GRADES1 to 12 School: CAGAYAN NATIONAL Grade 7

DAILY LESSON HIGH SCHOOL Level:

PLAN Teacher: CHRISTINE JOY G. Learning ENGLISH
CALLUENG Area:
Teaching Dates 11/13/ 19 Quarter: THIRD
and Time: Silver 7:00– 8:00 AM
Responsibility– 8:00-9:00 AM
Respect – 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Gold – 11:15 – 12:15 PM

I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standard
B. Performance Standard
C. Learning Competencies
II. CONTENT
III. LEARNING RESOURCES
A. Reference
B. Other Learning Resources
IV. PROCEDURE
TEACHER’S ACTIVITY
A. Reviewing Previous Lesson/ Presenting the New Lesson
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 sort 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.
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.
EN7RC-III-a-8: Use ones schema to better understand
a text
EN7V-III-a-13.11: Categorize words or expressions
according to shades of meaning
EN7LT-III-a-5.1: Identify the distinguishing features
of literature during the Period of Emergence
EN7OL-III-a-1.3: Express ideas, opinions, feelings
and emotions during interviews, group/ panel
discussions, forums/ fora, debates, etc.
EN7G-III-a-1: Link sentences using logical
connectors that signal chronological and logical
sequence and summation
“Pliant like the Bamboo”
by I.V Mallari
Learner’s Material English 7
http://filipinoliterature.blogspot.com/2011/09/pliant-
like-bamboo.html
https://myboxfullofthoughts.wordpress.com/2013/11/12
/pliant-like-the-bamboo-by-i-v-mallari-an-excerpt/
https://iamjhanevhie.weebly.com/feedback.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz1Fd-aS3VI
STUDENT’S ACTIVITY
Preliminaries:
 Prayer
 Greetings
 Arranging of chairs and picking up
scattered litters on the floor
 Checking of attendance

Class, here’s a beautiful quotation for

you to ponder on.

“A strengthen national spirit can provide the

motive power to rise our people from the depths
and…pour new life and vigor in the national
system. The reinvigoration of the national spirit
must take place in the grass roots, in every city,
town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must
start among our own people… To be a worthy
citizen of the world one must first prove himself
to be a good Filipino.”

–Carlos P. Romulo

Class, kindly read and analyze the

quotation and tell me your insights about
it.
(Students silently read and analyze the quotation.)
 What does it say about being a
worthy citizen of this world?
 How do you prove yourself as a
worthy Filipino? (Students’ answers may vary)

Today, we are going to discuss the story

entitled “Pliant like the Bamboo” by
I.V Mallari

B. Establishing a Purpose for the Lesson

Let us find out why we Filipinos are
considered pliant like the bamboo.

(The teacher posts the objectives on the

board.)

Today, you are expected to:

 Use ones schema to better

understand a text
 Categorize words or expressions
according to shades of meaning
 Identify the distinguishing features
of literature during the Period of
 Emergence
 Express ideas, opinions, feelings and
emotions during interviews, group/
panel discussions, forums/ fora,
debates, etc.
 Link sentences using logical
connectors that signal chronological
and logical sequence and summation

C. Presenting Examples/ Instances of the New Lesson

Class, before we discuss the story
“Pliant like the Bamboo”, I want you to
meet the author first.

Author’s Background

Ismael Villanueva Mallari

 He was one of the

early Filipino writers in English.
 He was primarily an essayist.
 He is ranked as the leading literary and
art critic in the Philippines.
 He wrote widely and covered a broad
range of subjects, his books were
usually published under the name I.V.
Mallari.

Unlocking of Difficulties:

Before reading, let us unlock the meaning of

each unfamiliar word through context clues
that we shall be encountering.
In column A- are the unfamiliar words used
in sentences and in column B are the
meanings of the unfamiliar words. Match
column A with column B. Is that clear,
class?
Yes, Ma’am.
May I have volunteers to read and answer it
to the class?
(Students volunteers to go to the blackboard and
match the column A and column B.)

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. It knew it was a. attack
not as robust as the 1. c
mango tree. 2. a
2. He knows that b. destruction of 3. d
he is not strong multitude 4. b
enough, to grasshoppers 5. f
withstand the 6. e
onslaught of 7. g
superior forces. c. strong 8. i
3. The Filipinos 9. h
embraced the 10. k
American way of d. unclear 11. j
life more readily 12. m
than the Spaniard’s 13. l
vague promises e. bestowed
hereafter.
4. Then the f. warm-
Japanese came like heartedness and
a storm, like a willingness to face
plague of locusts, danger
like a pestilence—
rude, relentless,
cruel.
5. The Filipino had
only hate and g. lazy
contempt for the
Japanese, but he
learned to smile
sweetly at them and
to thank them
graciously for their h. painful struggle
“benevolence and
magnanimity”.
6. For the Filipino
lives in a country
on which the gods
lavished their gifts
aplenty. i. calm and
7. The Filipino has peaceful
often been accused
of being indolent
and of lacking
initiative.
8. Like the bamboo
tree, he lets the
winds of chance j. change
and circumstance
blow all about him;
and he is
unperturbed and
serene.
9. And now he
himself loves to be k. excessively
lost in the throes admired
and modern
romance and
adventure.
10. Consequently,
in no other place in
Orient are women l. unusual
so respected, so
adulated, and so
pampered.
11. For his women
have enabled the m. unconquerable
Filipinos to look
upon the
 vicissitudes of
fortune as the n. majestic
bamboo tree
regards the angry
blasts of the
blustering wind.
12. There is no
insurmountable
barrier between
him and any of the
people who have
come to live with
him—Spanish,
American, and
Japanese.
13. In its grace, in
its ability to adjust
itself to the
peculiar and
inexplicable whims
of fate, the bamboo
tree is his
expressive and
symbolic national
tree, it will have to
be, not the molave
or the narra, but the
bamboo.

