LEARNING PLAN

Unit Topic: Exploring African Culture and Literature.

Lesson Name: Moorish Marriage Customs, Parallelism and Cohesive Devices.
Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of: African literature as a
means of exploring forces that human beings contend with; various reading styles vis –
à-vis purposes of reading; prosodic features that serve as carriers of meaning; ways by
which information may be organized, related, and delivered orally; and parallel structures
and cohesive devices in presenting information.

Performance Standard: The learner transfers learning by composing and delivering an

informative speech based on a specific topic of interest keeping in mind the proper and
effective use of parallel structures and cohesive devices and appropriate prosodic
features, stance, and behavior.

Learning Competency:
The learners should be able to:
1. Describe the notable literary genres contributed by African writers.
2. Use parallel structures.
3. Use appropriate cohesive devices in composing an informative speech.

Transfer Goal: The students transfer their learning by actively participating in writing
sentences with correct observance of the parallelism of ideas with the effective application
of the cohesive devices embedded therewith.

Essential Question(s):
1. What is the custom of Moorish marriage?
2. What is parallelism of ideas?
3. What are cohesive devices?

Enduring Understanding:
 The students will stand on the different rules of the parallelism of ideas guided by
the cohesive devices by which they will use their knowledge of this concept as they
go with their day-to-day communication.
 STAGES ACTIVITIES

Activity 1: Picture Talk.

Directions: Start the discussion by introducing the concept of
Moorish marriage custom.
The teacher will paste picture on the board which concerns the
custom with sentences about the picture as well. The students’ task
is to try to comprehend the sentences and see any mistakes from
it.

THE PICTURES TO BE SHOWN:

EXPLORE

Sentences:
 She is having their marriage.
 They love each other and laughing each other.

Process Questions:
1. What do these pictures tell you?
2. What have you noticed with the sentences?
3. Are the sentences comprehensible?

Activity 2: Align!
Directions: On an index card, have students write three action
verbs. Some examples include walk, jog, and talk, or scheme,
erase, and connect, or run, swim, and wring.
FIRM UP
Students exchange their cards with a partner.

Students will write one parallel sentence, using all three verbs.

For the next steps to practicing parallel structure, use different verb
tenses with the words.
 Tell students the verbs are now past tense. Some examples now
include walked, jogged, and talked, or schemed, erased, and
connected, or ran, swam, and wrung.

Students exchange their cards with a partner.

Students will write one parallel sentence, using all three verbs in
the past tense.

Activity 3: SEE, HEAR and UNERSTAND.

Directions: The teacher will play a video of Khan Academy
concerning the parallelism and cohesive devices. The students will
take down notes of all the rules discussed.
DEEPEN After each rule, the teacher will randomly say a name of a particular
student that is going to answer the teacher’s question.
The teacher will use some samples from the text Moorish Marriage
Custom.

Activity 4: QUIZtime!
Directions: In a one whole sheet of paper, the students will answer
the following set of questions with relevance to the topic.

1. Which of the following sentences demonstrates parallelism?

A. My best friend Jane loves to eat ice cream, text her friends, and
hanging out at the mall.
B. After graduation he spent the summer in Europe, he got his first
short story published in a literary magazine, and he proposed to his
girlfriend.
TRANSFER
C. My teacher said that I need to make source cards, note cards,
and write a works cited page.
D. None of the above.
E. All of the above

2. Which of the following phrases demonstrates parallelism?

A. Work hard studying, trying painting, and learn a lot.
B. Have children, to promote art, and painting mothers.
C. Achieve success, to become famous, and attain glory.
D. To study art, to get an education, and to make a living.
E. None of the above.
 3. Which of the following sentences demonstrates parallelism?
A. My three steps in applying to college were the following: filling
out applications, sent them in, and visited college campuses.
B. On the day of the field trip please bring the following: permission
slips, a change of clothes, and you'll need money.
C. Aaron's favorite things include the following: chocolate, comfy
clothes, and movies.
D. For her presentation on Tuesday Rosa did the follwing: dressed
in her best outfit, arrived early to set up, and her lines were recited
three times.
E. None of the above.

4. The puppy loved to run in circles, chase its tail, and chew up my
shoes. The preceding is an example of which of the following?
A. Parallel words
B. Parallel phrases
C. Parallel clauses

5. After watching Barak Obama take the oath of office, kids in my

class jumped up and down, they hugged one another, and they
cried tears of joy. The preceding is an example of which of the
following?
A. Parallel words
B. Parallel phrases
C. Parallel clauses