BLOOM PUBLIC SCHOOL

VasantKunj , New Delhi

Lesson Plan
Class : XI
Subject: ENGLISH
Month: April No. of periods -19
Chapter: HORNBILL - 'Portrait of a lady’
TTT: 2 WT -2
HORNBILL Portrait of a lady – Khushwant Singh
Learning To emphasise the relationship between the author and his grandmother
Objectives -To highlight the changes in the relationship and the lifestyle of the grandmother
and author after moving into the city
-To understand the grandmother’s relationship with nature until and after death.
-A highlight into Indian society/a comparative study with a fast life, western
education dominated society.
Resources 1. HORNBILL reader.
2. English practice test materials
3. Mind Map (self-made)
CW Activities Reading
Group discussion/class interaction-
• Do you have your grandparents living with you?
• How much time do you spend with your grandparents?
• Have you experienced life in a village? Discuss
• Written Text book questions – Q1,2,3,4, 5 - pg6 – 7
Talking about the text – Q1, Q2, Q3 – PG7
Class Work • Written Text book questions – Q1,2,3,4, 5 - pg6 – 7
Talking about the text – Q1, Q2, Q3 – PG7
Practice • Talking about the text – Q1, Q2, Q3 – Pg 7

Period wise Plan

1 Reading and Explanation; pg 3,4,5
Following points will be given to the students to write at the end of the period.
-an introduction to the works and life of
Author; Khushwant Singh.
-life of the author in the village with his grandmother.
- A peek into the mind of the grandmother after she moves into the city
- How she adapts to new surroundings
2 Reading and Explanation pg6
Following points will be given to the students to write at the end of the period.
- Her silent acceptance of western education and music
- Generation gap.
- Changes in the educational system of the author after moving into the city
- Changes in the relationship with the grandmother.
- Grandmother’s acceptance of seclusion
- The last days of the grandmother
- Behavior of the sparrows at her death.
3 Q&ANS: LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
- Q1 TO Q5 (UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT) pg 6-7
 4 Long Answer Questions;
- Q1 TO Q3 (TALKING ABOUT THE TEXT) pg 7

Chapter: HORNBILL - (poem-1) ‘A photograph’

TTT: 1 WT-2
HORNBILL POEM – A PHOTOGRAPH:- Shirley Toulson
Learning To read a poem for comprehension and appreciation
Objectives -To enable the students to understand poetic devices used
- To emphasis and recognize the rhythm &rhyme scheme
-To highlight the relationship of the poetess with her mother,
-about coping with the loss of a beloved mother,
- about the awareness of mortality and transience of life, love and laughter.
. The capability to cope with the loss of loved ones
- Feeling of nostalgia.
- To understand the mother-daughter relationship which is intense, unique,
love-hate and umbilical – starting before birth and (for the poet) seeming to
extend beyond it in the form of fond memories
Resources HORNBILL reader.
English practice test materials
Mind Map (self made)
CW Activities Reading
Group discussion/class interaction-
• How do you react to photographs taken when you were very young?
Class Work • Poetic devices : alliteration – ‘terribly transient’
(ORAL) ‘silence silences’, ‘stood still..’ silence silences’.
Transferred epithet – ‘transient feet’
Allusion – the cardboard
Oxymoron – laboured ease
Stanza wise explanatory notes – key points (period 2)
Extracts for comprehension (period 2)
Some twenty – thirty –years later;
She’d laugh at the snapshot, “See Betty
And Dolly”, she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach”. The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With her laboured ease of loss.
a) Who is ‘she’? When would she laugh and why?
b) What does the poet compare ‘her laughter’ to and why?
c) Explain “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss’.
Now she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all.
Its silence silences.
a) How long do you think has she been dead?
b) What does ‘this circumstance’ refer to? What does the poet say about it?
c) Explain ‘its silence silences’.6
Practice Text book questions Q1-7 pg. 12
(WRITTEN)

