Thursday, October 22, 2009

Lesson plan presentation

15th October 2009

Today, we had our lesson plan presentation based on songs. My group which was the same group members presented our lesson based on the song “Hot and Cold” by Katy Perry. Our lesson was “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. The reason we took this song was based on the theme uncertainty in making decision. We were exposing to students to the main idea of the song:
You can sing along with the song. (“,)

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After listening to the song, students will be given the poem.

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.

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;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.



Basically, the song and the poem have similar theme that is uncertainty in making decisions. The use of songs in English literature teaching will be very fun and interesting as students will be exposed to the lyrics and listen to the songs which at the same time the songs are contemporary. Contemporary songs play an important role when using it to teach because it is a set induction to gain students’ interest, attention and open their background knowledge which can relate it to the songs they listen and link to the lesson that will be conducted.
In class, I discovered something very interesting that was song lyrics and video were available. It would be very interesting as students can listen and watch the video. Meanwhile, it also has a set back where the video may draw away students’ attention from reading and listening to the song words. Therefore, appropriate use of teaching aids have to put into careful consideration.

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