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CURRICULAR STATEMENTS: -THE LEARNER READS AND ENJOYS POEM. -THE LEARNER UNDERSTANDS THEME OF THE POEM. -THE LEARNER IDENTIFIES AND UNDERSTANDS POETIC DEVICES LIKE RHYMING SCHEME, IMAGES, FIGURE OF SPEECH ETC. . LEARNING OUTCOMES: -THE LEARNER DEVELOPS THEIR AESTHETHIC SENSE. -THE LEARNER DEVELOPS IMMORTAL CREATION IN IFE. -THE LEARNER ENCHANCE CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING. CONTENT ANALYSIS: TAJMAHAL IS A SMALL POEM. HIS POEM BY THE IMMORTAL CREATION OF MAN. THE FOLLOWING LINES ARE FROM TAGORE’S POEM “SHAJAHAN”

PRE-REQUISITES: LEARNER KNOWS ABOUT THE IMMORTAL CREATION IN LIFE -LEARNER KNOWS SHAJAHAN AND MUMTAZ - TEACHING –LEARNING PROCESS: COURSEBOOK -PRESENTATION OF THE AUTHOR -BLACKBOARD -ADVANCED OXFORD DICTIONARY -

CLASSROOM PROCEDURES INFORMAL INTERACTION TR: GOOD MORNING STUDENTS HOW ARE YOU? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? ENTRY ACTIVITY TR: DID YOU KNOW THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD? WHO BUILT TAJMAHAL? WHERE TAJMAHAL SITUATED AT ? WHO IS SHAJAHAN? FOR WHOM SHAJAHAN BUILT TAJMAHAL? LINK TALK SHOWING A PICTURE OF TAJMAHAL TR SHOWS THE VIDEO OF THE POEM TAJMAHAL

PICTURE OF THE AUTHOR RABINDRANATH TAGORE

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE POET RABINDRANATH TAGORE(1861 -1941) WAS A BENGALI WRITER WHO RESHAPED BENGALI LITERATURE AND MUSIC AS WELL AS INDIAN ART IN THE LATE 19 TH AND EARLY 20 TH CENTURIES. In 1913, RABINDRANATH WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE FOR ENGLISH VERSION OF “GEETANJALI”. RABINDRANATH BECAME THE FIRST INDIAN, EVEN THE FIRST ASIAN TO GET THIS GREAT AWARD. HE ALSO FOUNDED VISHWABHARATI UNIVERSITY AT SANTINIKETAN IN 1902. HE HAD ENDLESS LOVE FOR HIS COUNTRY AND COUNTRYMEN. TAGORE REJECTED “KNIGHTHOOD” IN PROTEST AGAINST JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE IN 1919.

IMPORTANT WORKS

MICRO PROCESSING OF THE INPUT TEACHER RECITES THE POEM TWICE WITH CORRECT PRONOUNCIATION, RHYTHM, TONE AND FEELING

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SILENT READING BY THE LEARNER Now you read the poem silently without lip movement. while silent reading teacher asked them to do track reading by marking cross mark(x) for those words that they cannot understand, and tick mark ( ) , for these words that they find interesting. SHARING WITH PEERS /PAIRS Teacher asks the students to share their doubts and understandings their peers/pairs GLOBAL COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 1. Who wrote the poem ‘ Tajmahal ’ ? 2. What is the poem about?

DETAILED WORD STUDY Teacher asks the students some difficult words §Grieve-sad §Emerald-green precious stone §Gleam -clear light §Solitary-alone SECOND SILENT READING Pupil reads the poem silently and teacher supervises UNDERSTANDING THE POEM 1. What do you think was shajahan’s heart’s pain? 2. Pick out two instances of smile in the poem? 3. Pick out the lines which mean emeralds , rubies, and pearls are transient? 4. ’All float away down the stream of time’ what image do you get from this line? 5. what, in the poet’s view , are things that would float away down the stream of time?

APPRECIATING THE POEM (GROUP ACTIVITY) Pick out instances of visual and auditory (sound) images from the poem. Find out the rhyming words in the poem? FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY Write down words from the poem related to transience and eternity.

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