Dr. Maria D.

Pastrana National
School: Grade Level: 10
High School (Grades 7 to 12)
Teacher: Amadeuz Santoalla Learning Area: English
Teaching March 10, 2020 (TUESDAY)
Date:
Quarter: Fourth

DETAILED LESSON PLAN

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson the students should be able to:

 explain how the selection may be influence by culture, history, environment

A. COGNITIVE
and other factors;
 react intelligently and creatively to the text listened to: focusing on the falsity
or sadness of the argument presented therein;
 perform a role playing, slogan making and yell presentation about the discussed
B. PSYCHOMOTOR
story; and,
 appreciate the relevance of the selection to its historical context during which it
C. AFFECTIVE
was produced.
II. CONTENT (Subject
Matter)
“To Build a Fire” by: Jack London
III. LEARNING
RESOURCES
A. References
1. Teacher’s Guide
Pages
2. Learner's Materials
pages
3. Textbook Pages

B. Other Learning https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/to-build-a-fire/summary

Resources https://englicist.com/notes/to-build-a-fire-jack-london
IV. PROCEDURES

Teacher’s Activity Students’ activity

A. Preparatory
Activities

Daily Routine:
1. Drill  Classroom Management
 Checking of Attendance
“Class what did we discuss last meeting?”
“We discussed the story of Three Musketeers
2. Review
by: Alexandre Dumas.”
“And what happed to the story?”
“At the beginning of the story there is a young
man named D’ Artagnan who wants to join in
the musketeers’ academy.”
“I have here a spoken word presentation, I
3. Introduction want you listen on it and reflect because later I
will ask some questions.”
(The students will listen to the presentation.)

“What have you observed from the

presentation?” “It suggests how important obedience is.”
“Sir, it talks about listening to the warning.”

“Is there a time when you just ignore what

others say?” “Yes, Sir!”

“Anyone who can share your experience?” (Students’ answer may vary)

“Did you learn something from that

“Yes, sir. I have learned that we should listen
experience?”
to others especially if they know more about it
 than us.”

“Do you believe that what we are experiencing

is the consequence of our decisions?” “Yes , Sir.”

“Through our discussion,, let us see how one’s

decision affects one’s life.”
“I have here pictures, I want you to guess the
4. Motivation title of the story by combining the two
pictures to form the correct title.”
(The students will guess the correct title of the
story)

To + +
“So what is the title of the story?”
“Sir, the title of the story is to build a fire”
B. Developmental
Activities
Our topic for today is “To build a Fire” by Jack
London. But first, let us meet the author:
1. Presentation of
Jack London
the Lesson /
Activity

 He was born in San Francisco

in 1876
 During his early life, his family
struggled and they were very
poor.
 He started working by selling
newspaper when he was only
10 years old to help
supplement the family’s
income.
 His family struggle at poverty
stimulated his interest in
knowledge and hunger for
success.
 His first success of writing
came at the age of 24 and he
was already internationally
famous for the Call of the
Child and the Sea Wolf among
other journalistic
accomplishments.
 He wrote passionately about
life and death
 He wrote his firsthand
experiences at sea in Alaska
coal mining and the likes in his
writings.
 His early life hardships and
explicit scenery description
made his writing very natural
 and appealing.

“Now that we met the author of the story, let

us unlock the difficult words that you may
encounter later.”

Unlocking of Difficulties
In a dialogue form
Direction: Match Column A to column B.

Column A Column B
1. A route that someone A. Scratched
follows to go somewhere

2. Painful; distressing B. Trail

3. Very Large or great C. Conflagration

4. To rub a surface with D. Tremendous

something sharp or rough

5. Large destructive fire E. Poignant

1.B

2.E

3.D

4.A

5.C
“Let us now proceed to the summary of the
story. I have here a copy of the summary and I
1. Discussion /
will be distributing it to you, so please read the
Analysis
summary silently.”
(The students will read the summary)
“Class, are you done?”
“Yes, Sir!”
“For us to understand the story more, let us
have some few questions. For the first one,
what is the season presented in the story?”

