Lesson Plan in English

VIII-DUHAT
Davao City National High School
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'b(ectives
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
1. identify the elements of a short story;
2. connect the elements of a short story to the parts of a house;
3. present specific tasks of the elements of a short story about the given text ; and
. appreciate the value of obedience in decision making in the context of a family.
Sb(ect )atter*
!opic: "lements of a #hort #tory
$eference: %vercoming &hallenges 'rade ( )odule, !he *nternet
+'ilbao, 2,, -anguage All Access
http:..users.aber.ac.uk./pm.ellsa.ellsa0elements.html1
)aterials: 2isual Aids, task cards, pictures, short story piece
#trategy: *nductive method, &ooperative learning
Proce+re*
A. 3reliminaries
1. 3rayer
2. 'reetings
3. &hecking of Attendance
4. )otivation : 5#tory &ircle6
1. 'roup the class into 7.
2. 3resent different pictures.
3. -et the students identify the pictures.
. 3resent the procedures of the game:
a. "ach of the group must have a 8hole sheet of paper and a pen.
b. "ach of the members should have their number from 19: depending on
ho8 many member the group has.
c. "ach of the group must create a story using the pictures posted on the
board; the t8ist is that every member of the group shall be given the
opportunity to 8rite.
d. "ach member should only 8rite 1 to 2 sentences and each shall be
given 3, sec. to 8rite and another 3, sec. for the other member until it
8ill get on the last member of the group. +;ote: 4e sure to end the
story1
7. &hoose one representative each group to read the story in the class.
&. <nlocking of difficulties
1. 3resent the unfamiliar 8ords in a given sentence from the story 5=ootnote to >outh6
2. -et the students define the unfamiliar 8ords by matching it using the given definition.
#entences ?efinition
1. !he sun 8as salmon and ha@y in the 8est. cloudy, not clear
2. Ahat he had to say 8as of serious import as it crucial change in state
8ould mark a climacteric in his life.
3. Be 8alked faster, prodded by the
thought of his virility. capable of procreating
. ?odong felt insolent and big at the thought of it rudely disrespectful
although he 8as by nature lo8 in statue.
7. !his field 8ork 8as healthy and invigorating. vitality, in strength
?. $eading of the #tory
1. -et the students reread the story 5=ootnote to >outh6 in a group silently.
+students read the story in advance individually1
2. Ask students follo8ing Cuestions:
a. Ahat is the story all aboutD
b. Bo8 does the story startedD Ahat happened to ?odongD !henE 8hatFs nextD
+follo8 up Cuestions1
c. !he story depicts about 8hatD +family1
". ?iscussion
1. 3resent an illustration of a house.
2. Ask the students the follo8ing Cuestions:
a. &an you consider a house a home 8ithout a familyD
b. &an you consider a family 8ithout a storyD
c. Ahat are the parts of the house can you seeD +door, 8indo8, etc.1
d. A carpenter is to a house as an author is to a 00000000000000. +story1
e. Gust like good carpenters kno8 that every house needs certain things, good
authors kno8 that every story needs certain things, too.
3. -et the students guess the topic.
1. 3resent the topic, HF!he "lements of a #hort #tory6.
2. -et the students identify element of a short story. +character, setting, etc.1
3. -et the students match the element of a short story to the different parts of the house.
. 3resent the definition of each element.
7. -et the students identify if they match the element of the short story correctly to the
parts of the house throughout the discussion.
