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K to 12 Learning Plan
Grade 8 English

TOPIC: Short Story “The Food of Paradise” by Ibn Amjed Date: March 16 ,2020
MATERIALS: Visual Aid, Laptop, Projector, and Pentel Pen Duration: 1 meeting only
and Paper
REFERENCES: English Communications Arts and skills through world literature
ACTIVITIES: Recitation, Quiz, Mini Performance task,
INTEGRATION: B.E.S.T

CONTENT STANDARD:
The learner demonstrates understanding of: South and West Asian literature as an expression
of philosophical and religious beliefs; information flow in various text types; reality, fantasy,
and opinion in listening and viewing materials; word decoding strategies; and use of
information sources, active/passive constructions, direct/reported speech, perfect tenses, and
logical connectors in journalistic writing.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD:
. The learner transfers learning by composing a variety of journalistic texts, the contents of
which may be used in composing and delivering a memorized oral speech featuring use of
properly acknowledged information sources, grammatical signals for opinion-making,
persuasion, and emphasis, and appropriate prosodic features, stance, and behavior.

Essential Questions Enduring Understandings

 Do you believe in God?  Faith in God is not enough unless

 Do you ask Him if why you are suffering? If it is acted upon.
why the world seems so unfair for you?  In our lives, we can’t avoid to feel
sometimes that the world is unfair
but we should not question our one
and only creator. It is better to do
good works, and just pray to God
that He will guide us in every way
and be more thankful than ever.
And for all the things that
happened, happens and would
happen in our lives always
remember that God has always a
 purpose.

LEARNING COMPETENCIES:
 EN8LT-IVg-2.2.5 Determine key ideas, tone, and purposes of the author

LEARNING TARGETS:
I can:

 infer the message of the story

 relate the moral of the story through giving ideas and reflection about the experiences
in life
 create and perform varied activities through slogan, mnemonic, graphic organizer, and
symbolism

Preliminary Activity:
 Prayer
 Greetings
 Checking of attendance
 Setting rules

EXPLORE:
Activity 1: “SAY WHAT YOU SEE”
 The teacher will present a video clip for the students to analyze.
 The teacher will ask questions regarding the video clip and let her students
share their understandings about the video clip being viewed.
 She will process the students answer.
 In a read-a-loud strategy the teacher will introduce the objectives for today’s
lesson as well as the guided questions

FIRM –UP:
Activity2: “CURRENTLY READING”.
 Through power point presentation the teacher will let the students read the
vocabulary words found in the story “The Food of Paradise!” as well as the
short biography of Ibm Amjed the author of the story.
 Then, the teacher will present and discuss the summary of the story “The
Food of Paradise” by Ibm Amjed in a read-a-loud and picture analysis
strategies.

Activity 3: “PASS THE BALL”

 The teacher will play a music and she will let her students pass the ball to their
classmates.
 She will stop the music and whoever student holding the ball will be the one to
answer the question.
 In the same manner the teacher will repeat the said activity until all the guided
questions will be answered
  The teacher will process/follow up the students answer.

DEEPEN:
The teacher will ask question regarding students’ perception of the following
questions;

Guided Questions:
1. Do you believe in God?
2. Is having faith enough to save us?
3. Should we question our creator why world so unfair?
4. Do you think God has a purpose why he allows us to suffer?

TRANSFER: 5
Activity 3: “TEAM GOT TALENT!
 The teacher will group the students into five groups.
 Each group will select a representative to pick an envelope for their assign
group number.
 The teacher will present the rubrics for the learners to know the criteria of
judging their performances.
 In their respective groups, the students will be given five (5) minutes for
creating/ composing their tasks and two (2) minutes for performing their task
through slogan, poem, mnemonics, acrostic and making symbol.
 The student’s performance will be rated based on the rubrics given below.

Criteria for Differentiated Tasks (15 pts.)

Criteria Excellent Good Poor

( five points) (four-three) (two-one)
The content is related to The content has a little The content is not related to the topic.
the topic. connection to the topic.
Content
Most members are Some members are not Most of the members are not
participative and master participating participating.
Collaboration the performance
The presentation is The presentation is good The presentation is poor and lack of
outstanding and very and creative creativity.
Presentation creative.

VALUES INTEGRATION: Video Clip Presentation

The teacher allows the students to come up with these:

 In our lives, we can’t avoid to feel that the world is so unfair but we should not
question our one and only creator. Everything’s happen for a reason and God
has a purpose.
EVALUATION: Paper and Pencil

Questions Answer Key

Test I: True or False (number 1-2) Test I: True or False

Instruction: Write T if the statement is true and if 1.T
FALSE correct the word to make the statement true. 2. T
Write your answer on the space provided before the Test II: Multiple Choice
number. 3. a
_____________1. Mullah is the main character in the 4. a
story “The Food of Paradise”. Test III: Sentence Completion
_____________2. Baghdad, near river bank is the 5. teacher
place where Mullah choose to stay when he left. 6. Baghdad
. 7. halwa
Test II: Multiple Choice (number 3-4) Test IV: Short Paragraph
Instruction: Encircle the letter of your answer.
3. Who is the author of the story The Food of
Paradise?
a. Ibn Amjed b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. Mahatma Gandhi d. Peter Asbjornsen
4. What is the thing that Mullah saw floating on the
water every day?
a. halwa b. bawla
c. hawla d. balwa

Test III: Sentence Completion ( 5-7)

Instruction: Fill in the blanks with the correct
answer

Mullah is a (5) ___________ before who went to (6)

__________ near river bank and saw (7) _________
floating on a river thought it was food sent to him by
Allah.

Test IV: Short Paragraph

Instruction: For three points explain in three
sentences.
Faith without work is dead.

Rubrics for Short Paragraph:

Criteria 3 2 1
Content Well Well Not organize,
and organize, no organize, grammatically
Gramma grammatical have error
r error grammatical
error
HOME DELIGHT:
 Watch the video about “The mother’s hope-----overcoming Fear through Hope and
Faith in God. Make a reflection about it and send it through e-mail.
ramblanca@yahoo.com

Prepared by: ROSALIE M. BLANCA

Student teacher
Checked by:
ROMY O. DELOS
SANTOS
Cooperating Teacher