LESSON PLAN 5 - PERSONAL PRONOUNS

 

Grade level: Grade Eight

Objectives:

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

                a. define and identify the concept of personal pronouns/

                b. differentiate between subject and object pronouns.

                c. construct sentences replacing the nouns with personal, possessive, definite pronouns.

                d. identify singular and plural pronouns as well as first, second, and third-person pronouns

Subject Matter: Personal Pronouns

Reference/s:

            Grammar Monster.(n.d.).What Are Personal Pronouns? (with Examples). Retrieved                                         from https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/personal_pronouns.htm

               Images and Worksheet Retrieved from:

                https://images.app.goo.gl/bDKFR827YVLQGedh7

                https://images.app.goo.gl/LaBRHF1VZoYgQH2L6

                https://images.app.goo.gl/wNoXBxbzcpXWXzLZA

                https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/pronouns/i-me-pronouns.pdf

Materials:

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Projector
• Laptop

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 attendance. The teacher will now ask about the previous lesson.

b.    Motivation

        Four Pics, One Word!

        The teacher will flash pictures on the screen and students guess the word it's portraying. 

        

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B.   B. Analysis

1.  What did you notice with the photos that were showed?
2.  What do you think the answers were?   

C.   C. Abstraction

     Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns are short words used to represent people or things. The personal pronouns are I, you, he, she, it, we, and they. They are primarily used to avoid repetition. Look at this example:

• Myra (David's kitten) looks cute, but he thinks she is evil.
(The personal pronouns "he" and "she" avoid the need to repeat "David" and "kitten.")

The issue with personal pronouns is that they change depending on how they're used. Let's start by looking at all the forms:

Table Showing Personal Pronouns by Case

    Below is a table showing the personal pronouns by case (i.e., how they're used) and person (i.e., how they relate to the speaker). The table includes links to all the key grammatical terminology associated with personal pronouns.

Person	Subjective Case	Objective Case	Possessive Determiner	Possessive Pronouns	Reflexive Pronouns
First Person Singular	I	me	my	mine	myself
Second Person Singular	you	you	your	yours	yourself
Third Person Singular	he/she/it	him/her/it	his/her/its	his/hers/its	himself/herself/itself
First Person Plural	we	us	our	ours	ourselves
Second Person Plural	you	you	your	yours	yourselves
Third Person Plural	they	them	their	theirs	themselves

As you can see from the table above, the personal pronouns are categorized by person. There are three-person categories:

• First Person. The first-person personal pronouns (I and we) represent those speaking.
• Second Person. The second-person personal pronouns (you (singular) and you (plural)) represent those being addressed.
• Third Person. The third-person personal pronouns (he/she/it and they) represent those who are neither speaking nor being addressed (i.e., everybody else).

The Different Types of Personal Pronouns

Based on how they're used, personal pronouns are categorized as one of the following:

Subjective Personal Pronoun

I, you, he, she, it, we, and they are the subjective personal pronouns. These are the versions used for the subjects of verbs. For example:

• You are happy.
• They won the league.

Objective Personal Pronoun

The objective personal pronouns are me, you, him, her, it, us, and them. These are the versions used when the personal pronouns are objects (i.e., direct objects, indirect objects, or objects of prepositions). For example:

• Paul knows her.
(The personal pronoun is a direct object.)
• Paul gave them the letter.
(The personal pronoun is an indirect object.)
• Paul went with him.
(The personal pronoun is an object of a preposition.)

Possessive Personal Pronoun

The possessive pronouns are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, and theirs. They represent something that is owned and tell us who the owner is. For example:

• Myra protected the pantry, believing all the food was hers.
(Here, hers represents all the food and tells us the owner is Myra. A possessive pronoun replaces a possessive determiner and a noun, e.g., her food becomes hers, my story becomes mine, and their jellybean becomes theirs. Note that possessive determiners are classified as pronouns too.)

Reflexive Personal Pronoun

The reflexive pronouns are myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. A reflexive pronoun refers back to the subject.

• David did not blame himself for Myra's aggression.
(The subject is David. The reflexive pronoun himself refers back to David.)

Real-Life Examples of Personal Pronouns

Before we look at some real-life examples, it's time to introduce case. A pronoun's case shows its relationship with the other words in a sentence. Here are some real-life examples of personal pronouns in each case.

Subjective Personal Pronouns (i.e., ones in the subjective case)

• Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. (Actress Marilyn Monroe)
• We are what we believe we are. (Author CS Lewis)

Objective Personal Pronouns (i.e., ones in the objective case)

• Get the facts first, then distort them. (American author Mark Twain)
• Conscience is the only incorruptible thing about us. (Henry Fielding)

Possessive Personal Pronouns (i.e., ones in the possessive case)

• Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. (Author Anthony D'Angelo)
• Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. (US President Lyndon Johnson)

Reflexive Personal Pronouns

• If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. (Business magnate Henry Ford)
• Nature is wont to hide herself. (Philosopher Heraclitus)

There is no "reflexive case." A reflexive pronoun is a type of objective-case pronoun.

Each of the quotations above contains only one example of a personal pronoun. They weren't easy to find. It is more normal for a sentence to include several types of personal pronoun. The short (somewhat contrived but grammatically correct) sentence below contains all four types:

• She saw herself and me in theirs. (Here, the personal pronouns are She (subjective), herself (reflexive), me (objective), and theirs (possessive).)

D.   D. Application

a.    Individual Guided Activity

The teacher will call students to answer the following on the board.

Circle the pronoun that correctly completes each sentence. 

 1. This song has been difficult for ( I / me ) to learn. 

 2. It’s a song that my sister and ( I / me ) both enjoy. 

 3. My sister, Ava, and ( I / me ) are practicing the song every day. 

 4. Dad said he would pay my brother and ( I / me ) ten dollars to clean the garage. 

 5. I asked if he and ( I / me ) could earn more money by having a yard sale. 

 6. Dad thanked my brother and ( I / me ) for doing a good job. 

 7. Jacob and ( I / me ) made a birthday cake for our little sister, Mia. 

 8. Jacob baked the cake, and ( I / me ) frosted and decorated it. 

 9. Mia thanked Jacob and ( I / me ) for the best chocolate cake she’d ever tasted. 

10. Kaylee and ( I / me ) decided to wash our dog, Buster, in the bathtub. 

11. Before we could dry him off, Buster shook water all over her and ( I / me ). 

12. “Look at all this dog hair in the tub!” Kaylee and ( I / me ) shouted together. 

13. Alexis sat beside Chloe and ( I / me ) at the picnic table. 

14. Alexis had grapes, but ( I / me ) had apple slices. 

15. Alexis gave Chloe and ( I / me ) some of her grapes.

b.    Group Differentiated

The students will be divided into 4 groups. Every group will create a short story indicating the right use of personal pronouns. The story can be about anything and it should be written on a Manila Paper. The group will pick someone to present their work while the groups critic their work,

 

E. Evaluation

                The teacher will be handing out activity sheets to determine if the students understand the                 lesson for today.

F. Assignment

               For the assignment, the teacher asks the students to make an essay with any topics they desire. The essay should indicate the right use of Personal Pronouns and must have a minimum of 250 words.

Criterion	Description	Point	Score
Quality of Writing	Very informative and well-organized	10
Grammar, Usage & Mechanics	Virtually no spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors and used personal pronouns correctly.	10