Daily Lesson Plan in Reading and Writing Skills

I. Objectives

A. Content Standard : The learners understand the requirements of composing academic writing and
professional correspondence.

B. Performance Standard : The learner produces each type of academic writing and professional correspondence
following the properties of well-written texts and process approach to writing.

C. Learning Competencies : At the end of the lesson, 80 % of the learners are expected to identify the unique
features and requirements in composing a Book Review or Article Critique. (EN11/12RWS-IVdg -12.1)

II. Content:

A. Subject Matter : Writing a Book Review/ Article Critique

B. Integration :

C. Strategies : Group work

III. Learning Resources:

A.Reference: Gabelo,N.,Geron,C.,Agena,M.G.,Mendoza,L.,Platero,L.,Agnes,F.,…Santillan P.M. (2016). Reading-

Writing Connection for the 21st CENTURY LEARNERS for Senior High School. Malabon City: Mutya Publishing House.

B. Other references:  www.thefederalist.com/2018/01/15/study-constantly-taking-selfies-sign-mental-illness/ 

www. teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/bookrev/tips.htm  www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/books/review/michael-
jordan-the-life-by-roland-lazenby.html

C. Materials: Printed articles and worksheets

IV. Procedure:

A. Activity: (10 minutes)

 Let the students comment about the article below :

Constantly Taking Selfies Is A Sign Of Mental Illness

By Bre Payton (Excerpt)

Your friend who cannot seem to control the impulse to post a lot of selfies might actually have a psychological
disorder according to a new study published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Two
psychologists, Mark D. Griffiths and Janarthanan Balakrishnan, interviewed and observed the social media
behavior of 225 college students at Indian universities to establish three levels of selfie addiction: borderline,
acute, and chronic. Those who take three selfies in a day but don’t post them on social media fall into the
borderline category. Those who post at least three per day are considered acute, and those who have an
“uncontrollable urge” to take selfies all the time and post at least six on social media per day are considered
chronic. They found that students who exhibited chronic selfie behavior were less confident and admitted to
posting selfies because they felt they had to compete with others to get attention online.

Source: www.thefederalist.com/2018/01/15/study-constantly-taking-selfies-sign-mental-illness/

 Ask the students with the following questions:

- Do you agree with the ideas of the article?
- Are you convinced? Why or why not?

B. Analysis: (5 minutes)
 After the game, ask the class with the following questions and encourage them to share their ideas to
their classmates:
- How did you find the activity?
- What made you comment about the information given?
- What were your observations about the article?
- What do you think is the relevance of this activity to our lesson for today?

C. Abstraction: (20 minutes)

  As you guide students into delving on the new lesson, ask them the following questions as
springboard to the information that they are about to learn.
- Have you ever read a book or an article that you like most?
- Why did the book captivate you?
- How will you share the gist of a book or an article in a manner that the people would be interested
to read too?

 Tell the students that if they have experienced those mentioned then they already have some skills at doing
the so-called article critique or book review.

 Explain to the students that before writing a book, they have to read first a book or an article while the
following questions in mind. The answers to these questions will give more impact in making a good Book
Review.

a. What does the title suggest about?

b. What is the author’s purpose of writing the book?

c. What are the author’s viewpoints?

d. What kind of evidence does the author use to prove his or her points?

e. Is the evidence convincing? Why or why not?

f. How does this book relate to other books on the same topic?

 Then, discuss the few tips when writing a book review

Few Tips when Writing a Book Review

1. Before you begin writing, make a few notes about the points you want to get across.

2. While you're writing, try thinking of your reader as a friend to whom you're telling a story.

3. Try to mention the name of the author and the book title in the first paragraph — there's nothing more
frustrating than reading a review of a great book but not knowing who wrote it and what the title is!

4. If possible, use one paragraph for each point you want to make about the book. It's a good way to emphasize
the importance of the point. You might want to list the main points in your notes before you begin.

5. Try to get the main theme of the book across in the beginning of your review. Your reader should know right
away what he or she is getting into should they choose to read the book!

