I.

OBJECTIVES

A. Content Standard The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literature and
other text types serve sources of wisdom in expressing and resolving
conflicts among individuals, groups and nature; also how to use
evaluative reading , listening and viewing strategies, special speeches
for occasion, pronouns and structures of modification.

B. Performance Standard The learner skillfully delivers a speech for a special occasion through
utilizing effective verbal and non-verbal strategies and ICT resources.

C. Learning Competencies
At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:

1.Summarize important points discussed in the text listened to –

EN10LC-IIIc-3.14

2.Detect the themes in the short story

3.Discuss the relevance of love, hope, friendship, death, and sacrifices

in the story

II. CONTENT/TOPIC The Last Leaf

by: O Henry (William Sydney Porter)

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References

1. Teacher’s Guide pages

2. Learner’s Material pages

3. Textbook pages English 10 pages (377-380)

4. Additional Material from Learning Resource (LR) portal

5. Other Learning Resources Laptop, Canva PowerPoint Presentation, pictures, Copy of the text

https://www.google.com/url

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the-last-leaf.pdf

The Last Leaf - Bedtime Story (BedtimeStory.TV) - YouTube

IV. PROCEDURES

TEACHER'S ACTIVITY STUDENT'S ACTIVITY

A. Reviewing previous lesson or presenting the new lesson

Good morning class!

I think everyone is ready for our new lesson so let's begin! Good morning Sir!

B. Establishing a purpose for the lesson/Motivation/Motive

Questions

Before I reveal for todays topic, first take a look at the picture.

Ask: Has ever happened to you that a member of your family, a friend or
close ones got sick or deal with a serious illness?
 Yes! My mom/father/sister/brother experienced fever and I really feel
sad, worried because I don’t want to see him/her suffering, it breaks
my heart.

C. Presenting examples/instances of the new lesson

Class, our lesson this morning is written by this notable writer, William
Sydney Porter or most known with his pen name O Henry.

Who wants to read O Henry's background?

He was a professional writer; he worked as a clerk in a drugstore. In 1882

he went to Texas, where he worked on a ranch, in a general land office,
and later as a teller at the First National Bank in Austin. He later joined the
Houston Post as reporter, columnist, and occasional cartoonist. He was
born on September 11, 1862, and died on June 5, 1910 in New York.
American short story writer whose tales romanticized the common place-
in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories
expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humor, grim or
ironic, and often had surprise endings, a device that became identified
with his name and cost him critical favour when its vogue had passed.

Thank you class. Before we proceed on viewing the short story, I want you
to be familiar with the vocabulary words that you will encounter upon
reading the selection. Please read the following sentences and find the
correct word that match the meaning.

Column A Column B

Courteous
and considerate,
especially towards Pneumonia
women. Student will read and answer.
Strongly
attracted to someone or Ravager 1. D. Chivalric
something.
Greatest
work. Smite 2. C. Smite
To bring
heavy destruction on:
devastate smite to Chivalric 3. E. Masterpiece
afflict chivalric
courteous and
considerate, especially Masterpiec 4. B. Ravager
towards women.
An acute or
chronic disease caused e
by viruses, bacteria, or
physical and chemical
agents and
characterized by
inflammation of the 5. A. Pneumonia
lungs.
Well done class! Now I think you are ready to view/watch the selection.
Let’s start.

D. Discussing new concepts and practicing new skills #1

Class letA's all watch and listen to the story of 'The Last Leaf'.

The Last Leaf - Bedtime Story (BedtimeStory.TV) - YouTube

ACTIVITY 1. ‟RECALL AND ANSWER”

1. What brought Sue and Johnsy together?

2. What was Johnsy suffering from? Why did the doctor visit Sue
and Johnsy?
3. What was the doctor's observation?

4. Why did Johnsy keep asking Sue to open the curtains? 1. Sue and Johnsy met at Delmonico's Hotel and found their tastes
in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that they
rented the studio together.
2. Johnsy was suffering from pneumonia. Sue had called the
doctor to examine Johnsy.
5. Who was Mr. Behrman? How did he earn his living? 3. The doctor examined Johnsy. He was not confident about her
ability to fight off pneumonia which had dragged her to verge of
death. He told this to Sue but assured her that Johnsy still had
the chances of survival if she has the will to live. He promised to
give medicine but advised Sue to do everything possible to inject
6. What did Behrman think about Johnny’s imagination? What some hope and willpower back to Johnsy.
sacrifice did he do for Johnsy to generate in her again the will to 4. She was counting the leaves left behind on the old ivy tree in
live? front of her window. She believed that when the last one fell,
she would also die. When there was only one left, she was eager
to see when it would fall.

