I. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

1. Compare and contrast the two characters in the story using the venn diagram
2. Illustrate the events of the story using the flow chart
3. Write a short poem about the story


II. Content: The Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant


III. Materials:
LCD projector
PC with internet connection


IV. Strategies


A. Activities


1. Clothes and jewelry--- can a woman be beautiful without them? How do these symbols of materialism affect a woman's existence? These questions will be answered as we tackle the short story entitled "The Necklace". Pay attention to this so that you can be able to compare and contrast the characters using the venn diagram and illlustrate the events of the story using the flow chart.


2. Before we proceed to the story, let's know first the author's background.


3. In the story, there are unfamiliar words. For you to understand better the story, click unlocking of vocabulary difficulties.


4. After knowing the author's background and unlocking the difficult words, click "The Necklace" to read the story.


5. Analysis


To test whether you have understood the story, answer the following questions below in pair.

a.Describe Madame Loisel as a wife/woman. How about Mr. Loisel as a husband/man.
b.What did the diamond necklace (the replacement) symbolize?
c. What does the story reveal about the manners and values of the society in which the characters lived?
d.If you had been the husband, or sister, or best friend of Mme Loisel, what advice would you have given her before the ball upon the loss of the necklace?
e.Do you know of any woman, dead or living,m in our country who resembles Mme Loisel in materialistic values? Describe or make a sketch of that person, or narrate events about her that show the similarities.
f.What is the most important lesson that you learned from “the Necklace”?
g.How would you define "being content with your life"?


6.Abstraction

a. Compare and contrast the characters of Madame Loisel and Madame Foreister using the Venn Diagram.

b. Illustrate through a flow chart how Madame Loisel’s life changed after the ball.


7. Application

Poetry Writing

Compose a short poem of three stanzas with four lines that talks about the message of the story.

8. Assignment

Write a paragraph of about ten sentences to summarize “The Necklace”. Send your write-up to irajaneb@yahoo.com.