This lesson plan summarizes a story about a terrorist and a soldier. The student will read the story and answer comprehension questions to identify the main characters, analyze their descriptions, and relate the situation to their own life. They will then complete a true/false quiz about the story. For an assignment, the student will write a composition describing a time when they experienced a change in beliefs, like the terrorist character did in the story after reading the soldier's letter.

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 the two main characters in the story;
analyze characterization by determining what a character is and does from the
character’s words, actions, and the author’s description of the character; and,
relate the situation in the story with a situation in her life.
II. Subject Matter
Focus: The Young Terrorist by Anonymous
Materials: copy of the story, visual aids
Skill: Reading
III. Procedure
A. Pre-reading
1. Motivation
Have you ever tried to be away from your family? How long was it? How
does it feel?
2. Vocabulary Development
Write as many words as you can which you associate or which you think is
related to the given words:
Terrorist
Soldier
B. During-reading
The teacher will give a copy of the story to the student.
The student will read it silently.
C. Post-reading
For comprehension response the teacher will ask the ff. questions:
1. Who are the two main characters in the story?
2. How would you describe the two characters?
3. In what ways the two characters distinct from each other?
4. In what ways they are similar?
5. Do you think the terrorist made the right decision when he mailed the
soldier’s letter?
6. If you were the terrorist would you do the same?
7. If you were the soldier would you leave your family for the same reason?
A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan
Prepared by Rona C. Catubig
January, 2013 Lesson#5

2. IV. Evaluation
In your quiz notebook:
Write soldier if the statement is true, write terrorist if it is false.
_____1. The terrorist found an unmailed letter in the soldier’s pocket.
_____2. The letter is for the soldier’s girlfriend.
_____3. The name of the terrorist is Arnold
_____4. The soldier was killed by the terrorists.
_____5. The soldier was able to come home during Christmas.
V. Assignment
In your assignment notebook:
The terrorist after reading the soldier’s letter to his family had his realizations and
reflections and in an instant changed his ideology and his beliefs. We call that a
paradigm shift, now think of a situation in your life when you had your paradigm
shift. What was it? Write a composition about it. You may write whatever title you
please but with the theme “the paradigm shift of my life”.
A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan
Prepared by Rona C. Catubig
January, 2013 Lesson#5