Lesson Plan in Grade 7

I. Learning Objectives
At the end of the period, the Grade 7 students should be able to:
1. Define what a short story is
2. Respond to ideas, issues and concerns presented in reading or viewing in creative forms
3. Arrange the events of the story in chronological order

II. Subject Matter

Title: The Baby in the Bottle by Benjamin Bautista
Genre: Short story
Values integration: Sympathy, Toughness

III. Materials
Reference: Grade 7 English Learning Package
Equipment: projector set, PowerPoint presentation, netbook/laptop

IV. Presentation
A. Prayer
B. Reading of Learning Objectives
C. Motivation
a. Motive questions
1. Have you experienced losing a precious thing or person?
2. How did it feel?
3. If the dead person you loved the most be given the chance to live for a minute,
what will be the first thing you will do?
D. Activity
The teacher will form groups of four. Each group will think of several things that can be
put inside a bottle. Each group will be given a manila paper to be used for the drawing. They will
draw a bottle. After drawing the bottle, they will then draw the items they listed earlier inside the
bottle. Afterwards, each group will present their work in front.
 E. Procedure
The teacher presents the short story entitled The Baby in the Bottle by Benjamin Bautista
using PowerPoint presentation. The teacher asks the students to read the given story.
After reading the essay, the teacher asks the following questions:

1. Who is Mr. Libre?

2. What is inside the bottle? Describe it.
3. If you were Mr. Libre, what will you feel if you saw your baby placed inside a bottle?
4. What do the baby and the bottle symbolize in the text?

F. Evaluation/ Assessment
Directions: Arrange the events of the story in chronological order. Write 1-5 on the spaces
provided before each no.
_______ 1. All the time, through the years, as the baby bobbed up and down in its own cramped
world, it was slowly being destroyed. And no one could do anything about it.
_______ 2. During the first few months and on to the end of that first year, the bottle had seemed
too small for the baby. It looked as though it needed a glass jar with a lid instead of that bottle
with a wide mouth. And then the bottle didn’t seem too small for the baby anymore because now
the baby’s shrunken body was completely confined. The bottle fully contained it.

_______ 3. Mr. Libre’s wife was a plain woman with high cheekbones and a sad mouth, who
was only twenty-nine years old but whose eyes were no longer young. Mr. Libre himself was
thirty-three but graying hair and some thick coded veins on his hands made him look older.

_______ 4. One afternoon in the last busy week of January, Mr. Libre was looking over some
old files in the Recorder’s cubicle when all of a sudden he remembered that on that day the baby
in the bottle was five years and seven months old.
_______ 5. The tiny half-black thing was drifting and circling as always in the green alcohol. But
now he saw that the bottle and the alcohol and the long years had gnawed it and little by little the
baby was shredding and peeling of its flesh.

V. Assignment
Directions: Determine what the baby and the bottle symbolize in the text. Illustrate a semantic
map for your output. Use appropriate drawings to enhance the meaning of your work. Make your
semantic map and drawing in a long bond paper.