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Developmental Activity Directions: Read and understand the short story below written by O Henry so you can answer the succeeding activities that follow..

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating . While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad..

Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him..

Now , there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy..

"Will you buy my hair?" asked Della. "I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it." Down rippled the brown cascade. "Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practiced hand. "Give it to me quick," said Della. Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present..

When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task. Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant school boy . She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically. "If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops..

Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face. Della wriggled off the table and went for him. "Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you.".

Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on. Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. "Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first.".

But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!" And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!" Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit. "Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it." Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled. "Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep ' em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on.".

Main Lesson/Concept Notes In understanding a short story, we have elements that will guide us to make it comprehensive and precise ..

Dynamic - Dynamic characters are characters who change during the story, usually as a result of something big that happens to them. Round - Round characters are usually the main character in a story. We know a lot of details and fact about a round character. Flat - Flat characters are usually minor characters. They don't play a big part in the story..

Two General Categories of Conflict: 1.Internal Conflicts Man vs. Self (a struggle within yourself) 2.External Conflict Man vs. Man (a struggle against or several people) Man vs , Society (a struggle against general people, rules/laws of the world) Man vs. Nature (a struggle against natural occurrences).

4.Plot Plot is the order of events that make up a story; a sequence of events..

Exposition This is where character and setting is introduced, the beginning of the story. Rising Action The story build and gets more exciting and interesting. It’s where the conflict in a story presented. Climax The moment of the greatest tension in a story, this is often the most exciting event. It is the event that the rising action build up to and the falling action follows..

5.Theme The Theme is the central idea or belief in a short story..

Directions: Answer the following questions. 1. What are the characteristics of Della as a wife? 2. What are the characteristics of Jim as a husband? 3. Can you describe the setting and the important events in the story? What are those?.

Directions: Answer the following questions. 1. Who is the main character of the story? 2. What is the main reason why they are willing to work and find extra money? 3. Why Della tended to sell her hair? How much does she gets? 4. Is the gifts matters as they saw each other during Christmas Eve? 5. What are the personality that Della and Jim possessed and take their prides on?.

Directions: Answer the following questions . 1. How did Jim buy his Christmas gift to Della? 2. Where did Jim get the money to buy a present for his wife? 3. What is magi?.

Narrate your Christmas Eve experience and describe the present that you bought for you loved ones. Why did you choose that kind of ?.

Group work Search and read another story which has a theme of “love and sacrifice”. Determine the elements of the story and present it to the class, next day..

1. The central idea or message of a story . a. Theme b. Plot c. Conflict d. Text 2. The problems the characters face in the story . a. Conflict b. Setting c. Resolution d. Plot 3. The part of the story that starts the problem . a. Inciting Incident b. Exposition c. Falling Action d. Resolution.

4. The turning point of a story. a. Climax b. Resolution c. Falling Action d. Exposition 5. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place a. Setting b. Plot c. Theme d. Genre.

_______1. Point of view is the sequence of events in a story . _______ 2. A character must be human. _______3.Setting creates an atmosphere in the story . _______ 4. Plot is one of the basic four elements. In simpler terms, plot is what happens in the story. _______ 5. Climax is the high point of the story, the part readers have been waiting for, and as everything has been building up to this point..