6. Think about whether the book is part of a genre. Does the book fit into a type like mystery, adventure, or
romance? What aspects of the genre does it use?

7. What do you like or dislike about the book's writing style? Is it funny? Does it give you a sense of the place it's
set? What is the author's/narrator's "voice" like?

8. Try using a few short quotes from the book to illustrate your points. This is not absolutely necessary, but it's a
good way to give your reader a sense of the author's writing style.

9. Make sure your review explains how you feel about the book and why, not just what the book is about. A
good review should express the reviewer's opinion and persuade the reader to share it, to read the book, or to
avoid reading it.

10. Do research about the author and incorporate what you learn into the review. Biographical information can
help you formulate your opinion about the book, and gives your review a "depth." Remember, a book doesn't
come directly from a printing press, it's a product of an author's mind, and therefore it may be helpful to know
something about the author and how she or he came to write the book. For instance, a little research will reveal
the following about author

Harper Lee:

- To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the Pulitzer Prize, is the only book she's ever published.
- The town she called Maycomb is really Monroeville, Alabama. Many of the residents thought the
author had betrayed them by writing the book.
 - Some people think she based the character Dill on Truman Capote, a famous writer who was her
childhood friend.

Source: http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/bookrev/tips.htm

D. Application: (20 minutes)

 Let the students form a group with three members to analyze a sample book review and answer the
process questions.