Good Job!

Class, the words that you have just unlocked

will be a great help for you to better
understand the story.

So here’s a question for you to ponder on.

Motive Question

How can you remain calm and

firm despite of the problems you
have encountered and the
problems you are going to
encounter?

This question will be answered after the

discussion of the story.

Do you understand, class?

Yes, Ma’am.
 D. Discussing New Concepts and Practicing New Skills # 1

Today, we are going to discuss a story

selection written by Ismael V. Mallari.
This story is dedicated to the Filipinos
who have managed to survive during the
invasion of the three countries – Spain,
America and Japan.

Let’s now get ready to read the story.

First reading: by the teacher

Second reading: by the students

Pliant like the Bamboo

by I.V Mallari

There is a story in Philippine folklore about a mango tree and a bamboo tree.
Not being able to agree as to which was the stronger of the two, they called
upon the wind to make the decision.

The wind blew hardest. The mango tree stood fast. It would not yield.
It knew it was strong and sturdy. It would not sway. It was too proud. It was
too sure of itself. But finally its root gave way, and it tumbled down.

The bamboo tree was wiser. It knew it was not as robust as the
mango tree. And so every time the wind blew, it bent its head gracefully. It
made loud protestations, but let the wind have its way. When finally the
wind got tired of blowing, the bamboo tree still stood in all its beauty and
grace.

(PAUSE)

If you will become one of the trees in the

story, who will you choose to be? Why?
(Student’s answers may vary)
 The Filipino is like the bamboo tree. He knows that he is not
strong enough, to withstand the onslaught of superior forces. And so
he yields. He bends his head gracefully with many loud protestations.

And he has survived. The Spaniards came and dominated him

for more than three hundred years. And, when the Spaniards left, the
Filipinos still stood—only much richer in experience and culture.

The Americans took place of the Spaniards. They used more

subtle means of winning over the Filipinos to their mode of living and
thinking. The Filipinos embraced the American way of life more
readily than the Spaniard’s vague promises hereafter.

Then the Japanese came like a storm, like a plague of locusts,

like a pestilence—rude, relentless, cruel. The Filipino learned to bow
his head low, to “cooperate” with (Student’s
the Japanese in their
answer may“holy mission
vary)
of establishing the Co-Prosperity Sphere.” The Filipino had only hate
and contempt for the Japanese, but he learned to smile sweetly at them
and to thank them graciously for their “benevolence and
magnanimity”.

And now that the Americans have come back and driven away
the Japanese, those Filipinos who profited most from cooperating with
the Japanese have been loudest in their protestations of innocence.
Everything is as if the Japanese had never been in the Philippines.

(PAUSE)

As a Filipino, will you consider yourself

like the bamboo? Why? Why not?
 (Student’s answers may vary)

For the Filipino would welcome any kind of life that the gods would
offer him. That is why he is contented and happy and at peace. The sad
plight of other people of the world is not his. To him, as to that ancient
Oriental poet, the past is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; but
today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and
tomorrow is a vision of hope.

This may give you the idea that the Filipino is a philosopher. Well
he is. He has not evolved a body of philosophical doctrines. Much less has
he put them down into a book, like Kant for example, or Santayana or
Confucius. But he does have a philosophical outlook on life.

He has a saying that life is like a wheel. Sometimes it is up,

sometimes it is down. The monsoon season comes, and he has to go
undercover. But then the sun comes out again. The flowers bloom, and the
birds sing in the trees. You cut off the branches of a tree, and, while the
marks of the bolo* are still upon it, it begins to shoot forth-new branches—
branches that are the promise of new color, new fragrance, and new life.

Everywhere about him is a lesson in patience and forbearance that he

does not have to learn with difficulty. For the Filipino lives in a country on
which the gods lavished their gifts aplenty. He does not have to worry about
the morrow. Tomorrow will be only another day—no winter of discontent.
Of he loses his possessions, there is the land and there is the sea, with all the
riches that one can desire. There is plenty to spar—for
(Student’s answerfriends, for neighbors
may vary)
and for everyone else.

