A Detailed Lesson Plan

In English
Grade 7

I – Objectives
During the discussion, learners are expected to:
1. Define the meaning of a sentence
2. Differentiate complete sentence, sentence fragment and run-on sentence
3. Recognize the importance of their usage; and
4. Create an essay based on the folk tale with complete sentences

II – Subject Matter
a. Topic: The Sentence
The Cycle of the Sun and the Moon
A Manobo Folk Tale
b. Materials: book, graphics, slide presentation, handouts, pen and paper
c. Reference: English Communication Arts and Skills Through Filipino Literature,
Lapid M. and Serrano J., pages 35-46
d. Values Infused: Love, Respect, Abidance, and Cooperation
e. Subject Integrated: Science

III – Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

Routine Activities:
- Prayer
- Checking of the Attending
- Review
- Discussion of the new topic

Unlocking of Difficult Words and the

Background of the Folk Tale:
Shriveled – wrinkled and contracted (Students will look for their pair being either
Anguished – pain the SUN or the MOON wherein the sun has
Wailing – crying the difficult word whereas the moon has the
Reproaches – accusations synonymous word or the meaning of the
Seized – grabbed difficult word.)

Manobo – “Mansuba” – river people (Students will listen to the teacher)

Manobos are concentrated at Agusan,
Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao, Misamis
Oriental and Surigao del Sur

Motivational Activity:
1. If you have a partner and he or she told or
warn you not to do this or that for some
reasons, would you obey him or her? Why or
why not?
Yes, I will obey him or her because I don’t
want my partner to get mad at me.
No, I will disobey my partner because I have
the right to do what I want and he or she
should respect that.

2. What if somebody became angry at you, I will ask for his/her forgiveness.
because you did something wrong, what will I will not care at all.
you do?

Lesson Proper:
(the teacher will give them handouts) Students will read the folk tale silently for 10
 The Cycle of the Sun and the Moon mins, and they will take note of the following
A Manobo Folk Tale questions to check their understanding:

A long time ago, only the Sun rode the 1. What did the Moon warn her husband
sky. His wife, the Moon, stayed at home and not to do?
tended the children and their farm. The moon 2. Why did the Sun kiss the children?
loved their two children, and went about her 3. What happened to the children?
tasks happily – fetching water, gathering gabi 4. Why did the Sun hide in the forest?
leaves, and digging camotes for supper. 5. What did the Moon do when she
One cloudy day when the Sun was found out what happened to her
home, the Moon had to go to the river for children?
water. She crooned the children to sleep and 6. Why did the Sun get angry with the
called to her husband. “Dear husband, I am Moon?
going to fetch water. Watch over the children, 7. What did he do in his anger?
but do not go near them because you know 8. What did the Sun discover when he
what will happen if you do.” And after this returned home?
warning, she left.
The Sun looked lovingly at his
children. He had never before been able to
really know them or even get near them.
Overcome with love and affection, he kissed
them. To his honor, they shriveled up before
his eyes and crumbled to ashes.
His anguished was great. He moaned
and cried. Suddenly, he remembered what his
wife told him – not to touch the children! Not
knowing what to do, he hid in the forest.
Soon after this the Moon returned. A
water jar was balanced on her head and she
carried a bundle of freshly cut gabi leaves in
her arms. Laying down the jar and leaves, she
turned to look for her children. Wild was her
grief to find only ashes where her lovely
brown babies had once been.
Her screams and lamentation reached
her husband in the forest, and his pity
overcoming his fear, he went home. However,
as soon as the moon saw him, her wailing
became louder.
“My husband, why did you do it? Did
I not tell you never to touch or even draw near
our children? Why did you disobey me?”
“I couldn’t help kissing them, O wife;
they looked so sweet. I have never seen
anything so sweet before. Forgive me, O
Moon! Forgive me,” he begged her.
But the Moon would not be
comforted. Her reproaches increased in
intensity. In the end, the Sun got angry.
“Mang-gad!” he shouted. “Did you
say that I disobeyed you? How dare you think
that you are superior to me, that you can order
me what to do. Mang-gad! Slave! How dare
you say that I disobeyed you!”
“Ai!” she moaned. “I am nothing,
nothing at all! Then my children are nothing
too!” And with one defiant sweep of her arms,
she scattered their ashes to the four winds.
Horrified and engraved, the Sun
seized the gabi leaves, threw them in his
wife’s face, and dashed out of the house.
When he returned very late that night,
his ill temper was gone. He regretted having
shouted at his wife. He found the house dark
and empty. His wife had fled, but pinpoints of
glimmering light in the distance told him
where she was, for he knew the lights were
his children following their mother in her
flight.
So started the endless crying of the
Sun chasing the Moon, and the Moon fleeing
from the Sun. The Moon is forever with her
children, the many tiny lights we call the
stars. Now and then, a shooting star breaks
across the path of the Moon. It is nothing
more than an attempt from her husband to
make her and their two children return to him.
But the moon speed away faster, sometimes
leaving the sky altogether, with only her star-
babies there. This happens when the mark of
gabi leaves on the Moon’s face swell and she
remembers the pain and humiliation of her
husband’s anger when he threw the gabi
leaves to her face and called her mang-gad
(property) and binotong (slave).

