Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region XIII - Caraga
Division of Butuan City
AGUSAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

A SEMI DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN GRADE 8 ENGLISH

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
a. identify the main points in the story of “A Legend”,
b. find information and express the main idea of the text; and
c. Describe the character in the story of “A Legend”.

II. SUBJECT MATTER: A Legend

III. Materials: Worksheet
IV. Reference:
V. Procedure:

A. Preparatory Activity

1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Review of the previous topic

B. Development Activities

1. Presentation
 Before the discussion the teacher will ask the students
some questions.

1. Who among you has travelled to Baguio with your family?

2. When you heard the name of the place “Baguio” what is
your visual?
3. For the young lady, how you feel if you were not good
looking?

2. Activity
 Before we start in reading comprehension the students will
have a spelling activity following the vocabulary activity.
Then, the students will be given each copy of the story “The
Legend” and they will read it.
3. Analysis

 The students will express their understanding from the story

that they have read by answering the questions of the
teacher.

1. What is the legend about?

2. Why did Bangan want to be a tree?
3. In what ways are pine trees useful?
4. What tree would you like to be? Why?
5. What other legends do you know about? Tell them to the
class.

4. Abstraction

What is the Legend?

 traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical

but unauthenticated.
 Set of stories from ancient times, or the stories, not always
true that people talk about a famous event or person.
 Today, we will read the legend. It is entitled “A legend”.
 We will read the story twice. After the story is told, you will
have a test.

“A Legend”

There once lived a girl named Bangan. She was good and
honest, gentle, and charming. She liked the company of
other people, and she enjoyed doing kind things for them.

Bangan’s skin, however, was rough. It was covered with

pimples and ringworms. As a result, no one liked to go near
her. She had to work all alone by herself, and, of course, no
man would court her. This made Bangan discontented and
unhappy. She was very much worried about her future.
What would happen to her in her old age if she had to live
alone all her life?

One day, Bangan was extremely lonely. She went to the

mountain to seek comfort in the company of trees and
flowers, birds, and animals. At least, they would not care
how unattractive she was. They would not avoid her
company.
 Bangan liked trees. She went from tree to tree, whispered
to their leaves, touched their bark. She noticed that their
barks or skins were rough just like her own. But that did not
make any difference to people. People liked trees just the
same because they were useful. Trees gave food, shelter,
firewood, and many other things.

This gave Bangan an idea. Perhaps, she could become a

tree and be useful to people. Then perhaps they would like
her better. And so, raising her eyes to heaven, Bangan
prayed.

“Oh Kabunian, my god, grant that I become a tree. I want to

be useful to people. I want people to like me. Only thus can I
be happy?”

Then she lay down in the warm sun. Soon she was fast
asleep. She smiled in her sleep as if she knew that she was
going to be happy at last.

The next morning, Bangan disappeared. In her place grew a

beautiful pine tree. Its bark was rough, but its leaves were
fragrant. They whispered and murmured in the wild all day.

The pine tree grew fast. It reached toward the sky like a
prayer. Soon it bore cones and when the cones opened, the
wind blew the light little and seeds far and wide.

Thus, as the years rolled on, the mountains became

covered with pine trees. The pine trees are still there. If you
go to Baguio, you will see them still standing there large and
beautiful. Their tops point to the sky. Their never- ending
murmur is Bangan’s murmur of contentment. She has at last
found happiness in the service of the people.

5. Application

 The students will apply their understanding from the

story that they read by answering the worksheet
given to them.

1. The story tells us _________.

a. Why Bangan had rough skin.
b. that prayers are answered.
c. how to be useful to people.
2. The story implies that Bangan had no ________.
a. Work
b. enemies
c. neighbors
d. neighbors

3. She found comfort in _____.

a. her friends
b. her gamily
c. neighbors
d. everything

4. People like trees because they are _____.

a. beautiful
b. useful
c. tall
d. shady

5. Bangan wanted people to ____.

a. serves her.
b. like her
c. thinks of her
d. helps her.

6. Bangan was very much worried about her _____.

a.appearance
b. work
c. future
d. skin

7. The detail which supports the idea that the pine tree was once ahuman being is:
____.
a. The leaves whispered and murmured in the wind.
b. The tree bore comes.
c. The pine tree grew fast.
d. Its bark was rough.

8. The detail which supports the idea that the pine tree was once Banganis ____.
a. the fragrance of its leaves.
b. the beauty of the tree.
c. its top pointing to the sky.
d. the roughness of its bark.

9. “She liked the company of people, and she enjoyed doing kind things for them.” This
sentence supports the idea that Bangan was_______.
a. lonely and worried.
 b. sociable and friendly
c. good and honest
d. gentle and charming

10. This story is a good example of _________.

a. an anecdote
b. a legend
c. a myth
d. a fairy tale

VI. Assignment

What tree would you like to be? Why? Write only five sentences in the ½ sheet of
paper.