Creative Lesson Plan

For my Literature lesson on Impact of colours—how colours evoke emotions, I affixed 6 large pieces of vanguard sheets of different colours (black/white/blue/green/yellow/red) on the walls of the classroom. I instructed students that they are to stand in front of the vanguard sheets and write down/draw whatever comes to mind when they see that particular colour—students are to move around the class in groups of 4 as they write down/draw their associations with the different colours. After every 3 minutes, I would call out “switch” and students would rotate to another piece of vanguard sheet. I repeated this process until every student in the class had a turn at each of these stations.

The objective of the lesson was designed with the intention that students would be able to recognize the power of colours and the emotions they could bring to an individual. This is in contrast to the community in The Giver—the students’ text. In The Giver, the community is incapable of having feelings or emotions because they are unable to see colours. Therefore, this explains the purpose of the lesson—because students can see colours, they are capable of emotions, unlike the community in the novel.