=%<;?A!*%; I #etting 9 provides a foundation for the story by describing
the time and place of the action
?%%$ I &haracters 9 come in and meet the people 8ho live hereJthey are
the people, animals, or creatures carrying out the action
A*;?%A I 3oint of 2ie8 9 the vantage point from 8hich the story is toldJis
the story being told from the inside or outD
1. *nnocent "ye
2. =irst 3erson
3. %mniscient +limited.ob/ective1
$%%= -*;" I 3lot 9 the pattern of events in the story
"xposition 9 introduces the setting and characters
$ising Action 9 sho8s the conflict or main problem in the story
&limax 9 the high point of the story 8here the action peaks
=alling Action 9 moves events to8ards the conclusion
$esolution 9 the ending that offers explanations or hints about
unans8ered Cuestions
&B*);"> I !heme 9 the main message that filters throughout the story
K. 'ive 7 pts. to the group 8ho matched the elements correctly.
Activity
1. -et the students identify the "lements of the short story entitled 5=ootnote to >outh6.
2. "ach group 8ill be given a task to do:
'roup 1:
*llustrate the setting of the story and
dra8 a portrait of the main character and describe his.her attributes in the story.
'roup 2:
&reate a comic strip about the rising action and climax of the story
'roup 3:
&reate a comic strip about the falling action and denouement of the story.
'roup :
'ive the 3%2 of the story and
cite a best line.s in the story and explain 8hy you chose that line.s.
'roup 7:
&hoose a song that connects about the theme of the story and explain 8hy you
chose that song. +#ing sample line.s in the song1
3. 3resent the criteria:
&reativity9 1, pts.
?elivery of the message9 1,pts.
Authenticity9 1,pts.
!otal: 3, pts.
. -et the students finish the tasks 8ithin 1, minutes.
E, Evalation
*9 3resentation 3roper L each group shall be given 2 minutes to present their output.
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e. 'roup 7: !B")"
F, -enerali.ation an+ Valing
1. $evie8 the "lements of a #hort #tory.
2. Ask the follo8ing Cuestions:
a. Ahat is the moral of the storyD
b. Aho do you think is.are the victim.s in the storyD
c. *f you are in the shoe of the father 8ould you let ?odong marry at young ageD
AhyD
d. &an you blame ?odongFs fatherD Bo8 about ?odong to his sonD
e. As a youth of today, 8hy do 8e need to obey the petition of our parentsD
f. As a parent 8hy do 8e need to guide our children in making decisions in lifeD
3. 'ive insights about it.
-, Assign/ent
%n a short bond paper 8rite a short story about your life. !he elements of a short story
must be observed in your output. &hoose any of the sub/ects belo8:
a. &hildhood days
b. =riends
c. =amily
d. -ife at ?&;B#
Footnote to 0oth
by: Gose 'arcia 2illa
!he sun 8as salmon and ha@y in the 8est. ?odong thought to himself he 8ould tell his
father about !eang 8hen he got home, after he had unhitched the carabao from the plo8, and let
it to its shed and fed it. Be 8as hesitant about saying it, but he 8anted his father to kno8. Ahat
he had to say 8as of serious import as it 8ould mark a climacteric in his life. ?odong finally
decided to tell it, at a thought came to him his father might refuse to consider it. Bis father 8as
silent hard98orking farmer 8ho che8ed areca nut, 8hich he had learned to do from his mother,
?odongNs grandmother. * 8ill tell it to him. * 8ill tell it to him. !he ground 8as broken up into
many fresh 8ounds and fragrant 8ith a s8eetish earthy smell. )any slender soft 8orms emerged
from the furro8s and then burro8ed again deeper into the soil. A short colorless 8orm marched
blindly to ?odongNs foot and cra8led calmly over it. ?odong go tickled and /erked his foot,
flinging the 8orm into the air. ?odong did not bother to look 8here it fell, but thought of his age,
seventeen, and he said to himself he 8as not young any more. ?odong unhitched the carabao
leisurely and gave it a healthy tap on the hip. !he beast turned its head to look at him 8ith dumb
faithful eyes. ?odong gave it a slight push and the animal 8alked alongside him to its shed. Be
placed bundles of grass before it land the carabao began to eat. ?odong looked at it 8ithout
interests. ?odong started home8ard, thinking ho8 he 8ould break his ne8s to his father. Be
8anted to marry, ?odong did. Be 8as seventeen, he had pimples on his face, the do8n on his
upper lip already 8as dark99these meant he 8as no longer a boy. Be 8as gro8ing into a man99he
8as a man. ?odong felt insolent and big at the thought of it although he 8as by nature lo8 in
statue. !hinking himself a man gro8n, ?odong felt he could do anything. Be 8alked faster,
prodded by the thought of his virility. A small angled stone bled his foot, but he dismissed it
cursorily. Be lifted his leg and looked at the hurt toe and then 8ent on 8alking. *n the cool
sundo8n he thought 8ild you dreams of himself and !eang. !eang, his girl. #he had a small
bro8n face and small black eyes and straight glossy hair. Bo8 desirable she 8as to him. #he
made him dream even during the day. ?odong tensed 8ith desire and looked at the muscles of
his arms. ?irty. !his field 8ork 8as healthy, invigorating but it begrimed you, smudged you
terribly. Be turned back the 8ay he had come, then he marched obliCuely to a creek. ?odong
stripped himself and laid his clothes, a gray undershirt and red kundiman shorts, on the grass.
