Mamplasan National High School

Mamplasan Binan City, Laguna

Detailed Lesson Plan in Grade 10 English

November 07, 2018

I. Objectives

a. Identify the problems of the characters in the story

b. Explain the theme of the story by analyzing its elements
c. Use a graphic organizer in arranging events in the story

Values Integration: Fighting Discrimination

LEARNING COMPETENCIES (Kto12 Curriculum Guide)

a. EN10RC-IIIc-22.3: Power struggles of characters
b. EN10LT-IIIa2.2: Explain how the elements specific to a genre contribute to
the theme of a particular literary selection
c. EN10VC-IIIa-12: Raise questions to clarify issues covered in the material read

II. Subject Matter

Topic: The Story of Keesh by Jack London
Reference: Curriculum Guide pp. 226-228
English Learner’s Material for Grade 10 pp. 299-305
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5rjgifsN3I
Materials: tablet, television, books, manila paperm graphic organizer,
pictures and a piece of paper

III. Procedures:
Teacher’s Task Learner’s Task
A. Classroom Management

1. Greetings
Good afternoon class Good afternoon Ma’am
2. Prayer
Let us pray first. Who wants to Our Father….
lead the prayer?
Kindly arrange your chairs
before you take your seat. (student will do)
3. Checking of attendance
Who’s absent today? (the secretary will answer)

B. Motivation

Before we formally proceed with

our discussion today, I would like
to share with you a video clip and
then try to analyze the values
present.

Now, what can you say about the The crow find its own way to be able to
video? drink water.

Correct! Very good

 How can you relate this to Students’ answers may vary.
yourself?

During times that you wanted

something badly, example during We can get high scores by studying the
examination, you wanted to get a pointers to review given by our teachers.
passing score or the highest score,
so what do you do? Do you copy By reviewing our notes.
from your classmate?
If not, then what is your strategy?

Very good!

Later, I will ask you how this video

is related with the story we will be
discussing today.

C. Review

Yesterday I asked you to do

advance reading for today’s Yes Ma’am.
discussion. Have you read the
story?

What is the title of our story “The title is The Story of Keesh”

Who’s the author of the Story of “The author is Jack London”

Keesh?

Can you tell something about the

author? The student answers.

It is important that we know the

author, most of their writings are
related with their experiences.

D. Discussion

Who among you here is confident

enough that he/she understood
the story completely?
Only few raised their hand.
That’s fine, since this one is not a
local story.
(teacher explains what is “local”)

We have to internalize and do

some unlocking of difficulties
before we fully understand a story
especially in World Literature. Okay Ma’am

Internalizing: (Let us internalize)

Who have experienced snow?

Where can we find snow?
 How about in the Philippines? No one raised his/her hand.
Where can we find snow? With our Oppa’s country ma’am, Korea,
Japan etc.
How about who have seen snow in
TV or in movies? Raise your hand. Star City Ma’am, In Snow World, they
have improvised snow.
Good. What do you think is the
feeling?
Many raised their hands.
Do you know which part of the
world is the coldest?
Nice and very cold.
Correct. Since North and South
Pole do not get any sunlight.
North and South Pole Ma’am.
I think you now have enough
background and we can proceed
with unlocking of vocabulary
words.

To unlock difficulties along the

story discussion, here are some
words that can help you
understand the story.

Did you know what is:

Igloo – is also known as

snow house

Eskimo –a member of indigenous

people inhabiting North Pole, or
the poorest people. Ma’am a house

Lackluster- lacking of excitement

or interest Ma’am people who live in a snow place.

Carcass-body of meat animals or

bones
Ma’am lacking of interest
Precocious- mature qualities

Witchcraft-magical things Ma’am dead body

Using a graphic organizer we will Ma’am early development

identify the characters and the
important events in the story. To
fully understand what happened Ma’am it’s a black magic
and to know the major problem of
the Eskimos.

I have here pictures of some events that

happened in the story. Identify which one
happened first and tell something about
it.

(Grade Recitation)
Who are the main characters in
the story?

What happened first? Keesh – a thirteen-year-old boy

Bok- father of keesh
Ikagee- Keesh mother

(Based on the presented picture)

Keesh a thirteen year old boy who
lived with his mother Ikeega, in
North Pole.After his father Bok had
What do you think are their died, they are forced to live in the
problems? poorest igloo in the village and they
ate the old meat.

Okay, as you can see, they are

just eating old meat, they are
Are actually experiencing Ma’am, they lack food.
“Famine”
They are having trouble finding
their food because no one in
the tribe can catch the wild
bear.

Then what happened next?

Keesh wants to help and collaborate

Followed by? with his fellow Eskimo. Men there
didn’t agree with what he said so he
went out and hunt by himself.

When he came back, he got a bear

and he shared it fairly to others. His
success continued, because of this
After that? ,Keesh was looked upon with great
respect

But the men there didn’t believe

Keesh could hunt by himself, so they
decided to spy on him. Because they
believed, Keesh used witchcrafts.
 Okay, and what have they proven?

And they finally found out the

reason why Keesh was so successful,
It is not about magic. It’s because
And then? Keesh always readied some little
round ice balls made by bones and
whale meat.

When the bear swallowed the ball,

the bear would get sick and Keesh
Very good!
could kill it easily.

Do you have any question about the

story? If none, then I have questions for keesh used his brain to hunt, he rose
everyone. Let’s play a game! to power and became the chief of
his village and no one was left
E. Application
hungry again.
The students will be divided into
four groups. Each group will
receive a tablet to access the game
online.
( the student will do the activity)
They are given 5 seconds to
answer each question.

It is a multiple-choice type

The question will be flashed on the

tv screen and the score board will
be shown to the class.

1. How old was Keesh at the

beginning of the story?
2. Who was Ikeega?
3. Who was Bok?
4. What is the problem in the
story?
5. What us the theme in the
story?
6. How did he manage to kill
bears?
7. He put _____ inside some seal
meat to kill the bears.
8. Keesh became?
 The group with the highest score
will receive 100 for group performance
task.

F. Generalization

What is the problem of Eskimo

people?

What did Keesh do to solve famine

in his village?
Ma’am the problem is famine and
What strategy did he do to easily discrimination.
kill the bears?
Ma’am he hunts by himself and
Very good! Do you have any strategized a way to kill the bears.
questions?
Ma’am he readied ice ball made by bone

Let’s go back with the video of None Ma’am.

the crow.
What do you think is the
connection of the video clip you’ve
watch a while ago to the story of The same with the crow, Keesh devised
Keesh? a strategy to feed his tribe.

IV. EVALUATION

Make a plot of the Story of Keesh

using the triangle. In a one whole
sheet of paper.

What are the components of plot?

What is exposition?
Ma’am exposition, rising action, climax,
falling action and resolution
What is rising action?
Ma’am the beginning of the story
What is climax?
Ma’am conflict in the story that leads to
the climax
What is falling action?
Ma’am the most intense moment
What is resolution?
Ma’am all action which follows the
climax

Ma’am the conclusion

Climax

Falling
 Rising action

Exposition Resolution

V. Assignment

Write an essay on a short bond paper, about a real-life scenario you have
witnessed or experience discrimination/if not, any problem you have
encountered in the past. Narrate how it was solved.

Prepared by:

Lizardo Raquel C.
Student Teacher

Checkedby: Noted by:

Donna Jane R. Marcuap Rosalie B. Moleta Leslie D. Valena DEM

Cooperating Teacher English Coordinator School Head