Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Western Visayas- Division of Negros Occidental
TABAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Tabao Proper, Valladolid, Negros Occidental,6103, Philippines

LESSON PLAN
ENGLISH GRADE 10

Date: _________________

I. OBJECTIVE
1. Content Standards
The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literature and other
text types serve as sources of wisdom in expressing and resolving conflicts
among individuals, groups and nature; also, how to use evaluative reading,
listening and viewing strategies, special speeches for occasion, pronouns and
structures of modification.

2. Performance Standards:
The learner skillfully delivers a speech for a special occasion through
utilizing effective verbal and non-verbal strategies and ICT resources.

3. Learning Competency:
Compose an argumentative essay. EN10WC-IIh-13

4. Specified Objective:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
Compose an argumentative essay.

II. LEARNING TASK

A. Subject Matter: Composing an Argumentative Essay

1. Concept/ Ideas:
Argument: An exchange or diverging of opposite views
Essay: The action or process of reasoning systematically in support of data.
Argumentative Essay: attempts to change the reader’s mind by convincing the
reader to agree with the writer’s stand or point of view.
2. Process/ Skills: Developing the critical thinking of oneself with accuracy
through making an argumentative essay.
3. Value Focus: Appreciating to read and write an argumentative essay.

B. Materials: LAS (Learner’s Activity Sheet), Laptop, Smart TV, English 10

Learner’s Material, Paper-cut- outs, Manila Paper, Pentel Pen
C. References: Almonte, Liza R. et.Al. (First Edition 2015). Celebrating Diversity through
World Literature- Grade 10 English -Learner’s Material, pages 131-134.
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III. DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITY

A. Preparatory Activity:

1. Greetings and Prayer

2. Checking of Attendance
3. Setting of Rules

Classroom Protocols (Classroom Management)

Before we get started, I would like you to inform for the following reminders.

1. For those students with low vision, please inform your teacher to rearrange
your seating arrangement.

2. For those students with hearing impairment, ask for your teacher to sit closer
to the front of the class to hear more clearly.

3. Make sure that you are in your most convenient learning spot.

4. Remember also to maintain your safety even at home, always wash your
hands with soap and water. Always stay safe.”

5. Get yourself ready! And grab your English 10 notebook, and your pen.

6. Keep any unnecessary things away from you and direct your attention to our
class.

7. If you wanted to answer of if there’s clarifications, raise your hand and don’t
say it in chorus. Let’s Begin!

4. Review:

Motivation: ACTIVITY 1
 Directions: Analyze and prove your claim assigned to your group. Raise your tag
lines “We Go for ONLINE” for the Group 1 and “Hardcopy can Cope up!” for the
Group 2.

Note: COVID 19 pandemic has changed the world. It has altered on economic, social,
political, and educational aspects across the world. Committed to the mandate of the
Department of Education, Tabao National High School had needed to adjust to the new
situation wherein face-to-face interaction and mass gatherings are prohibited, so the school
implemented innovative ways to fulfil its tasks. The school come up with learning, modalities
to cater the needs of the students in the new normal set-up.

Group 1: Online Modality

Group 2: Hardcopy Modality

Note: The teacher will encourage everyone to participate in the activity.

Guided Questions:
1. In our school, what learning modality between Hardcopy and Online modality is more
effective when it comes to distance learning?
2. (GROUP 1) Is hardcopy modality more efficient than the Online Modality?
3. (GROUP 2) Is Online platform sufficient than hardcopy modality?
4. What have you done in the activity?

ACTIVITY 2: Unleash Me!

Directions: Analyze the video clip presented and remember the three learning principles
while watching. “Listen, Note and Learn.”

 To those students who are visual learners the video presentation wherein pictures
and caricatures will be shown which allows them for more efficient processing and
memory recall. Visual stimulation grabs students' attention.
 To the Reading and writing learners are extremely comfortable with the written word.
Feel free to consume information by reading texts to fully the given absorb
information.
 To those students who are fond in listening or what we called as the Auditory
learners, the audio narration is provided for the concept being taught, so that they will
be able to process it in the same way they process their everyday interactions.
 Introduction of Reading Skills: Claims and Supporting Evidence 2

https:// www.youtube.com/
watch?v=5xhB3xzSXD4

Guided Questions:
1. What is the video all about? What are the similarities of debate to argumentative
essay?
2. Is there any conflict between the two sides?
3. What was the main claim of the girl to the boy? Did the girl provided evidences to
support her claim?