!hen he 8ent into the 8ater, 8et his body over, and rubbed at it vigorously. Be 8as not long in
bathing, then he marched home8ard again. !he bath made him feel cool. *t 8as dusk 8hen he
reached home. !he petroleum lamp on the ceiling already 8as lighted and the lo8 unvarnished
sCuare table 8as set for supper. Bis parents and he sat do8n on the floor around the table to eat.
!hey had fried fresh98ater fish, rice, bananas, and caked sugar. ?odong ate fish and rice, but did
not partake of the fruit. !he bananas 8ere overripe and 8hen one held them they felt more fluid
than solid. ?odong broke off a piece of the cakes sugar, dipped it in his glass of 8ater and ate it.
Be got another piece and 8anted some more, but he thought of leaving the remainder for his
parents. ?odongNs mother removed the dishes 8hen they 8ere through and 8ent out to the
batalan to 8ash them. #he 8alked 8ith slo8 careful steps and ?odong 8anted to help her carry
the dishes out, but he 8as tired and no8 felt la@y. Be 8ished as he looked at her that he had a
sister 8ho could help his mother in the house8ork. Be pitied her, doing all the house8ork alone.
Bis father remained in the room, sucking a diseased tooth. *t 8as paining him again, ?odong
kne8. ?odong had told him often and again to let the to8n dentist pull it out, but he 8as afraid,
his father 8as. Be did not tell that to ?odong, but ?odong guessed it. After8ard ?odong himself
thought that if he had a decayed tooth he 8ould be afraid to go to the dentist; he 8ould not be
any bolder than his father. ?odong said 8hile his mother 8as out that he 8as going to marry
!eang. !here it 8as out, 8hat he had to say, and over 8hich he had done so much thinking. Be
had said it 8ithout any effort at all and 8ithout self9consciousness. ?odong felt relieved and
looked at his father expectantly. A decrescent moon outside shed its feeble light into the 8indo8,
graying the still black temples of his father. Bis father looked old no8. O* am going to marry
!eang,O ?odong said. Bis father looked at him silently and stopped sucking the broken tooth.
!he silence became intense and cruel, and ?odong 8ished his father 8ould suck that troublous
tooth again. ?odong 8as uncomfortable and then became angry because his father kept looking
at him 8ithout uttering anything. O* 8ill marry !eang,O ?odong repeated. O* 8ill marry !eang.O
Bis father kept ga@ing at him in inflexible silence and ?odong fidgeted on his seat. O* asked her
last night to marry me and she said...yes. * 8ant your permission. *... 8ant... it....O !here 8as
impatient clamor in his voice, an exacting protest at this coldness, this indifference. ?odong
looked at his father sourly. Be cracked his knuckles one by one, and the little sounds it made
broke dully the night stillness. O)ust you marry, ?odongDO ?odong resented his fatherNs
Cuestions; his father himself had married. ?odong made a Cuick impassioned easy in his mind
about selfishness, but later he got confused.
