Anita prepares a unit plan to teach the theme Family. Which of the following…
2023
Anita prepares a unit plan to teach the theme Family. Which of the following will be the title of her unit plan?
Answer: D. Family : Relationships, Gender Roles, Occupations, as socio-cultural entity in changing times — A unit plan sits between the yearly plan and the daily lesson plan. It organises one whole theme into a connected sequence of lessons spread over several…
- A.
Families : Migrating families
- B.
Types of Family : Nuclear and Joint
- C.
Family : Relationships within a Family
- D.
Family : Relationships, Gender Roles, Occupations, as socio-cultural entity in changing times
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Correct answer: D
A unit plan sits between the yearly plan and the daily lesson plan. It organises one whole theme into a connected sequence of lessons spread over several periods, so its title has to announce the theme together with the strands of enquiry that sequence will open up.
A lesson-plan title does the opposite: it fences the theme down to one restricted sub-topic that a single period can finish. The test for a unit-plan title is therefore scope — how many strands of the theme the heading holds.
Anita's theme is Family, one of the environmental-studies themes for the primary classes. Her unit will run across several periods, so its heading has to carry every strand those periods take up. Comparing the candidate headings by the scope each one declares:
Candidate heading | Strands the heading declares |
|---|---|
Families : Migrating families | Migration on its own — why families move and where they go |
Types of Family : Nuclear and Joint | Household structure on its own — nuclear beside joint |
Family : Relationships within a Family | Kinship ties on its own — who is related to whom inside one household |
Family : Relationships, Gender Roles, Occupations, as socio-cultural entity in changing times | Kinship ties, the gendered division of work, family occupations, and change in the family over time |
Read the three narrower headings as lesson titles and each works on its own terms: migration, the nuclear-beside-joint contrast, and kinship ties inside one household are each a single strand that one period can finish, and each would in fact sit inside a Family unit as one of its lessons. The heading that declares kinship ties, gender roles, occupations and change over time together is the one that carries several strands at once, which is what a unit-plan title must do.
Note too that the stem's own wording fixes the scope: Anita is preparing a unit plan, not a lesson plan, so the heading has to sit at the unit level of the planning hierarchy. That is the criterion behind the official CTET 2023 Paper 1 answer key for this item.
Hence the title of Anita's unit plan is:
Family : Relationships, Gender Roles, Occupations, as socio-cultural entity in changing times