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Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in English Essay for Grade 8 I.

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Objectives At the end of a 60-minute lesson, the Grade 8 students are expected to:  give the meaning of idioms found in the text and  use it in sentence  specify statements in the text that tells how one can cope with crisis  write a paragraph telling about a crisis they experience and how they cope with problems Subject matter Topic: Coping with Crisis by Ann Landers Reference: Grade 8 Voyages in Communication English Learner’s Materials Instructional Materials:

III. Instructional procedure A.

Preparatory Activity

The teacher will ask someone to lead the prayer. Afterwards, she will greet them and ask for the attendance of the class. And lastly, will ask them to seat properly.

B. Pre-Reading I. Motivation (Deck of Cards & Walking Tour) Before the activity start teacher prepares 4 kinds of cards and distributed the cards to the class, teacher will group themselves into spades, diamonds, hearts and clover. After grouping the students, the teacher prepares quotes that posted around the room; the task of each group is to tour around the room and discuss the quotes posted in the wall, they will only have (5 mins) to finish the task. Once the tour is completed each groups shall summarize and get the main point o the each quote. QUOTES:

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Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light. (Barbara Marciniak)  Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it. (Ayn Rand)  You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish. (Bernie Mac)  Every result you get in your life is the combination of the challenge you receive from the reality around you and your capacity to respond to that challenge. (Fred Kofman)

II. Unlocking of difficulties After the sharing, the teacher will tell students that their new lesson is similar to overcoming the challenges or the problems that they might encounter and how to deal to those problem. Before they will proceed to the new lesson, they will first unlock some idiomatic words that they may encounter in reading the essay. Directions: The students will give the meaning of idioms in the sentence below from the contextual clues given. a. She was told that the food was burnt to a crisp couldn’t possibly be undone do it was useless crying over spilled milk. b. His doctor said he had only a year to live, so he decided to drain the cup to the dregs. c. Keeping sorrow locked up inside his heart was very unhealthy. He must let go of his grief or be broken down by stress. d. For many years, she blamed herself for her husband’s heart attack. She should realize her family has had enough of this breast-beating. e. He has had many upsets in all these years, but he successfully overcame them; expectedly, he will soon touch the stars.

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After knowing the meaning the students will use the idioms in sentences.

B. During Reading 1. The teacher will distribute the copy of the essay “Coping with Crisis” by: Ann Landers, then the students will read the essay silently. 2. As the students read the text, they will underline the key words and ideas in the text which suggest how one can cope with problem. They will underline as many as possible.

B. Post Reading 1. The teacher will ask the students the following questions: a. What is your first impression about the essay? b. What is the main idea of the essay? c. What does the author wants us to tell?

2. Paired Response a. Paired students will individually select a quote or a line from the essay that they find significant or meaningful and record the quotation in Column I. b. Students then write their personal thoughts, feelings, reactions about the selected quotation in Column II. c. The partners exchange papers. In Column III of the partner’s paper, each student responds to the writing of his partner. d. The journals are returned to each partner. In Column IV, the students respond to the comments that their partner wrote in Column III. e. Partners discuss their comments and experiences in the class.

Column I Your Quotation

Column II Column III Your Comments Your partner’s comments

Column IV Your reaction to your partner’s comments

IV. Evaluation Referring to the text, check the statements that tell how one can cope with crisis. 1. ___ Trouble, which can be very defeating, is an inevitable part of life. 2. ___ It is an unhealthy attitude to look at trouble as something that will eventually be solved. 3. ___ One of the most difficult realities to face is forgiving oneself in the face of a devastating experience. 4. ___ It is futile to weep endlessly over something that nothing can ever undo.

