Learning area: English (FL)
Lesson topic: ‘The road not taken’ by Robert Frost (Poetry)
Grade: 8
Duration of the lesson: 45min
Learning outcomes: * Learning outcome 1- Listening: learner will be able to listen for information and enjoyment, and respond appropriately and critically in a wide range of situations. * Learning outcome 3- Speaking and viewing: the leaner will be able to read and view for information and enjoyment, and respond critically to the aesthetic, cultural and emotional values in texts. * Learning outcome 5- Thinking and reasoning: The learner will be able to use language to think and reason, as well as to access, process and use information for learning.
Assessment standards:
Learner will be able to.. * listen to and appreciates challenging imaginative and informative oral texts * understands how familiar oral texts are organized and describes characteristic features, this will include recognizing tools used for humour such as puch lines, sarcasm and exaggeration. * Identify main ideas and explains how the details support the main idea, and identifies and explains different points of view. * explain how key features and the organization of different types of texts contribute to how the text functions. * Use language to think and reason, uses language to investigate and explore, think creatively and use language to reflect on what is heard or read, to ask critical questions and challenge views.
Introduction:
I will briefly tell the learners about the poem we are going to be studying. (Example: about the author)
I will be reading the poetry to the learners. [5min]
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“The Road Not Taken”
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the