LESSON PLAN

BY NEELAM MALHOTRA (PGT ENGLISH)

POEM: A Thing of Beauty by John Keats

Class: XII

Subject: English

Periods: 2 (40 min. each)

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOME:

Learners will be able to-Share their feelings on an object/person/place that

adds beauty to life and is a source of inspiration

 Derive the title of the poem through discussion

 Read and comprehend the poem

 Identify the poetic devices and rhyme scheme of the poem

 Express their views and opinions in the answers based on the poem and
inferences made by them

EXPECTED SKILL DEVELOPMENT:

Creativity, Questioning, Communication, Collaboration, Reading, Analysis,

Identification

MATERIALS NEEDED/RESOURCES:

Textbook, Blackboard, Worksheet, notebook

THEME OF THE POEM:

The life consists of two contradictory but complimentary forces. Everyone has
to experience positive as well as negative things yet life in totality is a beautiful
divine gift. Everything or everyone that inspires us is a beautiful thing.
1. UNFOLDING THE POEM:

Day 1
Time: 10 min.
Pedagogy: Story telling as Pre - Reading Activity
The teacher will share the link with students for later self-reading.
https://schooleverywhereelquds.com/lib/uploadbook/10531478941403Beauty
_and_the_Beast%20(1).pdf
Content: Teacher student Interaction.

Students decide whether they find decision of Beauty’s father justice or a kind
of unjust/unfair punishment.

After narrating the story briefly, the teacher divides the class in groups and
instructs them to present their discussion.

* Their opinion about the decisions ‘Beauty’ made?

* Any 1 or 2 experiences to support their opinion

* What they would have done if they were in the place of beauty.

Teacher would ask students to have a silent reading of the poem. 5 min.

Students read the poem silently and are asked to underline the difficult
words/phrases, identify rhyme scheme and the poetic devices. 15 min.

Derivation of the theme of the poem

Students will be asked questions (RTC) to facilitate the derivation of the

message and the theme of the poem.

What kind of joy does a beautiful thing provide?

Mention any two sources of joy which a thing of beauty provides us.

Discuss what these phrases mean to you?

 Quiet breathing

 Inhuman dearth of noble natures

 Simple sheep

 Clear rills

 Mighty dead

 How can death and destruction be beautiful? 10 min.

Literary Devices & Rhyme scheme of the poem

Alliteration – „simple sheep‟ ,

„morrow, are we wreathing‟

„band to bind‟

„cooling covert‟

Allegory: Deeper meanings are conveyed through symbolic figures and actions

Rhyme Scheme: aa bb cc dd …..

Day 2

Recapitulation through T S interaction 5 min.

How is the theme of the poem applicable to life? 20 min.

Assignment of writing task

Worksheet based on RTC questions. 15 min.

Discussion of the worksheet

Teacher will discuss the answers of the worksheet with the Class.

B. WORK SHEET ON RTC (REFERENCE TO CONTEXT):

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

A flowery band to bind us to the earth,

Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth

Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,

Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways

Made for our searching;”

a) Mention any 2 attributes of a thing of beauty.

b) Give any 3 examples of joy a thing of beauty provides us.

c) What are the things that stand in contrast with a thing of beauty?

d) Explain: „Made for our searching‟

“Yes, in spite of all,

Some shape of beauty moves away the pall

From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,

Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon

For simple sheep; and such are daffodils

With the green world they live in; and clear rills

That for themselves a cooling covert make

'Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,

Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms

We have imagined for the mighty dead;

All lovely tales that we have heard or read:

An endless fountain of immortal drink,

Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.”

a) Why are our spirits referred as dark spirits?

b) What can remove the pall (cover) from our spirits?

c) About whom we hear or read the lovely tales? How do they affect us?

d) Explain :- „endless fountain of immortal drink‟

C. EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT:

Students will be evaluated on their reading and comprehension and analytical

skills. They will also be assessed on identifying poetic devices and rhyme
scheme of the poem.

D. COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS:

The phrase “endless fountain of immortal drink pouring unto us” might be
interpreted in different ways.

Addressing the Misconceptions:

Teacher will provide correct contextual meaning of the word „immortal drink‟
– an elixir of life gifted by God or constant inspiration received through nature
or people.