Lesson Plan in Literature

I- Objectives:

1. Identify kinds of drama

2. Distinguish the kinds of drama through its characterization

II-Subject Matter:

           

Topic:  Kinds of drama

            Reference: Functional English for Today IV

            Materials:  Computer, projector, video clip

III-Procedure

A.      Preparatory Activity

1.      Prayer/Greeting

2.      Checking of attendance

3.      Energizer

B.      Motivation

The students will watch video clips.

C.      Unlocking of Difficulties

Directions: Arrange the set of jumbled letters to come up with different correct        

                    words.

•         M  R  O  A   D  E   L  M  A             L

•         A  F  C  R  E                                    J 

•         R  G  E  A  Y  D  T                           L

•         Y  E  D  C  M  O                              J

D.     Presentation of the lesson

                            Today, we will discuss the different kinds of drama and their characterization

E.      Discussion

There are 4 kinds of drama/play

TRAGEDY

A play to be identified as tragedy must contain the following requirements:

1. Concerns a serious subject

2. The hero or protagonist must be a person of heroic proportions.

3. No great reliance should be placed on chance or coincidence; the incidents must be honest. Whatever should happen must happen.

4. Pity and fear are the basic emotions of the play:

•          Pity for the protagonist in his suffering

•          Fear that the same trial may come to us.

                         

                          COMEDY

                                                You may have believed that all comedies concern light subjects. This is not the      

                                 case, as seen in the following characteristics of a comedy play.

                A. The play must concern a serious subject or  a light one.

                                                B. It concerns events that are both possible and probable.

                C. What happens grows out of character and not situation.

                D. The laughter it evokes is a kind of “thoughtful” laughter.

MELODRAMA

                Is related to tragedy in that it concerns a serious subject.

               

The characteristics of melodrama are:

               

1. It treats a serious subject, but the characters are not as pathetic as those in tragedy.

2. The element of chance enters.

3. The emotion of pity is provoked, but it tends toward sentimentality. Little if any fear    

                  evoked.

4. The hero usually wins the battle

FARCE

               

                       The characters and incidents in a farce are exaggerated, and the emphasis is on   

                       plot rather than characterization.

The characteristics of Farce are:

               

1. The events and characteristics are possible, but not very probable.

2. It evokes riotous laughter.

3. It is episodic, calling for credibility only for the moment.

                                        4. What happens is an effect of the situation, not character.

F.       Generalization

Let’s draw a brief summary of the lesson we’ve just discussed

A. The four kinds of play are________________.

B.Just like comedy, farce also evokes________________.

C.Melodrama also concerns serious subjects just like________________.

D._____________is an exaggerated comedy.

  

G.     Application

Let’s see how much you’ve understood our lesson..

Tell what kind of play has the following characteristic:

1. What happens grows out of the character and not situation.

2. There is an element of chance.

3. No coincidence may happen for chances.

4. It evokes riotous laughter

5. The hero usually wins the battle.

IV- Evaluation

Directions: Choose the letter of your answer for each number from the given options above the questions

                A. TRAGEDY                        B. COMEDY

C. MELODRAMA                               D. FARCE

1. The emphasis is on plot rather than characterization.

2. What happens is an effect of the situation, not character.

3. pity and fear are the basic emotions of the play.

4. The hero usually dies at the end of the story.

5. It evokes thoughtful laughter.

V-Assignment

Prepare for output writing tomorrow.