Detailed Lesson Plan in English 9
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Learning objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
define argumentative text;
extract important information from argumentative text;
illustrate through a chart the pros and cons of a given problem; and
develop logical reasoning
Value Focus: Open-mindedness
II.
Learning Content
a. Topic: Argumentative Text
b. Reference: A Journey through Anglo – American Literature 9 page 237-239
c. Materials: Visual aids; PPT Presentation; Worksheets; Chart and Paper Strips
III.
Procedure
TEACHER’S ACTIVITY
A. PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES
1. GREETINGS
Good morning class!
How are you today?
Great! Are you ready for today’s topic?
Excellent!
2. REVIEW
3. MOTIVATION
Class, who can name the picture presented in the
slide?
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY
Good morning ma’am!
Fine ma’am
Yes ma’am
Cellphones ma’am
Very good! It’s a cellphone. Who among you here
have his or her cellphone?
(Student’s will raise their hands)
Ok, how important in your daily activities or school
activities the use of cellphones or technologies?
It makes work easier
(Solicit answer)
Try to imagine this class, there are no cellphones
or technologies nowadays, what will you feel?
Boring, Sad,
What do you think might happen to us and to our
daily activities?
(Solicit answers)
If you were to choose a machine that you want to
compare yourself, what would that be? Why?
(Solicit answers)
Very good!
So class before we discuss our topic for today let’s
read first a text entitled The Telephone by Edward
Field, but before that you are going to unlock
some unfamiliar words present from the text so
that you will understand clearly what the text is all
about.
Are you all ready?
Yes ma’am
Great! So bring out ¼ sheet of paper because this
will be an activity that will be recorded. Each item
will be equivalent to 5 points.
4. UNLOCKING OF DIFFICULTIES
Direction: Arranged the jumbled letters to
get the correct answer.
1. To become twisted together into a jumbled
mass, or make something become twisted into a
jumbled.
EGLANT
TANGLE
2. Conversation about the personal details of other
people's lives, whether rumor or fact, especially
when malicious
SSIPOG
GOSSIP
3. To die by being underwater too long and unable
to breath.
DORNWIGN
DROWNING
4. Full of shades and shadows, not clearly seen or
understood.
DSHAWOY
SHADOWY
5. To walk slowly in a free and relaxed way.
AMLBE
Did you enjoy your activity class?
5. READING PHASE
Model the reading of the poem “The Telephone”
by Edward field then after that ask the students to
read the poem for the second time
AMBLE
Yes ma’am
Task 1. Group the class into five to discuss the
message of the poem. Have each group discuss the
given part of the poem prompted by the guide
questions.
My happiness depends on an electric appliance.
And I do mind giving it so much credit.
Guide questions:
What is the predominant feeling of the speaker
in these lines? Why does he feel that way?
With life in the city being what it is
Each person separated friends
By a tangle of subways and buses
Guide question:
Why are friends disconnected?
Yes my phone is my joy
It tells me that I am in the world and wanted
It rings and I am alerted to ,love or gossip
I go comb my hair which begins to sparkle
Guide question:
How does the speaker justify his joy of having a
telephone?
Without it I was like a bear in a cave
Drowsing through a shadowy winter
It rings and spring has come
Guide questions:
a. To what did the speaker compare man’s
situation before the advent of the telephone?
b. What value do people give to the telephone
when he has the access to it?
I stretch and amble out into the sunshine
Hungry again as I pick up the receiver
For the human voice and the good news of friends
Guide question:
What does the speaker hunger for? Was he able
to connect to the world?
Is it clear now class?
The speaker is happy because he had those
machines that can satisfy his needs in life
Friends are being disconnected because they are
very busy in all their activities living in the city
With the use of telephones the speaker is alerted
and connected to chatters
He compared man’s situation to a bear in a cave
People value telephones as their device in linking
to the world
He is hunger for the human voice and the good
news of friends. Yes he was able to connect to the
world with the use of his phone
Yes ma’am
B. Development of the Lesson
1. PRESENTATION
Class, do you like arguing with your seatmates,
classmates, brothers and sisters when it comes to
technologies or machines?
Yes/No ma’am
What technologies or machines you usually argue
about?
Answers may vary
So, anyone from the group who can guess what is
our lesson for today?
Argumentative Text ma’am
Brilliant!
2. DISCUSSION
What is argumentative text?
Correct! It is intended to persuade and
convince the audience. And in Argumentative text
we have?
Argumentative Texts are intended to
persuade and convince the audience in
terms of communicative functions.
Pros and Cons ma’am
Very good!
Pros are an argument or consideration in favor of
something. Take note of the word “Favor”
Cons are an argument or opinion against
something. Remember the word “Against”
(The teacher will give her examples then after
giving her examples the students will do the
activity)
Task 1. From the hidden paper strips under your
chairs paste it if they belong to pros and cons.
Given Problem: Use of technology in school works
3. GENERALIZATION
Did we get across class?
What is an argumentative text again class?
(Student’s will do the activity)
Yes ma’am
Argumentative Texts are intended to persuade and
convince the audience in terms of communicative
functions.
It is the favorable and advantageous in an
argument?
How about the unfavorable, against and opposing
opinion or views?
Pros ma’am
Cons ma’am
Excellent!
From the given text class, can you give me the pros
or cons of it
(Student’s will answer)
C. Post Activities
1. APPLICATION
Group Activity
Divide the class into two (2). Let the group leader pick from the bowl if they will be the Group Pros or
Group Cons then after that the teacher will give the problem.
Problem: Use of tablets as textbooks
PROS
CONS
IV. EVALUATION
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY
Write five (5) pros and five (5) cons of “Bringing Mobile Phones to School”. (Worksheet)
V. ASSIGNMENT
In a one (1) whole sheet of paper. List five (5) advantages and five (5) disadvantages of the following
communication technology.
1. Computer/Laptop
2. E-mails
3. Voice mail
PREPARED BY:
SHERYL ANN T. DIONICIO
PRACTICE TEACHER CSU-LASAM