Republic of the Philippines

Compostela Davao de Oro

Davao de Oro State College

Teacher Education Department

Submitted by:
Leslie R. Labtic
BSED ENGLISH 4A
FIELD STUDY STUDENT
 SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH 10
February 2025

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students are able to:
a. critique a literary selection based on feminist approach
b. interpret the literature as way of understanding feminist approach; and
c. collect ideas about feminism from the story entitled, The Story of an Hour

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Learning Competency: Quarter 3: Compose an independent critique of a

chosen selection: Critique a literary selection based on Feminist Approach
Topic: Critiquing a Literary Selection based on Feminist Approach
Materials: PowerPoint presentation, blackboard, laptop, television, IMs
Reference: DepEd MELCs Quarter 3 Compose an Independent Critique of a
Chosen Selection EN10WC-IIIg-14,
https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/compostela-valley-state-college/
reading-comprehension/feminist-dlp-fgjky/52108795?
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Value(s): empowerment, empathy

III. Procedure
A. Preparatory Activities
1. Classroom Routine
 Prayer
 Greeting
 Attendance

2. Motivation
The teacher will present a video about how women faced their
struggles and dilemmas in today’s time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqlDWHkdHk
QUESTIONS:
 What are your initial thoughts and feelings after hearing this
speech? Did anything stand out to you?
 Can you relate to any of the contradictions mentioned in the
speech? Which ones?

“It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful,

and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good
enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but
somehow, we’re always doing it wrong.

You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say
you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy,
but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but
you can’t ask for money because that’s crass. You have to
be a boss, but you can’t be mean. You have to lead, but you
can’t squash other people’s ideas. You’re supposed to love
being a mother, but don’t talk about your kids all the damn
time. You have to be a career woman, but also always be
looking out for other people. You have to answer for men’s
bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out,
you’re accused of complaining. You’re supposed to stay
pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too
much or that you threaten other women because you’re
supposed to be a part of the sisterhood. But always stand
out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system
is rigged. So, find a way to acknowledge that but also always
be grateful. You have to never get old, never be rude, never
show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never
show fear, never get out of line. It’s too hard! It’s too
contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank
 you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing
everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.

I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other

woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if
all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then
I don’t even know.” - America Ferrera, Barbie.

 It encourages us to embrace our individuality and reject the

notion that we must fit into a specific mold to be considered
successful or worthy. The monologue serves as a powerful
call to action for women to support each other, break free
from these constraints, and work toward a more equitable
society where women can thrive without the burden of
unrealistic expectations.

B. Lesson Proper
1. Activity
The teacher will let the students’ read the poem and answer the questions
that follow. From this activity, the learners will be given an idea of what a
Feminism approach is.

2. Analysis
1. Who is complaining in the poem? Why?
2. Who is being referred to by the word, “You” in the first and second
lines? How is the person being described?
 3. What do you think is the author’s stand with the issue in the poem?

3. Abstraction

FEMINIST APPROACH

Feminism is a social and political movement. Feminism is about changing the way
that people see male and female rights (mainly female), and campaigning for equal
ones. Feminism is advocating for women’s rights and asking for equal rights for no
matter a person’s gender. Somebody who follows feminism is called a feminist.
This idea was put forward by some philosophers in the 18th and 19th centuries such
as Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill.

Mary Wollstonecraft

 Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27, 1759, London, England-died September

10, 1797, London) was an English writer and passionate advocate of
educational and social equality for women. She outlined her beliefs in A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), considered a classic of feminism.
 Mary Wollstonecraft is remembered for her passionate commitment to the
cause of the rights of women, her political radicalism, and her intellectual
daring. She rejected artificial distinctions of rank, which she believed
hampered human flourishing, and also favored republicanism over hereditary
 monarchy as the ideal form of government.
 In particular, Wollstonecraft thought that women should be encouraged to
develop their rational capacities in broadly the same way as men. The best
education, she claims, ‘is such an exercise of the understanding as is best
calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to
enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it
independent.’

