KENDIRYA VIDYALAYA DHARWAD

Prepared by SMITA . S. H.

A Different Kind Of School• Introduction

• Games played in the school

• Vocabulary

• Recapitulation

• Comprehension

• Lesson based Activities

• Home work

• Work cited page

IntroductionThis lesson addresses an important

social concern for the differently – able

The theme sensitizes the learners to problems faced by these differently able persons.

. Its aim is to make our children

appreciate and understand misfortune and make them share in misfortune. In this school each term every child has to play different types of game like blind, lame , deaf, dumb and injured .

The real aim of this school is to teach thoughtfulness- Kindness to disabled persons and to make them a responsible citizens of the nation

To make them understand how one can reach the height of success beyond one’s physical condition by giving some examples of such personalities.

Some activitiesBlind ActivityLame ActivityDumb ActivityDeaf ActivityInjured Activity

Blind Activity 1. During the blind day students’ eyes

are bandaged absolutely and they are instructed not to peep.

2. The bandage is put on over night so they wake blind. This means that they need help with everything.

3. Other children are given the duty of helping them and leading them about.

4. They all learn so much this way – both the blind and the helpers

Deaf Activity

In this game children’s ears are stuffed with cotton so that they can not listen to their friends’ conversation.

They are bound to understand through the gesture by anyone.

Thus they realize the problem of the deaf person.

Lame activityStudents feel the lame day as a

very funny day.They hop with a leg tied-up.Sometimes an arm was tied-up but

it was a more troublesome, because one can not eat without help.

Dumb activityIn this game children’s mouths

are bandaged . They have not to speak even a

single word.Thus they really have to exercise

their will-power.Some children feel that this day

is the most difficult game because they can not bandage their mouths.

Injured ActivityOn this day the children play a

role of an injured person.They cry for help because of pain.Thus they feel how to help an

injured person.

VocabularyWords Meanings

Bandage to tie cloth or stripPlump strong /stoutMisfortune bad-luckHopeless without hopeAbsolutely completelyMisery difficulty / unpleasantThoughtless carelessAwful terrible / bad Troublesome difficultCrutch supporting stick for a

lame personCrippled handicapped or lame

person

Comprehending the lessonA special kind of school.Different kinds of game are being played.Blind day, deaf day, dumb day, lame day

and injured day .The students learn how to feel problems

and miseries faced by grief stricken-people.

They also learn how to help them.They enjoy these days by playing the

games.The human values are inculcated by this

lesson in the students.

Matching- Words Match the following words from column A with their meaning in

column B

A B

Homesick not very caring

Ghastly a welcome change

Relief very unpleasant

Exercise wanting to be home

test the strength of

Evaluation Activity no. 1

1.Discuss with your partner and put these sentences from the story in the right order and write them out in a paragraph. Don’t refer to the text.• I shall be so glad when today is over.• Having a leg tied up and hopping

about on a crutch is almost fun, I guess.• I don’t think I’ll mind being deaf for a

day- at least not much.• But being blind is so frightening.

continuedOnly you must tell me about

things.Let’s go for a little walk.The other bad days can’t be half

as bad as this.

Think and answerEvaluation no 2.

Why is the school called a ‘different kind of school’ ?

2. What do the students learn through these games ?

3. Why did the writer visit Miss Beam’s school?

Albert EinsteinThe Mathematician/Physicist who had a learning disability and did not speak until age 3. He had a very difficult time doing maths in school. It was also very hard for him to express himself through writing.

Alexander Graham BellHad a learning disability

CherHas dyslexia

Christopher ReeveNever has a person with a disability commanded so much media attention in recent history. Christopher Reeve, crippled after a horse-riding injury, wants to be up on his feet & wants to help others stand confident too. His life is now dedicated to harnessing the power of medical research to get up & ride again.

David BlunkettOften photographed with his guide dogs - Ted, Offa and Lucy -. Joining the Labour party aged 16, he was elected to Sheffield City Council aged 22. He was the council leader from 1980 to 1987 until he was elected MP for Sheffield Brightside. Seen as the archetypal municipal Socialist, he is in many senses a traditional Labour man - beard-wearing and blunt-talking. Arguably, he is a role model for disabled people who just want to get on with their lives.

. Thomas Edison

Edison is the great inventor who had over 1,000 patents and his inventions are in various fields used in our daily life. In his early life he was thought to have a learning disability and he could not read till he was twelve and later he himself admitted that he became deaf after pulling up to a train car by his ears..

Franklin D. RooseveltRoosevelt had Polio, was governor of New York State then elected President of the United States for 4 terms.

George WashingtonHad a learning disability. He could barely write and had very poor grammar skills.

Helen Keller(Devoted Life to Persons with Disabilities) She was Blind, Deaf, and Mute

Ian Durymovement/walking disability, resulting from polio. Hits from 1978 ("Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick") into 1980's. Recorded "Spasticus Autisticus" which was banned from radio, not surprising, as lyrics could be mis-construed as disabled-ist

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I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability. -- Robert M. Hensel

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” -- Scott Hamilton

 

Thankful to………..

Word artInternetClip Art Book of Class VI prescribed

by NCERT