Comprehension Response
1. What did the Moon warn her husband
not to do?
2. Why did the Sun kiss the children?
3. What happened to the children?
4. Why did the Sun hide in the forest?

5. What did the Moon do when she

found out what happened to her
children?
6. Why did the Sun get angry with the
Moon?
7. What did he do in his anger?

8. What did the Sun discover when he

returned home?
Good job, everyone! It seems like you really
understand the story of the Sun and Moon.
Any question or clarification regarding the
story?
Springboard:
Before I proceed, who can tell me the
meaning of a sentence?
Very good! A sentence has a complete subject
Students’ expected answers:
1. do not go near the children
2. because the Sun was overcome with
love and affection
3. they shriveled up before his eyes and
crumbled to ashes
4. because he remembered what his wife
told him and he doesn’t know what to
do
5. she screamed and lamented
and a predicate and it actually begins with a
capital letter and it ends with a period,
question mark or exclamation point.
Therefore, a complete sentence expresses a
complete thought.
On the other hand, sentence fragment is a
group of words that does not express a
complete thought and run-on sentence are two
sentences written as one form.
6. because the Moon told him that he
disobeyed her
7. the Sun seized the gabi leaves, threw
them in his wife’s face, and dashed
out of the house
8. he found the house dark and empty

Now, I want you to study these items.

(the teacher will flash those in the screen) None, ma’am.
1. The moon
(What about the moon? Is this a sentence?)
2. The moon loved their children and the
sun adored them. A sentence has a complete subject and a
(Is this one sentence or two sentences?) predicate.
3. The moon loved their children whom
the sun adored.
(What have you observed in this item?)

Great! So, can you now distinguish the

difference between the three?
What is a complete sentence again?
How about a sentence fragment?
And what is run-on sentence?

(What do you think is the importance of

complete sentence?)

Application:
Now, let’s see if you really understand the
topic. (The teacher will flash the items on the No. That’s a sentence fragment.
screen and will ask for volunteers)
1. A long time ago, only the Sun and his
wife the Moon
2. She fetched water, gathered gabi Two sentences. So, that’s a run-on sentence.
leaves, and dug camotes. Item number 3 is a complete sentence.
3. I couldn’t help kissing them they It is easy to understand because it makes
looked so sweet. sense.
4. I am nothing, my children are nothing
too. Yes, ma’am.
5. Returning very late that night
It has a complete thought.
Any more questions? It doesn’t make sense.
It contains two sentences.

Using complete sentences makes other people

understand what we are saying, and we could
avoid misunderstandings and wrong
information.

(In a form of recitation, students will identify

each group of words as a complete sentence,
 sentence fragment, or a run-on sentence.)
Sentence Fragment

Complete Sentence

Run-on Sentence

Complete Sentence

Sentence Fragment

None, ma’am.

IV – Evaluation
If you were Mr. Sun, how are you going to resolve the conflict between you and your wife,
Moon? Create at least five (5) sentences and make sure to observe the use of complete sentence.
Ex: I will talk to her sincerely.
V – Assignment
Read the Prowess of Aliguynon retold by F. Landa Jocano, on page 47