Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Rizal
QUEEN MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Cardona, Rizal
A Detailed Lesson Plan in English Grade 10
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Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students are able to do the following with 75% level of
proficiency to:
a. Analyze the story “The Last Leaf” by using audio-visual skills;
b. Give emphasis to the values demonstrated in the story;
c. Relate the values of the story in real life situations.
Subject Matter
Topic: The Last Leaf by O. Henry
Reference: Celebrating Diversity through World Literature, page 377- 380
Materials: Laptop, projector, bond papers, photos, manila papers
Procedure
A. Preparatory Activities
- Prayer
- Classroom management
- Checking of attendance
Teacher’s Activity
Learner’s Activity
B. Lesson Proper
1. Activity
Before we start our discussion, we are going to have
an activity called “Match me”. Let’s have your
groupings first. This row is group 1, this is group 2,
group 3 and group 4. Choose your leader. Are you
ready to start?
Yes, we are.
Let the activity begins!
The task that you will do is simple. You need to
understand the instructions very well because I will
read and flash it on the TV once.
Instructions:
Pick the same leaves from basket. The big leaf
contains the puzzle and the small one contains the
name of the artist. In two minutes, you have to arrange
each picture and name and put it on the box that
contains the disease that they have battled and won.
Yes, Ma’am
Are you ready students?
(Students will do the activity)
Timer, starts now!
Okay times up. go back to your proper places. Let’s
see your answers. Everybody got it correct! Very nice
students.
Now, try looking at the name of the artists, can you
notice something?
Yes, that’s right. There are letters that are highlighted.
They are H, O, P and E. With those letters, what word
can you compose?
Fantastic! We can compose HOPE.
Now what is hope for you?
Some of the letters are highlighted.
HOPE, Ma’am.
It is a feeling of expectation and desire for a
certain thing to happen.
Parents, friends, special someone, God, etc.
Where do you usually seek hope?
Okay, that’s good. Later on, you will discover the
connection of this word and these people to our
discussion.
Do you know this person? This person is a noble one.
He isn’t my father nor my brother, not also anyone
else in the neighborhood. He is the author of the story
that we are going to watch later. Are you ready to
meet him?
Yes, ma’am.
(flashes the powerpoint)
Now you know who is the “O. Henry” that every
writer admires.
After meeting the author, let us unlock the difficulties
and answer the following for you to understand the
story better.
Give the meaning of the italicized words through the
use of context clues.
1. He touched Johnsy and she lay, scarcely
moving on her painted iron bed.
a. well moving b. hardly c. happily
B. Hardly
2. Mr. Behrman was a fierce, intense little man
who considered himself as a watchdog for the
two young artist living above him.
a. enemy b. suitor c. protector
C. Protector
3. “Are there people in the world who are foolish
enough to die simply because leaves fall from
an old vine? Why do you permit such silly
ideas to her?
a. wise b. serious c. senseless
C. Senseless
Anymore questions?
None, Ma’am.
2. Analysis
You will be watching the story “The Last Leaf” by O.
Henry. All you have to do is to watch and listen
carefully. Note the significant events in the story.
Is that clear?
Very Good!
(Video Presentation for about 11 minutes and 25 secs)
Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of
New York. Two young women named Sue and Johnsy
shared a studio apartment at the top of a three-story
building. Johnsy's real name was Joanna.
In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit the
city. This disease, pneumonia, killed many people.
Johnsy lay on her bed, scarcly moving. She looked
through the small window. She could see the side of
the brick house next to her building.
One morning, a doctor examined Johnsy and took her
temperature. Then he spoke with Sue in another room.
"She has one chance in -- let us say ten," he said. "And
that chance is for her to want to live. Your friend has
made up her mind that she is not going to get well.
Has she anything on her mind?"
"She -- she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples in Italy
someday," said Sue.
"Paint?" said the doctor. "Bosh! Has she anything on
her mind worth thinking twice -- a man for example?"
"A man?" said Sue. "Is a man worth -- but, no, doctor;
there is nothing of the kind."
"I will do all that science can do," said the doctor.
"But whenever my patient begins to count the
carriages at her funeral, I take away fifty percent from
the curative power of medicines."
After the doctor had gone, Sue went into the
workroom and cried. Then she went to Johnsy's room
with her drawing board, whistling ragtime.
Johnsy lay with her face toward the window. Sue
stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep. She began
making a pen and ink drawing for a story in a
magazine. Young artists must work their way to "Art"
Yes, ma’am.
by making pictures for magazine stories. Sue heard a
low sound, several times repeated. She went quickly
to the bedside.
Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out
the window and counting -- counting backward.
"Twelve," she said, and a little later "eleven"; and then
"ten" and "nine;" and then "eight" and "seven," almost
together.
Sue looked out the window. What was there to count?
There was only an empty yard and the blank side of
the house seven meters away. An old ivy vine, going
bad at the roots, climbed half way up the wall. The
cold breath of autumn had stricken leaves from the
plant until its branches, almost bare, hung on the
bricks.
"What is it, dear?" asked Sue.
"Six," said Johnsy, quietly. "They're falling faster
now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It
made my head hurt to count them. But now it's easy.
There goes another one. There are only five left now."
"Five what, dear?" asked Sue.
"Leaves. On the plant. When the last one falls I must
go, too. I've known that for three days. Didn't the
doctor tell you?"
"Oh, I never heard of such a thing," said Sue. "What
have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? And
you used to love that vine. Don't be silly. Why, the
doctor told me this morning that your chances for
getting well real soon were -- let's see exactly what he
said – he said the chances were ten to one! Try to eat
some soup now. And, let me go back to my drawing,
so I can sell it to the magazine and buy food and wine
for us."
"You needn't get any more wine," said Johnsy,
keeping her eyes fixed out the window. "There goes
another one. No, I don't want any soup. That leaves
just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets
dark. Then I'll go, too."
"Johnsy, dear," said Sue, "will you promise me to
keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window
until I am done working? I must hand those drawings
in by tomorrow."
"Tell me as soon as you have finished," said Johnsy,
closing her eyes and lying white and still as a fallen
statue. "I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of
waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my
hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just
like one of those poor, tired leaves. "Try to sleep,"
said Sue. "I must call Mister Behrman up to be my
model for my drawing of an old miner. Don't try to
move until I come back."
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground
floor of the apartment building. Behrman was a failure
in art. For years, he had always been planning to paint
a work of art, but had never yet begun it. He earned a
little money by serving as a model to artists who could
not pay for a professional model. He was a fierce,
little, old man who protected the two young women in
the studio apartment above him.
Sue found Behrman in his room. In one area was a
blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years
for the first line of paint. Sue told him about Johnsy
and how she feared that her friend would float away
like a leaf.
Old Behrman was angered at such an idea. "Are there
people in the world with the foolishness to die because
leaves drop off a vine? Why do you let that silly
business come in her brain?"
"She is very sick and weak," said Sue, "and the
disease has left her mind full of strange ideas."
"This is not any place in which one so good as Miss
Johnsy shall lie sick," yelled Behrman. "Someday I
will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away."
Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue
pulled the shade down to cover the window. She and
Behrman went into the other room. They looked out a
window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at
each other without speaking. A cold rain was falling,
mixed with snow. Behrman sat and posed as the
miner.
The next morning, Sue awoke after an hour's sleep.
She found Johnsy with wide-open eyes staring at the
covered window.
"Pull up the shade; I want to see," she ordered, quietly.
Sue obeyed.
After the beating rain and fierce wind that blew
through the night, there yet stood against the wall one
ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine. It was still
dark green at the center. But its edges were colored
with the yellow. It hung bravely from the branch about
seven meters above the ground.
"It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I thought it would
surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will
fall today and I shall die at the same time."
"Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her worn face down
toward the bed. "Think of me, if you won't think of
yourself. What would I do?"
But Johnsy did not answer.
The next morning, when it was light, Johnsy
demanded that the window shade be raised. The ivy
leaf was still there. Johnsy lay for a long time, looking
at it. And then she called to Sue, who was preparing
chicken soup.
"I've been a bad girl," said Johnsy. "Something has
made that last leaf stay there to show me how bad I
was. It is wrong to want to die. You may bring me a
little soup now."
An hour later she said: "Someday I hope to paint the
Bay of Naples."
Later in the day, the doctor came, and Sue talked to
him in the hallway.
"Even chances," said the doctor. "With good care,
you'll win. And now I must see another case I have in
your building. Behrman, his name is -- some kind of
an artist, I believe. Pneumonia,too. He is an old, weak
man and his case is severe. There is no hope for him;
but he goes to the hospital today to ease his pain.
The next day, the doctor said to Sue: "She's out of
danger. You won. Nutrition and care now -- that's all."
Later that day, Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay,
and put one arm around her.
"I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said.
"Mister Behrman died of pneumonia today in the
hospital. He was sick only two days. They found him
the morning of the first day in his room downstairs
helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were
completely wet and icy cold. They could not imagine
where he had been on such a terrible night.