(Girl’s Claim) Wearing of school uniform is unnecessary because the school is a place
to be creative and express themselves.

(Boy’s Claim) Wearing of school uniform is necessary because they can always show
their school spirit while wearing it and not everyone can afford buying expensive
clothes.

4. As we relate the video to our school system nowadays. What can you say about it?

Note: After the given activity, the teacher will ask the students to guess the topic for the day.

B. ACTIVITY PROPER

GROUP ACTIVITY:

Note: The teacher will provide handouts for them to answer.

I. Directions: Read the given argumentative essay and identify its parts. Definitions of the
different parts of argumentative essay are also provided on the handout to guide you.
 Your Task:

1. Encircle the ‘hook’ in the introduction. Is it interesting or surprising?

Hook is the first sentence of the essay that catches the reader’s attention which
can be in a form of a question, quotation, statistics, personal anecdote, and an
example.

2. Underline the thesis statement in the introduction.

Thesis Statement- One sentence summary of your stand or claim.

3. Underline the topic sentences in your body.

Topic Sentence- The topic for each paragraph in the body stated in one sentence and
supported by supporting details can be either evidence, examples, statistics, personal
experiences, or quotations.

4. Put a square on the counterclaim of the text found in the body.

Counter-claim- opposing view or the one that challenges or offsets your
claim. They can use the words such as Against, while is it true, although,
though, even though, some might argue, others might say to present an
opposing stand.

5. Put a check on the rebuttal part of the body before the text.
Rebuttal- The one that negates the counterclaim. They can use the words such
as despite this, in spite this, however, in fact, nevertheless, on the other
hand, yet and nonetheless in proving their claim to reject the counterclaim.

6. Put a smiling face in the conclusion before the text.

WEARING UNIFORM: A SENSE OF BELONGING

An argumentative essay

PARTS TEXT: DEFINITION

OF (Introduction, Body,
AN
Conclusion)
ARGUMENTATIVE
ESSAY: POSSIBLE
ANSWERS

INTRODUCTION Why uniforms important in today’s society? In the It is the first paragraph
hearts of the students of Tabao National High which introduces the
School, school witnessed the most important problem and gives the
happenings in our lives because we learn how to
background information
socialize,
play sports, perform academically, and become necessary for the argument
responsible adults in the world. and the thesis statement or
the main claim. It contains
 Requiring school uniforms is the is a must the hook and the thesis
because uniforms make our lives easier, make us statement.
act more maturely, and create equality between
everyone.

BODY First, students in our school must wear It contains three (3) or more
uniforms to make our lives simpler. paragraphs. Each paragraph
Our parents could save a lot of money instead of talks about one reason. The
buying new outfits for
reason is stated in the topic
each day of the school since that most families
residing in Tabao earn a living in fishing and sentence and is supported by
planting. supporting details or
materials. These supporting
materials can be either
Second, statistics show that the positive effects examples, statistics,
that uniforms have on violence and academics.
personal experiences, or
In the Philippines, where uniforms were
introduced, violence dropped by quotations.
50 percent and test scores improved by 30 percent
(Dixon, 2014).

Lastly, for the experts, school uniforms would

make all students look the same no matter how
rich they were. This would promote pride in
themselves and make it easier to be friends with
people with different backgrounds.

People who are against school uniforms might

say that students are unable to express.
their individuality.

This might seem like a good point; however,

school is a place to learn, not.
a place to show off wealth and fashion. Besides,
students have the freedom to express themselves
in many other ways through their writing,
speeches, performances, sports, art, and how they
talk to each other.

