January 23, 2019

A Detailed Lesson Plan in English – Grade 8

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson 100% of the students with 75% level of proficiency shall be able
to :
a. Define the elements of a short story (Setting and Character)
b. Identify the elements of a short story based from the given examples.

II. Subject Matter:

Topic: Elements of a Short Story
References: Teacher’s Manual
Materials: Handouts, Powerpoint
Skills: Listening: Remembering facts and sequence of the story.
Speaking: Discussing of ideas pronouncing words and names correctly.
Writing: Describing a concept.
Reading: Identifying elements of the short story from given situations.
Values: Cooperation, self-confidence, collaboration, honesty.

III. Procedure:
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

a. Preliminaries
i. prayer
ii. greeting the class Good Morning/Afternoon Sir.
iii. Checking of Attendance
iv. Recall
Before we proceed to our discussion, (A volunteer answers.) Sir, we read on and
let us firstly have a short recall about what studied Sawatdee..Hello Beautiful Bangkok
we had last meeting. What was your reading by Ethel Soliven - Timbol. It was about the
material all about? (Teacher will call a author’s trip to Thailand.
volunteer.)
(A student may infer) sir, maybe it’s a short
Very good! What do you think is the piece’s story.
genre of literature?

That’s right, it’s a story about what happened

in their trip to Thailand.

Do you remember the other short story that Yes sir.

we studied “Makato and the Cowrie Shell”?

b. Motivation:
Okay, we have permanent leaders in our The class will be divided into 5 groups.
groups right? Now let us divide the class into
5 groups.
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I will present write jumbled letters in the

board the first group to answer will get a
point. The class will arrange the letters in their
correct order and the group with the most
points win.
1. EIGTSNT
2. OLPT
3. TOCFLIN
4. RTCAHERCA
5. OVPIFWFOTNE
6. EMHET

c. Unlocking of Difficulties:
i. What is a short story?
ii. What qualities make the short story
different from the other fiction types?

d. Discussion:

ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY:

1. Setting – The setting refers to place,

time, weather condition, social
condition, and even mood or
atmosphere. To recognize the setting
of your story, you may ask this
questions.
 Where is the action taking place?
 Where is the story taking place? Is it
during the day, night, what year,
what period?
 What is the weather condition? Is it
sunny, rainy, stormy?
 What is the daily life of the
character?
 What is the feeling created at the A few students will give their answers.
beginning of the story? Is it bright,
cheerful, dark or frightening?

What settings do you remember in the

previous stories you studied? Can you give
examples of the stories that you read? A few students will answer the question.

2. Character – there are two meanings

for the word character: the person in
a work of fiction and the
characteristics of a person. He may
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be a protagonist, the good natured

character, or the antagonist, the
opponent of the main character.

There are a lot of characters that you already A few students will give examples of
encountered right? Can you give an example protagonists and antagonists.
of a protagonist? Antagonist?

Enrichment Activity:
The class will return to their groups. The
teacher will show different strips of paper,
the students will distinguish what element of
the short story is being shown.

Cardo Dalisay, Happy, I am the one telling this

story, Paris, France, boy meets girl, the
Cinderella story. The general’s daughter has
to quarrelling families.

IV. Evaluation:
From the pool of words below, choose the appropriate answer to the following descriptions.

Setting, Character, Protagonist, Antagonist, Mood, Weather.

1. The place and time of the story.

2. The person in a work of fiction.
3. The good guy.
4. The bad guy.
5. The feel of the story
V. Assignment:
Read a story and identify the elements of the short story.

Submitted by:

Nathan Emmanuel Yasis.

Checked by:

Mrs. Anita G. Recodo

MT-II