2. FEATURES OF CULTURAL APPROACH
Allen Carey-Webb (2001)
• Cultural studies is interested in ethical, moral and social questions.
• Foster critical thinking and activism as it wrestles with how we see
ourselves and others in the process of understanding and acting in
society.
• This approach considers literature as one of the principal manifestations
and vehicles of a nation’s or a race’s culture and tradition. It includes
the entire complex of what goes under ‘culture’ – the technological, the
artistic, the sociological, the ideological aspects; and considers the
literary piece in the total culture milieu in which it was born.
3. Teacher’s guidelines
of using the lesson
plan
1. Show the video to catch the students’
attention
2. Then, ask students to give their
opinion, “What does the video
depicted?”
3. Write ‘Independence’ on the
whiteboard and relate it with the
poem.
4. Recapitulate the moral values learnt
in the previous lesson.
• Stage: Pre-Reading
• Material:
1. YouTube video
2. PowerPoint slide
3. Whiteboard and
marker
4. Teacher’s guidelines
of using the lesson
plan
• Explain the differences before and
after Independence
• Focus on the particular line which is
‘The net of deceit spread everywhere,
Disturbs me’in stanza 2
• Show the question to trigger students’
CCTS
• Divide the students into group of five
• Ask students to give their answer
• Stage: While-reading
• Material:
1. PowerPoint slide
5. Teacher’s guidelines
of using the lesson
plan
• Show the instruction by using the
PowerPoint slide:
• “The young generations is taking
Independence for granted. Agree or
disagree? Give your reason? Present
your arguments in a form of bubble
map”
• Ask students to use the mah-jong
paper and the marker pen provided.
• Ask students to give present their work
• Conclude the lesson by summarising
and emphasise the moral values learnt
throughout the lesson.
• Stage: Post-reading
• Material:
1. PowerPoint slide
6. RATIONALE
• Raise younger generation awareness on the
importance to preserve the freedom of the
country
• To give insight on the difficulties faced by
youngster nowadays compared to the old
times.
• To appreciate the sacrifices made by the elders