MICHAEL JORDAN: The Life

By Roland Lazenby

Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player who ever lived. Of that, there is very little dispute. He was also,
at the apex of his career, a global ambassador for the game and for Nike (not necessarily in that order), a veritable
A.T.M. for various corporate partners, a hero to millions, if not billions, of fans, and very likely the most famous person
in the world. I know this because everyone knows it, and also because I witnessed at least a little bit of it all. I covered
Jordan and the Bulls for an all-sports radio station in Chicago for four years while he was at the height of his power and
fame.
It was an experience I never cease reliving, in the same way you would never forget being allowed to watch
Picasso paint or Mozart tinker at a piano. I have made these analogies before and will defend them to the death.
Michael Jordan absolutely was an artist on the basketball court, every bit the equal in his milieu of any of the great
masters in theirs. Whatever his flaws away from the game, they were easily overshadowed by the grandeur of his talent.
It was, after all, difficult to speak ill of a man when your jaw was agape, having just watched him glide through the air
with a combination of grace and strength that could rightly be described as superhuman.
In his thoughtful, extraordinarily well-researched biography “Michael Jordan: The Life,” Roland Lazenby, the
author of books on Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant and Jerry West, gives us the life and much more. His jaw is as wide open as
anyone’s; the exhaustive narrative of Jordan’s basketball career is written with appropriate awe. But what makes this
portrayal especially worthwhile is everything else. Lazenby begins before the beginning, in a shotgun shack in rural
North Carolina some 70 years before Michael’s birth, with a beautifully written account of the life of his great-
grandfather. The long trail Lazenby follows is significant because it offers an explanation of how Michael developed the
competitiveness for which he became legendary. And the psychology is worth the investment even if no new ground is
broken (Michael’s father, James Sr., loved his older brother Larry more), because with the foundation of Jordan’s
personality set, the rest of the life can be better appreciated: Michael Jordan not simply as a superhero, but as a Man in
Full.
For me, the book’s most interesting section concerns Michael’s adolescence, first as the skinny kid who was left
off the varsity roster his sophomore year in high school, then through a summer spent at an elite basketball camp that
Jordan says was “the turning point of my life.” It was during this time that Jordan figured out just how good he really
was; previously he had imagined himself as a baseball player as much as anything else. Even Jordan’s most ardent fans
will not have heard every story Lazenby tells about these early years — though every basketball fan will recognize the
names of many of Jordan’s contemporaries from that period of his life, some of whom were considered greater
prospects and all of whose accomplishments he would eventually dwarf.
The true Jordan phenomenon began, of course, with his freshman year at the University of North Carolina, when
he was playing for the renowned Dean Smith and made the shot that won the national championship in 1982. Lazenby
covers Jordan’s college and pro careers, including his two Olympic gold medals, in great detail, spicing the account with
the firsthand recollections of friends and foes alike. All the familiar stories are here: the disappointing losses in his final
two N.C.A.A. tournaments before he turned pro after his junior year, the frustration of his early N.B.A. years, the
championships he won both before and after his first, premature, retirement. Through it all, Jordan is depicted as
restless, driven and often angry. None of this is surprising, but given the full context it reads differently from the way
Jordan is often perceived: This is a Michael Jordan who is confused and naïve more than conniving. Lazenby’s portrait is
not saccharine, but it is certainly more sympathetic than most. He is particularly insightful about the relationships that
shaped Jordan’s career: the feud with Isiah Thomas, the grudging respect for his childhood idol Magic Johnson, the
disdain for the Bulls’ general manager Jerry Krause, the connection with Phil Jackson that elevated both men to the top
of their profession.
Not much time is spent on Jordan’s life after his final retirement from the game, and that is just as well. His
tenure as owner of the Charlotte Bobcats has been mostly disastrous and rarely interesting. While there are some —
“haters” as they are commonly known — who revel in this failure, I am not among them, and neither is Lazenby. It is
painful for those of us who remember Jordan’s genius so fondly to see him diminished in this way. There is little room
for it in the mind’s eye, and thus I applaud Lazenby for leaving little room for it in print.
 What many will seek from this book are answers to certain questions about Jordan that seem sure to be asked
forever. Questions about his enormous gambling debts, the personal check that connected him to a convicted drug
dealer, and the murky circumstances surrounding his father’s murder. Those questions are not answered here, which
might count as a criticism of Lazenby, except that they most likely never will be answered, and it is unfair to ask an
author to do the impossible. Lazenby lays out the facts and allows us to draw our own conclusions. He didn’t set out to
write a gossipy tell-all, and he did not. Readers who expect explanations for every mystery will be disap pointed.
There is a poignant moment near the beginning of the book in which Jordan, as a young man, asks himself “what
it will be like to look back on all of this, whether it will even seem real.” Seeing him today with his new wife, his twin
baby girls, in his role as owner of a struggling franchise, heavier than we remember him but still looking every bit the
best baller in the room, I wonder what he thinks of his past. He is more guarded today, more private than he was. Does
it all seem real to him, or does it seem as far away for him as it does for the rest of us?
If you are one who takes joy in recalling what it was like when he, and we, were younger, you will enjoy this
journey. Lazenby navigates both the peaks and valleys with an easy style. Reading “Michael Jordan: The Life,” you are
sure to find yourself shaking your head in wonder at some of the memories. After all, there is nothing better than
genuinely believing a man can fly.

Source: www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/books/review/michael-jordan-the-life-by-rolandlazenby.html

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What is the author’s purpose of writing the article?
2. What are the main points highlighted by the author?
3. What are the strengths of the article in terms of writing a good review?
4. Does the author presented enough information that will lead you to read the book too? Cite lines from the
text that persuaded you to read the book.
5. Why do you think the author achieved the standard of making a good book review/

E. Assessment/Evaluation:
 Distribute the copies of TASK 1 to be accomplished in 20 minutes

TASK 1
Instruction: Answer the questions in the matrix below about the tips on how to make a book review/ article
critique.

A. What are the basic facts

about the book that need
to be mentioned?

B. What could be the

personal reactions that may
be highlighted in crafting a
book review?

C. What should be the

overall impact of a good
review?
D. What are the evidences
that you as a writer need to
find to have a good review?

F. Assignment: ( 5 minutes)

 Instruct the students to craft a three paragraph review or critique of a book or an article read before
while applying the guidelines learned.

PREPARED BY:

BRIAN B. BENGUA
TEACHER 1
OBSERVED BY:
ELSA J. MAYORMITA
HEAD TEACHER 1