Mabel attends a party hosted by Clarissa Dalloway and immediately feels insecure about her new dress. She worries that her dress is inappropriate and that others will mock her appearance. Mabel's insecurities and feelings of inferiority overwhelm her at the party. The lesson teaches students about constructing sentences using the subject-linking verb-complement (S-LV-C) pattern and discusses how insecurities can negatively impact one's life, as shown through Mabel's experience in the story.

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A Detailed Lesson Plan in English – Grade 10
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, 100% of the students with 80% level of proficiency shall be able to:
a. Construct sentences correctly using S-LV-C pattern
b. Discuss the consequences of insecurities in one’s life
II. Subject Matter
Topic: “The New Dress” by:Virginia Woolf
Sub-topic: S-LV-C pattern
Reference:English Spectrum 10
Unit I, Lesson 1- Accepting the Self in Me or Unfolding One’s Myth
Pages 3-15
Materials: Cartolina, chalk and eraser,power point presentation, yarn
Skills: Constructing sentences correctly,discussing one’s opinion about the topic,
expressing reactions by means of a song, poem, etc.
Values: Cooperation and collaboration, accepting oneself
III. Procedures
Teacher’s Activity
I. Preliminary Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greeting the class
3. Checking of attendance
II. Developmental Activities
1. Motivation
Yesterday,I asked you to read the story of “The
New Dress” written by Virginia Woolf. Did you
read it at home, class?
Good! So, how do you find the story?
Excellent! Since, you have already a background of
the story; let’s have an activity for you to
understand it more.
I have here envelopes that contain strips of
cartolina which engraves the words that are related
to the main character of the story. What you’ll have
to do is to give meaning to the letters of that
particular word. I will provide a yarn for each
group, and the one who will speak first will hold
the yarn, and he after which, will hold the end of
the yarn and pass it on to another group member,
and so on until you finished giving meaning to each
letter of the word. You’ll have 3 minutes to
brainstorm. You may now start.
 Words inside the envelope:
o INSECURE
Students’ Activity
Yes, Ma’am.
The story is interesting for it doesn’t only narrate
the situation of the main character,but the lives of
the readers as well.

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o FOOLISH
o AWKWARD
Time’s up! Let’s now listen to the groups as they
give meaning to the words or characteristics
possessed by the main character.
What have you noticed to the words that you have
given meaning?
Are some of the words in the text clear to you?
For you to understand it more, let’s trigger your
mind first. What you’ll do is to match column A
with column B, and you are going to guess the
meaning of the words based on the picture that will
be shown on the board. After this, you’re going to
create your own sentences using the vocabulary
words. These are the vocabulary words you’ve
encountered in the reading text. Are you now
ready?
 Pre-listening
2. Unlocking ofDifficulties
A
1. Appalling inadequacy
2. Cloak
3. Peter out
4. Row of cormorants
5. Vacillating character
B
a. Undecided
b. Alarming lack of competence
c. Long-necked seabird with a distensible
pouch
d. Hidden
e. Extinguished forever
f. Unrivalled personality
g. A loose outer garment that covers or
conceals
h. Using up all one’s strength and stopping
working
Are your “vocabulary friends” clear to you?
Because you’ve already have a background of the
story, we will just discuss this moment the
summary of the story. But before reading it to you,
let’s have the guide questions that will lead you to
(Students brainstorm for the activity)
(Students do the activity)
Answers vary
Answers vary
Yes, Ma’am.
Answers:
1. B
2. G
3. E
4. C
5. A
Yes, Ma’am.

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comprehend the text fully.
Guide Questions:
1. Where did Mabel go?
2. How did the author describe Mabel’s new
dress?
3. What did Mabel mean by “We are all like
flies trying to crawlover the edge of the
saucer?
4. Why did Mabel say to Mrs. Dalloway that
she enjoyed the party very much even
though she did not?
5. If you were Mabel, how would you behave
in the party? Explain.
Are you now ready to hear the summary of the
story to refresh your minds?
You can jot down important information and facts
while I am reading you the story.
Listening Activity
The New Dress (A Summary)
Mabel Waring arrives at Clarrisa Dalloway’s
party and is instantly consumed by feelings of
insecurity and inferiority as she took her cloak off.
These negative feelings are set off by concerns that
her new dress is not appropriate for the occasion.
Immediately after greeting her hostess,she goes
straight to a mirror at the far of the room to look at
herself and is filled with misery at the conviction
that “It was not right.” What she thought that
evening that she will be a beautiful woman has
petered out and begins to berate herself for trying
to appear “original. She had a yellow silk dress
made from an outdated pattern. When the stylishly
dressed Rose Shaw tells her that the dress is
“perfectly charming,” Mabel is sure she is being
mocked.
Mabel thought and told herself, “We are all flies
trying to crawlover the edge of the saucer,” all
looking alike and with the same goals. But she
cannot make herself see the others in this light. She
tells another guest that she feels like “some dowdy,
decrepit, horribly dingy old fly.” Robert Haydon
tried to cheer her up but Mabel feel that he was
insincere on what he says. Mabelasked herself why
she can’t feel that Miss Milan was right when she
told her that she should love coming to a room full
of people. Her feelings toward her have changed.
Back to reality, she is staring at the picture and tells
Charles Burt, “It is old-fashioned,” as if she refers
to the picture and not to the dress. She hopes that
he will say that she looks charming, but he only
makes her ashamed in the party and everyone
laughs at her. Mrs. Holman talks to Mabel and
shares her family story and Mabel thought
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Holmans are like a row of cormorants, barking and
flapping their wings for sympathy. But Mabel
thought she’s more than that for she is a feeble,
vacillating creature.
Mabel thinks about her unremarkable family and
upbringing, her dreams of romance in far-away
lands, and the reality of her marriage to a man with
“a safe,permanent underling’s job.” She thinks
about isolated moments in her life—characterized
as “delicious” and “divine”—when she feels happy
and fulfilled. She determines to pursue personal
transformation through “some wonderful, helpful,
astonishing book” or an inspirational public
speaker. She gets up to leave the party, assuring
Mrs. Dalloway that she has enjoyed herself.
Post-listening
Do you understand the content of the story, class?
Now, I will flash on the screen the summary that I
read to you but this time you are going to fill in the
blanks with the information needed. Are you now
ready?
Let’s have a warm-up activity before answering the
guide questions. I have here something that will
give you an “authority” to tell the story of Mabel to
us. I will put on this on me first and I’ll narrate the
first part of the story, and I’ll pass it on to you and
recount the story. This will be pass on to one
another until the story ends. Say what it is written
on it first, then tell something about the story.
Very good, class! I’m sure that you already know
the answers on our guide questions posted on the
board. But before answering them, I have here a
box that contains some tasks that you’re going to
do before or during the answering of questions. Are
you now excited?
 Tasks
o Sing the answer!
o Get a partner and answer the
question
Yes, Ma’am.
Yes, Ma’am.
(The underlined words from the summary on the
teacher’s activity are the information that the
students should provide)
Yes, Ma’am.
I am a great
story-teller!

