Republic of the Philippines

SANTA RITA COLLEGE OF PAMPANGA

San Jose, Santa Rita, Pampanga

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
METHODS OF TEACHING

A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN GRADE 12

Creative Writing

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
A. Distinguish the elements of a short story
B. Discuss the importance of friendship and sacrifices
C. Perform the activities prepared by the teacher
Values Integrated: Cooperation, collaboration, valuing the life at present, friendship and care
II. Subject Matter
A. Topic: Elements of a Short Story (The Last Leaf by O. Henry as the Springboard)
B. Reference: Celebrating Diversity through World Literature Learner’s Module pp. 377 to 380
C. Materials Used: Cut Outs, Slide Deck Presentation, Projector, White/Green Board and Chalk
III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preliminary Activities
I. Prayer and greeting the class
Good afternoon class!
Good afternoon ma’am!

How’s your day today?

We are all fine! How about you?

I’m so fine and delighted that I was able to

meet you this afternoon!

Please greet your seatmates, a blessed A blessed afternoon and you look so nice

afternoon and you look so nice today. today!

Rachelle can you please lead the prayer.

.

II. Checking of Attendance Sure ma’am. (Opening prayer)

Is there any absent?

None ma’am.
III. Energizer
Okay class let’s have first an energizer to
boost our energy! (Head, Shoulders, Knees
and Toes)
Yes ma’am!
IV. Reminders or rules
Class please pick up all the pieces of dirt
below and arrange your chairs properly.
Listen carefully to our discussion because
our lesson will be part of your monthly Yes ma’am!

assessment.

B. Motivation
Before we start our interesting lesson for
today, I want the class to participate in our
opening activity “Guessing Game”.
I will present different pictures from my slide
decks and afterwards, you are going to
answer my questions regarding the pictures
presented. Just raise your hands if you want Yes Ma’am!
to answer and you will only have five
seconds to answer. Is that clear?

Okay class let’s start with the first picture,

guess the title of the movie!
Goyo ang Batang Heneral

Yes, Carlos. What is the title?

Very good! Okay, next picture. Guess the Cardo Dalisay!

main character of the television drama, Ang

Probinsyano. Yes, Regie?

Hongkong!
Okay, correct! Next picture. Where did the
movie, Hello, Love, Goodbye take place?
Can you answer it, Rachelle?

Okay very good Rachelle! Next picture. What Ghosts!

is the main problem of Kris Aquino in the
movie Feng Shui? Can we have Erika?

Let’s have the last picture. What is the main Love for Family!

subject or theme of the movie Tanging

Yaman? can we have Mary Grace to
answer?
Students will express their ideas
(Answers will vary)
Okay great job everyone! So now, based on
 the given pictures, what do you think is our
lesson for today?

Before we proceed to our discussion proper,

I will let you know what our learning
objectives or targets for this day.
(Presentation of targets)
(First objective) I can distinguish the
elements of a short story.
Rossel, can you please read the first
statement in our learning objectives?
(Second objective) I can discuss the
importance of friendship and sacrifices
Rency, can you please read the second
statement in our learning objectives?
(Third objective) I can perform the
exercises given by my teacher.

Jonah, can you please state the third

statement in our learning objectives?

Unlocking Difficulties Yes Ma’am!

Let us have first the vocabulary terms that
we will be encountering on our listening text.

Identify the synonym of the underlined term

from the given choices inside the box.
 Triumph
 Seldom
 Inspector
 Favorable
 Board with hole Barely

“Her voice is so low, I can scarcely hear what

she is saying,”

Very good! Let’s proceed to the next Inspector

number. Yes ___________?

“He was a fierce man who considered

himself as a watchdog and protector for the
two young artists living above him.
Triumph

Very good! Next ___________?

“Her painting was immediately recognized as

 a masterpiece.”

Favorable
Very good! Next ___________?

“The disease is mowing down many

members in this struggling but auspicious
society.”
Board with hole
Very good! Last __________?

“Mr. Behrman died because of pneumonia

and the medics had found a burning lamp, a
ladder and a palette.”

Brilliant!

Ma’am, He could scarcely control his joy.

Since, you are all familiar with these words. I
want you to construct your own sentence
using those words.

Yes Regine? Ma’am, When my mother is sick I am a

watchdog to her.
Very good! Another?

Yes Mary Grace? Ma’am, I made my own masterpiece. I

draw a picture of my mother.
Nice! Next?

Yes Ruel? Ma’am, O. Henry’s novel acclaimed an

auspicious debut.
Brilliant! What kind of masterpiece?

Ma’am, I have an eye shadow that has

Next? Yes Janelle? eight palettes

Great! Another?

Yes Princes?
The students will be having their own
copies of the story “The Last Leaf”

C. Presentation or Discussion
(Reading Activity) Yes ma’am!

Class, I will read the story of the Last Leaf by

O. Henry. (The teacher will do creative
reading of the story the Last Leaf by O.
Henry)
Are you ready to listen?

This beautifully inspirational tale

deals with unselfish sacrifice - how one
man was prepared to sacrifice his own
well-being and used his talent to save the
life of another.