5. ___ It is not physically, mentally, and emotionally sound to ceaselessly agonize over something that could have been done but wasn’t done. 6. ___ While we cannot sometimes control what happens to us, we can however control our reaction to what happens to us. 7. ___ When faced with trouble that are beyond human control, like personal tragedies, you can overcome grief by keeping faith. 8. ___ Another way of overcoming grief, frustration and suffering is to undertake positive action. 9. ___ One other way to escape the pain of a broken heart is to plunge into a social whirl or run off on healing trips. 10. ___ A useful activity that helps in coping with a troubled heart is doing something to help others.

V. Assignment  Write a paragraph or two about a crisis you have experienced and whether you coped with it in the way the writer suggested in the reading selection.

Coping with Crisis By: Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and, when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Then repeat yourself the most comforting of all words, "This too shall pass." To forgive oneself in the face of a devastating experience is perhaps the most difficult of life's challenges. Most of us find it much easier to forgive others. I've received letters brimming the self-recrimination letters that prove no punishment is so painful as the self-inflicted kind. It was miy high-school English teacher who taught me the futility of rehashing the past. One day, as the students filed into her classroom, we noticed on her desk a quart bottle of milk standing in a heavy stone crock. "This morning," she announced, "I'm going to teach you a lesson that has nothing to do with English, but it has a lot to do with life." She picked up the bottle of milk and crashed it against the inside of the stone crock. "The lesson is," she said, "don't cry over spilled milk." Then she invited us to look at the wreckage. "I want all of you to remember this," she said. "Would any of you attempt to restore the bottle to its original form? Does it do any good to wish the bottle had not been broken? Look at this mess! You can moan about it forever, but it won't put the bottle back together again. Remember this broken bottle of milk when something happens in your life that nothing can undo." I've reminded myself of that broken bottle of milk in the stone crock time and again. It has helped me remain steady and calm, as well as physically sound. Our bodies take a beating when we put ourselves through an emotional wringer. To try to undo what has been done or agonize about opportunities missed is not only foolish, it's futile. In many instances, we can't control what happens to us, but we can control our reactions to what happens to us. We can stay down for the count and be carried out of the ring, or we can pull ourselves back to our feet. If we are victimized by others, we must refuse to give them the power to break our spirit, make us physically ill, perhaps even shorten our lives. Most doctors will tell you that worry, anxiety, tension, and anger can make you sicker than a virus. The expression "nervous breakdown" suggests that nerves have broken down, but organically, the nerves are healthy. The problem is purely emotional. When you find that someone has "done you wrong," refuse to allow yourself to be consumed with

hatred or bitterness. Hatred is like an acid. It can do more damage to the container in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured. Even though we may lead the good life and fight the good fight, we are sometimes ripped up not by others but by the mere process of living. Call it bad luck, fate, whatever you choose- some troubles are beyond human control. How do you handle them? I believe in blind faith. I have known people who have suffered deep personal tragedies, and this faith has helped them. But I also believe in the efficacy of positive action to overcome grief. Time is a healer, but those who help time by using it wisely and well make a more rapid adjustment. Grief, in part, is self-pity turned inside out. The widow who wails, "He was everything to me. How can I go on without him?" is crying for herself, not for him. The mourner who refuses to let go of his grief eventually isolates himself from his friends. The world may stop for a few hours, or perhaps a few days, to hold a hand or to wipe away a tear, but friends and relatives have problems of their own. Life goes on- and those who refuse to go on with it are left alone to wallow in their misery. The best prescription for a broken heart activity. I don't mean plunging into a social whirl or running off on trips. Too many people who try to escape by doing just that succeed only in taking their troubles with others. I have told thousands of despondent people, "Enough of this breast-beating. No matter how bad things are with you, there is someone who is worse off- and you can help him." No one knows why life must be so punishing to some God's finest creatures. Perhaps it is true that everything has a price and we must sacrifice something precious to gain something else. The poets and philosophers say adversity, sorrow, and pain give our lives an added dimension. Those who suffer deeply touch life at every point; they drain the cup to the dregs while others sip only the bubbles on top. Perhaps, no man can touch the stars unless he has known the depths of despair- and fought his way back.