LESSON PLAN

Name/Surname: Mine Yalçın, Arzu Sakır, Gülseren Özdemir

Institution/ Context of language teaching: Faculty of Education / FLE Department / Reading Lesson

Material Used: Poetry: Daddy by Sylvia Plath, PPT slides

Lesson Focus: To understand the poem as a whole and analyze the techniques used in the poem.

Learner profile (Age + Proficiency level/ Number of students): The students are advanced learners of English,
and they study at an FLE department. They are at a B2/C1 level in English. There are 25 students in the class.

Anticipated problems & Remedies during Teaching:

1. Some technical problems with Zoom may occur. I will send the slides and videos to the students before the lesson.
2. Time may not be enough. I will ask them to review the poem before class.
3. It is likely that there are words and descriptions they do not know. I will let them use the internet to search.
Aim/Goal of your lesson (1-2 goals):

1. Students will be able to analyze the techniques in the poem and understand the subject.

Objectives of the lesson (2-5 objectives):

By the end of the lesson, the students will have/ students will be able to …

1. analyze the poem “Daddy” by stanza.

2. understand the meaning of words according to the poem.
3. state the central idea of the poem.

Lesson Plan, 1
 Lesson Plan (The Procedure)

Allocated
Rationale
Procedure Interaction

Time
Stage Aids &
What do the teacher and the students do? Pattern
Justification

2 T greets the students and shows a picture of the poet. T asks whether PPT T-S T prepares ss for the lesson by testing if
min. the ss knows the poet - the poem. Ss express their opinions. they have any prior knowledge about the
Warm-up
poet and the poem. This will help ss
refresh their knowledge quickly.
10 T reinforces the knowledge by giving general information about the T-S
min. period and the poet. T gives preliminary information about the T gives general information for students
publication date, stanzas and content of the poem to be analyzed. T to better understand the poem before

The poem
Pre- shows the poem to the ss and wants them to read it. T asks ss' examining it more specifically.T aims to
opinions and how the poem makes them feel. get ss’ ideas in order to attract them to
the lesson.

25 T shows the first stanza and asks a ss to read it. T checks the class to T-C T first asks the ss to interpret and analyze
min. see if there are any words they do not know. T asks ss to guess Whole Class the poem. T helps later because she/he
unknown words. Ss analyze the stanza they read and try to wants the information to be permanent. T
While understand it. T collaborates with the ss and they examine the other asking students for examples to test what

The poem
stanzas as well. T touches upon the themes in the poem. T first they have learned is also a reinforcement
explains the poetic devices used in the poem, then asks the ss to give activity.
examples from the lines.
8 T takes a mini quiz about poetic devices using the lines studied in the S,S,S Ss measure their knowledge by answering
min. lesson. prepared questions. This stage reveals
Post-
whether the subject is understood or not.

Lesson Plan, 2