John Stuart Mill

 John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher,
political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential
thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory,
political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-
speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. He conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the
individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.
 He advocated political and social reforms such as proportional representation,
the emancipation of women, and the development of labor organizations and
farm cooperatives.
 A member of the Liberal Party and author of the early feminist work The
Subjection of Women, Mill was also the second Member of Parliament to call
for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832.
 Mill argues that people should be able to vote to defend their own rights and
to learn to stand on their two feet, morally and intellectually. This argument is
applied to both men and women. Mill often used his position as a member of
Parliament to demand the vote for women, a controversial position for the
 time.
 In Mill's time a woman was generally subject to the whims of her husband or
father due to social norms which said women were both physically and
mentally less able than men and therefore needed to be "taken care of".
Contributing to this view were both hierarchical religious views of men and
women within the family and social theories based on biological determinism.
The archetype of the ideal woman as mother, wife and homemaker was a
powerful idea in 19th century society.

Feminism is not “anti-men”, but it is asking for equal rights for men and women.
This would include the home life and care work. Women do not always have to
do those roles and it can be shared with men as well. Feminism today still has
the same objectives and demands equality for all genders in different ways; it
also has a more applicable meaning that empowers women. In today’s world
feminism is about being the woman you want to be, being successful in what you
choose to be, and not waiting for approval by society because what you are doing
is not the norm. When thinking of feminism in today’s world it also means girls
supporting each other and empowering one another.

MISCONCEPTION OF FEMINISM

1. All feminist hate men.

2. Feminism only liberates women at the expense of men.

3. Women cannot be feminine and be a feminist at the same time.

4. Men cannot be feminists.

Feminist Criticism (1960s-present) is concerned with "the ways in which

literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic,
political, social, and psychological oppression of women.”
 The following are the questions the students need to take full consideration of
when critiquing using Feminist approach:

a. How does the story re-inscribe or contradict traditional gender roles? For
example, are the male characters in “power positions” while the women are
“dominated”?
b. Are the men prone to action, decisiveness, and leadership while the female
characters are passive, subordinate?
c. Do gender roles create tension within the story?
d. Do characters’ gender roles evolve over the course of the narrative?

Application

The teacher will provide a printed material of the short story entitled: “The Story of an
Hour”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kate Chopin born on February 8, 1850, is credited for being one of the first popular
feminist authors of the 20th century and introduced this movement in literature. After
the death of her husband, Kate moved in with her mother who shortly died thereafter.
She was left alone raising her children and suffered from depression. Nevertheless,
her doctor and friend recommended her to fight depression by writing. They advised
her that writing would be therapeutic, healing and that it could ultimately provide her
with much needed income.
 "The Story of An Hour"

Kate Chopin (1894)

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to
break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that
revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her.
It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad
disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had
only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had
hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed
inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment,
in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself, she went away to her
room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she
sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to
reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all
aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the
street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which
someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in
the leaves.

There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had
met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless,
except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried
itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a
certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed
away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of
reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was
it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping
out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that
filled the air.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this
thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with
her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she
abandoned herself, a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said
it over and over under the breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of
terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her
pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear
and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew
that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the
face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But
she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would
belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in
welcome.

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for
herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with
which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a
fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a
crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often, she had not. What did it matter! What
could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-
assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the key hold,
imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door-you will make
yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven's sake open the door."

"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life
through that open window. Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of
her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.
She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had
thought with a shudder that life might be long.

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a
feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of
Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs.
Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.

Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who
entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He
had been far from the scene of the accident and did not even know there had been
one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to
screen him from the view of his wife.

When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.