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o Act your answer
o Say your answer with 100%
confidence
o Answer the question by means of a
very short dialogue
What lessons have you learned from the story?
3. Lesson Proper
Let’s have these lines from the story, “The New
Dress.”
 We are all like flies trying to crawl over the
edge of the saucer.
 She looked foolish and self-conscious.
Who wants to give reactions to these statements?
What have you noticed on the structure of the
following sentences?
Good! The statements are patterned as S-LV-C.
Any idea what does it mean?
Excellent! How will you define a subject in your
own words?
Correct! Where are the subjects in the sentences?
How about the linking verb?
Very good! Where are the linking verbs in the
sentences?
(Posting of another examples of LV)
Okay. How about the last one, the complement?
What have you observe in the first and the second
sentence?
Bravo! Based on the given examples, do you have
now an idea what a complement is?
Good idea! Going back to the story, will you please
give some statements or sentences about the
consequences that Mabel faced due to her
insecurities and low self-esteem applying S-LV-C
pattern?
4. Application
Compose a one-stanza poem, song, or others
depicting the consequences that others may have
(Students answer the guide questions)
Answers vary
It depicts insecurities and pessimistic view.
Answers vary
Ma’am, subject, linking verb, and complement.
Subject is what or who is being talked about in the
sentence.
The words “we” and “she.”
Ma’am, it connects the subject and the
complement.
“Are” and “looked” are the LV in the sentences.
Ma’am, the first sentence contains the complement
“flies” which functions as a noun; and “foolish”
and “self-conscious” are the complements in the
second sentence which act as an adjective.
Ma’am, a complement gives emphasis to the
subject or describes it.
Answers vary

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for being insecure and inferior. Apply to the lyrics
or lines the S-LV-C pattern.
Rubrics:
Application of S-LV-C pattern: 5 points
Content/ Relation to real-life: 5 points
Cooperation: 5 points
Total: 15 points
5. Generalization
Today, we have learned two different important
things. First is Mabel Waring’s story, and the other
one is S-LV-C pattern. Can you give some
information you have learned from the S-LV-C
pattern?
Good! How about the story of “The New Dress?”
What do you think is the relation of S-LV-C pattern
to Mabel’s life?
In constructing sentences,severalpatterns can be
used to observe its correctness. When you follow
such patterns,a sentence could have a sense of
direction. Mabel’s life is so dull because she has no
patterns to follow to omit her inferiority within her.
She could also make use of the S-LV-C pattern.
S- implicity
LV- love
C- onfidence
6. Evaluation
Arrange the jumbled words inside the parentheses
and rewrite the following sentences applying S-LV-
C pattern.
1. (was,unconfident, Mabel) about her
appearance.
2. The ______ around her ______ ______.
(perfect,people, felt)
3. ______ _______ an enjoyable _________.
(it, party, was)
4. ________ ________ always ________ to
her.
(concern, Mrs. Dalloway, was)
5. Her _____ _______ _____.(was,old-
fashioned, new dress)
S-LV-C is the simplest pattern in constructing
sentences. It is composed of a subject, a linking
verb, and a complement.
 Always value yourself
 Insecurities and inferiority lead you to a
negative side of life.
 Always be yourself no matter what
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7.Assignment
Write a paragraph in which you experienced the
same way as Mabel’s and how you overcome such
insecurities. Apply S-LV-C pattern.
Rubrics:
Application of S-LV-C: 5 points
Relation of experiences: 5 points
Total: 10 points
Answers:
1. Mabel was unconfident about her
appearance.
2. The people around her felt perfect.
3. It was an enjoyable party.
4. Mrs. Dalloway was always concern to her.
5. Her new dress was old-fashioned.
Presented by:
MARIE BUENA S. BUNSOY
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