“What is the reason why the man is going to “It is a winter season”
the camp near Henderson Creek?”
“Because his friends are already there and
waiting for him to have fire and food”
“What is the animal that walks behind him on “A dog”
his way to Henderson creek?”
“When the ice broke it eventually make his
“What are the struggles that he experienced feet to sank in the water that is why his feet
that hinder him to the Henderson Creek to be began to feel the pain.”
with his friends?” “No man should travel alone in the Yukon
when the temperature is sixty degrees below
zero”
 “No, because he thought that a real man could
“What is the advice of the old man that he travel alone”
remembered?” “He would kill the dog to bury his hands inside
its warm body”
“Because he realized that he could not move
his hand”
“Does the man listen to the advice of the old “The man falls off into comfortable sleep and
man?” the dog smells the scent of the death of the
man”

“What is the reason of the man when he got “No, Sir. If only he listens to the advice of the
the idea of killing the dog?” old man, he will not die.”

“Why he was not able to kill the dog?” “Sir it is the season. Because it is too cold.”

“How does the story end?” “No Sir.”

“We cannot stop nature so we should abide its

law.”
“Do you think he has a good decision?”

“The kind of conflict we have is Man vs.

“Very well said! What do you think is the Nature”
primary conflict that cause him to die?”

“Very Good! It is the season which is part of

our nature. Do you think we can stop the
nature from its season?

What can you infer from it?”

“Very well said! With that what kind of conflict

do we have?”

“What is the story all about?”

2. Abstraction/
“It is a story about a man who chooses to
Generalization
“What do you think is the reason of Jack travel in a very dangerous condition”
London in writing the story?”
“The author likes to remind us that we should
take good care our nature because we can’t
“What is the theme of the story?” stop it when it is the one who will destroy us”
“The theme of the story is danger and
ignorance because the man ignores the advice
“Very Good!” of others that put him into danger”

“For your activity, we have three groups, the

3. Application / group of actors, writers/illustrator, and
Closure
singers/dancers, our activity is entitled THEME
FOR THE TEAM.”

The group of actors will make a 2-3 minutes’

role play or skit about the theme.

The group of writers/illustrators will make a

slogan that will show the message of the story.
 The group of singers/dancers will make 2-3
minutes’ yell with the content of what does
the story wants to tell us.

Your final task will be graded using the

following rubric:

1. CONTENT.RELEVANCE TO THE
THEME- 20pts
The theme is clearlyillustrated.
Thereare no deviations made that
lead to misinterpretation of the text
discussed.
2. PERFORMANCE/OUTPIUT – 20pts
The performance/output shows
creativity and resourcefulness. The
delivery has a great impact to the
Audience,
3. COLLABORATION- 10 pts.
The group shows teamwork and
cooperation. Task are well distributed
to all members.

(The students will do their assigned task.)

(The teaher will give feedback to the output.)

Direction: In 2-3 sentences answer the

1 Evaluation following questions.

(Students’ answers may vary)

1. What feelings are expressed in the
poem? Cite at least two and explain.

“The feelings expressed in the story portrait

2. What are the main conflict in the
sadness because of the death of the man as
story? well as guilt by not following the warning”

“The main conflict in the story is man vs.

nature because the man struggles to survive in
the cold place like it"
3. If you were the man, would you do the
same?
“No, because I would listen to the advice of
others rather than I make myself regretful in
the end”
4. If you were given the chance to
change the ending of the story, how
would it be?
“I would let the man live and learn from his
mistake”

2 Assignment
Make a plot of the story.
V. REMARKS

VI. REFLECTION
Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:

AMADEUZ SANTOALLA DENISSE A. GABO MARICEL A. ELLA

Student Teacher Cooperating Teacher Chairperson-English Dept.