Period wise plan

5 A brief up on poet , Shirley Toulson’s life and other works including her style of
writing.
- Poetic devices : alliteration – ‘terribly transient’
‘silence silences’, ‘stood still.’
Transferred epithet – ‘the sea holiday’, ‘transient feet’
Allusion – the cardboard
Oxymoron – labored ease of loss
Personification – silence silences.
6 Stanza wise explanation and explanatory notes – key points
Extracts for comprehension
Some twenty – thirty –years later;
She’d laugh at the snapshot, “See Betty
And Dolly”, she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach”. The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With her laboured ease of loss.
a) Who is ‘she’? When would she laugh and why?
b) What does the poet compare ‘her laughter’ to and why?
c) Explain “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss’.
Answer:
a) ‘She’ is the poet’s mother. She would laugh when she would look at the
snapshot
years later.
b) The poet compares ‘her laughter’ to her own past when she remembers her
mother’s laughter. Mother’s sea holiday was her past and the poet’s past is the
mother’s holiday.
c) Both, the mother and daughter remember some pleasant incidents of the past.
For
the mother it is the holiday, while for the poet it is her mother’s laughter. It is with
a
sense of loss that she remembers her mother and the expression on the face is
that
of grief and helplessness.
Now she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all.
Its silence silences.
a) How long do you think has she been dead?
b) What does ‘this circumstance’ refer to? What does the poet say about it?
c) Explain ‘its silence silences’.6
Answer: a) The poet’s mother seems to have been dead for twelve years.
b) The circumstance is the death of the mother and the poet’s loss.
c) The death of the poet’s mother brings a sense of grief within her and she has no
words to express her grief. The death’s silence silences. It is final. One is helpless
before it.
7 Text book questions: Think it out – Q1 to Q4- pg 12
Text book questions: Think it out – Q5 to Q7 pg 12
Chapter: SNAPSHOT- 1. Summer of a Beautiful White Horse
TTT: 2 WT-3
SNAPSHOT Summer of a Beautiful White Horse (Snapshot)
Learning Understand the Themes-
Objectives • Pangs of conscience goads a person to follow the right path.
• Natural urge of boys to have fun
• Pride of Garoghlanian tribe
• Adventure and exploration
Resources 1. Snapshot reader
2. Mind Map (self made)
CW Activities Reading
Group discussion/class interaction-
• Family values
• Traditions
• Honesty and integrity
Discussion on all the Qs. To be done in the class.
Class Work Reading and Explanation; pg 1,2,
Reading and Explanation(cont.) pg 3,4, 5
Q. Which other character of Mourad’s family had the crazy streak in him? Write
briefly about his behaviour.
Reading and Explanation(Cont.) pg 6,7,8
Q. How can we say that Aram and Mourad were very fond of riding?
Pg 8- Q1, 2
Q. Do you think John Byro recognized his horse? Why did he not accuse the
boys of stealing the horse?
Practice Q. What traits of the Garoghlanian family are highlighted in the story?
Q. What were the peculiarities in uncle?
Assessment Class Test

Period wise plan

8 Reading and Explanation; pg 1,2,3,4

9 Reading and Explanation(Contd) pg 5,6,7,8

10 Pg 8- Q1, 2
Q. Which other character of Mourad’s family had the crazy streak in him? Write
briefly about his behaviour.
Q. How can we say that Aram and Mourad were very fond of riding?
11
Q. Do you think John Byro recognized his horse? Why did he not accuse the boys
of stealing the horse?
Q. The story explores the theme of adventure and exploration. Do you think the
story appeals for responsible adventurism?
Q. The element of ‘honesty’ is integral to the plot. Discuss.
12 Class test
TOPIC : READING COMPREHENSION – NOTE MAKING
T.T – 1 WT-- 2
READING NOTE MAKING AND SUMMARISATION
COMPREHENSION
LEARNING - To enable a person to summarise relevant information from a given text.
OBJECTIVES - To help in remembering the information collected
- To enable better understanding of texts.
- To help and improve in storing supplementary material taken from reference
books or journals.
- To help in making a speech or writing an article.
RESOURCES DOE support material
English practice test materials
Mind Map
CLASS WORK Group discussions, writing skills.
ACTIVITY
CLASS WORK FORMAT.
INSTRUCTIONS.
HORNBILL – Pg.89, PHEASANTS.
HORNBILL – Pg 96, GREEN SAHARA
Practice Hornbill pg 99 A new deal for old cities
ASSESSMENT CLASS TEST
PERIOD-WISE LESSONPLAN
13 Detailed explanation of procedure and format to make notes.
Learning to make notes
Format – Title (main idea)
1. main point
1.1 sub point
1.2
1.3
(a) sub sub point
(b)
2. Main point
2.1
2.2
Key to abbreviations used
Summary- 80 words
Dictation of important steps to make notes.
HORNBILL – Pg.89, PHEASANTS.
14 HORNBILL – Pg 96, GREEN SAHARA,
15 Pg – 99, A NEW DEAL FOR OLD CITIES

TOPIC: Notice Writing - Lost/ found, activities, events, excursions, meetings

NOTICE WRITING Lost/ found, activities, events, excursions, meetings
LEARNING - Effective means of disseminating information related to different issues
OBJECTIVES or occasions.
- To ensure that the information reach to a large number of persons in a
short time.
- To be written for the purpose of circulation and displayed on/in
- School/college notice boards
- Newspapers/magazines.
 - Public Notice Boards.
RESOURCES English practice test materials
Mind Map
CLASS WORK Group discussions. – TEST ON PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE. OF FORMATS AND
ACTIVITY CONTENT EXPRESSION.
CLASS WORK You are Kripa Shankar, a student of class XI. You have lost an expensive watch
in the school premises. Draft a notice to be put up on the school notice board
giving details of the watch and offering a suitable reward. Use not more than 50
words.
Practice 1. Every year in the Central Park of the city a flower show is held in the month
of
February your school has received a circular from the district collector inviting
your students to visit it. Write a notice in about 50 words informing the
students about the show and advising them to go and enjoy it. You are
Navtej/Navita, Head boy/Head Girl, Sunrise Public School, Surat.
2. You are Manav/Mani Secretary of the History Club of K.V.Sr.Sec. School,
Vadodara. Draft a notice in not more than 50 words informing the students of
classes XI and XII about a proposed tour to Rajasthan during the coming
summer vacations.

