Date: January 31, 2018

Time Frame: 1 hour (10:45-11:45) and (3:00-4:00)

Sections: Hernandez and Balagtas
I. Objective:
At the end of the lesson, 75% of the students are expected to II. Subject Matter:
Character Sketch
Subject Matter: The Country’s Good Sons
Reference: Voyage in Communication pp. 353- 355
Materials: manila paper, handouts
III. Procedure/Strategies:
TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY
Daily Routine
1. Prayer
2. Checking of attendance
3. Review
What was our topic yesterday? A prayer for Burma.
Do you think a sincere prayer is very powerful that it Yes Ma’am.
can move mountains?

DISCUSSION:
Today, we are going to tackle more about the good
people in Myanmar.

We are going to know the story of “The Good Son.”

The author of this story is Minn New Thein.
(The teacher will give a brief background of the story
or the author.)

GENERALIZATION:
The story tells us that we must not judge anyone
because we don’t know what he/she had gone
through. And that we should be proud of the people
who sacrificed their lives just to save his country.
ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION:
I. Directions: Group yourselves into 3 and answer the questions in the Character
Revelation Figure.
a. Which character do you like best? Why?
b. How do you think this situation could apply to Filipino soldiers?
c. Which character experiences personal change from the beginning?

II. Directions: Replace the underlined words/phrases accordingly in the paragraphs from
each pair from the options.

1. Why should we be sad? We are soldiers who offered even our lives for our country.
We are proud to lose a leg in protecting our country.
a. happy, gloomy
b. would gladly die, would fight gladly
c. to lose our limbs, to lose our lives
2. Lin Aung felt respect for both of them. They were very different from the young drug
addicts he often read about in the newspapers. These drug addicts were a burden to
the country. They were wasting their lives and killing themselves.
a. admiration, satisfaction
b. a contrast to, a far cry from
c. disgrace, problem
d. ruining their lives, hurting their lives.
3. I respect and honor you. You good sons of the country are the jewels of our country.
When I grow up, I will try to be a good son of the country like you.
a. praise, salute
b. patriots, heroes
c. treasures, assets
 The Country’s Good Son
By Minn New Thein

Lin Aung’s mother had a shop in the Mingaladon market, where she sold slippers. Lin
Aung helped his mother in the shop during his school holidays. As the Mingaladon market was
an army market, soldiers could be seen shopping their daily. It was more crowded on Sundays.
Many soldiers could be seen moving about busily.
It was Sunday, and Lin Aung was sitting in front of the shop; “Younger Brother, do you
have a real ‘Sin-kye’ No. 9?” A young man, wearing trousers, entered and asked him. Quickly
Lin Aung took a pair of ‘Sin-kye’ No. 9 slippers and showed them. “How much are these
slippers, Young Brother?” Twenty-one Kyats, Elder Brother.” “Can I take only the right side
slipper and pay you ten Kyat and fifty pyas?”
The young man’s question made Lin Aung’s eyes become wide. If he sold only the right
side, how could he sell the left side? And why did he want only one slipper? “You can’t do that.
If I sell only the right side, the one left in the shop will become useless. “Yes, but I want only the
right side. But wait, I’ll go and look for a partner.” Lin Aung was left behind, looking at the back
of the man, who walked away, limping.
Soon, the young man came back. He had another young man with him. The first young
man asked Lin Aung for the slippers, and gave the left side slipper to the young man who had
come with him. He lifted the leg of his trouser and put on the slipper. Then he nodded with
satisfaction.
Only then did Lin Aung understand. They were buying and sharing one pair of slippers.
The first young man had a false left leg, and second young man had a false right leg. So
everything was all right because there was one who wanted only the right side, and another who
wanted only the left side.
Lin Aung was sorry to see the condition of the two young men. They were quite young,
and they each had a leg missing. “Don’t you feel sad?” the first young man smiled. “We are
soldiers who offered even our own lives for our country. We are proud to lose a leg in protecting
our country.
When Lin Aung heard the first young man’s answer, he respected them. They were very
different from the young drug addicts about whom he had often read in the newspapers. They
were wasting their lives and killing themselves.
These young men were the country’s good sons who were protecting the country from
its enemies. Their aims and intentions were as different from those of the addicts as east, from
west, north from south. Although these young men had one leg missing, they still wanted to
serve their country. The two young soldiers told Lin Aung that they planned to work in the
disabled soldiers’ cooperative shop.
“I respect and honor you. You good sons of the country are the jewels of our country.
When I grow up, I will try to be a good son of the country like you.”
The two young soldiers smiled to hear Lin Aung’s words. “We admire your intention. Our
country’s future will really be bright if there were more young people in our country with the
same aim and intention as yours. All right, we will go now.”