Division of City Schools Manila

CLARO M. RECTO HIGH SCHOOL

2516 Legarda St. Sampaloc, Manila
S.Y. 2022-2023

TEACHING DEMONSTRATION
Lesson Plan in English 10
SY 2022 – 2023
May 24, 2023

I. OBJECTIVE:
A. Evaluate the literary text using Reader-response Approach.
B. Arrive at the meaning of the words through context clues.
C. Demonstrate understanding of the story through group presentations.

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

Short Story: BIRTHDAY PARTY – KATHARINE BRUSH
Reference: https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/The-Birthday-Party-Brush-
Katherine.pdf
Materials: Visual aids, Powerpoint presentation, Speaker

III. PROCEDURE:
A. Daily Routine
● Greeting
● Prayer
● Checking of Attendance

B. Vocabulary Development
Read the sentences carefully and determine the meaning of the underlined word. Choose your
answers from the given choices.
1. They sat on the banquette opposite us in a little narrow restaurant, having dinner.
A. couch B. party C. room
2. There was nothing conspicuous about them, nothing particularly noticeable.
A. stands out B. secret C. hidden
3. Instead, he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him.
A. sad B. happy C. angry

C. Motivation
● The teacher will show a video of someone being greeted/surprised for their birthday.

Guide Questions:
1. Who among you have experienced being greeted/surprised publicly?
2. What did you feel? Are you embarrassed? Surprised?
3. But at the end of the day, are you guys happy and thankful to the people/family who
surprised you? If yes, why? If not, why?

D. Discussion
● The teacher will discuss the story through a Story Map and Character Analysis.

● After analyzing the characters, the teacher will then proceed on asking the students their
reaction after reading the story.

Guide Questions:
1. What is the occasion?
2. In the third paragraph, what does the “small but glossy cake” symbolize?
3. Is the husband happy with the surprise?
4. If you were in the husband’s shoes, would you do the same actions? Would you also be
angry with your wife? Why?
5. Do you think the wife wanted to embarrass her husband? How can you say so?

Reflective Questions:
1. What did you learn about the Husband and the Wife in the story?
 2. If you were the bystander on the story, would you do the same thing? If not, what would
you do?

● (You may use this as your guide) If I was the bystander, I will …

(The teacher
will show a short
video before
explaining the group
activity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cR7EU_lFCY

E. Group Activity
● The class is divided into six groups. Afterwards, they will create either an interpretative
song, tableau, or symbol that empowers women in general.
● Their output, on the other hand, must promote and raise awareness on women’s rights.
A group representative is expected to present the output of their group.
● The rubric for the presentation is as follows:

Criteria Excellent (4-5) Great (2-3) Good (1)

Coordination All group members All group members Some group

participated with participated. members
confidence and participated.
excellence.

Creativity Showed excellent Showed great Showed good

creativity in the creativity in the creativity in the
group’s performance. group’s performance. group’s performance.

Overall The group's overall The group's overall The group's overall
Performance performance is performance is great. performance is good.
excellent.

IV. Assignment
Read, “The World is an Apple” by Alberto S. Florentino.
English Time pp. 48 – 53.

Birthday Party by Katharine Brush

They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married. They sat on the banquette
opposite us in a little narrow restaurant, having dinner. The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses
on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat.

There was nothing conspicuous about them, nothing particularly noticeable, until the end of their meal, when it
suddenly became obvious that this was an Occasion—in fact, the husband’s birthday, and the wife had
planned a little surprise for him.
It arrived, in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center. The
headwaiter brought it in and placed it before the husband, and meanwhile the violin-and-piano orchestra
played “Happy Birthday to You,” and the wife beamed with shy pride over her little surprise, and such few
people as there were in the restaurant tried to help out with a pattering of applause. It became clear at once
that help was needed, because the husband was not pleased.

Instead, he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him. You looked at him and you
saw this and you thought, “Oh, now, don’t be like that!” But he was like that, and as soon as the little cake had
been deposited on the table, and the orchestra had finished the birthday piece, and the general attention had
shifted from the man and the woman, I saw him say something to her under his breath—some punishing thing,
quick and curt and unkind. I couldn’t bear to look at the woman then, so I stared at my plate and waited for
quite a long time. Not long enough, though. She was still crying when I finally glanced over there again. Crying
quietly and heartbrokenly and hopelessly, all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat.