LESSON PLAN

LESSON # 2
Subject: English Literature
Grade: 9
Topic: The Pearl
Sub-Topic: Chapter 1
Date: September 10-11, 2013
Duration: 45 minutes
 
Goals: Students should be able to:

Be sensitized to the events in the chapter

Objectives: Students should be able to:

1. Define selected terms

2. Read and discuss the various events in the chapter

3. Create a comic strip showing the events in the chapter

Materials: John Steinbeck- The Pearl

Content: Novella- A novella is a written fictional prose narrative that is normally longer than a short story,
but shorter than a novel.
A novella has fewer conflicts than a novel. However, the conflict that is presented in a novella is
often more complicated than that of an ordinary novel.

Prologue- this is an introduction or preface to the novel. It provides the reader with clues or
details about the events that may occur in the story.

Symbol: something that represents something else.

A parable is a story with a moral. This moral often teaches us an important lesson.

Characters: a character is an individual who plays a role in a story. The character often
contributes to the development of the plot.
Method: Students will review the key facts about the author. These include:
 The name of the text
Introduction
 The name of the author
(7 minutes)
 The publication date of the text

 Setting

 Narrator (there is no narrator because this story is told from a third person point of view)

Method The teacher will review the structure of the text (the novel is a novella) with the students.
Students will compare the structure of the novella with previous texts they have read.
(40 minutes) The students will then be guided to reading the prologue. The students will be given the
definition for the term prologue.
Following this, the students will discuss the details that are provided in the prologue.
The students will also identify the words that are used in a symbolic way ‘there are only black
and white things’.
The students will then read and discuss extracts from chapter one. Students will identify the
characters in chapter one and draw Kino’s family tree based on these characters.
Students will then examine Kino’s socio- economic situation and the events leading to and after
Coyotito was stung by the scorpion.
Home work: Based on chapter 1 of the novel, The Pearl, create a comic strip showing the major events in the
chapter.
Evaluation
 Subject: English B
Grade: 9
Topic: Introduction to The Pearl
Date: September 9-11 & 14-18, 2015
Duration: 120 minutes
Goals: Students should be able to:

Be sensitized to the events in the chapter

Objectives: Students should be able to:

1. Define selected terms

2. Read and discuss the various events in the chapter

3. Participate in the discussion of the events on pages 1-4 of chapter 1.

4. Describe the setting of the story.

5. Identify character traits of Kino and Juana.

6. Provide evidence to show that Kino’s family is poor.

7. Discuss Juana’s religious conviction based on her reference to Hail Mary and her magic
prayers.

Materials: The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Content: Novella- A novella is a written fictional prose narrative that is normally longer than a short story,
but shorter than a novel. A novella has fewer conflicts than a novel. However, the conflict that is
presented in a novella is often more complicated than that of an ordinary novel.

Prologue- this is an introduction or preface to the novel. It provides the reader with clues or
details about the events that may occur in the story.

Symbol: something that represents something else.

A parable is a story with a moral. This moral often teaches us an important lesson.

Characters: a character is an individual who plays a role in a story. The character often
 contributes to the development of the plot.

OVERVIEW

The first four pages of chapter 1 introduce us to Kino and his family. Kino and Juana are of the
Indian race. They are poor people. Evidence of this is highlighted at the beginning – they live in
the village, they live in a brush house and even the very setting of the chapter. Kino enjoys
nature; everything he sees, hears, thinks become a song. They (Kino and Juana) are very
superstitious. Evidence of this is that they believe that animals represent evil. Juana is also of a
religious background as in her prayer, she makes reference to Hail Mary. She even whispered her
magic prayer.

Method:
Students will review the key facts about the author. These include:
Introduction  The name of the text

(10 minutes)  The name of the author

 The publication date of the text

 Setting

 Narrator (there is no narrator because this story is told from a third person point of view)

Development: The teacher will review the structure of the text (the novel is a novella) with the students.
Students will compare the structure of the novella with previous texts they have read.
(90 minutes)
The students will then be guided to reading the prologue. The students will be given the
definition for the term prologue. Following this, the students will discuss the details that are
provided in the prologue.

The students will also identify the words that are used in a symbolic way ‘there are only black
and white things’.

The students will then read and discuss extracts from chapter one. Students will identify the
characters in chapter one and draw Kino’s family tree based on these characters.

Students will then examine Kino’s socio- economic situation and the events leading to and after
Coyotito was stung by the scorpion.

Week 2
 The teacher will ask students to highlight some of the negative effects of being poor. Students
will be encouraged to relate their individual experiences as well as the experiences of others.

 Students will participate in the discussion based on pages 1-4 of chapter 1 of the novel as
the students would have already read the chapter for home work.
 The teacher will ask the students to give descriptions of the economic status of Kino’s
family based on what they have read in the first four pages of chapter 1.
 Identify and discussion character traits of Kino and Juana.
 Compare Juana and Kino’s religious views.
 Say what accounts for the differences.

Class Work: Week 2

 Describe the setting of the novel and give descriptions of Kino and Juana.
(20 minutes)
Or
 When Juana saw the scorpion she repeated an old magic and said a Hail Mary. In one
paragraph, say what Juana’s action tells you about her religious convictions.

Home Work Week 1

 Read chapter 1
Week 2
 Draw a picture of Kino’s hut based on the descriptions given.
 Draw a picture of the scorpion crawling down Coyotito’s hanging box.