Division of City Schools

ELPIDIO QUIRINO HIGH SCHOOL

Bacood, Sta. Mesa Manila

Learning Plan in Reading

Grade 8
I.

II.

Objectives
At the end of the period, the students should be able to:
make inferences based on the characters actions and words.
take note of the salient points of the texts.
compare values expressed in texts to ones own values.
reveal the temperament of the Burmese by accomplishing the
Character Revelation Chart.
simulate or role play the scene in the story.
guess the meaning of the underlined words through configuration
clues.
Subject Matter:
Reading: The Countrys Good Son by Minn New Thein
Ref. English Time Magazine, p. 32-33

III.

Procedure:
A. Daily Routine
1. Classroom Management
2. Opening Prayer
3. Checking of Attendance
B.

Before Lesson
Learning Task 1: Background Knowledge (Facts about Burmas

Army)
Direction: Read the texts flashed on the screen
and take note of the
Important / salient points.

Child Soldier

Burma has the largest number of

child soldiers in the world and the
number is growing. The
overwhelming majority of
Burmas child soldier s are found
in the national army, Tamadaw
Kyi, which forcibly recruits
children as young as 11,
although armed opposition
groups use child soldiers as well.
These children are subject to
beatings and systematic during
training.

Human Rights Watch noted

that there is no way to
precisely estimate the number
of children in Burma's army,
but it appears that the vast
majority of new recruits are
forcibly conscripted, and there
may be as many as 70,000
soldiers under the age of 18.

"Burma's army preys on

children,
using
threats,
intimidation
and
often
violence to force young
boys to become soldiers,"
said Becker. "To be a boy in
Burma today means facing
the constant risk of being
picked up off the street,
forced to commit atrocities
against villagers, and never
seeing your family again."

The International Labor

Organization
convention
A 2013
report in CNN
stated
on the worst
forms of
that recruiters
of Child
Soldiers
still active
childwere
labor, adopted
in
and that
according
to
1999,
also recognizes
analysis
risk
analysis
the from
forced
recruitment
company Maplecroft,
of children under age 18
Myanmar still ranks number
in armed
8 on for
theuse
global
index, conflict
where
as of
one
of soldiers
the worst
its use
child
is
considered
forms of
extreme.
child labor.

Motivation:
Examine the pictures presented in powerpoint.
A
C

Motive Questions:
Who are the people in the pictures?
What role do they play in the our society?

Who among them do you like best? Why?

C. During Lesson
1. Improving Vocabulary Skills:
Guess the meaning of the underlined words
through configuration clues.
a) pay you ten Kyats and fifty pyas?
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b) who walked away, limping

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c) he lifted the leg of his trouser.

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d) Lin Aung as inquisitive and asked them.

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e) filled with the desire.

2. Presentation of KWL Chart:

Before you read the selection, The Countrys
Good Son by Minn New
Thein, each group is assigned to complete the first 2
columns of KWL chart.
On the first column, write the things you already
know about the
Burmese soldiers and on the second column, write the
things you want to know
after reading the selection (at least three to five
questions).

KWL Chart
What I Know

3.

What Ive Learned

Reading of the text:

4.

What I Want to
Know

Read the selection for five minutes.

Comprehension Check:

Questions are written on strips of paper for the students

to answer.
1. Who was Lin Aung? What did he do every

weekend?
2.

Why did the first soldier want to buy

only the right side

slipper? Did Lin Aung approve of it? Why
not?

3. How was the problem solved? Explain.

4.

What is implied by the following

underlined phrases?
a.

You good sons of the country are the jewels of

our country.
b.
I will try to be a good son of the country like
you.
c.
These drug addicts were a burden to the
country.
5.

Who were considered as the good sons

in the story? Explain your

answer.

Ss 5.

Character Thinking Matrix

Divide yourselves into three groups.

Scan the short story and answer the CTM based on
the questions. Pick out lines from the story that show
his actions.
Then, infer the characters traits.
Post your output on the board for checking
-How does

he/she act?

2.

Traits

-What does he
or she say?

Traits

-How does
he/she feel?

Traits

Valuing

What values are shown by the characters in the

story?
Compare the values of the characters in the text to
ones own values.

3. Completion of KWL Chart:

Complete the KWL Chart by filling in the last column.

What are the things you have learned from the selection?
Are your questions being answered?

D.

After Lesson
1. Accomplish the Character Revelation Chart by
answering the given questions.

Character Revelation Chart

Which character do you

like best ? Why?

Which character experiences

personal change from the
beginning
How did the story reveal the
temperaments of the
Burmese in response to

Do you think the situation

can be applied to Filipinos,
particularly our soldiers?

2. Role Playing:
Simulate in class the situation where the
members will pretend to be Lin
Aung while the others play or act out the roles of the two
young soldiers.
IV. Assignment:
1. Write a reflection expressing your impression or opinion on child
soldiers in Burma.
2. What are advertisements? Propaganda?
3. What are examples of advertisements?
4. What are the types of propaganda in advertising?
( Please refer to English Time pages 33-34)