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ENGLISH 9
3rd QUARTER
WEEK 1
I. TITLE
LESSON 9: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBERS: DECISIONS AND CONNECTIONS
II. OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
 Analyze a play as a means of understanding unchanging values in a changing world.
 Explain how the elements specific to full-length plays build the theme.
 Relate text content to particular social issues, concerns, or dispositions in real life.
III. ANTICIPATORY GUIDE
Considered an innovation of theatrical form and an influential member of the “little theater” movement in
the United States, Alice Gerstenberg was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 2, 1885, and the daughter of
Julia and Erich, wealthy socialities.
She attended Bryn Mawr, a college which provided quality education for many high society women.
Gerstenberg studied theater in New York, where she composed her first full-length play, The Conscience of
Sarah Platt.
In 1922, she founded the Playwright’s Theater which she ran until 1945. In 1938, she received the
Chicago Foundation Award for Literature.
IV. LESSON CONTENT
Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the
Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays.The San
Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments". Arthur Maitland's
company had just moved into a new 200-seat theater from its previous incarnation as the St. Francis Little Theatre
Club in the Colonial Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel. For more details about the play read pages 296-307.
After reading the given texts, please answer the following:
1. As you read the title and reflect on it, what might be the meaning of “Fourteen”?
2. What ideas and feelings are you learning about Dunham and Elaine?
3. What is interesting about the number fourteen?
4. From what social classes do the guests belong?
5. What economic status does Farmsworth have?
V. ASSESMENT/EVALUATION
A. Write what you have read to complete each of the unfinished sentences.
1. Mr. Harper sent flowers for Mrs. Pringle because ______________________________.
2. As a hostess, Mrs. Pringle thinks that she is ____________________________________.
3. Mrs. Pringle wanted to sit Elaine next to Oliver Farnsworth because ______________.
4. The theme of this play is ______________________________________________________.
5. The play is titled “Fourteen” because __________________________________________.
B. Go over the play again and choose the part you think is the best or your favorite. Then, write your
reasons for choosing that part. Also, explain your reactions to the experiences and actions of the
characters.
VI. ASSIGNMENT
Reread the play and reflect on it, identify the parts that show or prove that “people can change their ways
depending on the motivation and determination of people”.

Prepared by
MARIEDEN T. RIMANDO
JOCHELLE C. FERNANDEZ
(Subject Teachers)