CONCLUSION There are many well-documented benefits of The last paragraph which
having school uniforms. appeals to the reader’s
Studies have proven that students learn better and emotions. It restates the thesis
act more responsibly when they wear. statement or the main claim
uniforms. All schools must require uniforms to and presents one or two
benefit the students, the schools, general statements which
and all of society.
 accurately summarize the
arguments which support your
stand.

C. ANALYSIS
1. What is the text all about?
2. What is the hook in the introductory part? Why did you consider it as the hook of the
introductory paragraph?
3. Why is it that the underlined sentence in the introductory paragraph considered as the
thesis statement?
4. How many paragraphs shows evidences in the body?
5. What is the topic sentence in Paragraph 1 of the body?
6. Is there any evidence presented in Paragraph 1 of the body to support the claim?
7. What is the topic sentence in Paragraph 2 of the body?
8. What is the evidence presented supporting the topic sentence in paragraph 2?
9. What is the topic sentence in Paragraph 3 of the body?
10. What is the evidence cited in Paragraph 3 of the body to support the claim?
11. Is there any opposing viewpoint presented in the body of the paragraph? What is the clue
word to show its negation to the given claim? What do you call it?
12. To reject the counterclaim what did the author do to support his claim? Is there any word
clues to strongly support his claim?
13. What is the purpose of the body as the part of the argumentative essay?
14. What makes the paragraph a conclusion?

ABSTRACTION
1. What is introduction?
2. What is the purpose of the body as the part of the argumentative essay?
3. What is conclusion?
4. What is an Argumentative Essay?
5. As a student, what is the importance knowing the parts of an argumentative essay? Would
it be helpful? Why? Why not?

D. APPLICATION (GROUPINGS)

Directions: Arrange the following parts of the argumentative essay printed in the cut-outs by
labelling it with a number. Put numbers:

1 for the hook,

2 for the thesis statement,
3 for the first topic sentence together with its evidence
4 for the second topic sentence and evidence
5 for the third topic sentence with its evidence,
6 for the counterclaim,
7 for the rebuttal and
8 for the conclusion.
 Should Cellphones Be Banned in The Classroom?

1-Hook
Is carrying a cell phone at school the same as using it in class? Definitely not, mobile
phones should not be used in schools as students can misuse it. 2-Thesis Statement

3- Topic Sentence 1 with evidence

The most prevailing reason for banning cell phones in class is because they are
“disruptive to the educational environment. Strayer and Johnston (2001) have concluded that
any cell phone conversation, and even the ring of the cell phone, is enough to disrupt any
secondary task performance, and that any conversation or answer to a texted message
requires the voluntary attentional control processes that had to utilize the resources used in
other ongoing activities.
4- Topic Sentence 2 with evidence
In terms of school safety, The National School Safety and Security Services reports
that there have been numerous cases when students used their mobile phones inside the
classroom. In fact, school-bomb threat pranks, and surprisingly enough, most such calls could
never be traced.

5- Topic Sentence 3 with evidence

Moss, author/writer, and author/editor respectively, mentions that the Scottish
government regards mobile use in class a distracting influence. It can promote cyberbullying,
not to mention cheating in tests, which raises new concerns in academia, as per.

6- Counterclaim Opposing views support that mobile phones can become learning
tools and be incorporated in a new updated learning process. 7-Rebuttal Yet, tis true that
cell phones in class can be used to distract students from learning and an ongoing class task
to the extent that their rate of knowledge retention is too low.

8-Conclusion
Given the compelling evidence and undeniable results regarding the use of cellphones
inside the classroom, then the use of mobile phones inside the classroom should never be
allowed at all for the students used them negatively thus bringing lots of harm on each other.

E. EVALUATION

Direction: Choose one from the following topics. Compose an argumentative essay
observing the rubric that follows. Write your composition on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Wooden Hulled Boats are Phased Out in Guimaras

2. Mandatory Vaccination for COVID 19 in the Philippines
3. Reconsideration of Face-to-Face Classes
 IV. Assignment:
Search and take down notes what are the things to consider to compose an
independent critique of a chosen selection. Write it in your notebook.

