LESSON PLAN FOR CATCH-UP FRIDAYS

Subject: ENGLISH (Reading) Date: APRIL 19, 2024

Teacher: JOEL M. CABIGON Grade Level: Six

I. Objectives:
Note significant details in selection read.
Decode the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues
Infer character traits.
Answer specific questions about the story read.
Show enjoyment and appreciation in reading a story.

II. Subject Matter:

Noting significant details in selection read.
Inferring character traits.
Decoding the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues.
Story: The Swan’s Gift
by Brenda Seabrooke

Reading Intervention /
Reading Enhancement /

Materials: charts, PowerPoint presentation, printed copies of story

Reference/s:
ENGLISH FOR YOU AND ME, Reading Textbook Grade Six pp.69-74
Values Integration: Valuing animals’ lives.

III. Procedure:
A. PRE-READING
1. Motivation
The story is about the man’s hunting trips to find food was unsuccessful until one
cold night when he encounters a swan. Overcome by the bird’s beauty, he cannot kill it,
despite the fact that his family is starving. The swan rewarded him by dropping diamonds
from its wings, and the family prospers.

2. Unlocking of Difficulties (Through Context Clues)

Read the following sentences carefully. Choose the word inside the parentheses that
can best substitute the underlined word in the sentences. Write the answers in your
notebook.

1. They all went to the edge of the shore.

(gate, end, hall)
2. They found a plump woman waiting for all the guests.
(fat, fashionable, thin)
3. She told the story of the withered plants near the sea.
(blossomed, perfumed, wilted)
4. As they listened intently, their breath rasped in the freezing air.
(gasped, laughed, joined)
 5. The adults were scanning the newfound stones at the beach.
(rehearsing, cleaning, examining)
6. They scoffed at the woman who owned the stones.
(mocked, appealed, looked)
7. Then all of them were given venison for their lunch.
(sardines, fried fish, flesh of a deer)
8. The children enjoyed eating dumplings, too.
(boiled dough, boiled banana, boiled carrot)

3. Previewing
Based on the title of the story, “The Swan’s Gift”, What do you think is the story
about?

4. Raising of Motive questions

What would you like to find out in the story?
What was the swan’s gift?
What decision did Anton make that affected their family condition? Why?

B. DURING READING:
1. Reading Aloud

a. First reading is done by the teacher.

b. Second reading is done by the learners through choral reading.

2. Answering motive questions.

3. Comprehension Check -Up
1.Was Anton’s family well-to-do?
2.How did Anton earn a living?
3. What made Anton and his wife worry about their family’s food supply?
4. What decision did Anton make that affected their family condition? Why?
5. What kind of couple was Anton and his wife? Why?
6. Were their friends successful in looking for the swan? Why?
7. What was the swan’s gift?

C. POST READING:
A. Engagement Activities
Activity 1
The following events are taken from the story. Arrange these in order and put each
event in the chain graph. Write the answers in your notebook.
 1. Anton saw a beautiful swan and planned to kill it to bring home food for his family.
2. His family lived prosperously for they used the diamonds wisely.
3. Anton and Rubina had seven children and they lived at the edge of the forest.
4. He saw brilliant stones known as diamonds and took them all.
5. He decided not to kill the swan.
6. Anton went out and looked for food but unfortunately, he found none.
7. Winter came and there was no food for his family because of famine.
8. His friends asked about his secret and searched for the swan but failed.

Activity 2
Read these questions carefully. Write Yes if the answer is yes, if No, copy the word that
makes it wrong. Write the answers in your notebook.

1. Is Anton a good father and husband?

2. Did he work in the farm?
3. Was it spring when famine came?
4. Was his wife’s name Rowena?
5. Did they have six children?
6. Did the swan help Anton by giving him diamonds?
7. Did Anton share his diamonds with his neighbors?
8. Did his wife believe in Anton’s story about the diamonds?
9. Can this story be true?
10. Did the family end up rich?

Activity 3
A. Write a paragraph describing Anton as a father. Do you admire him for being a
good father? Why? Do this on a clean sheet of paper.

