Division of City Schools

ELPIDIO QUIRINO HIGH SCHOOL

Bacood, Sta. Mesa Manila

Learning Plan in Reading

Grade 8

I. Objectives
At the end of the period, the students should be able to:
 make inferences based on the character’s actions and words.
 take note of the salient points of the texts.
 compare values expressed in texts to one’s own values.
 reveal the temperament of the Burmese by accomplishing the Character Revelation
Chart.
 simulate or role play the scene in the story.
 guess the meaning of the underlined words through configuration clues.

II. Subject Matter:

Reading: “The Country’s Good Son” by Minn New Thein

Ref. English Time Magazine, p. 32-33

III. Procedure:
A. Daily Routine
1. Classroom Management
2. Opening Prayer
3. Checking of Attendance

B. Before Lesson
Learning Task 1: Background Knowledge (Facts about Burma’s Army)
Direction: Read the texts flashed on the screen and take note of the
Important / salient points.

Child
Soldier
 Burma has the largest number of
child soldiers in the world and the Human Rights Watch noted that
there is no way to precisely
number is growing. The
estimate the number of children in
overwhelming majority of Burma’s Burma's army, but it appears that
child soldier s are found in the the vast majority of new recruits
national army, Tamadaw Kyi, which are forcibly conscripted, and there
forcibly recruits children as young as may be as many as 70,000 soldiers
11, although armed opposition under the age of 18.
groups use child soldiers as well.
These children are subject to
beatings and systematic during
training.

"Burma's army preys on The International Labor A 2013 report in CNN stated
children, using threats, Organization convention that recruiters of Child Soldiers
intimidation and often on the worst forms of were still active and that
violence to force young boys child labor, adopted in according to analysis from risk
to become soldiers," said analysis company Maplecroft,
1999, also recognizes the
Becker. "To be a boy in Burma Myanmar still ranks number 8
today means facing the forced recruitment of on the global index, where its
constant risk of being picked children under age 18 for use of child soldiers is
up off the street, forced to use in armed conflict as considered “extreme.”
commit atrocities against one of the worst forms of
villagers, and never seeing child labor.
your family again."

Motivation:

Examine the pictures presented in powerpoint.

A B C

Motive Questions:
 Who are the people in the pictures?
 What role do they play in the our society?
 Who among them do you like best? Why?
C. During Lesson

1. Improving Vocabulary Skills:

Guess the meaning of the underlined words through
configuration clues.

a) “pay you ten Kyats and fifty pyas?”

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b) “who walked away, limping”

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d f c l t y

c) “he lifted the leg of his trouser.”

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d) “Lin Aung as inquisitive and asked them.”

u d l y

c r o u s

e) “filled with the desire.”

a r t n
2. Presentation of KWL Chart:
Before you read the selection, “The Country’s Good Son” by Minn New
Thein, each group is assigned to complete the first 2 columns of KWL chart.
On the first column, write the things you already know about the
Burmese soldiers and on the second column, write the things you want to know
after reading the selection (at least three to five questions).

KWL Chart

What I Know What I Want to Know What I’ve Learned

3. Reading of the text:

 Read the selection for five minutes.

4. Comprehension Check:

 Questions are written on strips of paper for the students to answer.

1. Who was Lin Aung? What did he do every weekend?

2. Why did the first soldier want to buy only the right side

slipper? Did Lin Aung approve of it? Why not?

3. How was the problem solved? Explain.

4. What is implied by the following underlined phrases?

a. You good sons of the country are the jewels of our

country.
b. I will try to be a good son of the country like you.
c. These drug addicts were a burden to the country.

5. Who were considered as the good sons in the story? Explain your

answer.
Ss5. Character Thinking Matrix

 Divide yourselves into three groups.

 Scan the short story and answer the CTM based on the questions.
Pick out lines from the story that show his actions.
 Then, infer the character’s traits.
 Post your output on the board for checking

-How does Traits

he/she act?

-What does he Traits

or she say?

-How does Traits

he/she feel?

2. Valuing

 What values are shown by the characters in the story?

 Compare the values of the characters in the text to one’s own
values.

3. Completion of KWL Chart:

 Complete the KWL Chart by filling in the last column. What are the
things you have learned from the selection? Are your questions being
answered?
 D. After Lesson
1. Accomplish the Character Revelation Chart by answering the given questions.

Character Revelation Chart

Which character do you like

best ? Why?

Which character experiences

personal change from the
beginning

How did the story reveal the

temperaments of the Burmese in
response to challenges of
modernity

Do you think the situation can be

applied to Filipinos, particularly
our soldiers?

2. Role Playing:
Simulate in class the situation where the members will pretend to be Lin
Aung while the others play or act out the roles of the two young soldiers.
IV. Assignment:

1. Write a reflection expressing your impression or opinion on child soldiers in Burma.

2. What are advertisements? Propaganda?
3. What are examples of advertisements?
4. What are the types of propaganda in advertising?
( Please refer to English Time pages 33-34)