BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL, PITAMPURA (2020-21)
CLASS XII- ENGLISH (CORE)
TEXTBOOK: VISTAS
LESSON: THE THIRD LEVEL
AUTHOR: JACK FINNEY
LESSON PLAN
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The learners will be able to:
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understand the setting of the story.
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analyze the characters in the text.
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study the time in which the story has been set up.
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examine the conflict in the story.
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appreciate the theme of intersection of time and space.
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reflect on the resolution/ending of the text.
AIDS USED: Google Meet, YouTube videos
INTRODUCTION: Brainstorming
 Have you ever had any curious experience which others find hard to believe?
 If you had a time machine, where would you like to go?
 Are there any time travel movies that you have watched? What did you like about them?
SECTION A
LESSON DEVELOPMENT
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Watch a short presentation on the text by following the link: https://youtu.be/pCKGhoWTQ28. This
video will introduce you to the theme of the text and give you an insight into the characters and the
setting used.
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Now, read the text and underline important words and ideas. (Refer to the dictionary to find the
meaning of difficult words.)
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ACTIVITY 1- THE KUGELMASS
Woody Allen wrote a story in which the character can throw any book into a time machine and
it takes you inside that book and the era. What would you do, say and think if you ‘travelled’
into the story you are reading?
There will be a discussion on it with students expressing their views.
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ACTIVITY 2- WORD PUZZLE
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.
 Psychiatrist
 Insecurity
 Refuge
 Ducked into
 Arched
 Hollow
 Booth
 Flickering
 Glint
 Side – burns
 Stacked
 Glance
SECTION B- ASSESSMENT
MIND TEASERS
Try to find out who/ what is being referred to in the following expressions/ sentences.
1) I have taken the obvious step.
2) That made my wife kind of mad.
3) ‘Everything points to it.’
4) My grandfather didn’t need any refuge from reality.
5) ‘...blocks of four of practically every U.S issue.’
6) I think Grand Central is growing like a tree.
7) For so many people through the years Grand Central has been an exit.
8) ‘... a very small Currier & Ives locomotive... And then I knew.’
9) It was ‘The World’.
10) The clerk was staring at me. He nodded at the bills.
11) …that really worried my psychiatrist friend.
12) But now we’re both looking, every weekend...
13) Among my oldest first –day covers. I found one that shouldn’t have been there.
14) He certainly can’t go back to his old business.
SECTION C- ASSIGNMENT
ANSWER ME!
Short Questions
1.
What does the third level refer to?
2.
What convinced Charley that he had reached the third level at Grand Central Station and not the
second level?
3.
How did Charley reach the third level of Grand Central?
4.
How does Charley, the narrator describe the third level at Grand Central Station?
5.
Why did Charley suspect that Sam had gone to Galesburg?
Long Question
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?