A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH FOR GRADE 7

“Structures of the Plot”

Class schedule: March 6, 2024 (Wednesday)
Section – Alluring (8: 30 – 9: 30 AM)
Time frame: 1 hour

I. OBJECTIVES

A. CONTENT STANDARD
The learner demonstrates understanding of: Philippine literature in the Period of
Emergence as a tool to assert one's identity, strategies in listening to and viewing of
informative and short narrative texts word relationships and associations: informative
speech forms, and use of direct/reported speech, passive/ active voice, simple past and
past perfect tenses. And sentence connectors.

B. PERFORMANCE STANDARD
The learner transfers learning by: showing ways of asserting one's identity:
comprehending informative and short narrative texts using schema and appropriate
listening and viewing strategies, expressing ideas, opinions and feelings through various
formats: and enriching written and spoken communication using direct/reported speech,
active/passive voice, simple past and past perfect tenses and connectors correctly and
appropriately

C. LEARNING COMPETENCIES
D. EN7G-I I I -h-3: Use the past and past perfect tenses correctly
E. in varied context
F. EN7G-I I I -h-3: Use the past and past perfect tenses correctly
G. in varied context
H. EN7G-I I I -h-3: Use the past and past perfect tenses correctly
I. in varied context
EN&VC-III-d-13: Determine the key message conveyed in the material viewed.
EN7LT-III-g-5: Discover literature as a tool to assert one’s unique identity and to better
understand other people.

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

 Determine the structure of the Plot in the given literary;
  Value the message conveyed in the material viewed.
 Locate the different parts of the plot in the story.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Topic: Structures of the Plot
III. LEARNING PROCEDURES
A. References:
1. Teacher’s Guide Pages:
English Book (333-335)
2. Learner’s material pages
English Book (339-344)
3. Textbook Pages
4. Other Learning Resources
Materials: Visual Aids and English Book
Values Integration: Emphasize the importance of education, hard work, and perseverance
Strategies: 4 A’s Approach (Activity, Analysis. Abstraction, Application)
IV. PROCEDURES

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preparatory Activities
1. Drill

 Good morning Class! Good morning, Ma’am Jessa!

Prayer

 Prayer leader, kindly come here in front. (Student’s prayer may vary)

Seating Arrangement

 Before you take your seats, kindly pick up

some pieces of papers under your chairs and
arrange it properly.

Checking of Attendance
 As I check your attendance, please say
present if your name is called.
Yes, ma’am
 (The Teacher will start calling names for
attendance.)
 Very good class! Seems like everyone is
present today. A very good clap for
everyone. (Students do the very good clap)

 Class, remember that we must obey to our

fourth classroom rules. Which are,
everybody read in 3, 2, and 1, go!
 Listen attentively.
 Respect your teacher and your
classmates.
 Raise your hand if you have questions,
clarifications, and going to answer.
 No using of phones during class hours.
Unless if it is needed.

2. Review

 Before we proceed to our new lesson, let us

have first a recap about our discussion last
meeting.

 What was our lesson that we tackled last

meeting?

 What is a setting?  Setting, Conflict and Structure Plot.

 The time and place where the story

 How about Conflict? And it’s type? happened. It helps to establish the
mood of the story.

 It is considered as the problem in the

story.

Types of Conflict

Man Vs Man

Man Vs Himself
 Very Good Class!
Man Vs Society
3. Motivation (5 minutes)
The teacher will show pictures of selected scenes of
films/movies and ask students to name the movie
and retell the scene on the picture.
(Anyone from the class can answer the
Wow! Thank you for your active participation class. following questions )
By that let’s give everyone a very good clap.
(Students do the very good clap)

B. Developmental Activities
1. Presentation
a. Setting of Standards

Today we are going to discuss about the Structures

of Plot. But before that, we need to have a key
reminders for us to accomplish our mission for
today.

These are the 3 key points that we need to attain this

day.
Everybody read in 3, 2, and 1, go!

 Determine the structure of the

Plot in the given literary;
 Value the message conveyed
in the material viewed.
 Locate the different parts of
the plot in the story.
Thank you, class.

