Extended activity Ask the students to write a story which they have heard or read recently. Reflection In what ways are you supporting the struggling learners, and challenging the clearly successful ones? How do you make a balance while teaching a writing lesson, such as „story writing‟? Lesson Nine Project Work and Fun Corner Content from the textbook Project work and Fun corner (p. 153) Materials required Daily used materials Lesson activities Project Work Ask the students to prepare a set of questionnaire in order to collect information about the academic status of people in their locality. Prepare the students for the project work, and clarify the task. This project work demands students to carry out a research activity to collect data about the academic status of people in their locality for two consecutive years: 2015 and 2016. For this they have to visit the concerned local offices, authorities and households; interview with the people and collect data. The variables for the data range from the number of people who are under SLC to PhD holders. After the collection of data, they have to process it mathematically, and of course, using descriptive methods, such as pie charts and bar diagrams. Finally, they have to describe the data and give a presentation on their findings.
Divide the students into groups. Assign about a week‟s time to complete this project work activity. Once they have collected the required data, ask them to process them and write a plain description of their findings and arrange for the presentation session. You can invite audience from other classes as well, or presentations can be made in the assembly. Congratulate the students on their hard work. Sample answer Project work Academic Status of People in my Locality Year Under SLC Intermediate Bachelor's Master's M. Ph.D. SLC degree degree Phil. 2015 5 14 10 8 2 0 1 2016 5 17 12 10 3 1 1 This table presents information about the academic status of people in our locality. It presents figures about the different levels of qualification people had in the years 2015 and 2016. Seven types of educational level are presented here: Under SLC, SLC, Intermediate, Bachelor, Master, M. Phil. and Ph.D. According to the table, in the year 2015, there were five people having Under SLC level education. In the same year, there were fourteen people with SLC, ten people with Intermediate, eight people with Bachelor's degree and two people with Master's degree of qualification. There were no one having M. Phil. degree; but there was one person holding Ph. D. degree. The situation was similar in the year 2016 as well. There were five, seventeen, twelve, ten and three people having Under SLC, SLC, Intermediate, Bachelor's degree and Master's degree level of 262 education, respectively. That year, one person had M. Phil. degree, and the number of people with Ph. D. degree was also similar to that of last year, i.e. one. The data shows that educational status of people in our community is good.