This lesson plan aims to help students identify an author's purpose and critically analyze a reading about friendship. The teacher will show a picture to motivate discussion about friends, introduce vocabulary, and have students read the selection. Students will then determine the author's purpose and answer comprehension questions. For evaluation, students will complete lines of a poem about what a friend means to them. Their assignment is to answer questions about sacrifices in friendship and potential barriers.

1. A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in English III
Remedial Instruction
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson the student is expected to:
identify word meaning through synonyms;
deduce author’s purpose; and;
react critically to what is read.
II. Subject Matter
Focus: Identifying author’s purpose
Springboard: Friends by Fr. Bob Garon
Materials: Handout, picture
III. Procedure
A. Pre-reading
1. Motivation
The teacher will show a picture of her with her friends and ask the student if
she has friends.
2. Vocabulary Development
The student will make a list of words that she can associate with friends.
B. During-reading
The teacher will give the student the copy of the selection entitled Friends by Fr.
Bob Garon and the student will read it and determine the author’s purpose in
writing it afterwards.
C. Post-reading
The teacher will ask the student the ff. questions for comprehension check:
1. Why do teenagers want to have friends?
2. What is meant by "They become the teenager's bridge from the home to the
outside world"?
3. Do you agree that friends strongly influence their peers? What influence do
friends have on their peers?
4. Why is it important for teenagers to choose their friends well?
5. What does the writer want to tell teenagers about friendship?
A Semi-detailed Lesson Plan
Prepared by Rona C. Catubig
January, 2013 Lesson #2

2. IV. Evaluation
Complete each line with a fitting word or phrase to compose a verse:
What is a Friend to Me?
To me a friend is someone
who . . .
who . . .
He/She
is . . .
is . . .
Yes, someone who ____, ____, ____, and _____ is indeed a friend to me.
V. Assignment
In your assignment notebook write your answers to the ff. questions:
1. What can real friends give up in the name of friendship? Cite examples.
2. What can be barriers to good friendship?
A Semi-detailed Lesson Plan
Prepared by Rona C. Catubig
January, 2013 Lesson #2