RIP VAN WINKLE

English Text book - Marigold

Class V. Curriculum 

Topic: RIP VAN WINKLE – (Unit 5 Prose)

Objectives:  Prepare oneself for a better future, Social behaviour, Discouraging laziness, Encouraging hard work, Language structure, Imagination, Technology

Subject integration: Language, EVS, Communicative skill, Art, Life skill

1. Presentation of Alice world – All sleep and no work makes Rip an old man –(Concept and Logical thinking on Visuals and animation) - followed by discussion on as many FAQs as possible, from the students.
   
2. Discussion  --(questioning the answer)- Work, Hard work ,’All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’,-and vice-versa, change

     3. Life skill: FACING PEER PRESSURE.

Essential question:  How can we have a quality life /a better life?

to be written /done in class

to be written / done  as home assignment

Picture description ______________________________________ VSA+SA --  Questioning the answer __________________________________________ Subject   integration ________________________________________ Text exercises – under guidance ________________________________________ 1. Correlated compositions. Ex—a).Your schedule of the day. b).Your Daily Help Chart - for your family 2. Simple animation with “Alice” with the help of Teacher’s scaffold.

Reading __________________________________________ To read to answer the given questions _____________________________________________  Students to find out __________________________ Thorough reading __________________________________________ a)Write one or two b) (With ‘Alice’ - optional) -- Rip walking with his pet dog, Wolf and taking rest in between.

Implementation Plan: 16   class periods of 40 minutes each

Week/Class	1st week	2nd Week
Reference work (if any)	Rip Van Winkle", by Washington Irving is a short story about a man who lives in America. Washington Irving is born in 1783. Rip Van Winkle becomes aware of the duration of his sleep by seeing many changes in the surrounding world. If they are not familiar with the Catskills, have students locate the region on a map (and explain that Kaatskill is the original spelling of Catskill) Nine-pin bowling (also known as ninepin bowling, nine-pins, 9-pins, etc.) is a bowling game played primarily in Europe	Evaluation- - 3 tier- self, peer, teacher –of all the work done.
Teacher’s Class Room Activity	Power point show with Alice world inserted Framing questions Activities 1.Foldables on Rip Van Winkle  2.Which description do you agree with? Why?  .Some people describe Rip as “a simple, good-natured man” and some say” he is lazy”. Rip is friendly and well-liked around town: he runs errands for neighbours, flies kites with children, and appreciates nature. But he is also lazy, as his wife describes him: his house is in disrepair, his children are ragged, and he barely supports his family. 3. Send an email to Rip /what will you request him? 4. Send him your message too. 5.Send an email to your teacher with your own poem on Rip Van Winkle which we can sing  too in the class 6. Make a change of your choice –The end of the story(oral) 7.Debate ---“Time wasted is life wasted” 8. Find out on Google map or Map of US Rip’s pla
Worksheet Plan	1.Work sheet 2.Students to prepare work sheets of their choice, in groups.
Assessment	·         Enactment ·         Simple questions

                                                     Help from Peer/ Parent Volunteers/subject teachers

Values of -- CEANLINESS, WORK, TIME, CHANGE,DECISION MAKING. Special note if any:

 
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STORY BOARD
 

4 / 5 people-talking and working and greeting –All happy.	People sleeping and snoring Children to judge---- Which is good?
Rip playing with children—laughing-- All happy. Rip’s wife scolds Rip and asks him to work but Rip prefers to go the hills for a nap.	Rip goes to hill –gets the drink from the strangers –talks to himself —should I/ should I not? Takes the drink and falls fast asleep.
After twenty years Rip comes down an old man –stranger to all in the village.	Lost everything- time, appearance, family, future and  ? ? ?
Too much of everything is bad. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.	All play and no work makes us lose everything too.
ALL SLEEP AND NO WORK MAKES RIP AN OLDMAN.	We need to decide what we prefer to do.

Done by: Arundhoti Roy Choudhury