7. What was Behrman's masterpiece? Why does Sue say that it is

5. Mr. Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor
his masterpiece?
beneath Sue and Johnsy. He was old and past sixty and failure
in art. He uses to earn his living by serving as a model to those
young artists in the colony who could not pay the price of a
professional.
6. When sue told Behrman about how she feared losing Johnsy
due to her strange fantasy concerning the last ivy leaf, he
became quite angry and expressed his contempt and derision
for such an idiotic imagination. He carefully thinks how he can
help Johnsy to pursue living, in the middle of the night he paints
the last leaf form the ivy tree so that in the morning when
Johnsy woke up she can still see the last leaf hanging on the
tree despite of the storm that passed by.
7. The last Ivy leaf on the wall was Behrman's masterpiece. Sue
says that it was his masterpiece because he painted it in the
 wall without caring for his health, in the middle of heavy rainfall
and winds. The last leaf gave hope to Johnsy and made her
want to live again.

E. Discussing new concepts and practicing skills #2

Now let's try to sum up the story. Based from the video that we listened
and based from the questions that we answered a while ago. JOHNSY, SUE,
GREENWICH
MR. BEHRMAN
We all know that when we are summarizing the important key points in VILLAGE, NEW YORK CITY

a short story, we used different types of organizer to complete the Johnsy has pneumonia Behrman painted a leaf on the
elements, class for us to easy summarize the text, we will use the wall
fishbone organizer.

Characters
ACTIVITY 2: ‟FILL OUTSetting
THE FISHBONE ORGANIZER” Even if we have to
face bad things, we
should always help
The Last our love ones.
Leaf

Problem Moral
Title Solution
Lesson

Are you done class? Please present and read your work.

F. Developing Mastery

Let's try to accomplish another activity by properly arranging the

sequence or event that happened in the story.

ACTVITY 3: ARRANGE ME!

DIRECTION: The following incidents happened in the story, but they are
not in the correct sequence. Number them 1- 10 in the order that they
occurred.

() Mr. Behrman dies.

() The Doctor tells Sue that Mr. Behrman has pneumonia and it is
beyond help.
(7) Mr. Behrman dies.
() Johnsy tells Sue that she believes she will die when the last leaf falls.
(6) The Doctor tells Sue that Mr. Behrman has pneumonia ad is
beyond help.
() Johnsy is taken ill with pneumonia. (5) Johnsy tells Sue that she believes she will die when the last leaf
falls.
() The Doctor tells Sue that Johnsy must get her mind on something else
besides her sickness. (2) Johnsy is taken ill with pneumonia.
() Sue and Johnsy meet, and become friends. (3) The Doctor tells Sue that Johnsy must get her mind on something
else besides her sickness.
() Johnsy convinces herself that fate caused the leaf to stay on the vine.
() Sue goes downstairs and reveals her fears to Mr. Behrman. (1) Sue and Johnsy meet, and become friends.

() Sue tells Johnsy that Mr. Behrman painted the last leaf on the wall. (10) Johnsy convinces herself that fate caused the leaf to stay on the
vine.
() Johnsy becomes obsessed with the ivy vine outside her window.
(8) Sue goes downstairs and reveals her fears to Mr. Behrman.

(9) Sue tells Johnsy that Mr. Behrman painted the last leaf on the wall.
Very good class!
(4) Johnsy becomes obsessed with the ivy vine outside her window.