2. Activity (5 minutes)

Answer Me!

Questions to Ponder
 What do you call the elements of the short
story that has the most important events?
(Students are now answering)
Wow, very good everyone. All of you deserves a
very good clap.
(Students do the very good clap)

3. Analysis (10 minutes)

The teacher will gather the work of the students and
she will check if each group got the correct answer.

Answers are:
Elements of a short story (The Happiest Boy in the
world):
Ans. Key
Plot
4. Abstraction (15 minutes)

Our topic for today is all about the continuation of

the Structures of Plot. Since we were not able to
discuss the definition of each parts last meeting. But
we will going to use the same story that we had
yesterday which is titled “The Happiest Boy in the
World.”

Examples: (Students are listening attentively)

Active: The
teachers prepared
the materials for
their classes.
Subject
predicate
Doer of the
action receiver
of the action
Passive: The
materials were
prepared by the
teachers for their
classes.
Subject predicate Yes ma’am

Receiver of the (The students are now reading the story)

action doer of the

action
Structures of Plot

A. Plot
The sequence of events in the story. It contains the (Students are now participating in the class)
most important event in the story.

Parts of Plot
  Exposition
 Rising Action
 Climax
 Falling Action
 Resolution

 Exposition
The beginning of the story. It introduces the
setting and the characters in the story.

 Rising Action
It presents the conflict.
Yes, ma’am
 Climax
The most exciting part of the story. It is
where the character tries to solve the
problem in the story.

 F
a
l
l
i
n
g

Action
It shows the result of the character’s action in
trying to solve his/her problems.

 Resolution
The end of the story where the problem is
said to be resolved already.

Now, we will going to take a look at your books

again for us to understand more the story, turn it to
page 339 and read and understand the story The
Happiest Boy in the World by N.V.M Gonzalez
because later on we will have an activity.

Understand class?
You may now start reading.

5. Application (10 minutes)

The class will be divided into five groups and all

you have to do is to Retell the important events in
the story by using “The adventure Map Plot”
English Book (344). Present your output in the class.

Group 1 will retell the Exposition

Group 2 the Rising Action
Group 3 Climax
Group 4 Falling Action
Group 5 Resolution

Very good, everyone. You did amazing today. Let’s

give ourselves a very good clap.

C. Concluding Activities
1. Generalization
I will ask you some questions to ponder, to know if
you really listened during our discussion lately.

 What are the parts of the plot?

3. Valuing
Now class, I want you to understand the importance
of using the elements of the story focusing the
structure of the plot as they are essential because
they provide a framework for the writer to tell their
story. They give the reader a way to follow the story
and understand what is happening.

Understood class?

V. EVALUATION
Get a ½ crosswise and write your name, section, and
the date today.

Identification.
1. It is the beginning of the story. It introduces the
setting and the characters in the story.

2. The most exciting part of the story. It is where the

character tries to solve the problem in the story. (Students answer silently)

3. It presents the conflict.

4. It shows the result of the character’s action in

trying to solve his/her problems.

5. The end of the story where the problem is said to

be resolved already.
(Students are now passing their papers in
You may now start answering
front)
None ma’am
Papers up! Pass your papers in front.
Any questions? Clarifications?
Very good.

VI. ASSIGNMENT
Read in advance the story, Pliant like a Bamboo By.
I.V. Mallari

VII. REMARKS

VIII. REFLECTION
A. No. of learners who earned 80% on the
formative assessment

B. No. of learners who require activities for

remediation

C. Did the remedial lesson/s work? No. of

learners who have caught up with the lesson

D. No. of learners who continue to require

remediation

E. Which of my teaching strategies works well?

Why did these work?

F. What difficulties did I encounter which my

supervisor/principal/department head can
help me solve?
G. What innovation or localized materials did I
use/discover which I wish to share with other
teachers?

Prepared by:

JESSA MAE O. MAGAN

Student Teacher

Checked by:

MYRNA D. DACARA
Critic Teacher

Noted by:
JENNEFER A. MAESTRADO
English Coordinator