Date: October

Time: 8:00-9:00
Grade and Section: 7- Jeremiah

A Detailed Lesson Plan in Grade 7

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

a) Demonstrate an understanding of the literary text, A Night in the Hills, by providing sensible
responses to the questions raised;
b) Identify the elements of short story from the selection;
c) Discuss the elements of short story using the story grammar, and
d) get the significance of the story through group discussion.
II. Subject Matter

Topic: Literal and Figurative Language

References: English Learning Portals in Grade 7 page 105
Instructional Materials: Power point presentation, whiteboard marker, Laptop, Projector

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preliminary Activities

1. Prayer

 Let us pray first. May I invite everyone to

please stand for a prayer? May I ask Ashley Let us pray. (student’s prayer)
to lead us in prayer?

Thank you Ashley.

2. Greetings

 Good morning class! Good morning Ma’am Syrile!

3. Classroom Management
Before you take your seats. Kindly
check if there are any trash or pieces of
paper under your chair and please
arrange your chairs properly.

Yes, Ma’am!
4. Checking of Attendance

 Who is absent today?

(the student will tell who is absent)
5.Review
 Now, let us have a short review about
your topic last time.

Ma’am it’s all about phrase.

Do you still remember our previous lesson?
A phrase is group of words (within a sentence)
 Very good! And what is phrase? without both subject and verb.

Can you give all the types of phrases that we’ve

Noun phrase, Verb phrase, Prepositional phrase,
been discussed? Appositive phrase, Infinitive phrase, Participial
phrase, and Gerund phrase.

Exactly! Do you have any question or clarification

regarding our last topic? None, Ma’am

If none, then let us proceed to our lesson for today.

B. Motivation

Now class, before we proceed to our lesson.

I want you bring out ¼ sheet of paper and answer
this question. I will give 3 minutes to answer and
after that I will call 2 students to share their
answers.

(students will be going to answer and share)

Do you have a dream in life? what stopped you
from doing so?

Thank you for sharing your dream in life,

Let me give you some advice to help you as you
journey toward the achievement of your dreams.

Do not be afraid of failure.

Dream, but more importantly, act!
Take inspiration from those who motivate and
encourage you.

This time class, you are going to read a story that

the character has something to do with his dream in
life. The story is entitled “A Night in the Hill” by
Paz Marquez Benitez.

C. Vocabularies

Before moving on to the story let us first unblock

the difficult words that are present in the selection.

Read the following sentences and give the meaning

of the underlined words.

1. "Can I get you some more water?" Dennis

asked solicitously.
 a) Concerned
b) Angry
c) Happy
d) Hungry b. concerned

What is the answer?

2. The frail old woman obviously struggled in

crossing the road was assisted by the
MMDA officer.

a. Strong
a. Beautiful
b. Weak
c. Tall C. Weak

What is the answer?

3. The fastidious engineer made sure every

single detail of the blueprint has been
checked carefully before presenting it to his
client.

a. Kind
b. Handsome
c. Hardworking
d. Perfectionist e. Perfectionist

What is the answer?

4. It was ingenious of that young child to

create such a marvelous and outstanding
inventions at an early age.

a. Skillful
b. Responsible
c. Adorable
d. Fragrant e. Skillful

What is the answer?

5. The teacher was relieved that her new

advisory class consists of students who are
tractable and very responsible.

a. Noisy
b. Obedient
c. Passionate
d. Confident b. Obedient

What is the answer?

C. Lesson Proper

Let us now first the author in the story which

entitled “A Night in the Hill’’ by Paz Marquez-
Benitez

Who is Paz Marquez- Benitez?

  The first Filipino modern English-language
short story "Dead Stars"
 She was born on March 3, 1894 in Lucena
City, Quezon.
 She taught at the University of the
Philippines’ English department from 1916
to 1951, acquiring a reputation as an
outstanding teacher.
 She became an influential figure to many
Filipino writers in the English language,
Loreto Paras Sulit, Paz Latorena,
Bienvenido Santos, Manuel Arguilla.
 She married UP College of Education Dean
Francisco Benítez, with whom she had four
children.
 She died on November 10, 1983.

All right, you will be divided into five groups,

kindly form a circle. I will give a time to read the
story on pages 125- 133. You will be working as a
group to answer the following question in the story.

Guidelines questions:
1. What is the story all about?
2. What is Gerardo’s dream? What caused him
to have that particular desire?
3. Why is Gerardo’s wife not in favor in his
ambition?
4. What were his expectations about the
forest? Were those expectations met when
he finally experienced the way of life in the
forest?
5. How did he feel or react after spending
some time in the hills?
6. What were his realizations after awaking up
dawn in the forest?
7. What is the moral lesson in the story?
(explain)