SAMPLE CRITIQUE USING FEMINIST APPROACH

 In the short story, Chopin reveals a deep-rooted problem the
woman faced in marital relationships. She plotted the idea that
women were oppressed through unhappy marriages. In a marriage,
women are restricted and are viewed as property, being subservient
to men. Husbands held the powers and often imposed their will onto
their wives. The wives had no other choice but to bend to the
husband’s will. Women had no sense of freedom or individuality and
were inferior to men. “There would be no powerful will bending hers
in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they
have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” These
words show the picture of Mrs. Mallard’s family life. She was
unhappy with her husband; she couldn’t have her own opinion and
couldn’t show her own will; that’s why she is happy to be free!
A careful reader understands the deep sense of the words
about “patches of blue sky showing here and there through the
clouds….” These words didn’t appear in the story for no reason. All
these details make us feel the growth of Mrs. Mallard’s excitement
and make us understand the sign of the meaning of the blue sky as
a symbol of freedom and future life. However, for one moment she
gets afraid allowing herself to be happy about her freedom: “she was
striving to beat it back with her will.” This shows us that Mrs. Mallard
is a “product” of her time and has to be dependent on society rules.
She realizes that society would determine her thoughts of freedom
inappropriate, but she can’t stop herself from feeling that way.
Being a widow is the only way for Mrs. Mallard to get free.
“Free! Body and soul free!” We read these words and share with
Mrs. Mallard her feelings, her excitement, and hopes. At this point
Mrs. Mallard’s sister Josephine is looking ridiculous, with her words
“Louise, open the door! You will make yourself ill.” Because
practically talking, Mrs. Mallard, being a woman who had numerous
years under her husband’s will, finally gets an absolute freedom; a
miraculous freedom that she even didn’t hope to get the day before.
However, her sister is far from understanding it.
Mrs. Mallard dies “of joy that kills.” These words carry the
absolutely opposite meaning than they read. We understand that
the doctors are wrong thinking that she dies from happiness of
seeing her husband again. She chooses rather to die than to live
again under her husband’s will, especially after experiencing
freedom, even just for one hour. This hour in a comfortable armchair
in front of the open window made her feel happy and free; it made
her understand the sense of her being, and it was the only real hour
of her life.
Directions: Find a pair and in a 1/2 sheet of paper, answer the following
question not less than three (3) sentences each question.

1. Why are Josephine and Richards very careful about breaking the news of
Brently Mallard's death to his wife Louise?
2. What do you think Mrs. Mallard mean when she said, "Free! Body and soul
free!"?
3. When and where is the story set? Cite lines and details to prove your
answer.
4. What is notable about the manner by which Louise receives the news of
her
husband's death?
5. What is the atmosphere or mood inside Louise's room? Mention lines and
details
from the text.
6. What makes Louise's repeated utterance of the word free poignant?
7. "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she
would live for herself." What do you think does this line mean?
8. How would you describe Brently Mallard as a husband based on his wife's
thoughts and feelings? Cite lines and details to prove your answer.
9. Based on Louise's reaction to the news of her husband's supposed death,
how do
you think her marital status affects her decisions and happiness?
10.What is ironic about the story's last line?

IV. Evaluation

The students will write 3 important learnings gained from the discussion of the
Feminist approach. They will place their answers in the table.

FEMINIST APPROACH
 1.

2.

3.

1. This type of literary criticism examines images of women and concepts of the
feminine in myth and literature.

A. Gender studies B. Feminist approach C. Linguistic model D. Marxist feminism

2. Feminist criticism in general has moved away from exposing male bias and
towards

A. advocating male-only criticism B. acknowledging women's inferiority to men C.

criticizing masculine roles D. studying women's texts and women authors

3. In this wave of feminism, gender violence has become a central issue for third-
wave feminists.

A. First wave B. Fourth wave C. Second wave D. Third wave

4. Which of the following literature is based on the feminist approach?

A. A Vindication of the Rights of Women B. El Filibusterismo C. Heart of

Darkness D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5. Third-wave feminism seeks to include

A. lower-class, Third-world women B. only racial minorities C. wage-earners D.

white, upper-class women
V. ASSIGNMENT
Directions: Read the first two chapters of Little Women. With a partner, analyze the
characteristics of the March sisters using the feminist approach.

CRITERIA EXCELLENT PROFICIENT DEVELOPING NEEDS

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presented.

Checked by:

Excell V. Balinas
Teacher II
Cooperating Teacher

Prepared by:
Leslie R. Labtic
Pre-service Teacher