2. Breaking
Barriers

3. Even Past Fifty

4. Name of the teacher : Jidhu Krishnan Class: IX
Name of the subject : English Duration:45min
Name of the unit : Breaking Barriers
Name of the subunit : Even Past Fifty

5. Objectives
• To make the learning process interesting and
effective
• To develop an awareness about gender inequalities
• To engage pupils in various discourse activities

6. Phase 1
Are you familiar with these women? How old do you
think they are? They are all past fifty
K. R Gowri Amma Sonia Gandhi Kiran Bedi

7. Here are more examples…
Latha Mangeshkar Sarah Joseph Rekha

8. Do you personally know any woman who works
tirelessly even past fifty? Your neighbours, your
aunts, and even your mothers work day and night
despite their growing age. Haven’t you noticed?

9. They engage in household chores
without paying attention to their health

10. Do they have more hands than men?
Why do they have to work so hard
always? Have you ever thought about
it?

11. Now we are going to read a poem based on all
those women who have dedicated their lives to
make their dear ones happy.
Let us take a bow…

12. Phase 2
Let me introduce the poet to
you…
Shanta Shelke

13. A brief history of the poet...
• Born: October 19, 1922, Indapur, India
• Marathi poet and writer
• journalist, professor, composer, story writer, translator,
writer of child literature
• Penned novels like Punarjanma and Dharma
• Famous poems include Varsha and Godhan
• Died of cancer on 6 June, 2002

14. Phase 3
The poem is about the toil that women suffer in
our society. They endure everything for the
sake of their family.
Even Past Fifty
Shanta Shelke

15. Phase 4
The teacher recites the first stanza with proper
stress, rhythm, and intonation
She’s past fifty;

16. yet she’s still
a little girl at heart

17. for whom the house is a doll’s house,

18. and running the household

19. a childhood game.

20. Phase 5
Individual reading by the learner
Learner reads with proper stress, intonation and
rhythm

21. Phase 6
Sharing with pair or peer
Bounce ideas back and forth…

22. Phase 7
Glossary reference with the help of the teacher
Boost your vocabulary
Doll’s house: a toy house with small furniture and
sometimes dolls in it for children to play with

23. Childhood /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd /-the state of being a child.

24. Phase 8
Scaffolding Questions
Time to use your brains, Folks!
1. Who is the ‘she’ in the poem? Is it only the woman in
the poem? Or does she represent all women?
2. Is it possible for a woman of fifty to be ‘a little girl at
heart’? How?

25. Phase 9
Appreciation
Rhyming words
The stanza has no rhyming words.
Rhyme scheme
The rhyme scheme is irregular.

26. Phase 10
Reading aloud by the Learner
Why don’t you recite the stanza once again?

27. Phase 11
Evaluation
Do it yourself….
• Write a paragraph on your mother’s activities
during the course of a day.
• You are worried about your mother’s poor
health. You ask her to take a break from the
household chores. Enact the conversation.