Grade 7-10 School CAGSIAY I NATIONAL HIGH Grade 8

DAILY LESSON SCHOOL Level

LOG Teacher ZAIRA A. REMOROZA Learning ENGLISH
Area
Dates and March 15, 2018 Quarter FOURTH
Times 7:30-8:30 /10:45-11:45
I. OBJECTIVES
 Analyze the message of the poem
 Appreciate the relevance of the literary selection in the modern society
 Create their own poem about their experience in discrimination.

A. Content Standard The learner demonstrates understanding of how respect and equality
reflect on the story and how the poem serve as sources of wisdom in
expressing and resolving conflicts on how to use the language of
research, campaigns and advocacies and how to use evaluative reading
and listening activities.
B. Performance The learner transfers learning through valuing the essence of equality
Standard and avoid discrimination, giving expanded meaning of the words in the
poem, and evaluating literature as a source of wisdom in expressing and
resolving conflicts that may also be encountered in real life situations.

C. Learning
Competency/
Objectives
II. CONTENT AFRICAN’S PLEA- ROLAND TOMBEKAI DEMPSTER

III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
A. References
1. Teacher’s Guide
pages
2. Learner’s materials 461-462
pages
3. Textbook pages
4. Additional Materials Video, PowerPoint Presentation, Visual Aids, Pictures
from Learning
Resource(LR) portal
B. Other Learning Resources
IV. PROCEDURES TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY
A. Reviewing the previous “What was the last topic that we
lesson or presenting the discussed yesterday?” “Parenthetical Expressions.”
new lesson.

“What is parenthetical expression?”

“What are the four types of

parenthetical expression?” “Direct Address, Conjunctive
Adverbs, Contrasting Expression
And Common Expression.”

B. Establishing a purpose “I have a video that is related to our

for the lesson topic for today, I want you to listen (Students watch the video)
and reflect on it.”

“What have you observe from the

video?”
 “There is discrimination through
skin color.”

“Has someone made you feel inferior

or unimportant because of you
physical appearance?”
“Yes Ma’am, someone made me
feel inferior because I’m skinny.”

C. Presenting examples/ “Our topic for today deals with

instances of the new lesson discrimination, it is a poem entitled
African’s Plea by Roland Tombekai
Dempster.”

ROLAND TOMBEKAI DEMPSTER

 He was an African writer
literary figure.
 He was born on Tosah Grand
Cape Mount Country in a
Republic of Liberia.
 In 1948 he became the editor
of a biweekly newspaper
called “The Liberian Age”.
 He also became the English
and writing professor of the
University of Liberia.

UNLOCKING OF DIFFICULTIES
DIRECTION: Identify the meaning of
the underlined unfamiliar words in the
given choices.

 Interfere
 Unfair
 Ridiculous
 Foolish
 Apology

1. The defendant entered a plea 1. Apology

of not guilty
2. She meddled on her sister’s 2. Interfere
wedding.
3. He’s been talking foolish 3. Ridiculous
risks.
4. The government is very 4. Unfair
unjust when it comes to
taxes.
5. He made the unwise decision 5. Foolish
of investing in a new company.

D. Discussing new concepts “(The teacher reads the poem aloud

and practicing new skills #1. and allows the students to read it
too.)”

AFRICAN’S PLEA
I am not you
But you will not
Give me a chance
Will not let me be

“If I were you”

But you know,
 You meddle interfere in my affairs
As if they were yours and you were
me
You are unfair, unwise
Foolish to think
That can I can be you, talk, act
And think like you

God made me
He made you, you
For god’s sake
Let me be.

“What do the first three stanzas

reveal about the poem?” “It reveals about dealing with the
feeling of being compared to
others.”

“The three stanzas reveal that

nobody can make another person
exactly like him/her and what we
have to do is to accept and learn to
respect one another.”

“How about the fourth and last

stanza?” “It expresses the equality among
men and women, black or white
are differ from one another
because that’s how god made
us.”

“God made us unique and different.

We are all equal in his eyes but we
are different when it comes to
ourselves. One can’t be the other
because they are who they are. if we
want people to respect us, we should
respect them.”

E. Discussing new concepts (The class is divided into 3)

and practicing new skills #2 “You are going to make a slogan/
poster/ drawing or sketch on how
discrimination is shown in our
society.”

CRITERIA
Creativity- 10
Content- 10
Cooperation- 5

25 pts.
F. Developing mastery DIRECTION: Fill the blanks of the
(leads to Formative missing words in the poem.
Assessment 3)
AFRICAN’S PLEA AFRICAN’S PLEA
I am not you I am not you
But you will not But you will not
Give me a ______ Give me a chance
Will not let me be Will not let me be
“If I were you”
“If I were you” But you know,
But you know, You meddle interfere in my
You _______ interfere in my affairs affairs
As if they were ______ and you As if they were yours and you
were me were me
You are______, unwise You are unfair, unwise
__________ to think Foolish to think
That can I can be you, ______, act That can I can be you, talk, act
And ______ like you And think like you

______ made me God made me

He ______ you, you He made you, you
For god’s sake For god’s sake
_____ me be. Let me be.

J. Additional activities for the

application or remediation

V. REMARKS

VI. REFLECTION
A. Number of learners who
earned 80% in the
evaluation.
B. Number of learners who
require additional activities
for remediation.
C. Did the remedial lessons
work?
D. No. of learners who have
caught up with the lesson.
E. What of my teaching
strategies worked well? Did
this work?
F. What difficulties did I
encounter which my principal
can help me solve?
G. What innovation or
localized materials did I
use/discover which I wish to
share with other teachers?

Checked by:
MRS. JOAN E. ESCARIESES
Cooperating Teacher