Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Pinagkawitan Integrated National High School
Pinagkawitan, Lipa City

A Detailed Lesson Plan

Date:

I. Desired Outcomes:

Content Standard:
The learner demonstrates understanding of how Anglo-American literature and
other text types serve as means of connecting to the world; also, how to use ways
of analyzing one-act play and different forms of verbal for him/her too skillfully
perform in a one-act play.
Performance Standard:
The learner skillfully performs in one-act play through utilizing effective verbal
and non-verbal strategies and ICT resources based on the following criteria: Focus,
Voice, Delivery, and Dramatic Conventions.
Learning Competencies:
EN9LT-IIIa-16: Analyze literature as a means of connecting to the world
EN9LC-IIId-6.5: Provide appropriate and critical feedback/reaction to a specific
context or situation
Lesson objective:
At the end of the lesson, the students can:
1. Analyze the radio play entitled “Sorry, Wrong number”
2. Listen to the radio play and share thoughts regarding the moral values gained
from the text.
3. Relate the moral values gained from play into real-life situation.

II. Subject Matter:

A. Topic: Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletche
B. References: A Journey through Anglo-American Literature Learner`s
Material, p.240-252
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/sorry-
wrong-number
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDmNc8j9gA

C. Materials: Visual Aids, Audio-Video presentation.

Lesson Proper:
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
A. Daily Routine
1. Greeting
Good morning, class
Good morning, Ma’am!
2. Prayer
Everybody stands and let us pray.
(The students pray.)
3. Classroom Management
Before taking your seat, kindly arrange
your chairs and pick up the pieces of
(The students align their chairs and pick up the
trash near you.
piece of papers under it.)
4. Checking of Attendance
Is there any absentee for today?
(The class secretary gives the list of absentees
to the teacher)
Priming motivation
Today, class you will going to watch a
video about emergency call.

Playing the video. Student watch.

What is the emergency call all about?

It is about the emergency that happen into their
house.
It is about her mother.

If you were on that situation, how do you

respond to emergency situations? If I were in that situation, I will be calm and
thing a solution or a quick action to do.
(answer vary)
How willing are you to help others caught in
emergency situations? I am very willing to help because it can save a
life.
Okay, very good!
Activity
Now, I want a four (4) volunteer to do
the emergency call conversation that
you watch a while ago.

The volunteer does the task.

Thank that was excellent.

What do you think our topic for today? Or title

of the lesson that we will discuss?
Sorry, wrong number.
 Very good!

Analysis
So, before we proceed to our topic. Let
us first answered the following
question which help us to understand
the lesson.

Unlocking Difficulties
Give the meaning of the underlined words in
these sentences. Choose your answers from the
synonyms in the box.

bossy complaining soft demoralize

overbearing

1. Mrs. Stevenson is identified as a querulous

and self-centered neurotic. Complaining

2. She became imperious when she could not

connect to the number she dialed. Bossy

3. When she dialed again, she only got a bland

buzzing signal and heard the conversation on Soft
the cross line.
4. The telephone operator ‘s failed attempts to
connect to her husband ‘s office number
unnerved her. Demoralize
5. She gave a highhanded reply when she
answered Sgt. Duffy did not take action on her Overbearing
complaint.

Very good!
Now let us know the writer of the play
entitled “Sorry, Wrong number”

What is the name of the writer?

Correct
She is Lucille Fletche
 Lucille Fletch

 Best known for her suspense classic

Sorry, Wrong Number, originally a
radio play, later a novel, TV play and
motion picture.
 She has written extensively for both
screen and television, and is the author
of several successful mystery novels
including:
 Blindfold,
 Presumed Dead,
 The Strange Blue Yawl
 The Girl in Cabin B54.
 Successful Broadway play
Night Watch, which was also a
motion picture starring
Elizabeth Taylor.
 A native of Brooklyn and a graduate of
Vassar College, she lived on the
eastern shore of Maryland with her
husband, novelist Douglass Wallop,
until his death in 1985.

Okay so I want you to listen to the radio

play but before that can read the characters
or the cast in the radio play on book.
CAST
 Mrs. Stevenson
 Sergeant Duffy
 Operator
 Third Operator
 First Man
 Woman at Henchley Hospital
 Second Man (George)
 Western Union Clerk
 Chief Operator
 Information Operator
 Playing the video.
1. What did she heard? She heard a conversation of two men who will
planning to murder someone.

