Eva Lesson Plan

Literature Lesson Plan
Professor: Eva Cristina Alves

Date: May 08, 2013
Grade Level:
Upper Intermediate
Focus:
Reading Strategies: skimming, scanning; critical thinking
Duration:
50 min.
Goals:
Students will learn how to read and to develop reading skills;
Students will increase and develop reading strategies;
Students will see language in action in a context;
Students will develop critical thinking abilities.
Objectives:
Students will have an opportunity to read authentic material, and to be exposed to the target
language;
Students will have an opportunity to put the new information acquired into use, and check their
background and their development about the language learning process;
Students will have an opportunity of work to think critically;
Students will have an opportunity of work to integrate the reading skills.
Materials:
Hand outs with the text Girl, short story by Jamaica Kincaid;
Board;
Marker;
Eraser;
Dictionary.
Procedures:
Pre Reading: individually and in pairs
Activity: brainstorming
Objectives: to introduce the topic, to activate background knowledge
Duration: 10 min.
-
T asks Ss to imagine themselves as parents of a girl;
T tells them to think about what advices they would give to this girl, as their daughter;
T gives them 5 min and asks Ss to write down at least 5 advices;
T tells Ss to work in pairs, comparing their answers to a partner, if they have similar
advices or not;
Activity: checking meaning

Objectives: to introduce the text, to activate background knowledge
Duration: 05 min.
-
T tells Ss they are going to read a short story called Girl, and shows them these words
and expressions from the text:
CLOTHES-LINE
PUMPKIN FRITTERS
ON BECOMING
-
SPIT
WHARF-RATCREASE
TO BENT
TO THROW AWAY A CHILD
T asks Ss to work in pairs and check if they understand what these words and expressions
mean, and asks them what they think the short story will be about;
During Reading: work in pairs
Activity: checking meaning

Objectives: to skim, to scan
Duration: 20 min.
- T asks Ss to read the text and tell what the story is about;
- T asks Ss to read the text again, looking for the words she gave them and trying to get their
meanings from the context.
Activity: giving opinion
Objectives: to develop critical thinking
Duration: 10 min.
- T asks Ss to read the text again, underlining the advices they dont agree with;
- T then asks Ss to rewrite these advices in the way they think would be better for the girl.
Post Reading: individually
Activity: writing a text

Objectives: to criticize the text and to integrate skills
T asks Ss to imagine how this text would be different if told from another point of view. T tells them, they
will write a text within this perspective to hand in next class. T explains the text must have at least 30
lines.
Evaluation:
The evaluation component for this lesson is the accomplishment of all tasks that teacher asked students to
achieve. If the students did every activity very well, T has achieved the objectives of this lesson. Teacher
will give them the feedback.
By the way, Jamaica Kincaid was really born Elaine Cynthia Richardson on the 25th of May 1949 in St. Johns on
our sister Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda. She changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid in 1973
because her family disapproved of her writing.
Here's the full text of the poem

Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap;wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put
them on the clothesline to dry;
don't walk barehead in the hot sun;
cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil;
soak your little cloths right after you take them off;
when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it
won't hold up well after a wash;
soak salt fish overnight before you cook it;
is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school ?;
always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach;
on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming;
don't sing benna in Sunday school;
you mustn't speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions;
don't eat fruits on the street - flies will follow you;
but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school;
this is how to sew on a button;
this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on;
this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and to prevent yourself from looking like the slut
you are so bent on becoming;
this is how you iron your father's khaki shirt so that it doesn't have a crease;
this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so that they don't have a crease;
this is how you grow okra - far from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants;
when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are
eating it;
this is how you sweep a corner;
this is how you sweep a whole house;
this is how you sweep a yard;
this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much;
this is how you smile at someone you don't like at all;
this is how you smile to someone you like completely;
this is how you set a table for tea;
this is how you set a table for dinner;
this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest;
this is how you set a table for lunch;
this is how you set a table for breakfast;
this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize
immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming;
be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit;
don't swat down to play marbles - you are not a boy, you know;
don't pick people's flowers - you might catch something;
don't throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all;
this is how to make a bread pudding;
this is how to make doukona;
this is how to make pepper pot;
this is how to make a good medicine for a cold;
this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child;
this is how to catch a fish;
this is how to throw back a fish you don't like and that way something bad won't fall on you;
this is how to bully a man;
this is how a man bullies you;
this is how to love a man, and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad
about giving up;
this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you;
this is how to make ends meet;
always squeeze bread to make sure it's fresh;
but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?;

you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the
bread?
- Girl by Jamaica Kincaid.

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Literature Lesson Plan

Professor: Eva Cristina Alves

Reading Strategies: skimming, scanning; critical thinking

Students will learn how to read and to develop reading skills;

Students will increase and develop reading strategies;

Students will see language in action in a context;

Students will develop critical thinking abilities.

Students will have an opportunity of work to think critically;

Students will have an opportunity of work to integrate the reading skills.

Pre Reading: individually and in pairs

T asks Ss to imagine themselves as parents of a girl;

T gives them 5 min and asks Ss to write down at least 5 advices;

Activity: checking meaning

TO THROW AWAY A CHILD

During Reading: work in pairs

Activity: checking meaning

Post Reading: individually

Activity: writing a text

Here's the full text of the poem

but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?;

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