O>ou are very young, ?odong.O O*Nm... seventeen.O O!hatNs very young to get married at.O
O*... * 8ant to marry...!eangNs a good girl.O O!ell your mother,O his father said. O>ou tell her,
tasty.O O?odong, you tell your inay.O O>ou tell her.O OAll right, ?odong.O O>ou 8ill let me marry
!eangDO O#on, if that is your 8ish... of course...O !here 8as a strange helpless light in his fatherNs
eyes. ?odong did not read it, so absorbed 8as he in himself. ?odong 8as immensely glad he had
asserted himself. Be lost his resentment for his father. =or a 8hile he even felt sorry for him
about the diseased tooth. !hen he confined his mind to dreaming of !eang and himself. #8eet
young dream.... 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 ?odong stood in the s8eltering noon heat,
s8eating profusely, so that his camiseta 8as damp. Be 8as still as a tree and his thoughts 8ere
confused. Bis mother had told him not to leave the house, but he had left. Be had 8anted to get
out of it 8ithout clear reason at all. Be 8as afraid, he felt. Afraid of the house. *t had seemed to
cage him, to compares his thoughts 8ith severe tyranny. Afraid also of !eang. !eang 8as giving
birth in the house; she gave screams that chilled his blood. Be did not 8ant her to scream like
that, he seemed to be rebuking him. Be began to 8onder madly if the process of childbirth 8as
really painful. #ome 8omen, 8hen they gave birth, did not cry. *n a fe8 moments he 8ould be a
father. O=ather, father,O he 8hispered the 8ord 8ith a8e, 8ith strangeness. Be 8as young, he
reali@ed no8, contradicting himself of nine months comfortable... O>our son,O people 8ould soon
be telling him. O>our son, ?odong.O ?odong felt tired standing. Be sat do8n on a sa89horse 8ith
his feet close together. Be looked at his callused toes. #uppose he had ten children... Ahat made
him think thatD Ahat 8as the matter 8ith himD 'odP Be heard his motherNs voice from the
house: O&ome up, ?odong. *t is over.O #uddenly he felt terribly embarrassed as he looked at her.
#omeho8 he 8as ashamed to his mother of his youthful paternity. *t made him feel guilty, as if
he had taken something no properly his. Be dropped his eyes and pretended to dust dirt off his
kundiman shorts. O?odong,O his mother called again. O?odong.O Be turned to look again and this
time sa8 his father beside his mother. O*t is a boy,O his father said. Be beckoned ?odong to come
up. ?odong felt more embarrassed and did not move. Ahat a moment for him. Bis parentsN eyes
seemed to pierce him through and he felt limp. Be 8anted to hide from them, to run a8ay.
O?odong, you come up. >ou come up,O he mother said. ?odong did not 8ant to come up and
stayed in the sun. O?odong. ?odong.O O*Nll... come up.O ?odong traced tremulous steps on the dry
parched yard. Be ascended the bamboo steps slo8ly. Bis heart pounded mercilessly in him.
Aithin, he avoided his parents eyes. Be 8alked ahead of them so that they should not see his
face. Be felt guilty and untrue. Be felt like crying. Bis eyes smarted and his chest 8anted to
burst. Be 8anted to turn back, to go back to the yard. Be 8anted somebody to punish him. Bis
father thrust his hand in his and gripped it gently. O#on,O his father said. And his mother:
O?odong...O Bo8 kind 8ere their voices. !hey flo8ed into him, making him strong. O!eangDO
?odong said. O#heNs sleeping. 4ut you go on...O Bis father led him into the small sa8ali room.
?odong sa8 !eang, his girl98ife, asleep on the papag 8ith her black hair soft around her face.
Be did not 8ant her to look that pale.
