English Lesson Planning: Teaching The Daffodils by William Wordsworth

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Rationale:
I have chosen to teach in the class and work with the students in building up their
knowledge and also to evolve their ideas and have a taste of poetry (Wing Jan, 2009). The
students have been reading and going through several chapters of prose which may have
made them a little bored and their studies monotonous therefore I will be focusing on a very
simple and yet a beautiful and famous poem by William Wordsworth; The Daffodils (Amer,
2003). It is a very touching and soothing poem that the students may find interesting and
pleasing. The description of nature may charm them and also make them aware about their
surroundings. The students have learnt rhymes that they find very funny and enjoyable.
Nursery Rhymes are always very sweet and touching an d easy to remember (Chik, 2015).
The Daffodils on the other hand is a poem that has almost a rhyming scheme of a nursery
rhyme. The children will love the participation and the involvement of the poet with the
daffodils. The Daffodils is not too long or too short a poem that the students will not get
bored or take it casually (Gunderson, Odo & D’Silva, 2001).
My idea for choosing the poem definitely has a point of view, preferences and
perspective. The poem The Daffodils is a very charming poem, it is taught in mostly K8
standard as students will be able to understand and perceive its notion beautifully if it is
taught correctly in the class. The average age of the students ranges from 10-12 years. There
are total 40 students in the class, of which there are 25 boys and 15 girls (Fujii, 2019). The
students are in the learning and grasping stage therefore there will be no problem in teaching
them. The students also are very attentive and quick learners, hence teaching them this poem
will be a lot easier and equally beneficial for them. The poem The Daffodils carries a lot of
symbols and images (Eilam, 2017). Many underlying layers of meaning are incorporated in
the poem the student may be able to find them interesting. The student must be taught well so

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that can learn the essentials, that will be beneficiary for them in the future. The students will
also be learning about the poet along with the poem therefore they will be able assign the
poems and learn to analyse the poem according to the poet. The students will be granted full
permission to interpret as much as they can. This will be done to germinate their creative
minds (Maley, 2010).
The description of the daffodils in the poem is very appealing and mostly very
beautifully explained. The students will not face any problem to learn the poem. Wordsworth
uses various adjectives to describe the view of the daffodils along with the other features of
the poem. Therefore the poem becomes very descriptive and self-explanatory which will be
an easy poem for the students to analyse. And lastly the diction of the poem is very lucid
therefore the students will be able understand the poem easily as the language is easy to
understand and simple. Hence the students will not have any problem is learning the poem.
Therefore having the idea of teaching students a good lesson along with keeping in mind
about the student’s calibre and difficulties, I have selected this poem for their lesson, so that
they can easily learn and able to understand the poem. (Skowron, 2015).
Lesson Plans 1:
Lesson:
The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Objective:
Teach students the poem The Daffodils.
Materials:
Paper and pencils, Notebook, the text, Projector.