Lesson Plan

Lesson objective: SWBAT identify words that add tone or mood to the text

Ongoing objective:

a. Title and poet name

b. Main idea of the text

Reading strategy: Asking questions/ Wondering

Vocabulary:

1. Valley – The flat land lying between hills or mountains, typically with a river flowing through
it (through visual representation)
2. Pipe – a musical instrument with holes played by blowing into it (by making connections to
self)
3. Piping – To play the instrument
4. Wept – shedding with tears
5. Thy – your
6. Thee – you
7. Lamb – baby goat
8. Plucked – to pull
9. Rural – countryside/village
10. Stain – to spot something with ink or food items

Purpose of the lesson:

It brings about how we can spread happiness around us through different ways. It also highlights
how by bringing joy to one, it brings joy to everyone else as well. It also has an aspect of inspiring
someone to do something fruitful. Here, the child inspires the poet to write happy songs.

Assessment:

1. Who is the poet of the poem?

a. William Wordsworth
b. Robert Frost
c. William Blake

ESR: William Blake

2. What would be a better title for this poem as per you?

ESR: Songs of the forest/ Piping through the forest (anything valid)

3. What do you think is the poem about?

ESR: The poem is about imagination/ dreaming/ wondering. There is a person who is thinking
about singing songs through a forest and suddenly dreams of a child who is telling him so
 4. Pick out the words from the stanza that set the tone and mood of the poem.

Knowledge:

a. Title and Poet – Who has written the poem

b. Main idea – What is the poem about
c. Tone- The words the poet uses to describe his emotion while

Steps to Build Skills:

Before Reading:

a. What is the title of the poem?

b. Who is the poet of the poem?
c. What do you feel when you read the title of the poem?
d. What do you think about the poem when you read the title?

During Reading:

a. Underline words that are important in the poem

b. Pick out the words that set the tone of the poem
c. What is happening in the poem?

After Reading:

a. What do you think the poem is about?

b. What do you feel after reading the poem?

Connection to the world:

Driving inspiration and happiness around you through music, art, etc.

Lesson Plan: 45 mins

Opening: (10 mins)

Good morning class.
 Can someone recap what we learnt in our last English class?
ESR: Words that describe tone and mood.

 I read a story where you all closed your eyes and tried to understand what you were feeing
while I read the story. That is the mood of the story. After that all of you identified words
like dark and stormy night that helped you understand what you were feeling which is the
tone of the poem.

Last week, I made a card and baked a cake for my grandfather on his birthday last week and that
made him very happy which made me happy.

 Now I am giving all of you two minutes to silently think about the last time you did
something for someone else and by doing that it made you feel very happy, after which
share this story with your partner.

Teacher instruction: Come back in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 , z, e, r, o

  Introduce objective and reading strategy ( Asking questions)

INM: (15mins)

 Introduce the title and poet of the story

Can someone tell me who is a poet? ESR: Someone who writes the poem

Everyone can see a picture in their worksheets. From the picture and the title of the story can you
answer the questions given below. I am giving everyone 3 minutes to fill this up.

Before Reading:

Title Poet What do you feel What do you think the

when you read the poem is about when
title of the poem? you read the title of
the poem?

Read Aloud and Modelling:

(Reading technique – Echo reading)

Piping down the valleys wild

Piping songs of plea/sa/nt glee
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me: -

Pleasant: ___________

Glee: ____________

“Pipe a song about a Lamb”;

So I piped with merry cheer,
Piper pipe that song again—
So I piped, he wept to hear.

Merry: ________

Cheer: ________
Pick out words that set What is happening in What do you think the What do you feel after
the tone of the poem the poem? poem is about? reading the poem?
There is a man playing The poem is about a I feel very happy and
Pleasant, glee, happy songs on a person who likes to cheerful.
laughing, merry, cheer pipe. He sees a child sing songs for
 on a cloud who asks children. He likes to
him to pipe a song give joy to other
about a lamb. The through his music.
man/ poet/ narrator
pipes the song with
joy and the child gets
excited and asks him
to play the song
again.

Guided Practice: (10 mins)

Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe,

Sing thy songs of happy cheer!”
So I sung the same again
While he wept with joy to hear

Thy - ________

“Piper, sit thee down and write

In a book, that all may read — ”
So he vanished from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed.

Vanished - __________

Hollow - ___________

Reed - ___________

Pick out words that set What is happening in What do you think the What do you feel after
the tone of the poem the poem? poem is about? reading the poem?

Independent Practice: (10 mins)

(Assessment Questions)
Closing: (2 mins)
Thank you for the class. I would like someone to recap what we did in class today. I want
everyone to go back and write in their notebook about the thought we discussed in the
opening.