English Grade 7 Lesson Plan 6
Deliberate Practice: Key Elements of Narrative Texts
Key Idea
Key Elements of Narrative Texts
Most Essential Learning Competencies
• Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose (e.g., scanning, skimming, close reading, etc.) EN7RC-IV-b-10
Identify the genre, purpose, intended audience and features of various viewed texts EN7VC-I-d-6
React to what is asserted or expressed in a text
Express one’s beliefs/convictions based on a material viewed EN7VC-IV-i-16 Q3
Discover literature as a tool to assert one’s unique identity and to better understand other people EN7LT-III-b-5
Component 1: Short Review
Time: 7 minutes
Teacher asks students questions to activate prior knowledge.
In our lessons this week, we learned about different types of literary texts – narratives (short stories), literary descriptions and narrative poems.
Questions:
Q1. How are short stories and narrative poems similar?
Q2. How are they different?
Students record their answers on the worksheet.
Teacher checks the answers by involving the students.
Suggested answers:
Q1. The setting and characters are introduced at the beginning (G); a problem or conflict develops in the story (C) and gets resolved at the end (E); there is a moral or lesson to the story (D); the events aren’t always in time order (I). They can both use figurative language e.g. similes, metaphor, personification (J); the author’s purpose is to entertain and educate readers by telling a story (K).
Q2. Poems and short stories have different structures (short stories have paragraphs and sentences (A); poems have stanzas and verses (F); rhyme and repetition and other sound devices make poems enjoyable to read (B).
Component 2: Purpose of the lesson
Time: 3 minutes
Teacher briefly states the purpose/focus of the lesson and makes explicit the learning goal for students.
In this lesson, we are going to bring together what we know about the key elements of a narrative.
Component 3: Lesson Language Practice
Time: 5 minutes
Teacher displays the list of words on the board and reads each word aloud.
characters (the people who take part in a story)
setting (where and when a story takes place)
plot (what happens in a story, the sequence of events)
conflict (the challenge or problem the main characters need to solve to achieve their goals)
climax (the high point or crisis in a story)
resolution (how things end up in a story when the problem is solved)
theme (the main idea or lesson of the story)
Students complete the table of words and their meanings on the Worksheet.
Component 4: Lesson Activity
Time: 25 minutes
Component 4A Reading the texts
Teacher reads Text 1 The Flood Story aloud to the class.
Teacher then asks students to look carefully at the Story Mountain and to pay attention to its shape and structure. Read aloud the caption at each stage.
Text 1 The Flood Story
Bukidnon (Mindanao)
A long time ago there was a very big crab which crawled into the sea. And when he went in, he crowded the water out so that it ran all over the earth and covered all the land.
Now about one moon before this happened, a wise man had told the people that they must build a large raft. They did as he commanded and cut many large trees, until they had enough to make three layers. These they bound tightly together, and when it was done, they fastened the raft with a long rattan cord to a big pole in the earth.
Soon after this the floods came. White water poured out of the hills, and the sea rose and covered even the highest mountains. The people and animals on the raft were safe, but all the others drowned.
When the waters went down and the raft was again on the ground, it was near their old home, for the rattan cord had held.
But these were the only people left on the whole earth.
[Cole, M. C. (1916/2008). The Flood Story. Philippine Folk Tales. A.C. McClurg & Co.]
Text 2 Story Mountain