Playing the video. She calls the operator to track the caller to
2. What did she do after hearing the prevent the bloody situation that will
conversation? happened.

3. Did the operator track the caller? No, she did not and ask to many question her.

She realizes that the plan was all about her.

4. What did she realize?

5. what did the murderer did to the phone They cut the connection.
connection?
She died.
6. What happen to Mrs. Stevenson?
Sorry, wrong number and then hang up the
7.What did the murderer tell Sgt. Duffy? phone.

Very good!

Abstraction
What is the radio play all about?
Who are the characters in the radio play?
It is all about a phone conversation about a
woman seek help because he eavesdrops two
guys talking about a plan of killing someone
unfortunately that woman is her.

CAST
 Mrs. Stevenson
 Sergeant Duffy
 Operator
 Third Operator
 First Man
 Woman at Henchley Hospital
 Second Man (George)
 Western Union Clerk
 Chief Operator
 Information Operator

As we heard the suspense radio play.

What do you think is the moral value of the
radio play?
If you were Mrs. Stevenson do you do the same
thing she did?
Help other even if you don’t know them.
Better calm down and think a better solution to
the problem.
Don’t depend your safety on technology
around you.
Yes, I am willing to help others if I know I can
help.
 No, because my life can be in danger also.
(answer may vary)

Okay, very good!

Application
In you group you will do a radio role
playing regarding the critical situation
inside the envelop. Maximum of 3
minutes.

Remember you will be graded

accordingly.
You not graded only because of the
presentation but also while planning
for your task.
You needed to cooperate to each other,
and I don’t like some in the group to be
like Dora the explorer.

Are my instructions clear?

Yes, Ma’am.

1.Your neighbor’s house is

on fire.

2.Your mother complains

of dizziness and falls to
the ground unconscious.

3.A friend is in fear and in

panic calls on your cell
phone asking for your
help.
 4.A hazardous chemical in
the Chemistry Lab spills
producing smoke and a
suffocating scent.

5.A woman’s purse is

snatched in front of you
inside a jeepney

Each group perform their task,

ROLE PLAY RUBRIC

Criteria Exceptional Admirable 3pts. Acceptable 2pts. Attempted 1pt.
4pts.
Understanding Indicates a Good Fair Presentation
of Topic clear understanding of understanding of is off topic
understanding of topic topic
topic

Cooperation All members Some Few members Group does

contribute by members contribute by not work
playing role well contribute by playing role well together in
playing role well playing their
roles

Presentation Shows Shows some Unsure of Portrayal stalls

confidence confidence responsibility Lacks
Informative Presents some Somewhat information
Entertaining; information informative Audience
engages Engages Engages bored
audience audience audience Mumbles
Speaks loudly Can be heard intermittently Body
and clearly Some use of Hard to hear language is
Appropriate body language Some lacking;
use of body movement inappropriate
language
 Evaluation

Direction: Arrange the events according to

their occurrence in the play. Enter your answer
in the box.

Events
1 Events
2 1 c. Mrs. Stevenson is an invalid
3 confined to her bed and her only
4 lifeline was the telephone.
5
2 d. One night, while she was waiting
for her husband to return home, she
picked up the phone and called his
a. She accidentally overheard a conversation office.
between two men planning murder.
b. Desperate to prevent the crime, she began a 3 a. She accidentally overheard a
series of calls – to the operator, to the police, conversation between two men
and others. planning murder.
c. Mrs. Stevenson is an invalid confined to her 4 b. Desperate to prevent the crime, she
bed and her only lifeline was the telephone. began a series of calls – to the
d. One night, while she was waiting for her operator, to the police, and others.
husband to return home, she picked up the
phone and called his office. 5 e. Her conversation with Sgt. Duffy
e. Her conversation with Sgt. Duffy made her made her realize the description of the
realize the description of the crime scene and crime scene and victim.
victim.
Assignment
Think of Filipino horror or suspense movies
that you have watched and enjoyed. Write the
suspense part of it in your notebook and how it
affects you.

Prepared by:
Jonalyn A. Hidal.
Pre-Service Teacher

Checked by:
Venus L. Virrey
Cooperating Teacher