PERIOD-WISE LESSON PLAN

16 Brief introduction.
Format and rules of NOTICE
Format : This includes
Name of institution/Issuing authority
Date
The word ‘Notice’
Heading
Content (answers the questions – what, where, purpose, when, how, follow-up
details)
Name
Designation of the person issuing the notice.
The Notice should be put in a box.
Rules :
- Should be brief and precise
- All required information should be given in simple language
- Should look neat
- Word limit should be adhered to.
LOST/FOUND NOTICE –
You are Kripa Shankar, a student of class XI. You have lost an expensive watch in
the school premises. Draft a notice to be put up on the school notice board
giving details of the watch and offering a suitable reward. Use not more than 50
words.
17 EXCURSION NOTICE –
EXPLANATION OF Rules of NOTICE
You are Manav/Mani Secretary of the History Club of K.V.Sr.Sec. School,
Vadodara. Draft a notice in not more than 50 words informing the students of
classes XI and XII about a proposed tour to Rajasthan during the coming
summer vacations.
18 EVENT NOTICE –
EXPLANATION OF Rules of NOTICE
Every year in the Central Park of the city a flower show is held in the month of
February your school has received a circular from the district collector inviting
your students to visit it. Write a notice in about 50 words informing the
students about the show and advising them to go and enjoy it. You are
Navtej/Navita, Head boy/Head Girl, Sunrise Public School, Surat. (PRACTICE
MATERIAL)

TOPIC : Integrated grammar

LEARNING - To enable the students to reinforce their previous knowledge on the
OBJECTIVES following
- Article
- Demonstrative
- Possessive
- Definite Numeral
- Indefinite Numeral
- Distributive
RESOURCES DOE support material
ACTIVITY English Core : Grammatical Skills For Class XI
Practice Classwork
PERIOD-WISE LESSONPLAN
19 Class Work
1. Complete the following using clauses given in the box:
how he was killed; who was an inspiring leader, which was a serious below
The general _____ was killed by a stray bullet in the early stages of the battle.
His
death _____ to the soldier’s morale, stunned everyone is the country. The news
_____, was given by a shepherd.
2. There is a word missing in each line of the following passage. Find the place
where you think the word is missing and write the word (a modal) in your
answer
sheet against the correct blank number. The first one has been done as an
example.
We say with conviction that the nature is the best teacher e.g. we can say
One be having any type of question, (a) _____
nature give an answer at once. One (b) _____
to sit in the lap of nature for some time (c) _____
and think about one’s question in relation (d) _____
to nature. After sometime the answer (e) _____
come up in the mind. That answer be (f) _____
difficult to understand but if it be the only (g) _____
real answer. One try oneself it to test the truth (h) _____
1. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in
each line. Write both the incorrect word and correct word in your answer
sheet as shown:
Incorrect Correct
i) Required sale engineer: Graduate or sale sales
Commerce Diploma holders. Should possessed_________ _________
excellent communication skills. Might _________ _________
have minimum two year experience _________ _________
in marketing or sales. Only _________ _________
serious candidates by relevant _________ _________
qualifications need to application _________ _________
the selected candidates should be _________ _________
give attractive remuneration _________ _________
ii) When I reached America the first problem
I faced is that of loneliness. American _________ _________
students did not has any trouble in _________ _________
making friends. There were many American _________ _________
having same or similar taste. The main _________ _________
was that he cannot make small talk _________ _________
he was new to an American way of life _________ _________
In his first year in Harvard School _________ _________
I faced this problem.
2. Correct errors in the following sentences and rewrite them :
a. There is nothing for worry.
b. The father asked his son how the interview is.
c. The exhaust earth groaned under the hot sun.
d. The small town was on the foot of the hill.
e. The mother got after early in the morning.
f. He believed that all religions were one.
g. He told me that he finished his work.
h. Women by high societies can enjoy the luxury of no work.
3. Fill in the blanks using correct forms of the words given in the
brackets:
In an attempt (a) _______ (prevent) beneficiaries of its free laptop
scheme from (b) _______ (sell) the product or its diversion to the open
market, the Tamil Nadu government (c) _______ (order) the
manufactures supplying the laptop is to burn their logo on the chips so
that it is (d) _______ (display) when the machine is (e) _______
(switch) on. Similarly the state government’s logo should also (f)
_______ (print) on the laptop’s motherboard, (g) _______ (engrave)
and screen printed at suitable places as per instructions of the
Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd., the issuer of the tender
(Elcot). Elcot (h) _______ (issue) an international competitive tender for
sourcing 9,12,000 laptops.
4. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful
Sentences
a.to/her/ first/ Sudha/ stand/ hard/ class/ is/ studying
b. healthy/ takes/ keep/ himself/ everyday/ exercise/ Kamal/ to