LESSON PLAN 1 - ANTECEDENTS

Grade level: Grade Seven

Objectives:

At the end of the class, the students are expected to:

a. define the following literary terms: antecedent and pronoun

b. distinguish antecedent used in a sentence.

c. identify and correct incorrect agreement between pronouns and antecedents.

d. practice writing sentences with matching antecedents and pronouns.

Subject Matter: Antecedents

Reference/s:

Anonymous. (n.d.). Literary Devices Definition and Examples of Literary Terms. Antecedent. Retrieved from https://literarydevices.net/antecedent/

Benner, M.L. (2002). Self Teaching Unit: Pronoun - Antecedent Agreement. Retrieved from https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/modulepaa.htm

Kizlyk, (n.d.). Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. Retrieved fromhttps://www.lewispalmer.org/cms/lib/CO01900635/C entricity/Domain/1210/Pronoun%20Antecedent%20A greement.pdf

Materials:

Zoom Conference
PowerPoint Presentation
Google Form
QR codes
Padlet

Procedure:

A. A. Activity

a. Recall

Prayers and Greetings

Checking of Attendance

The teacher will call someone to lead the prayer. Before starting the class, she will ask everyone to open their cameras to screenshot for the attendance. The teacher will now ask about the previous lesson.

Previous Lesson was Pronoun

Pronoun - is a word that takes the place of or refers to a noun.

b. Motivation

The teacher will show sentences that contains pronoun, she will give three choices in each, while the students in zoom conference will determine the right pronoun using reactions.

1. Mrs. Gonzales chose ______ to lead the class in today’s session.

Us (Heart React)

I (Wow React)

She (Party Popper React)

2. Yesterday, Taylor and _______ spent the day at the Café.

Me (Wow React)

Us (Party Popper React)

I (Heart React)

Scavenger hunt

The students will do a scavenger hunt where they will look for the pronouns used in the paragraph in the google form.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yo7XiVBcg_Ikxf2xe0k1_UB0vcY8_7cS80UxoUEbH3I/edit

Direction: Read the following paragraph and list down the Pronouns used. When you find a pronoun error, replace it with a correct one. If the sentence does not have any pronoun or error, please put None.

(1) Kathy has always liked dollhouses, and she got an idea for a business from their hobby. (2) Now she and her brothers make dollhouses for sale. (3) Neither she nor her brothers give all of her time to the business. (4) Still, the team makes all its spending money from their sales. (5) From October until mid-December, the crew takes turns selling its products at craft sales.

B. Analysis

After the activity, the teacher will ask the students the following questions:

1. How would you know if the sentence uses the right pronoun? Did you look on the Noun first?

2. Should nouns be connected to the pronoun?

C. Abstraction

Antecedent

Antecedent is an earlier clause, phrase, or word to which a pronoun, noun, or another word refers.

A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in number, gender, and person.

For Example:

The pronoun his refers to President Lincoln.

In this sentence, the pronoun his is called the REFERENT because it “refers back.”

We call President Lincoln the ANTECEDENT because it comes before the pronoun that refers to it later. (ante = “before”)

Thus, the mechanics of the sentence look like this:

If the antecedent is singular, use a singular pronoun. If it is plural, use a plural pronoun.

To choose the right pronoun for two antecedents joined by and, or, or nor, you have to look if the noun antecedents are singular or plural.

For Example

When two or more singular noun antecedents are joined by and, they make a PLURAL antecedent. (1 + 1 = 2)

NOTE: The plural pronoun their replaces both masculine and feminine nouns.

If both noun antecedents joined by and are plural, then the referent pronoun will also be PLURAL.

Gender and Person – The gender of the pronoun – masculine (he, his, him), feminine (she, her, hers) or neuter (it, its) – must be the same as the gender of its antecedent. The person (first, second, third) of the pronoun also must agree with the person of its antecedent.

Example:

You would be proud to see your work appreciated by future generations.

Any artist would like his or her creation to last for hundreds of years.

An astronaut conducts their experiments during the flight.

D. Application

a. Individual Activity

For individual activity, the teacher will give a link and the student will answer the following questions for them to practice the right use of antecedent and pronoun.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-conventions-of-standard-english/subject-verb-agreement-and-pronoun-antecedent-agreement/e/pronoun-antecedent-agreement

b. Group Task

The teacher will divide the students into two groups and they will do the given activity in the breakout rooms.

Instruction:

Each group will go to their assigned padlet and will write the antecedent and pronoun used in each sentence. They assign one group member to present their answers

Example:

1. Even though the party was fun, it was crowded.

Answer:

( Party, it)

GROUP 1

Password: GROUP1