No woner that the Filipino can afford to laugh. For the Filipino is
endowed with saving grace of humor. This humor is earthly as befits one
who has not indulged in deep contemplation. But it has enabled the Filipino
to shrug his shoulders in times of adversity and say to himself “Bahala na”*.

The Filipino has often been accused of being indolent and of lacking
initiative. And he has answered back* that no one can help being indolent
and lacking in initiative who lives under the torrid sun which saps the
vitality.

This seeming lack of vitality is, however, only one og his means of
survival. He does not allow the world to be too much with him. Like the
(PAUSE)

Do you agree with the writer’s description

of the Filipinos? Why? Why not?
(Student’s answers may vary)

The Filipino, in fact, has a way of escaping from the rigorous

problems of life. Most of his art is escapist in nature. His forefathers
wallowed in the *moro-moro, the awit, and the kurido. They loved to
identify themselves as gallant knights battling for the favors of fair ladies or
the possession of hallowed place. And now he himself loves to be lost in the
throes and modern romance and adventure.

His gallantry towards women—especially comely women—is a

manifestation of his romantic turn of mind. Consequently, in no other place
in Orient are women so respected, so adulated, and so pampered. For his
women have enabled the Filipinos to look upon the vicissitudes of fortune as
the bamboo tree regards the angry blasts of the blustering wind.

The Filipino is eminently suited to his romantic role. He is slender

and wiry. He is nimble and graceful in his movements, his voice is soft, and
h has the gift of language. In what other place in the world can you find a
people who can carry on a fluent conversation in at least *three languages?
(Student’s answer may vary)
This gift is another means by which the Filipino as managed to
survive. There is no insurmountable barrier between him and any of the
people who have come to live with him—Spanish, American, and Japanese.
The foreigners do not have learn his language. He easily manages to master
theirs.

Verily, the Filipino is like the bamboo tree. In its grace, in its ability
to adjust itself to the peculiar and inexplicable whims of fate, the bamboo
tree is his expressive and symbolic national tree, it will have to be, not the
molave or the narra, but the bamboo.

(PAUSE)

What specific Filipino characteristic are

you proud of? Why?
 (Student’s answers may vary)

E. Developing Mastery
 Class, what dominant characteristics of
the Filipinos are compared to those of a
bamboo?
The dominant characteristics of Filipinos
compared to those of a bamboo are: Flexible ( the
ability to bend without breaking) Filipinos can
adjust to changing situations may they be easy or
difficult. Filipinos can deal with different
personalities as well that's why they are in many
places of the world
 Who lived with the Filipinos?
The Spaniards, Americans and Japanese lived
with the Filipinos long time ago.
 What change did they bring to the
Filipino’s life?
(Student’s answers may vary)
 What did the Filipino do to face these
changes?
(Student’s answers may vary)
 What are the similarities between the
Filipinos and the bamboo?
(Student’s answers may vary)

F. Finding Practical Applications of Concepts

 What lesson did you learn from the
story?
Just from reading the inception of the story, I
have learned already the true meaning of
"humility" that was exemplified by the bamboo
tree. It tells us a lesson in life which is:

“Bend but don't break. Be flexible yet firmly

rooted.”
A bend-but-don't-break or go-with-the-natural-
flow attitude is one of the secrets for success.
Lastly, it is keeping their hopes alive not only in
their minds but also in their hearts.

G. Making Generalizations and Abstraction about the Lesson

Answering the Motive Question:

Going back to our question.

How can you remain calm and  There is this saying that life is like a
firm despite of the problems you wheel. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's
have encountered and the
problems you are going to
encounter?
 down. In this case, whenever we suffer,
even though the marks of pain are still
there, we’ll stand up as a sign of new life.
Everything around you is a lesson of
patience and forbearance since for us,
tomorrow will be another day-no winter
discontent and the problems that we are
going to encounter in the future will just
serve as a tool that will make us wiser and
more resilient.

Very good!

H. Evaluating Learning
Task:

Showing appreciation of the story through

Small Group Differentiated Activities
(SGDA)

Task Context:

The following activities will allow students

to relate the values learned and enhance
students’ understanding of the story
discussed in real life situations.

Task Instructions:

1. Go to your respective group.

2. Brainstorm with your group mates.
3. Do the assigned task for 15 minutes.
4. Present your output in front of the class.

Small Group Differentiated Activities

(SGDA)

Construct a two – stanza poem which is

related to the theme or symbol of the story
discussed.
Draw a poster that speaks about the totality
of the characteristics of a Filipino.

Compose a song with your own tune that

talks about how proud you are of being a
Filipino

Create a tableau which depicts the greatness

and humility of the Filipino people.

 Closure
Did you enjoy the discussion, class?
Yes, Ma’am!
That’s good to hear.

J. Additional Activities for Application or Remediation

Assignment:
Have an advance reading on our next topic.

V. REMARKS
VI. REFLECTION