?odong 8anted to touch her, to push a8ay that stray 8isp of hair that touched her lips,
but again that feeling of embarrassment came over him and before his parents he did not 8ant to
be demonstrative. !he hilot 8as 8rapping the child, ?odong heard it cry. !he thin voice pierced
him Cueerly. Be could not control the s8elling of happiness in him. 5>ou give him to me. >ou
give him to me,O ?odong said. 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 4las 8as not ?odongNs only
child. )any more children came. =or six successive years a ne8 child came along. ?odong did
not 8ant any more children, but they came. *t seemed the coming of children could not be
helped. ?odong got angry 8ith himself sometimes. !eang did not complain, but the bearing of
children told on her. #he 8as shapeless and thin no8, even if she 8as young. !here 8as
interminable 8ork to be done. &ooking. -aundering. !he house. !he children. #he cried
sometimes, 8ishing she had not married. #he did not tell ?odong this, not 8ishing him to dislike
her. >et she 8ished she had not married. ;ot even ?odong, 8hom she loved. !here has been
another suitor, -ucio, older than ?odong by nine years, and that 8as 8hy she had chosen
?odong. >oung ?odong. #eventeen. -ucio had married another after her marriage to ?odong,
but he 8as childless until no8. #he 8ondered if she had married -ucio, 8ould she have borne
him children. )aybe not, either. !hat 8as a better lot. 4ut she loved ?odong... ?odong 8hom
life had made ugly. %ne night, as he lay beside his 8ife, he rose and 8ent out of the house. Be
stood in the moonlight, tired and Cuerulous. Be 8anted to ask Cuestions and somebody to ans8er
him. Be 8anted to be 8ise about many things. %ne of them 8as 8hy life did not fulfill all of
>outhNs dreams. Ahy it must be so. Ahy one 8as forsaken... after -ove. ?odong 8ould not find
the ans8er. )aybe the Cuestion 8as not to be ans8ered. *t must be so to make youth >outh.
>outh must be dreamfully s8eet. ?reamfully s8eet. ?odong returned to the house humiliated by
himself. Be had 8anted to kno8 a little 8isdom but 8as denied it. Ahen 4las 8as eighteen he
came home one night very flustered and happy. *t 8as late at night and !eang and the other
children 8ere asleep. ?odong heard 4lasNs steps, for he could not sleep 8ell of nights. Be
8atched 4las undress in the dark and lie do8n softly. 4las 8as restless on his mat and could not
sleep. ?odong called him name and asked 8hy he did not sleep. 4las said he could not sleep.
O>ou better go to sleep. *t is late,O ?odong said. 4las raised himself on his elbo8 and muttered
something in a lo8 fluttering voice. ?odong did not ans8er and tried to sleep. O*tay ...,O 4las
called softly. ?odong stirred and asked him 8hat it 8as. O* am going to marry !ona. #he
accepted me tonight.O ?odong lay on the red pillo8 8ithout moving. O*tay, you think it over.O
?odong lay silent. O* love !ona and... * 8ant her.O ?odong rose from his mat and told 4las to
follo8 him. !hey descended to the yard, 8here everything 8as still and Cuiet. !he moonlight
8as cold and 8hite. O>ou 8ant to marry !ona,O ?odong said. Be did not 8ant 4las to marry yet.
4las 8as very young. !he life that 8ould follo8 marriage 8ould be hard... O>es.O O)ust you
marryDO 4lasNs voice stilled 8ith resentment. O* 8ill marry !ona.O ?odong kept silent, hurt. O>ou
have ob/ections, *tayDO 4las asked acridly. O#on... n9none...O +4ut truly, 'od, * donNt 8ant 4las to
marry yet... not yet. * donNt 8ant 4las to marry yet....1 4ut he 8as helpless. Be could not do
anything. >outh must triumph... no8. -ove must triumph... no8. After8ards... it 8ill be life. As
long ago >outh and -ove did triumph for ?odong... and then -ife. ?odong looked 8istfully at
his young son in the moonlight. Be felt extremely sad and sorry for him.