A Semi-detailed Lesson Plan in English Grade 8

January 28, 2025

I. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, 80% of the students should be able to:
a. analyze the important details presented in the given literary works;
b. appreciate the relationship of culture, heritage, and diversity in understanding
literary works; and
c. unlock the meaning of difficult words through contextual clues.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Analysis of Literature as Mirror to a Shared Heritage of People with
Diverse Background
Reference: English Quarter 3 – Module 5
Materials: Laptop, Tv, Ppt, Tarpaper, Whiteboard, Marker, and Eraser

III. Procedure
A. Preliminary Activities: (2 minutes)
 Opening Prayer
 Greetings
 Checking of attendance
 Setting of classroom standards

B. Activity (5 minutes)
Let's have an activity. “Arrange the letters to form a word”

Mechanics:
 I will group you into 5.
 I will provide the whiteboard, marker, and eraser per group.
 Write your answer on your whiteboard.
 When I say "Go", raise it as quickly as possible.
 5 points will be awarded for each correct answer.

The jumbled letters:

1. TERATURELIT LITERATURE
2. CTUREUL CULTURE
3. HRITAGEE HERITAGE
4. FCTIONI FICTION
5. ONTIONFICN NONFICTION
6. SEPOR PROSE

C. Analysis (2 minutes)
How do you find the activity?
What do the jumbled letters represent?
Anyone can guess our lesson this morning?
 Unlocking of Difficulties (5 minutes)
Directions: Identify the meaning of the following highlighted words.

1. It’s 7 pm, and the light in this

area is dim.
What does "dim" mean?
a. Very bright
b. Not bright
c. Just right 6. The stars blur in the sky during the
d. Shiny storm.
Answer: b. Not bright What does "blur" mean?
a. Clear
2. I felt sorrow at the death of my b. Hard to see
friend. c. Bright
What does "sorrow" mean? d. Disappeared
a. Happiness Answer: b. Hard to see
b. Sadness
c. Excitement 7. I heard my footsteps echoing in the
d. Anger empty hall.
Answer: b. Sadness What does "echoing" mean?
a. Repeating
3. I could hear the puppy b. Disappearing
whimpering. c. Becoming quiet
What does "whimpering" mean? d. Going fast
a. Barking loudly Answer: a. Repeating
b. Crying softly
c. Running 8. My mind glows with excitement when I
d. Playing see my friends.
Answer: b. Crying What does "my mind glows" mean?
softly a. Feels happy
b. Feels sad
4. The light from the candle c. Feels tired
flickers in the wind. d. Feels confused
What does "flicker" mean? Answer: a. Feels happy
a. Shine steady
b. Shine for a little 9. The spider’s web was tight and hard to
while. see.
c. Stay off What does "tight" mean?
d. Get brighter a. Loose
Answer: b. Shine for a b. Hard to stretch
little while. c. Easy to break
d. Wide
5. Her voice was faint, so I could Answer: b. Hard to stretch
barely hear it.
What does "faint" mean? 10. The spider’s web was tight, and I got
a. Very loud stuck in it.
b. Very quiet What does "web" mean here?
c. Clear a. A net made by a spider
d. Strong b. A piece of cloth
Answer: b. Very quiet
c. A rope
d. A fence
Answer: a. A net made by a
spider

Till Hearts End

Chayasi Sunthonphiphit
(tr. Jaames N. Mosel and Burton Raffel)

My mind glows,
Knows no fear of the darkness and its tight web,
Though the stars blur, and the moon’s dim rays
Are sucked into nothingness,
And the oneness of man still cannot be found

Though the sky splits and crackles,

Drops no gentle music,
Though a rooster’s hurried crowing jars my ears,
And a frightened dog goes whimpering up and down.

This clear light inside me

Pushes the wild, heavy night back:
It will never flicker, it can never change,
Neither pain nor sorrow can reach it.

The earth swings in circles;

Soon, light must break through dawn
Hanging, golden and clear over all the world, men living like men.

In the lonely night I lie listening to my own heart,

The darkness so thick I could lose my way
Except for the faint, echoing chant
Of the most precious words ever written.

Words like drops from heaven

Falling like wisdom, strength, peace, beauty, into waiting heart,
These two small hands will move as this minds leads to them,
Will carry Buddha’s divine law
Here to this earth, until this heart no longer beats.
Processing Questions: (2 minutes)
1. What feeling is expressed in the poem?
2. What belief of Thai people do you think is emphasized in the poem?
3. Do Filipinos and Thai people have the same belief? How can it be proven?

D. Abstraction (10 minutes)

Literature is any written works that are considered to have a long-lasting

impact or importance as it expresses permanent interest ideas. This can either
be in the form of poetry or prose.

Poetry refers to verse expressions, with measures, rhymes, lines, stanzas, and
melodious tone. It is not intended merely to entertain. It has a very useful and
serious function: to embody deep truths that reveal to us about human
beings.

Poets are not only authors of language and music, but they are also the
institutions of laws, the founders of civil society, the inventors of the arts of
life, and the teachers who draw into certain dimensions the beautiful and the
truth.

