LESSON PLAN

SUBJECT: Literature
GRADE: 9
GENERAL OBJECTIVE: For students to understand the elements of a short story.

DATE: 23rd January, 2022

ACTIVITIES
SPECIFIC PREVIOUS
TIME TOPIC CONTENT TEACHER’S STUDENTS’ RESOURCE EVALUATION
OBJECTIVES KNOWLEDGE
ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES
Short After reading the Blackout Students will INTRODUCTION
10:30- story short story, know what Teacher will: Students will:
11:40 “Blackout” by Elements of a Short Story setting is.
Roger Mais, Encourages students Recap previous
students orally
Characters to recap previous lesson.
discuss the plot of
the story. lesson.
American white Woman
Black man STAGE ONE
Reads story with Follow as teacher
Setting students. reads.

The story is set on a West Indian Asks students to Share something

island during the second World share something about the story.
War. This encounter was during a about the story.
‘blackout’.
STAGE TWO
Summary Asks students to Discuss the
discuss the characters in the
The story is set on a West Indian characters in the short story.
island during the second World short story.
War, and describes an encounter
between a black West Indian man Facilitates discussion Participate in
and an American woman. It was on characters in the discussion on
the era of segregation with short story. characters.
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SUBJECT: Literature
GRADE: 9
GENERAL OBJECTIVE: For students to understand the elements of a short story.

DATE: 23rd January, 2022

separate schools, buses,
restaurants for blacks and whites. STAGE THREE
Instruct students to Form groups.
Right from the title onwards, the form three groups.
term ‘black’ emphasizes the racist
tension in a society where colour Instruct students to Create character
prejudice is widespread. the street create character sketches of the
lights being off points to a relative sketches of two characters.
lack of safety but ‘the atmosphere characters in the
novel.
of exclusive respectability’ conveys
that the girl is in a relatively safe
Instruct students to Present character
zone where Suburbans household present in front of sketches to the
lives. She is confident and feels the class what they class.
that there is trouble, “one good created.
scream” can bring a number of
people to her rescue.

A black man slowly approaches the CONCLUSION

American woman and asks for a Recap lesson Recap lesson
light for his cigarette and as he
thanks her, she flicks the cigarette
away. She did that because she is
disgusted that a Black man
touched her cigarette and
therefore she doesn’t want to
smoke it anymore. After the
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SUBJECT: Literature
GRADE: 9
GENERAL OBJECTIVE: For students to understand the elements of a short story.

DATE: 23rd January, 2022

flicking, there’s a moment of
discomfort and she asks him why
he was still there. He replies with
an apology as a comment on her
actions.