GRADES 1 to 12 School: A.O.

FLOIRENDO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Grade Level: 7

DAILY LESSON LOG Teacher: THEA A. LAMBAYAN Learning Area: ENGLISH
Teaching Dates and Time: October 7-11, 2024 Quarter & Week: Quarter 2, Week 1

I. CURRICULUM CONTENT, STANDARDS, AND LESSON COMPETENCIES

The learners demonstrate their multiliteracies and communicative competence in evaluating Philippine literature (poetry) for clarity of meaning,
Content Standards
purpose, and target audience as a foundation for publishing original literary texts that reflect local and national identity.
The learners analyze the style, form, and features of Philippine poetry (lyric, narrative, dramatic); evaluate poetry for clarity of meaning, purpose, and
Performance Standards target audience; and compose and publish an original multimodal literary text (poem) that represents their meaning, purpose, and target audience,
and reflects their local and national identity.
Learning Competency
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context.

Learning Objectives
1. Explain the importance of literature
Learning Competencies and Objectives
2. Demonstrate factual understanding and appreciation of the details of the assigned reading.
3. Classify assigned reading for its literary genre characteristics.
4. Derive the intended message of the assigned reading based on its selected literary genre elements.
5. Break down a text into its corresponding plot parts.
6. Describe and differentiate characters in the assigned text using various characterization techniques as bases.
My Father Goes to Court by Carlos S. Bulosan
Structural context in reading
Content
Plot
Character and Characterization
Filipino Family values
Integration
Source/Pursuit of happiness
II. LEARNING RESOURCES
5 Important Elements of a Short Story. (2004, March 22). Retrieved from https://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsa/ellsa_elements.html
Defining Characterization. (2004). ReadWriteThink. Retrieved from
https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson800/Characterization.pdf
Glatch, S. (2023, July 9). What is the plot of a story? Retrieved from https://writers.com/what-is-the-plot-of-a-story
Hamilton, S. (2007). Essential literary terms: A brief Norton guide with exercises. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and Peoples Education, USA.
Sebastian, E., et al. (2016). An easy journey to literature. Mindshapers Co., INC.
Shaffer, C. (2000). The principles of literature: A guide for readers and writers. Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
Teaching Characterization with Short Stories. (2023). Chomping at the Lit. Retrieved from https://www.chompingatthelit.com/teaching-
characterization-short-stories/
III. TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCEDURE NOTES TO TEACHERS
DAY 1 The teacher will let two to three
1. QUESTION PROMPT students share their answers to the
The students will be asked the following questions: questions.
a. What is your favorite story and what is it all about?
b. Why is it your favorite?
A, Activating Prior Knowledge (Mind and
2. 4 PICS 1 WORD
Mood)
The students will be shown the following photos. Then, they will guess the word these photos represent.
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Word: E R A I R U T L E T
Answer: LITERATURE

3. Short Review
The teacher will have a short discussion on literature.

What is LITERATURE? The teacher tells the class that for this
Literature is a collection or body of written works focused on the human experience. It is a form of human quarter, the lessons focus on prose,
expression. The four main types or genres of literature are poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. (The teacher particularly short stories.
will expound on these genres, specifically with fiction and nonfiction.)
B. Establishing Lesson Purpose (Aims) 1. Lesson Purpose Possible answers:
The teacher will ask the students the following questions: a. We will have a broader/deeper
a. Why do we read literature? understanding of the world in all its
social, political, economic, and
cultural aspects; helps increase our
knowledge about things; improves
our critical thinking; helps expand our
vocabulary
2. Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary
Let’s match!
Instructions: Match the words in column A with their corresponding meanings in column B. Answers:
1. B
2. E
3. A
4. J
5. C
6. I
7. K
8. G
9. H
10. F
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3. Assignment:
The students will read in advance the short story entitled My Father Goes to Court.
C. Developing and Deepening Day 2
Understanding (Tasks and Thought) SUB-TOPIC 1

1. Explicitation
In this activity, the students will listen to the audio of the short story My Father Goes to Court by Carlos S.
Bulosan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatLAGfexrY

2. Road Map
The students will be grouped by three. Each group will be asked to answer the comprehension questions
through the Road Map worksheet.

