmed silver shoes, and the good witch gives her a protective kiss on her forehead so she can reach Oz safely.

Dorothy hopes that the Wizard of Oz will be able to send her back to Kansas, so she sets off on the yellow brick road.

Soon, Dorothy and Toto meet the Scarecrow. He desperately wants a brain, so he accompanies them on their trip. Next, they meet the Tin Woodman, who tells his story of how he was once human and how he longs to have a heart again. Dorothy tells him that the Wizard of Oz can help, so the Tin Woodman joins them. As they make their way through a forest, they encounter the Cowardly Lion. Although he initially tries to frighten them, he admits that he is a coward

and wishes he had the courage that the King of the Beasts should have. He joins the travelers, hoping that the Wizard of Oz can help him, too. The travelers meet

many dangers on the yellow brick road, such as ditches, a river, and terrifying creatures.

SYMBOLISM

Poppies have long been used as a symbol of both sleep and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of the common blood-red color of the red poppy in particular. . This symbolism was evoked in the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a magical poppy field threatened to make the protagonists to sleep forever

METHODOLOGY•The teacher will read and explain the chapter then the children will be asked to read the chapter one by one.

•To make the lesson interesting oral comprehension will be done, difficult words will be used for meaning, pronunciation and spellings.

•Discussion will be done on main characters i.e. Dorothy, Scarecrow, Lion and The Tin wood Man.

•Symbolic figure of the poppy field will be discussed.

•To discuss about the various beasts the children have watched in movies, read in books. How terrible and scary they could be.

•To talk about how little creatures could be helpful to big creatures---size doesnot matter.

•Exercises and oral questions relating to these chapters will be repeatedly asked to make sure the children understand the text.

21st CENTURY APPROACHES

• LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

• GIVING DIRECTION SKILLS

• OBSERVING AND MONITORING SKILLS

• QUESTIONING SKILLS

• ENCOURAGING SKILLS

• INTERVENING SKILLS

21st CENTURY SKILLS

By applying the 21st Century Approaches with the help of the story of the novel we can develop the following 21st Century skills in our students

• Self direction•Critical thinking and system thinking •Creativity and intellectual curiosity•Communication skills•Accountability and adaptability •Problem identification, formulation and solution

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