Sandra's B.Ed English Solutions

OBJECTIVES        As part of the B.Ed. curriculum the trainees were supposed to attend a field trip based on a particular theme. The theme of the field trip for the English Optional trainees was art. In other words, to develop the aesthetic sense, philosophy of art, philosophy of beauty, theory of art, imagination and creativity to become an effective teacher in English was the objective of this trip. For this purpose along with the Optional teacher, other staffs and students we attended a field trip Thiruvananthapuram and the places we visited were ‘Kuthiramalika’, ‘Chitralayalam’, ‘Napier Museum’ and ‘Kovalam Beach’. INTRODUCTION         On 16 th November 2017 at 8 am after breakfast from Fathima Memorial Training College, Pallimukku we started our journey. The total strength of students and teachers were 110. From English optional the number of students were 23 in number. In two buses we started our journey an...

KATHAKALI REPORT     A Kathakali orientation class was held under the guidance of Kalamandalam Rajeev Sir for the first year B.Ed. students of 2017-2019 academic year on 24 th August 2017 at Fatima Memorial Training College Pallimukku Kollam. Kathakali is one of the major forms of classical Indian dance. Kathakali means a story play or dance drama. Katha means story. Belonging to the South-Western costal state of Kerala, Kathakali is primarily a dance drama form and it is extremely colorful with billowing costumes, flowing scarves, ornaments and crowns. The dancers use a specific type of symbolic makeup to portray various roles which are character- types rather than individual characters. Various qualities, human, godlike, demonic etc…., are all represented through fantastic make-up and costumes. The world of Kathakali is peopled by noble heroes and demons locked in battle, with truth winning over untruth, good and evil. The stories from the two epics, the ...