3. Short Story Checklist

The teacher will ask the students to answer the Short story Checklist. The checklist contains simple statements
on some of the literary elements of a short story. Then, the class zeroes in on the significance of each part that
makes short stories.
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After the activity, the teacher will tackle the following Points for Discussion:
1. Short story falls under the first general category of literature – fiction.
2. Short stories are characterized by a limited number of characters, a restricted setting, and a narrow
range of action. Hence, it can be read in a single sitting.
3. Short stories share common elements as work of fiction: Plot, Setting, Character, Characterization,
Conflict, Point of View (POV) and other narrative techniques.
4. To analyze a literary text in structural contexts, one looks into the elements found in the text itself.
5. To analyze a story, the structuralist focuses on literary elements that make up a short story rather than
the facts about the author’s life or the historical milieu in which it was written.
6. It must be pointed out that though each part may be identified individually, these literary elements
are joined together to unify the writing and to produce a blend that is unique to that short story or
any literary piece (Shaffer, C. 2000).
D. Making Generalizations (Abstractions) Elements of a Short Story:
1. Character
2. Setting
3. Conflict
4. Plot
5. Theme

CHARACTER:
• A character is a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or
other literary work.
• The character/s is/are introduced in the exposition part of the plot.
• The series of events or the plot of the story shows every detail that the characters experience, which
reveals the character’s traits and development.
• Although the character is the product of the writer’s imagination, the character represents a real
person.

Types of Characters:
1. Protagonist
The main/leading character of the story who makes key decisions that affect the plot of the
story.
2. Antagonist
The character who opposes or conflicts with the main character.
3. Dynamic/Round Character
They are the characters in the story who change, accept changes, act, and view the changes
as part of their role as human beings. They are often known as the hero/heroine. Since they
undergo changes, they possess dynamic traits, and the changes they face depend on the
situation.
4. Flat/Static Characters
They are the characters that do not change. They remain static or stagnant throughout the story.
As the story begins, the flat characters are static and stay as they are until the end of the story.
They help bring out the best in the main characters or the protagonist.
5. Stock or stereotype character
Flat characters may either be stock or stereotype characters.
Ex. the dumb blonde, the jock, the evil stepmother, the evil dictator, the obedient housewife and
the power-hungry CEO

The teacher may give additional inputs on the different types of characters. Then, the teacher proceeds to ask
the following questions:
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• Who among the characters in the story did you empathize with the most? Explain your answer.
• Would you agree that we all have characters we love and hate? How does the writer evoke certain
feelings of love and/or hate to the characters of a story? How is it possible?

More Points for Discussion:

• Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

Types of Characterization:
1. Direct characterization: The author explicitly tells the readers what they want us to know about the
character by clearly stating details about him/her.
2. Indirect characterization: the author shows who the character is through their speech, thoughts,
motivations, actions, and interactions with others.

During this part, the class will have an interactive discussion regarding the different characters of the short story
My Father Goes to Court. They will differentiate the characters based on the character diagram.
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SETTING
• It refers to the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.
Ex: Narnia, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during World War II, DURING Spanish
colonialism

CONFLICT
• It is the problem that characters face which forces them to take action in order to solve it.
• It moves the plot forward and creates tension.
Ex: Cinderella’s step mother oppresses or maltreats her

PLOT
• The plot is the arrangement or structure of the events or actions in a story.
• The plot shows every detail that the characters in the story experience.
• It is said to be the skeleton of the story.
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During this part, the class will have an interactive discussion regarding the plot of the short story My Father Goes
to Court. They will break down the text based on the plot.

THEME
• It is the central idea or message that the author wants to convey to the reader.
Ex. love, war, revenge, courage, family, morality, death, human nature, power, survival
IV. Evaluation of Learning
E. Evaluating Learning (Test) Formative Assessment Answers:
Identification Identification:
Instructions: Identify what is referred to by the following statements. Write your answers in the space provided. 1. plot
_________1. This literary element refers to the arrangement of the events or actions in the story 2. setting
_________2. It is the where and the when of the story. 3. theme
_________3. The main idea of a story. 4. introduction
5. denouement
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_________4. This part of the story introduces the setting, characters, and other basics that are to be known by 6. rising action
the readers. 7. climax
_________5. It refers to the ending of the story where the loose ends are tied up. 8. indirect characterization
_________6. This part of the story is sometimes called the inciting incident, which begins the major conflict. 9. dynamic/round character
_________7. This is the greatest tension or the turning point of the story. 10. antagonist
_________8. A type of characterization in which the author shows who the character is through their speech,
thoughts, motivations, actions, and interactions with others. True or False:
_________9. A type of character that develops and changes during the events in the story. 1. True
_________10. This type of character is referred to as one who conflicts with the main character. 2. False
3. False
True or False 4. True
Instructions: Read the following statements from the text. Write T if the statement is True and F if otherwise. 5. False
_________1. The story begins in the small town of Luzon.
_________2. The rich family usually stood by the poor man’s house to smell the delicious food.
_________3. The farmer’s/poor man’s family paid the judge for them to win the case.
_________4. The rich man condemned the poor man’s family for stealing the ‘spirit’ of their wealth.
_________5. The judge favored the accusation of the rich man.
F. Teacher’s Remarks (Annotations)
G. Reflection (Gains)

Prepared by: Checked by: Recommending Approval: Noted by:

THEA A. LAMBAYAN GINA V. GALANIDO CRISTINA N. PACATAN CHONALYN C. DOCTORA EdD

Teacher I T-III/English Coordinator MT I/JHS Academic Head Principal II