Lesson Plan in English 9: Situations?
Lesson Plan in English 9: Situations?
Lesson Plan in English 9: Situations?
Lesson: English 9
Quarter: 2nd
Module: Module 2.2: Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values
in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
I. Objectives:
identify unchanging values presented in a text
determine how one overcomes difficulties in life
show understanding of the text read by answering the comprehension question
III. Procedure:
A. Awareness
Preliminary Activities/Prayer/Attendance/Review on the previous lesson.
Present the goals/objective of the lesson.
B. Activity
Have the students read the literary piece “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
Students will answer the questions shown on screen.
C. Analysis
Discuss briefly the following: tone, theme, persona, message
Unlocking of difficult words.
Guide question: How do you evaluate the speaker’s behaviour to his situations?
Present the literary piece, “On His Blindness” by John Milton (TV monitor)
D. Abstraction
Discuss the following questions:
1. What is the poem about?
2. What is bothering the speaker in the poem?
3. What does the speaker ask to God? Was it answered? By whom?
4. What did Patience say?
5. What “change” happened to the speaker? Did his values change, too?
6. Can you tell the unchanging value/s displayed by the speaker in the poem?
Answer the guide question: How do you evaluate the speaker’s behaviour to his
situations?
E. Application
Divide the class into four groups.
Let students do the Group Activity given. (Instruction is displayed on the monitor.)
Present the outputs to the class.
IV. Assessment:
Multiple Choice: Read the questions carefully. Choose the letter that has the correct answer.
1. He is deemed to be one of the literary figures who stand prominently in English Literature.
He wrote the poem “On His Blindness.”
A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow C. Rudyard Kipling
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. John Milton
2. John Milton represents the religious consciousness of the Puritans of England. His poem
“On His Blindness” embodies this Puritan passion. Consider this line: “When I consider how my
light is spent.” Light here means
A. life B. happiness C. eyesight D. blindness
3. “And that one talent which is death to hide.” The talent referred to here is
A. acting B. writing ability C. singing D. orating
4. “When I consider how my light is spent.” The phrase “is spent” refers to this:
A. eyesight gone C. money gone
B. old age D. wasting away
5. When the speaker, who is the author himself, learned that he was going blind, his reaction
was expressed in this line:
A. “When I consider how my light is spent” C. “They also serve who only stand and wait”
B. “Doth God exact day labor, light denied?” D. “Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best…”
6. Which line below illustrates the religious attitude that the speaker finally takes to his ailment:
A. “And post o’er land and ocean without rest”
B. “God doth not need either man’s work or his own gifts”
C. “Who best bear his mild yoke, they serve him best”
D. “They also serve who only stand and wait”
7. What is personified in the poem “On His Blindness”?
A. Temperance B. Death C. Patience D. Prudence
8. What does Milton’s soul wish for?
A. To serve humanity C. To serve God by writing great poetry
B. To serve those who are in need D. All of the above
9. Which type of poem is “On His Blindness”?
A. Sonnet B. Blank Verse C. Lyric D. Couplet
10. What is the theme of “On His Blindness”?
A. He who offers his life to God and accepts that He is in control of his fate is loved best.
B. It expresses Milton’s fear of punishment to realization and consolation within himself
C. Milton’s faith in God as he is losing his sight
D. all of the above support the theme
Prepared by:
FELYNDA P. MORA
English 9 Teacher