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Lost Spring (E-Lesson)

The document is a lesson plan for Class XII English, focusing on the text 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung. It includes steps for understanding the text, key themes and characters, and questions for students to answer. Additionally, it features a vocabulary exercise to enhance language skills.

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Lost Spring (E-Lesson)

The document is a lesson plan for Class XII English, focusing on the text 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung. It includes steps for understanding the text, key themes and characters, and questions for students to answer. Additionally, it features a vocabulary exercise to enhance language skills.

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BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL, PITAMPURA (2020-21)

CLASS XII- ENGLISH (CORE)


TEXTBOOK: FLAMINGO
LESSON: LOST SPRING- STORIES OF STOLEN CHILDHOOD
AUTHOR: ANEES JUNG
LESSON PLAN 2

SECTION-A
Hope you have followed the steps given in Lesson Plan 1, understood the text and underlined the key
ideas and words while reading the text!

STEP 1: Enjoy the animated recapitulation of the text!


Watch a pictorial summary of:
Part-1 through the given link: https://youtu.be/XjJtxjuGIC0
Part-2 through the given link: https://youtu.be/zoNZz8r2f7A

STEP 2: Revise the text through the following notes.

QUICK GIST
THEMES:

CHARACTERS:
STEP 3: ATTEMPT THE GIVEN QUESTIONS.
Short Questions: 30-40 words

1. What was Saheb’s full name? Why was it ironical?


• Value Points
*Saheb-e-Alam- means Lord of the universe. Saheb- a victim of poverty.

2. How does garbage hold different meanings for the adults and the children?
• Value Points
*for elders- only means of survival.
*for children-full of unexpected surprises-hope of finding a coin or ten rupee note.

3. How was Saheb’s life at the tea stall?


• Value Points
*unhappy- lost his carefree life-no longer master of his own life.

4. Who is Mukesh? What is his dream?


• Value Points
*a young boy from a poor family of bangle makers
*dreams of becoming a motor mechanic

5. Why could the bangle makers not organize themselves into a cooperative?
• Value Points
*dragged to jail for doing something illegal/ no leader among them to help them to see things
differently.

6. What are the two distinct worlds in Firozabad?


• Value Points
*family caught in the web of poverty and stigma of caste
*vicious circle of sahukars, middlemen, policemen and politicians.
Reference to Context:
Long Questions: 120-150 words

1. Seemapuri is a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically. Explain.
Value Points:
• Seemapuri- a slum, a wilderness, inhabited by illegal Bangladeshi migrants. Survival- most
important. In a state of perpetual poverty.
• On the periphery of Delhi, but lacks even basic facilities- running water, drainage system and
sewage. Mud houses with tarpaulin/tin roofs. Home for 10,000 rag pickers as they eke out a
living from scrounging garbage.
• In complete contrast to Delhi- a burgeoning modern city, all comforts, rich/well off inhabitants,
glitter, glamour, affluence.

2. The beauty of glass bangles stands in sharp contrast with the miserable life of the bangle makers
of Firozabad. Explain with reference to the lesson ‘Lost Spring’.
Value Points:
• Bangle makers-live in a state of intense poverty, sleep on empty stomachs.
• Lanes of their shanty town- stink of garbage, hovels have disintegrating walls, unsteady doors,
no windows- overcrowded with humans and animals.
• Thousands of adults, 20,000 children work in hot furnaces in Firozabad.
• Toil for long hours in hazardous and detrimental conditions.
• High temperatures, lack of ventilation and light.
SECTION-B
HOW STRONG IS YOUR VOCABULARY?

Using a dictionary, find out the meaning of the following words. Identify the part of speech used
and make a sentence from each of these words.

For example:
1. Scrounging
• Meaning- seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the
generosity of others or by stealth.
• Part of Speech- Verb
• Sentence- He has managed to scrounge a free meal.

2. Glibly
3. Embarrassed
4. Abound
5. Bleak
6. Shuffles
7. Perpetual
8. Desolation
9. Squatters
10. Tarpaulin
11. Transit
12. Mirage
13. Welding
14. Hovels
15. Wobbly
16. Primeval
17. Thatched
18. Frail
19. Veil
20. Impoverished
21. Unkempt
22. Shanty
23. Drab
24. Soldering
25. Draped
26. Lament
27. Toil
28. Apathy
29. Vicious
30. Hurtling
SECTION- C

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