Basic Education Department

Junior High School

A.Y. 2022 – 2023
Grade 8 – English
Detailed Lesson Plan
January 03, 2023

I. Learning Competency
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to…
 EN8RC-IIA-2.18: Relate content or theme to previous experiences and
background knowledge.
II. Learning Targets
 I can relate content or theme to previous experiences and background
knowledge.by answering given questions.
 I can mark the text evidence for my claim/s and can explain my marked
text
 I can identify how an entertainment speech is form and deliver.

III. Values Integration

It ensures that students are able to glean specific and comprehensive
understanding even in difficult texts.

IV. Subject Matter

Topic: Close Reading
Resources:https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/
discipline/english/literacy/readingviewing/Pages/
teachingpracclose.aspx#:~:text=Snow%20and%20Connor
%20(2016)%20define,the%20reading%20of%20complex%20texts.
Materials: Microsoft Power Point Pres. and IM’s for the Motivational Activity

V. Review
1. What is our previous topic all about?
Answer: Features of Entertainment Speech
2. What are the four keys to deliver an effective Entertainment Speech?
Answer: Be prepared, be adaptive of the occasion, be adaptive of the
audience and be mindful of time.

VI. Motivation
Pick and Retell
Directions: Watch the story “The Two Pots” and pick a number. Each number has
a corresponding question based on the short story. Answer the questions correctly.

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 VII. Procedure

Teacher’s Hint Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preliminary Activities
I. Greetings Good morning St. Agatha

Let us bow our head and feel

the presence of our Almighty
God, as we pray.

“In the name of the Father, the

Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Amen.”
“In the name of the Father, the
Our Father Who art in Heaven, Son, and the Holy Spirit,
hallowed be Thy name. Thy Amen.”
kingdom come. Thy will be
Give us this day our daily
II. Prayer done on earth, as it is in
bread, and forgive us our
Heaven…
trespasses, as we forgive those
Amen. who trespass against us, and
lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil.
Hail to the Cross
Amen.
“In the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit, “Our only hope.”
Amen.”
“In the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Amen.”

Do we have absents today?

Class president kindly list
III. Checking of down the names of those President: Okay Ma’am.
Attendance absents, and give it to me after
our class. Thank you

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 Before we proceed to our new lesson,
let us have a short review with our
previous topic.

What is our previous topic all about?
B. Review Okay, Very good, thank you!
Student #1: Our previews topic
is all about Entertainment
Speech and the four keys to
deliver an effective
Entertainment Speech.

How about the four keys to deliver an

effective Entertainment Speech?
Student #2: The four keys to
deliver an effective
Entertainment Speech are to be
prepared. To be adaptive of the
occasion, to be adaptive of the
audience, and to be mindful of
time.

Okay, very good, thank you. I guessed

you are all ready for our new lesson,
but before that let us watched a short
story entitled “The Two Pots” after
watching we will have a short game
called “Pick and Retell” in which
you are going to pick a number with a
corresponding question each
regarding with the story you have (Students will pick a number
watched. on the box that the teacher
C. Motivation Link: provided.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4A8mJET0f78

Guide Questions:
1. Who are the main characters of
the story?
2. Where did the story happen?
3. What is the title of the story?
4. What are the two pots made of?
5. What is the moral of the story?

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 Actually, our short activity
D. Lesson Proper have something to do with our
new lesson, what do you think
it is? Student #1: I think it has
something to do with reading.

Yes it has something to do with

reading, as our game it
develops our reading
comprehension.

Let us know, what Close

Reading is, anyone who wants
to read. ( students will read the
I. Discussion presentation)
(Explanation)

Did you get it? Students: Yes Ma’am

Okay let’s move on to the
Steps For Close Reading,
everyone please read. ( students will read the
presentation)

(Explanation)

Do you have questions? Nothing Ma’am

Since, you do not have

question, let’s proceed for
Yes Ma’am
today’s activity.

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 Activity #14

“Confucius, Confucianism, Analects of

Confucius.”

Directions: Work with a partner and reflect

on the Analects of Confucius. Select two of
II. Activity
your favorite analects and answer questions
below as well as the questions
corresponding to your chosen analects.
Then do the “Values: Life Connection”
on page 68.

Refer to your ECAS 8 book on pages 66-68

Close Reading is an approach to teaching

comprehension that insists students extract
meaning from text by examining carefully
how language is used in the passage itself.

There are five steps for close reading which

are…

III. Generalization 1. Read the text and answer text related

questions.
2. Make a claim.
3. Mark the text that is evidence for a
claim.
4. Explain why/how marked text support a
claim.
5. Get a feedback on text evidence and
reason.

VIII. Closure
As a student, what do you think is the importance of learning Close Reading?

IX. Assignment
Read and analyze the story “The Madman on the Roof” by Kikuchi Kan. Refer
to your ECAS Book on pages 110-123, and answer the given questions.
1. What was the danger if Yoshitaro stayed too long on the roof? If you were Yoshitaro,
why would you enjoy being there?
2. Why dis Yoshitaro want to stay on the roof?

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 3. Was Kichiji convinced that Yoshitaro could be kept from climbing the roof? Why?
Why not? Use dialogues in the drama to answer the question.
4. What kind of spirit does Gisuke think is living inside his son? What happened when
Yoshitaro was young that caused him to believe this?
5. Differentiate Yoshitaro from Suejiro. Who made the contrast? Was it fair?
6. What was Tosaku’s main purpose for coming over? In your family, do you believe in
faith healers and the supernatural helping cure illnesses? Narrate your experience.
7. Who was Kompira? According to Yoshitaro, how did Kompira look like?
8. What was Kompira’s command according to the priestess? If you were the father and
mother, how would you have reacted to the order? Would you comply with it?
9. How did Gisuke view Yoshitaro, a blessing or a burden? How about Suejiro, how did
he view his brother? What did he plan to do with him?
10. What is the life connections you can make from the story you read?

Prepared by:
De Guzman, Janella T.
Checked by:
Ms. Ma. Carmela Lajum

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