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Wisdom Paves the Way — Lesson Plan & Worksheets

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🎯 Lesson Plan (2 periods × 45 mins)

Objectives

• Explain how wisdom guides decisions and actions in the story.
• Identify textual evidence for character traits and themes.
• Apply grammar from the text (tense, clauses, reported speech) in tasks.
• Build topic vocabulary and use it in context.

Prerequisites

• Basic sentence types; direct/indirect speech; simple/past tense.

Materials

• Story text (Poorvi Reader), board/Projector
• Worksheets (below) + pens/highlighters
• Blogger post link for homework submission

Assessment

• Formative: exit slip (1-2 lines on “a wise choice I’d make here”).
• Summative: worksheets scored out of 20 each.

Period 1 (45’)

1. Hook (5’): Quick prompt: “Wisdom vs cleverness — difference?”
2. Guided reading (15’): Read key scene(s). Students mark a sentence showing wisdom in action.
3. Think-Pair-Share (10’): Why was the choice wise? What alternative was risky?
4. Mini-grammar (10’): Pull 2 lines for tense and reported speech conversion.
5. Exit slip (5’): One wise decision you’d make in the same situation.

Period 2 (45’)

1. Recap (5’): 3 students share exit slips.
2. Worksheet A (Textual) (20’): Complete in class.
3. Worksheet B (Extracts) (15’): Pair activity, discuss answers.
4. Closure (5’): Vocabulary drill + homework brief.

📝 Worksheet A — Textual Exercises 20 marks

Answer as directed. (All items are grounded in the lesson’s style and context.)

1) Tense & Aspect (4m)

1. Rewrite in Present Simple: The elder advised the villagers to wait. The elder advises the villagers to wait.
2. Change to Past Perfect: The travellers trusted his counsel. The travellers had trusted his counsel.

2) Reported Speech (4m)

1. Direct → Indirect: The elder said, “Patience will save you.” The elder said that patience would save them.
2. Indirect → Direct: They said that they would follow his guidance. They said, “We will follow his guidance.”

3) Clauses (4m)

1. Identify main and subordinate: The village prospered because they acted wisely. Main: The village prospered; Sub: because they acted wisely.
2. Combine with a suitable conjunction: He was young. He was thoughtful. He was young but thoughtful.

4) Voice (4m)

1. Active → Passive: The council honoured the sage. The sage was honoured by the council.
2. Passive → Active: The warning was heeded by the villagers. The villagers heeded the warning.

5) Integrated Grammar (4m)

1. Fill the modal: You _____ consider long-term effects. (can / must / might) must
2. Transform using too…to: The river was very fierce. They could not cross. The river was too fierce to cross.

📖 Worksheet B — Extract-Based Questions 20 marks

Extract 1

“The villagers gathered at dusk, anxious and uncertain. The elder’s calm voice cut through the noise: ‘Think beyond today; wisdom looks ahead.’”

1. Choose the adverb of manner. calm (used adjectivally in “calm voice”; acceptable adverbial sense in context: “calmly”)
2. Change to indirect speech. The elder’s calm voice advised them to think beyond that day and added that wisdom looks ahead.
3. Frame a WH-question for the underlined part: at dusk. When did the villagers gather?
4. Pick one abstract noun. wisdom / uncertainty

Extract 2

“Though the path was longer, it was safer; the villagers chose it, and the flood spared them.”

1. Identify the conjunction of contrast. Though
2. Convert to simple past passive (first clause). The longer path was chosen by the villagers.
3. Split into two simple sentences without changing meaning. The path was longer but safer. The villagers chose it and the flood spared them.
4. Pick one preposition. by (in passive); of (if rephrased);

Extract 3

“Experience had taught him that haste invites regret.”

1. Name the tense. Past Perfect (had taught)
2. Identify the non-finite verb (if any). — (none explicit); “invites” is finite
3. Change to direct speech. He said, “Haste invites regret.”
4. Replace the underlined word with a synonym: haste. hurry / rush

🗣️ Worksheet C — Vocabulary Only 15 marks

Target words reflect the unit’s theme (wisdom, foresight, prudence). Students answer in one word/phrase unless stated.

#	Prompt	Answer Key
1	Word meaning “careful good sense in action”	prudence
2	Opposite of “rash”	cautious / prudent
3	Phrase for “thinking ahead”	foresight / looking ahead
4	Fill: “Her _____ helped the group avoid danger.”	judgment / wisdom / prudence
5	Synonym of “advice”	counsel / guidance
6	Choose the correct collocation: sound / noisy judgment	sound judgment
7	One word for “result of an action”	consequence
8	Use “deliberate” (adj.) in a sentence.	Student sentence; must show “carefully thought”
9	Root of “prudent” gives the noun ____	prudence
10	Choose: “The plan was (short-sighted / foresighted).”	foresighted
11	Contextual: “He acted with ____ and avoided loss.”	caution / prudence
12	Antonym of “wise” (one word)	foolish
13	Word family: wise → wisely (adv.), ______ (n.)	wisdom
14	Idiomatic: “Look before you leap” means ____	think of consequences first
15	Choose correct: prudent / promptly decision (collocation)	prudent decision

🧪 Scoring & Teacher Notes

Worksheet A (20)

• Tense (2) • Reported (2) • Clauses (4) • Voice (4) • Integrated (8)

Worksheet B (20)

• Extract-1 (8) • Extract-2 (8) • Extract-3 (4)

Worksheet C (15)

• 1 mark each; Q8 sentence: grammar + sense (1)

Answer Keys (blurred for students)

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🔗 Share & Homework

• Homework (choice): Paragraph — “A wise decision I made (or should have made).” (120–150 words).
• Post top responses on your blog; students comment peer feedback (2 lines each).

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