Divisions and Types of Poetry

Lyric Poems –meant Narrative Poetry – Dramatic Poetry – has

to be sung to the tells a story following elements closely related to
accompaniment of a order of events drama because it is written
musical instrument in a dramatic form.
Examples: Examples: Examples:
Simple Lyric Ballad Dramatic
Song Metrical Monologue
Sonnet Romance The Soliloquy
Elegy Epic Character Sketch
Ode

Prose, on the other hand, is a literary piece that is written in the form of the
ordinary form of written or spoken language and within the common flow of
conversation. It is easily understood as compared to poetry. In subject matter,
prose generally concentrates on the familiar and ordinary but may also deal
with subjects such as heroism, beauty, love, and nobility of spirit.

Divisions and Types of Prose

Fiction – defined as a series of Nonfiction – literary works based

imagined facts which illustrates truths mainly on fact rather than on the
about human life. imagination, although they may
contain fictional elements.
Examples: Examples:
Short Story Formal Essay
The Novel Informal or Familiar Essay
Other forms of Essay
(critical essay, biographical
essay, essay of travel)

What does it mean to interpret literature? When you interpret literature, you
are trying to find the meaning and significance of the story. You are asking
yourself both what the text means and why it is important.

One of the best ways to interpret writing is to use the text as a

guide. When you use the text as a guide, you examine the main elements of
the story and see how they relate to each other to find the meaning and
importance of the story.

When the words you encounter are difficult to understand so that

you can get the message of the text you are reading, aside from consulting
the dictionary, you can analyze how the words are being used in the
sentence, and we called it context clues. This refers to information that
appears near a word or phrase and offers direct or indirect suggestions about
its meaning.

Moreover, to fully understand literary works' meaning, one must

not forget that literature has something to do with society-its culture,
diversity, and heritage.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people,

encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music, and arts.

The diversity refers to the existence of variations of different

characteristics in a group of people. These characteristics could be
 everything that makes us unique, such as our cognitive skills and
personality traits, along with the things that shape our identity.

Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and
what we pass on to future generations.

E. Application (5 minutes)

Let’s have another activity. “Complete the puzzle below” Refer to the given
clues.

Mechanics:
1. You will be group into 5 groups.
2. Each group will complete the puzzle to form a word.
3. Then, choose your representative to write your answer on the board.
4. For those group who can complete the puzzle correctly will be given
10 points.
5. You will be 4 minutes to think and 1 minute to write on the board.

Across:
1. Compilation of written works
2. Influences the views, values, and humor of people
3. Lines are expressed in verse

Down:
1. Legacy from the past, what is in today, and what to pass for the next
generation
2. Lines are written in an ordinary form of language

1. H 2. P
1. L I T E R A T U R E
R O
I S
2. C U L T T U R E E
A
G
3. P O E T R Y

F. Generalization (2 minutes)
1. What does this activity teach about literature, culture, and poetry?
2. How do literature, culture, and poetry shape our ideas and values?
3. Why is it important to learn these concepts?

IV. Assessment (10 minutes)

Directions: Read and analyze the statements carefully, and then choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write your answer on a separate answer sheet.

1. The following are characteristics of poetry except:

A. It has measures C. It is written in figurative language
 B. It is easy to understand D. It is expressed in lines and stanzas

2. Literature is a reflection of the society because ________.

A. It is an imitation of human action, often presents a picture of what people think,
say, and do in the society
B. It transports the real-life events in their society into fiction and presents it to the
society
C. It serves as a corrective mirror in which members of the society can look at
themselves and find the need for positive change
D. All of the above-mentioned statements

3. Which among the following choices is not true about culture?

A. Culture is the system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
B. Culture is symbolic communication.
C. Human beings' relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, absolute,
spiritual, divine, or
worthy of especial reverence.
D. Culture is communication.

4. Which of the following does not belong to the group?

A. Short story C. Novel
B. Essay D. Epic

5. It is important to study literature because

A. It is a reflection of the society is a fact that has been widely acknowledged.
B. It mirrors the ills of society to make society realize its mistakes and make amends.
C. It projects the virtues or good values in society for people to emulate.
D. All of these.

6. To better understand the literature, the following are the best things to consider
except:
A. The author's personal background
B. The origin of the literary work
C. The symbols, gestures, and message presented by the text
D. The title of the text.

7. Literature is always associated with the following

A. Culture B. Heritage C. people's diversity D. all of these

8. Poetry intends not only to entertain, for its function is to embody the truths about ___.
A. Art B. Human being C. Studies D.
Experiments

9. Which among the following choices is true about culture?

A. Culture is the system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
B. Culture is symbolic communication.
C. Culture is communication.
D. All of these

10. Heritage focuses on the legacy from the past, what we live with today, and _______.
A. What is beyond our imagination B. What is undoable
C. What is perfect D. what we pass on to future
generations
V. Assignment (2 minutes)
Write a paragraph (5–7 sentences) that explains how literature can reflect culture
and heritage. Use examples from the poem "Till Hearts End" or any other literary work
that represents a culture you are familiar with.

Rubrics
Content 15 points
Relevance to the Topic 15 points
Clarity and Focus 10 points
Language and Mechanics 10 points
Total 50 points

CHRISEL L. ADANG VILMA M. CAINGCOY

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