There were two artists, named

Johnsy and Sue who live in different
places and met at New York for a living.
They share an apartment in an artists'
community which was invaded by a
malicious disease which is pneumonia
that spreads its deadly influence, mowing
down many members in this struggling but
auspicious society. Johnsy was infected
and became weak and soon gives up
hope for survival, she said “I’m getting
weaker and weaker, I must go now.” As
she looked at the window in their room
and saw the leaves of the vine falling, she
realized something and said, “When the
last leaf of that vine falls, I must go too.”
Her friend Sue was a bit annoyed
because of what Johnsy said, “No! Are
you out of your mind? Why would you rely
on the leaves on that vine?”

The next day, the physician informs

Sue about Johnsy's chance for survival is
limited unless she has something to hope
for. “Sue, if you can do your best, you
encourage your friend to do what she
wanted.” the doctor said. And Sue
answered, “She wanted to paint the Bay
of Naples.” That day, Sue decided to
inform Mr. Behrman, an old fellow artist,
who lives at the first floor of the building,
about the condition of Johnsy, “Mr.
Berhman! Mr. Berhman!”. “Oh Sue! What
brings you here?” the old man answered.
“Johnsy is getting weaker and weaker and
she said that as the last leaf on the vine
falls she will also die.” Sue explained. “Oh
that girl, why would she like to die at her
young agree?”

That night, a strong storm came.

The next morning, Johnsy sees the last
remaining leaf was still clinging to its life.
Johnsy started to have hope and ask Sue
to prepare her soup she will watch her
while cooking. “Oh! The last leaf survived!
I think it has a purpose! From now on, I
will be strong just like that leaf! From what
she saw, she decided to continue living
and there must be a reason that the leaf
has refused to die, and it is a sin to want
to die. Johnsy recovers from her illness
 little by little

One day, “Oh my Dear Lord! I have

something important to tell you!” Sue said
in a shocked manner. “Mr. Berhman died
because of pneumonia, and the medics
had found a burning lamp, a ladder and
a palette containing a mixture of colours
similar to that of a leaf, next to his
completely wet, collapsed body. He had
contracted pneumonia and expired due to
his frail condition.”

It becomes pertinently clear that Mr

Yes ma’am!
Behrman had finally painted his long-
promised masterpiece - the leaf which
saved Johnsy's life, sacrificing his in the
process.

Do you understand the story?

“The Last Leaf”?

Comprehension Check: Ma’am, the illness of Johnsy pneumonia.

Now let’s have the guide questions for

our story “The Last Leaf”

What is the illness of Johnsy? Ma’am, because of her condition, she has
fever and she was physically weak.

Very good!

What do you think is the reason why

Johnsy was infected by a pneumonia? Ma’am, because she believe that as the
last leaf will fall. She has nothing to hold on to.

Brilliant!

What do you think is the reason why Ma’am, when she saw that the last leaf
Johnsy considered her death as the last didn’t fall even though there’s a strong storm
leaf will fall? that came in the place.

Very good!
Ma’am, he painted the last leaf on the wall
What helps Johnsy to recover?
where the vine crawled.

Great!
We have learned about bout the power of
What did Mr. Behrman do to make friendship, hope, love, and care. And you can
Johnsy healed? sacrifice everything if you are a true friend.

Very good class!

 What lesson have you learned from the
story, “The Last Leaf”?

Now, in understanding a short story

better, we have elements that will guide
us to make it comprehensive and clear.
Let’s now have the different elements of
a short story.
Yes ma’am!

Elements of a Short Story:

Where stories do came from?
Storytelling is a basic human activity.
Characters – These are the actors.
Yes ma’am!
Types of Characters
Did you understand what a character is?
Setting: The place or time of action in the
story.
Yes ma’am!
Did you understand what a setting is?
Plot – Sequence of events.
Freytag Pyramid: Exposition, Rising Action, Yes ma’am!
Climax, Falling Action and Denouement
Conflict: Internal and External
Did you understand what a plot and its
structure is?
Theme: The central idea in the story
Did you understand what a theme is?

These are the actors.

Where the story takes place.

D. Generalization
Okay class let’s now have summary of
the whole lesson. Sequence of events in the story.

What is character? Central idea in the story.

What is setting?

What is plot?
 What is theme?

E. Application
For you to apply what you have learned, let’s
have an activity regarding the story “The Last
Leaf.” To understand the story better, we are
going to dissect the story employing the Yes ma’am!
elements we have learned a while ago. You
will be group into two groups. You will assign
a member who will give the characters,
setting, plot, conflict, and theme. But there’s Characters:
Sue, Johnsy, Mr. Behrman and the Doctor
a twist. You won’t only tell us the answer but
there task that you must do before or during
you answer the question. Is my instruction
Setting:
clear?