G. Making Generalizations and abstractions about the lesson

Class who can now give me a very short summary of the story and what
can you say about the story including the author? The Last Leaf is a story of Johnsy, a poor young woman who is critically ill
due to pneumonia. She believes that when the ivy vine on the wall outside
her window would lose all its leaves, she would die too. However, her
neighbor, Behrman, an artist, tricks her by painting a leaf on the wall.
Johnsy recovers.”

‟I can really say that the story is very touching and there are lots of lesson
that we can learn from. I also admire the author for writing the story,
everything is interesting, and the character, the problem, the sacrifice
where Mr. Behrman used his passion to save someone, and I really
appreciate how the story ends.

H. Finding practical applications of concepts and skills in daily

living

Now that we really knew every detail of the story, I want you class to
write or put it on your notebook the themes that you realized from the
story. Try to elaborate your answer and relate it in your/our situation
nowadays.

One of the themes that I got from the story is about friendship. Sue and
Johnsy is inseparable, their love for each other is like they are siblings.
Sue is willing to do everything just for her best friend to be ok. Another
is Mr. Behrman, their neighborhood made a big sacrifice just to make
Johnsy feel better and get courage to live, he did this to make Sue as
well happy. Now that we are in the mid of pandemic, though we are all
affected by this, friendship is very important to help one another, our
love ones, our friends who got positive form the covid-19, let's try to
comfort them, let's try help them to pass the challenge that they've
been through.

Hope – Because of the care and concern of Behrman to Sue and Johnsy,
he tries to think the most effective way using his passion to help Johnsy
bringing back her hope and the will the live. Mr. Behrman character
symbolizes hope in the story as he didn't give up finishing the painting
that later on became his masterpiece not by beauty of it but how that
painting gives hope and chances for Johnsy his passion is truly a life
saver.

Sacrifices – Though Mr. Behrman is weak, he didn't think of his self

instead he did all his best to finish the painting. His sacrifices can be
also compare to our modern heroes today which are the front liners
who are willing to serve our fellow countrymen in this time of
pandemic. We can still recover and we can still go on because of the
people that are willing to help and willing to give and even risk their
lives.

I. Evaluating Learning

Now let's have a short quiz to check your understanding.

(This quiz can be conducted asynchronously if there is no time, post it on
google classroom so that both the online class and face to face class can reach it
in a more convenient way)

POST TEST: THE LAST LEAF

DIRECTION: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

What disease did Johnsy have?

Cancer
Pneumonia
Diabetes
Heart Disease
Where does the story take place? Answers:
New York
California
London
Paris 1. B
Sue, Johnsy and Mr. Behrman live 2. A
in_____?
Notting Hill 3. D
Barrington 4. A
Riverdale 5. C
Greenwich
What was Behrman's masterpiece?
The Ivy Leaf
The Mona Lisa
The Lighthouse 6-10. I realized from the story that life is important, there’s no reason for us to
Johnsy's Portrait give up whatever the situation especially when it comes to death. The will to
Who was Behrman? live in every situation we are facing maybe hard to pursue but the best thing
The Landlord we can do is to continue for ourselves and for our love ones. Sometimes we
Sue’s brother
The downstairs neighbor are the one who will show inspiration and hope to other people, just like Mr.
The Doctor Behrman, be strong and make your life worth while living.
6-10. For 5 points, write 3-5 sentences about your realization from the
short story 'The Last Leaf'.

J. Additional activities for application or remediation

For your assignment class, some of the themes in the story are death,
friendship, love and sacrifice. Choose one of these themes and write a
Slogan describing your thoughts about the theme.

We will post the assignment on the google classroom. Class is it clear?

Any questions regarding the lesson today?

Yes!

Okay, this is all for today, thank you and goodbye!

None.
 Goodbye!

V. REMARKS

VI. REFLECTION

A. No. of learners who earned 80% in the evaluation

B. No. of learners who require additional activities for remediation

C. Did the remedial lesson work? No. of learners who have caught
up with the lesson

D. No. of learners who continue to require remediation

E. Which of my teaching strategies worked well? Why did these

work?
F. What difficulties did I encounter which my principal or supervisor
can help me solve?
G. What innovation or localized materials did I use/discover which I
wish to share with other teachers?