On 21/6 / 2024, Friday 3rd hour I was able to engage 8 B students. It was my first class in 8B and we began with "The Boy who Drew Cats" from the first unit. I never expected the learners to mention the name of folktale but to the surprise of the teacher they did. The introductory activity of drawing helped the learners to come out of the nightmares of Physics class with they had in the earlier period. Since I was completely new to them teacher promised them to learn their name gradually. When I asked the learners to point out the difficult words, Sheetal asked me about Alibaba and 41 thieves which the teacher mentioned in the introduction. This led another student asking about Vikramaditya and vedhalam. The teacher was able to understand the duration of their concentration and the topics where there interest lie. With much effort teacher was able to manage the class. I also decided to improve my class management skills. Since the "word of the day" was a success in 9C I introduced the same in 8 B also. During the loud reading teacher realise that the pronunciation ability of the students were very week so she gave them three model readings. Teacher decided to give them repeated reading practice next day onwards.
Learners worked well in groups to complete the story which was given as discourse. For the first time I divided 33 students into siz groups and was able to realise that small group discussions are more effective than just dividing the class into four broad groups as done earlier. Most of the groups excelled in the task even though there were grammatical errors. The class went good with the co-operation of the students