Characters: Choose two of your classmates.

The three of you should act as the
characters in the story

Setting: Draw the setting in this sheet of

bond paper. You can do it! Exposition: Sue and Johnsy meet and live
together in a studio.
Rising Action: Johnsy catches pneumonia.
He started counting the leaves on the vine
\ and Sue talks to Old Berhman
Climax, Sue raised the shade and Johnsy
saw the leaf is still there after the rain. She
decided that she would live.
Plot: Choose five of your classmates. Act out
Falling Action: Old Berhman created a
the Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling
masterpiece for Johnsy to live.
Action and Denouement.
Denouement: Old Berhman dies.

Conflict: Man vs. Self

Theme: Sacrifices and let other people

know that they should have the want to live.
 Conflict: Answer it as if you are really in
conflict. None, Ma’am

Theme: Express your answer by means of a

charade.

Great job class!

Do you have any questions regarding our

topic?

IV. EVALUATION
For your quiz this time, you will read another
short story entitled “Monkey’s Paw” by:
W.W. Jacobs. You will read it silently. After
reading the story, you will answer the
questions I have provided on the last page.

MONKEY’S PAW
By: W.W. Jacobs, 1902
On a dark, stormy night in England, Mr. and
Mrs.White and their adult son Herbert – are
inside enjoying a cozy evening around the
fire. Soon, Sergeant-Major Morris arrives at
their house and throws the monkey's paw into
the fire but White quickly retrieves it. Morris
warns White, but White, thinking about what
he could use the paw for, ignores him. Mr.
White wishes for £200 to be used as the final
payment on his house. After making the wish,
his son Herbert is killed by machinery at the
factory where he works, and the couple gets
compensation of £200. Ten days after the
funeral, Mrs. White, almost mad with grief,
asks her husband to use the paw to wish
Herbert back to life. Reluctantly, he does so.
Shortly afterwards there is a knock at the
door. Mrs. White fumbles at the locks in an
attempt to open the door. Mr. White knows,
however, that he cannot allow their revived
son in, as his appearance will be too hideous.
 Mr. White was required to identify the body,
which had been mutilated by the accident. It
has now lain buried for more than a week.
While Mrs. White tries to open the door, Mr.
White makes his third wish, and the knocking
stops. Mrs. White opens the door to find no
one there.

Answer the following questions and write the

letter your answer in the blank provided each
number.
_____1. Who are the characters in the story?
a. W.W Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. White,
Herbert, and Sgt. Morris
b. Mr. and Mrs. White, Herbert,
Sgt. Morris
c. Sgt. Morris, Monkey’s Paw, Herbert
_____2. Where did the story take place?
a. USA
b. Mexico
c. England
_____3. When did the story happen?
a. Bright, sunny day
b. Dark, stormy night
c. Rainy, afternoon
_____4. Which of the following was the
introduction of the story?
a. Sgt. Morris arrived and threw the
monkey’s paw into the fire but
Mr. White retrieved it.
b. Mr. White wishes for £200 to be used
as the final payment on his house.
c. Herbert is killed by machinery.
_____ 5. Which of the following was the climax
of the story?
a. There was a knock on the door but
Mrs. White found no one.
b. Sgt. Morris had a bad experience
with the monkey’s paw and threw it
away.
c. Herbert died and the employers gave
 the Whites £200 the exact amount
Mr. White wished for.
_____6. Which of the following was the ending
of the story?
a. Sgt. Morris died for throwing the
monkey’s paw.
b. There was a knock on the door as
Mr. White made his wish, but found
no one.
c. Mrs. White fumbles at the locks in
an attempt to open the door.
_____7. What was the conflict of the story?
a. Internal Conflict
b. External Conflict
c. None of the above
_____8. What was the theme or main idea of Answers: 1. B
2. C
the story? 3. B
a. Death 4. A
5. C
b. Love 6. B
c. Danger 7. B
8. A
_____9. What is the major moral lesson of the 9. A
story? 10. B

a. Be careful what you wish for.

Yes ma’am
b. Greediness always leads people into
danger.
c. Always follow the warning of an
experienced person

None ma’am!
_____10. The author of the Monkey’s Paw.
a. Charles Dickens
Yes ma’am!
b. W.W. Jacobs
c. William Shakespeare
Sure ma’am! (Closing Prayer)

Good bye ma’am. Thank you!

Okay. Pass your papers sideward and then

forward.

V. ASSIGNMENT
For your assignment, create a Freytag’s
Pyramid using the story “Monkey’s Paw” Write it in
a short bond paper. Are there any questions?

Are you sure? If that is so, let us call it a day.

Please lead the closing prayer, Rona.

Good bye class and see you again tomorrow.

Prepared by:

PUT YOUR NAME HERE

Student-Teacher

Checked and Noted by:

MS. MONETTE L. GALANG

Professor