And then they found a lantern, still lighted. And they
found a ladder that had been moved from its place.
And art supplies and a painting board with green and
yellow colors mixed on it.
And look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on
the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never moved when
the wind blew? Ah, darling, it is Behrman's
masterpiece – he painted it there the night that the last
leaf fell.
Do you understand the story?
Yes Ma’am.
3. Abstraction
If that so, let us all answers the questions.
1. Who are the main characters in the story?
Describe each character.
The main characters in the story are Johnsy and
Sue.
Sue is the friend of Johnsy who took care of
her.Johnsy is the girl who has a pneumonia and
admitted to herself that she will die if the last leaf
will fall on the ground.
2. What is Johnsy’s illness?
Johnsy’s illness is pneumonia.
3. How is pneumonia described in the story?
It is unseen stranger who attacks the people in
Greenwich Village in New York.
The doctor said that Johnsy is to weak to recover
4. What did the doctor tell Sue about the condition and she admitted to herself that she will die.
of Johnsy?
In the story, the ivy leaves are significant because
for Johnsy, they have become a measure of her
time on earth.
5. How did Mr. Behrman save Johnsy’s life?
When he saw that the last leaf fell off the ivy
vine, he had braved the cold rain and snow to
paint a replacement leaf on the vine.
Very good. It seems like you really understand the
story. Give yourselves a round of applause!
4. Application
Now, let’s put everything you have learned into an
action. We are going to use your groupings earlier.
The group one will be the singers, the group two will
be the event trackers, the group three as the artists, and
group four as the actors. The activity is simple, inside
the envelope are the materials and the instructions.
You will be given 10 minutes to do the activity.
Group 1 (The singers)
Think of a song that shows appreciation about
someone else’s kindness. Perform it in front of
the class.
Group 2 (Event trackers)
Arrange the following pictures that will show the
sequence of the events in the story. Paste it in the
cartolina.
Group 3 (Group 3)
Draw a visual representation of the reaction of
Johnsy when she found out that Mr. Behrman
painted the leaf outside, and died because of
pneumonia.
Group 4 (The actors)
Re-enact the last scene of the story when Johnsy
found out about everything.
Students, Ready?
Now.
Okay times up. Post your work at the board.
Group 1, discuss your work.
Very nice!
Group 2, your turn.
(Grouping and presenting of works)
Fantastic!
Group 3, explain your work.
Excellent!
Group 4, your turn.
Majestic!
Very good class! You did a great job! Give yourselves
a round of applause!
A. Generalization
1. So again class, who is the author of the
story?
2. What was his pen name?
3. In what date was O. Henry born?
4. What was his occupation?
Any question about the author?
William Sydney Porter
O. Henry
11 September 1862
American short story writer
None, Ma’am.
Johnsy, Sue and Mr. Behrman
5. And who are the characters in the story?
6. What is Johnsy’s ilness?
7. Did she recover from it?
8. How did Mr. Behrman die in the story?
9. Do you think he is happy sacrificing his life
for Johnsy?
B. Values Integration
Let’s go back to our main characters.Let us identify
our “Johnsy”, “Sue” and “Mr. Behrman” in our own
lives.
Very inspiring. That you very much for sharing your
thoughts.
Let me end this discussion with this quotations I found
from the net,
Pneumonia
Yes, ma’am.
He died because of pneumonia and his selfless
action, they found him in his room helpless with
pain and fever, his shoes were completely wet
and icy cold.
Yes, ma’am.
“Johnsy” is like me. Sometimes I tend to be a
stubborn kid and did not want to listen to other’s
advices. The pneumonia serves as the trials and
challenges we encounter in our life. “Sue” is like
my bestfriend. He/she never gives up in
reminding me that I can make it through, that
everything will be okay and fine in the end. And
lastly, Mr. Behrman are like my parents, who are
willing to sacrifice everything to make me feel
better.
IV.
V.
Evaluation
Directions: Write if the following statements show the character of SUE, JOHNSY
or MR. BEHRMAN.
______________ 1. A student who lost his will to study.
______________ 2. A teacher who sacrificed her time to make her student feel better.
______________ 3. A brother who supports you whatever happens.
______________ 4. A patient who doesn’t want to be medicated.
______________ 5. A mother who works abroad and suffer the pain of being
separated from her kids just to give then a better life.
Assignment
Write instances where you almost gave up but someone came to save you. State who
are they and what they have done to make you feel better. Write your answers inside
the leaves below.
Prepared by:
KIMBERLY B. SALVADOR
English Teacher