Teaching Manual 18: Ideational Content

TEACHING MANUAL 18
NAME OF THE TEACHER: FATHIMA SHIYAS UNIT:5, SHARE AND CARE

NAME OF THE SCHOOL: SNDP HIGH SUB UNIT:SOLITUDE
SCHOOL (Stanza 1)
SUBJECT : ENGLISH
STANDARD :8
DIVISION :A
STRENGTH :
DURATION :
DATE :
CONTENT ANALYSIS
Theme: Human values
Subtheme: care, loneliness
Ideational Content
Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “Solitude” is about the relationship between the

individual and the outside world. In the first stanza Wilcox shows how you
must face your problem instead of seeking happiness through others. The
poet says that when you are happy and joyful, people will want to be around
you, when you are depressed nobody will be there for you. People will only
want you at your best and never at your worst.
Linguistic Content
Vocabulary Items
 Weep- /wiːp/- Shed tears
 Mirth- /məːθ/- amusement, especially as expressed in
laughter.
 Sigh- /sʌɪ/- emit a long, deep audible breath expressing
sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.
 Bound- /baʊnd/ -walk or run with leaping strides.
 Shrink- /ʃrɪŋk/- become or make smaller in size or amount.
Structural item
Adjective
Example : Red, white
Synthetic Content
Write a profile on Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Learning Outcomes
The learner will be able to :
 read and understand the poem
 enrich the vocabulary
 refer to a dictionary or glossary to find out the unfamiliar
words.
 communicate effectively in simple English
 enhance creativity and critical thinking
 express feeling and opinions
 identify a language discourse in the form of profile writing
 edit the discourse
Pre-requisites
The learner :
 is able to read the poem
 has study skill of referring addiction
 has read poems with similar theme
Instructional Strategies
Individual work, Group work, Question-Answer session etc.
Learning Aids
Text book, Blackboard, Flashcards and Pictures.
PROCESS RESPONSE
Entry Activity
Teacher creates a good rapport with
the students by engaging in an
informal talk.
Teacher creates mental readiness
among the students by displaying
some pictures and asking some
questions relating to the topic.
Teacher asks the students about
their experiences with family and
friends when happy and when sad.
Teacher then introduces the author
of the poem to the students.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an
American author and poet.
She was born in 1850 on a
farm in Johnstown,
Wisconsin, east of Janesville,
the youngest of four children.
Her works include Poems of
Passion and Solitude, which
contains the lines "Laugh, and
the world laughs with you;
weep, and you weep alone."
Her autobiography, The
Worlds and I, was published
in 1918, a year before her
death.
Teacher then introduces the title of

the poem by showing a slide and
asks the explanation of the title and
later explains the relevance of the
title to the students.
“SOLITUDE”
Teacher then introduces the poem
solitude by showing a video based
on the poem and asks students
about their opinion
1. Do you readily help others
when they are in need?
2. Point you wish to have
someone beside you when you are
sad or in distress?
The teacher then give’s the gist of
the stanza
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's 'Solitude'
is a poem about the relationship
between the individuals and
outside world. In the first stanza
Wilcox shows how to face
problems instead of seeking
happiness through others. The
poet says that when you are
happy and joyful, people will
want to be around you, when
you are depressed nobody will
be there for you. People will
only want you at your best and
never at your worst.
Reading Session
Individual Reading
The teacher asks the pupils to read
the poem silently and mark the
unfamiliar words.
Collaborative Reading
The teacher divides the students
into different groups and asks them
to find out the meanings of
unfamiliar words using glossary.
After that she scaffolds the
unfamiliar words.
• Weep- /wiːp/- Shed tears [Action]
• Mirth- /məːθ/- amusement, especially
as expressed in laughter. [Slide]
• Sigh- /sʌɪ/- emit a long, deep audible
breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or
similar. [Imitation]
• Bound- /baʊnd/ -walk or run with
leaping strides. [Picture]
• Shrink- /ʃrɪŋk/- become or make smaller
in size or amount. [Video clip]
Then she gives them an activity card
and asks the pupils to do the
activity.
List five activities which you do

______________
to overcome your sadness.
 ______________
 ____________
 ____________
 ____________
 ____________
Model Reading by the Teacher

The teacher reads the poem aloud
with proper pronunciation stress
and intonation.
Loud Reading by the Pupils
The teacher randomly selects the
pupils to read the poem aloud.
Scaffolded Reading
The teacher asks some questions to
the pupils to provide an in depth
understanding of the poem.
1. What does the opening lines tell
us about the present day world?
2.Life is a mixture of joy and
sorrows how differently do people
react to each others of them?
3. Even the earth is
indifferent to human suffering
identity the lines hint this idea?
nding of the poem.
The teacher then introduces the

structural item
Personification
Example : ‘hills will answer’
- the attribution of a
personal nature or human
characteristics to something non-
human, or the representation of
an abstract quality in human
form.
Writing Session
Individual Writing
The teacher asks the students to
prepare a profile of the poet Ella
Wheeler Wilcox using hints given in
the slide.
Group Writing
The teacher asks the students to sit
in groups and select the best one.
Presentation of the Discourse
The teacher asks the students to
present the selected one.
Editing
The teacher asks the pupils to
exchange the works in groups and
asks them to edit the errors. Then
the teacher edit’s the remaining
errors.
Presentation of the Discourse

The teacher presents her version
through a Slide.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a

famous American poetess. She
was born in 1850. Her best known
work is ‘Poems of Passion’. Her
most enduring work is ‘Solitude’.
Her autobiography is ‘ The Worlds
and Eye’, which was published in
1918. She died in 1919.
Follow-up Activity
Prepare a Haiku on the topic ‘Solitude’.

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TEACHING MANUAL 18

NAME OF THE TEACHER: FATHIMA SHIYAS UNIT:5, SHARE AND CARE

Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “Solitude” is about the relationship between the

Teacher then introduces the title of

List five activities which you do

Model Reading by the Teacher

The teacher then introduces the

Presentation of the Discourse

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a

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