Lesson Plan in English " Ibong ADARNA"

Lesson Plan in English

Grade VII

October 04, 2011

I.                   Learning Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

1.      identify and explain what the story is all about

2.      use critical thinking skills in answering situational problems

3.      make inferences about relationships

3.   relate the story to one’s own experiences

4.      write down a particular ending of the story given

II.                Learning Content:

Understanding an Epic

“Ibong Adarna”

III.             Learning Materials:

A.     Textbook

B.     Materials

Manila Paper and Marker

LCD Monitor and Projector

IV.              Strategies:                                        

ü  Activate Prior Knowledge

ü  Dimensional Approach

ü  Listening of Word Order

ü  Question- Answer Relation (QAR)

ü  Comprehension of Short Narratives

ü  Reflective Activity

ü  Think Aloud

V.                 Learning Experiences

Teachers’ Activity

Student’s Activity

Motivation Activate Prior Knowledge       Good morning…       Provided here a picture…       Describe the picture…       Imagine that he is your mother or your father…       He/she is now suffering a terrible illness, a sickness that even the doctors can’t cure. The only way is to wait for a miracle.       As a son or a daughter, what would you do or what you could do? How will you react on it?       Does it hard to know that our parent suffers difficulty?               Another answer???       Our parents is an essential factor of our whole-being, everything about a man/women, our background, attitude, all of our achievements, our honor and dignity , relies on the structure of our parents that is why it is difficult for us knowing that our loving parents was ill.       You may have the same feeling in the characters that we are discussing today.       Yesterday I ask you to read the Metric tale “Ibong Adarna”       By the way, a  metric tale is also known as Korido or Awit specially during the spanish era.       How do you find the story? Do you like it?       Before anything else, let’s first try to unlock some unfamiliar words from the story. Unfamiliar Word Synonyms         (Present the jigsaw puzzle in on the board)       (The students now answer)       Now, let us go back to the topic.       Did you understand the story?       The story is all about…?       The action and danger of the journey of the three siblings who are the Princes in their place-Don Juan, Don Diego and Don Pedro. The main story is their voyage to Mount Tabor to capture the Adarna Bird- the bird that has an extraordinary healing power to cure all the bad health specially terrible sickness befell the king of King Fernando of Berbanya due to a terrible nightmare Ibong Adarna (The Adarna Bird) King Fernando of Berbania had three sons, Pedro, Diego and Juan of whom the last was the favorite.  He so loved Juan that when one night he dreamed that his two children conspired against their youngest brother, the king became so frightened that he fell sick with a malady, which non of the physicians of the kingdom were able to cure.  Persons were not lacking, however, who would advise him that bird Adarna was the one living being in the world which could restore to him his lost health and tranquility.  Acting on this advice, he sent out his  oldest son Pedro to look for this coveted animal.   After days of wandering through the dense forests ad extensive thickets, he came to a tree of diamond, at the foot of which he fell down tired and thirsty.  He never suspected that it was this tree the very one in which the famous bird was accustomed to pass the night; and when the night was setting and the Adarna flung into the air the first of its seven songs, his melody was so softly sweet that Pedro was lulled into a profound sleep.  After emitting its seventh melody for the night, the bird defecated on the sleeping prince who was thereby converted into a stone. When Pedro had not returned after the lapse of one year, the impatient king commanded his second son Diego also to launch out in search of the same bird.  Diego underwent the same vicissitudes and hardships and came to exactly the same fate as Pedro - converted into a stone at the foot of the enchanted tree.  At last Juan, the youngest and most favored son was sent forth, after his elder brothers in search of the treacherous bird.   Juan, however, had the fortune to meet on his way an old hermit who impressed by the virtuous and good manners of the young prince on knowing the mission on which he embarked, put him on guard against the treacheries, intrigues and cunning of the famous bird.  First, he provided him with a knife and a fruit of lemon, warning him that if he wanted to free himself from the irresistible drowsiness into which one would to be induced by the seven melodies of the Adarna, he had to open on his body seven wounds and distil into them the juice of the lemon that the pain thereby caused might present him from sleeping.  Next, the hermit warned him to avoid any defecation that might fall from the bird after it had sung its seven songs, so that he would not suffer the fate of his brothers.  Lastly, he told him that after finishing his seventh song the famous bird would fall sleep and that the prince should take advantage of this occasion to take him prisoner.  The hermit gave him a golden cord to tie the bird when caught and two pails of water to pour over his two petrified  brothers and thereby bring them back to life.  Juan did as was bidden and soon found himself in possession of the desired bird and on his way back to his home country with his two brothers, Pedro and Diego. On the way, however, being envious on account of the fact that Juan had obtained what they were not able to do so, the two older brothers conspired between themselves to do away with him.  Pedro suggested that they should kill him but Diego who was less brutal convinced Pedro that it was sufficient to beat him, which they did.  After beating Juan to whom they owed their lives, they left him unconscious in the middle of the road and the two brothers continued their way to the palace where they presented themselves to their fathers as the ones who actually caught the bird Adarna.  To their surprise, the bird refused to sing for the king in the absence of Prince Juan and the monarch  did not get well.  It was also fortunate that the old hermit who guided Juan to the Adarna found him stretched out helpless on the road, after curing him of his wounds the prince could return safe and sound to his father's kingdom.  It as then the bird, out of sheer contentment, burst into most harmonious song recounting it its proper time to the king after he was cured the truth about the absence of Juan.  The monarch, blinded by his ire, decreed the death of his two elder sons; but Juan with a noble heart interceded for them as always and once again reigned in the kingdom peace and merriment.       Again, who are the three siblings in the story?       Let’s start from the eldest, next..       Let us now differentiate the three...       How will you characterize the eldest son?       Middle?       Younger?       Who do you think that you some thing in common?       Anyone?       What was the only cure for the King’s illness?       Why was it difficult to get the Adarna Bird?       What happened to Don Diego and Don Pedro as he searched for the Adarna Bird?       What was Don Juan’s reaction to the old man who had asked for help? How did the old man react to Don Juan’s action?       Did you already encounter some poor along the way asking for food?        What did you do? Did you also do the same as Don Juan did to the old man?       Is it okay to give and give to the less privilege? o   Sometimes, we need also to help them how to catch fish rather than how to eat give fish. It simply says that we need also to help them to stand in their own.       Do you find any relationship between Don Juan’s kindness and his success at capturing the bird?       What do you think why his elder brother was not able to capture the bird?       If you put yourself in the shoe of Don Juan will you still forgive your sibling despite of the bad deeds you done unto you? o   If you do well you will earn good. ……….. o   Remember this class; doing well is easier than doing bad. o   Living according to our Vincentian Values could help us to do what is right according to the will of God and also to the influence of our patron Saint, Saint Vincent de Paul. o   How will our core values help us to become like Don Juan or Saint Vincent? o   Advocacy to the poor-is it also what Don Juan did? o   Compassionate service- He serves his father with compassion o   Co-responsibility-being responsible of his action o   Simplicity-be simple in all means. Be true to yourself. o   Respect for human dignity- respecting the people lower than you. o   Do you understand? o     Generalization   o   Any realization from the discussion today?       What are your learning’s or insights as you understand our lesson? Evaluation Today I learned that…………

An essay is an attempt.              That each of us is equal.       It should begin with me. We can’t say that a poor is poor always. There are some poor who want to change their lives, so they try to study hard just to make their lives comfortable.

Prepared by: Angel Vic S. Tecson BSED-III