B. What lesson have you learned from the story? Write a paragraph about it.

IV. Collect all the outputs for progress monitoring of the learners.

Prepared by:

JOEL M. CABIGON
Teacher I Checked by:

MA. THERESA T. GERVACIO

Master Teacher I
Noted:

LEONORA M. PANTORGO PhD

Principal IV
 The Swan’s Gift
by Brenda Seabrooke

Anton was a farmer who live with his wife, Rubina and their seven children at the edge of the forest. He worked hard and
they were happy for many years. Then one spring, the rains didn’t fall and Anton’s wheat died in the fields.
As winter came, their food supply grew smaller and smaller.
Soon, Anton’s shoulders were stooped with worry. Rubina’s plump apple cheeks withered. The children no longer sang or
laughed or danced. For they were too hungry.
Every day, Anton went out to look for game but returned without firing a shot. And every day, Rubina added water to the
onion soup until there was nothing in the pot but water. When Anton saw his family crying from hunger, he wanted to cry too. But
instead, he took his gun and went out again into the cold, cold night.
He had to find something for them to eat, a bird or a rabbit. But the black branches were empty of birds and no rabbits
crouched in the frozen scrub. The only tracks Anton saw were his own.
He came to a small and knew it was the last one he would be able to climb before his strength was gone. His feet were
numb, and his breath rasped in the freezing air. At the top of the rise, he stopped to rest, scanning the snow for animal tracks.
In despair, Anton turned to go. Just then, he saw below him a lake that had not yet frozen over. Its edge was laced with
ice and its center floated a swan of such dazzling beauty that Anton could not look away. Its stark white feathers gleamed against
the dark water and as Anton watched, the swan seemed to grow larger until its image filled his eyes.
Suddenly, the juices flowed in Anton’s mouth. He could taste the succulent roasted swan and see his children’s faces
glowing as his family sat at the table eating again. He raised his gun and sighted down the long barrel.
Anton put his finger on the trigger. The swan seemed to be looking at him, listening for the shot that would kill it.
He lowered the gun. The swan the most beautiful creature Anton had ever seen. As he watched, the swan fanned its
magnificent wings in a way that seemed to embrace the night. Anton closed his eyes and thought of his family. Again, he raised
the gun.
Hours seemed to pass. The feathers on the swan’s breast moved gently with each beat of his heart, and Anton could feel
his own heart beating. He lifted his heavy wet feet, walked a few steps’, and then dropped to his knees.
“I can’t do it,” he said.
“Why not?” asked a voice as soft as snow or feathers ruffling in a gentle wind.
“I cannot kill beauty. If I kill this swan, my family will have food for one or two meals. And then what? We will be hungry
again and it will have been for nothing.”
Anton was too tired to be surprised that he was speaking to the swan or the wind or the night. He was too tired to walk
back home. He bowed his head with sadness for his family.
With a cry, the swan lifted its wings, rose from the lake, and circled over Anton, water dropping from its wing feathers. As
the water hit the snow it froze into crystals that sparkled in the moonlight. Anton reached out and touched one. It was hard,
harder than ice, and did not melt in the warmth of his hand.
“A diamond!” Anton said.
Quickly, he scooped up the diamonds that lay in a glittering circle around him. He filled his pockets with them and set off
through the snow to a nearby village.
Anton was no longer tired. He no longer felt the cold. He woke up the innkeeper calling, “I need food.”
“Your crops failed,” said the innkeeper. Everyone knows you have no money.”
“I have a diamond,” said Anton.
“Where would the likes you get a diamond?” the man scoffed.
“Let me in and I will explain.”
The innkeeper fed Anton cold venison and sweet dumplings while Anton told his story and the innkeeper’s wife packed a
sledge for him with roast chickens and cheese and onions and turnips. Then they sent Anton on his way so that they could begin
looking for the magic swan themselves.
Rubina met him at the door. “Did you find any game? Mischa has fainted.”
“No. But look what I have brought.” Anton showed her the sledge.
“But how did you get it?” she asked.
For answer, he spilled the diamonds on the table.
“Oh,” cried Rubina, “You have turned to rubbery!”
“No,” said Anton. And he told her all about the swan, and how it had circled him with diamonds falling from its wings.
Anton and Rubina woke the children even though it was the middle of the night, and they all sat at the table eating
slowly, enjoying the flavor of the food and the wonderful feeling in their stomachs. Rubina’s black eyes sparkled as she filled her
children’s bowls. Anton felt his strength returning. Several of the children hummed as they were put to bed.
Anton and Rubina and their children prospered, for they used their diamonds wisely and well. News of the magic swan
spread throughout the land and many people searched for it. But the swan was never found.
Sometimes, when Anton was alone in the forest, the image of the swan rose before him. He saw again the gleam of its
feathers, the coral glow of its beak, and the magnificent reach of its wings as it glided silently across the sky.