Lesson Plan for Grade 8 English (4A’s)

I. Objective: Learning Outcomes

At the end of this lesson, the students must able to:

a) Determine various social, moral, and economic issues discussed

in the text;

b) Demonstrate empathy for the characters;

c) Realize the value of being honest.

Subject Matter

Topic: Determining various social, moral and economic issues discussed

in the text listened to
A short story fiction/Work of realism: The Necklace by Guy de
Maupassant
Source: Audio Summary and Printed Text from The Necklace Summary
(vedantu.com)
Materials: Books, Papers, Pencils, Personal Computers (MS word),
Worksheets, and Pictures.

II. Procedure

A. Preliminaries

Prayer: "Dear Jesus, Please show me how to spend this day

Sharing your love in every way

Help me to be kind to everyone

To play and laugh and have lots of fun

 Shining your light and giving your grace

Sharing your joy with the smile on your face!

Amen !"

Checking of Attendance: "Say present when your name is called."

B. Reminders/ Giving of instruction: "Sit properly."

"Listen attentively."

"Participate actively."

"Raise your hand if you want to say to answer

or say something."

C. Lesson Proper

Teacher's Activity Student's Activity

A. Warm Up Exercise/ Motivational

Activity

"The Mystery Matchy Box"

A. The teacher will group the students

into 3.

B. The teacher will ask the students to

pick a paper from the box that contains
a pair of words.

C. Then the students will match the

pair of words on the board if it is a
social, moral, or economic issue.
B. "Peer to Pair"

A. The teacher will instruct the

students to work on pairs.

B. Based from the grouping in Activity

1, the pair of words they got are their
assigned word pair task.

C. The student will work on pair to

discuss their initial knowledge with
regard to the social, moral, and
economic issue assigned to them.

C. Analysis

1. What did you feel doing the "I'm happy to cooperate with my
group activity? Did the partner, teacher"
activity gives you knowledge
"Yes teacher"
of what to include on your
next activity?

2. What various social, moral, The various social, moral, and

and economic issues have economic issues I have learned are
you learned?
Social Issue: Hunger and Poverty
Moral Issue: Violence against children
Economic Issue: Our fellowmen living in
Luzon suffered from the flood caused
by Typhoon Maring.

D. Application

Using your knowledge about the

issues from the activity, we will read a
short story entitled "The Necklace"

After reading the story, the he teacher

will ask the students to be able to
determine the various social, moral,
and economic issues discussed in the
text.

"Greedy and being not contended

What social issues was present on the
teacher"
story?
"People is defined through outward
How about the moral issue found in the
appearance"
story?
"Her husband tries to cheer her up by
What about the economic issue in the
getting an invite to a fancy party She
story?
feels fancy and fits in with her
necklace. After she loses it, she
becomes even more poor trying to pay
off her debt, when it isn't even real."

Critiquing

1. Based from the story, will you

demonstrate empathy for the
characters? Why or Why not?

Generalization "Honesty is the best Policy"

1. What did you learn about the "Honesty is very important"

 discussion today ?

"Yes" "Greediness, Dishonesty, and

Pretentious"
2. Were you able to determine
the various social, moral, and
economic issue discussed in
the text? What are those?

Evaluation

1. What are the 3 various issues

depicted from the text?

2. How did Mathilde Loisel's

experiences in "The Necklace" make
you feel, and what emotions did her
character evoke in you?

3. Putting yourself in Mathilde's

shoes, how would you navigate the
challenges she faced?
4. If you were Mathilde, will you be
honest about losing the necklace or
do the same as what Mathilde done?
Why or Why do you say so?
5. What is the importance of being
honest?

Assignment:

Write 1 paragraph about the

importance of being honest.