Prepared by:
ANN MAREY MANIO GRIJALDO DATE: ________________
ENGLISH TEACHER

Observed by:
EDWARD V. PUERTO DATE:
________________
MASTER TECAHER I
 WEARING SCHOOL UNIFORM: A SENSE OF BELONGING

Why uniforms important in today’s society? In the hearts of the students of Tabao National
High School, school witnessed the most important happenings in our lives because we learn
how to socialize, play sports, perform academically, and become responsible adults in the
world.

Requiring school uniform is the is a must because uniforms make our lives easier, make us
act more maturely, and create equality between everyone.

First, students in our school must wear uniforms to make our lives simpler.
Our parents could save a lot of money instead of buying new outfits for
each day of the school since that most families residing in Tabao earn a living in fishing and
planting.

Second, statistics show that the positive effects that uniforms have on violence and
academics. In the Philippines, where uniforms were introduced, violence dropped by 50
percent and test scores improved by 30 percent (Dixon, 2014).

Lastly, for the experts, school uniforms would make all students look the same no matter how
rich they were. This would promote pride in
themselves and make it easier to be friends with people with different backgrounds.

People who are against school uniforms might say that students are unable to express their
individuality.

This might seem like a good point; however, school is a place to learn, not.
a place to show off wealth and fashion. Besides, students have the freedom to express
themselves in many other ways through their writing, speeches, performances, sports, art, and
how they talk to each other.

There are many well-documented benefits of having school uniforms.

Studies have proven that students learn better and act more responsibly when they wear
uniforms. All schools must require uniforms to benefit the students, the schools, and all of
society.
NAME:
______________________________SECTION:__________________SCORE:_______
Directions: Read the given argumentative essay and identify its parts. Definitions of the
different parts of argumentative essay are also provided on the handout to guide you.

1. Encircle the ‘hook’ in the introduction. Is it interesting or surprising?

Hook is the first sentence of the essay that catches the reader’s attention which
can be in a form of a question, quotation, statistics, personal anecdote, and an
example.

2. Underline the thesis statement in the introduction.

Thesis Statement- One sentence summary of your stand or claim.

3. Underline the topic sentences in your body.

Topic Sentence- The topic for each paragraph in the body stated in one sentence and
supported by supporting details can be either evidence, examples, statistics, personal
experiences, or quotations.

4. Put a square on the counterclaim of the text found in the body.

Counter-claim- opposing view or the one that challenges or offsets your
claim. They can use the words such as Against, while is it true, although,
though, even though, some might argue, others might say to present an
opposing stand.

5. Put a check on the rebuttal part of the body before the text.
Rebuttal- The one that negates the counterclaim. They can use the words such
as despite this, in spite this, however, in fact, nevertheless, on the other
hand, yet and nonetheless in proving their claim to reject the counterclaim.

6. Put a smiling face in the conclusion before the text.

 Should Cellphones Be Banned in The Classroom?

Is carrying a cell phone at school the same as using it in class? Definitely not, mobile
phones should not be used in schools as students can misuse it

The most prevailing reason for banning cell phones in class is because they are
“disruptive to the educational environment. Strayer and Johnston (2001) have concluded that
any cell phone conversation, and even the ring of the cell phone, is enough to disrupt any
secondary task performance, and that any conversation or answer to a texted message
requires the voluntary attentional control processes that had to utilize the resources used in
other ongoing activities.

In terms of school safety, The National School Safety and Security Services reports
that there have been numerous cases when students used their mobile phones inside the
classroom. In fact, school-bomb threat pranks, and surprisingly enough, most such calls could
never be traced.

Moss, author/writer, and author/editor respectively, mentions that the Scottish government
regards mobile use in class a distracting influence. It can promote cyberbullying, not to
mention cheating in tests, which raises new concerns in academia, as per.

Opposing views support that mobile phones can become learning tools and be incorporated in
a new updated learning process.

Yet, this true that cell phones in class can be used to distract students from learning and an
ongoing class task to the extent that their rate of knowledge retention is too low.

Given the compelling evidence and undeniable results regarding the use of cellphones inside
the classroom, then the use of mobile phones inside the classroom should never be allowed at
all for the students used them negatively thus bringing lots of harm on each other.