REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

Department Of Education
National Capital Region
Division of City Schools
SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL
1st District, Quezon City, Metro Manila

A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN

COMMUNICATION ARTS – ENGLISH
Fourth Year

Skill: Literature

Date of Submission:
31 August 2010
Date of Teaching:
6 September 2010

Submitted By
MARK CARLO M. SOL
IV – 30 AB/BSE Literature
Philippine Normal University

Submitted To
Mrs. MA. ELENA ROSALES - ENDRINA

Comments:

*First Teaching, First Revision

A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN LITERATURE

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 Fourth Year

I. OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to

A. establish a schema about love through identifying the title of a song,

B. depict the life and works of the author through an author map,
C. describe the elements that make up the poem such as genre, form, imagery and figurative
language,
D. create a dramatic oral interpretation of the poem, and
E. evaluate themselves about their comprehension of the selection in a pen and paper test.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Skill: LITERATURE

Topic: Understanding Passionate Love

Text: To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

Reference: Bayn, Nina et al, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Fifth
Edition, Volume One. New York City, NY., W.W. Norton and Co., 1998.
Materials:
 Visual materials for discussion
 Reproduced copies of the literary text for discussiom
 Reproduced evaluation sheets for the quiz

III. PROCEDURE

Routine: Prayer
Greetings
Checking of Attendance

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

LESSON PREPARATION
A)Motivation
Let me show you some lyrics coming from selected (The students participate in the
various songs. What you will do is to guess the title of activity.)
the song that contains the presented lyrics.

If I could then I would,

2 | L e s s oI’lln goP wherever
l a n i n you
L I Twill
E RgoA T U R E
 Wherever You Will Go

And I’ll always love you; deep inside

of this heart of mine I do love you
I’ll Always Love You

You’re the one who never lets me

sleep, through my mind down
through my soul, you touch my lips Your Love

We were both young

When I first saw you
Love Story
We build upon this solid rock feeling
like its heaven touch, together at the
top Pyramid

Based from your own experience and point of view,

how would you describe love?
Love is inevitable.

Love is the greatest gift of God to all

of us; it expresses a mysterious yet a
faithful movement – every minute
and every second of our life.

What are the things you are willing to do for the sake
of love?
Love is like a rosary full of mystery.
I am willing to sacrifice everything I
have, for the sake of full happiness
of my love.

I am ready to do everything just to

put a smile on the love of my life.

Today, we will discuss a literary piece that centers on

love – a topic I’m sure everyone would be interested
at. This is actually a poem written by Anne Bradstreet
entitled To My Dear and Loving Husband.

LESSON PRESENTATION
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Let us have first the author behind this text that we
will discuss.

A) Author Presentation
(The teacher presents an author concept map on the
board.)

I have here a concept map centered on the author. I

will ask some questions about the author and you will
pick the answer in the “Answer Box” provided on the
board.

Here are the questions:

1. In what date was Anne Bradstreet born?
2. What was the name of her father?
3. What was the name of her husband?
4. In what extremist belief does Anne Bradstreet
belong?

5. What is the other work written by Anne

Bradstreet?
6. In what date Anne Bradstreet died?
7. What was her profession?

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 B) Vocabulary
As we have our discussion with the poem, we will
encounter some difficult words. What we will do is
to unlock the meaning of these following words
through the use of context clues present on the
following sentences.

1)
I will always need you whether its spring
or summer; I will always love thee
whether they like it or not.

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined

word based on its context clue?
you
2)
I need a drink that will quench my thirst.
For sure, it will truly extinguish the
dryness of my throat.
extinguish

3)
There is recompense for those who are
willing to do well; all of the riches in reward
heaven shall be their reward.
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 4)
A manifold of stars rises above the skies
and truly these numerous stars bring joy numerous
to everyone.

5)
They persevere to become the best
batch of this school, and they continue continue steadfastly
steadfastly working for it until their goal
was achieved.

C) Poem Discussion
Now that we know the difficult words in the text, we
can now proceed to the discussion of the poem.

(The teacher distributes the copies of the poem.)

Let me first read the poem before you.

(The teacher reads the poem.)

After I have read it, it’s your time to read the poem.

(The teacher asks the students to read the poem.)

Read at your copies carefully. Observe how the poem

was written.

How many stanzas does it have? (The students read the poem aloud.)

How many lines does it have?

Who do you think is the speaker in the poem? It has only one stanza.

Who do you think is the one addressed in the poem?

What kind of man is he? What do you think is his It has twelve stanzas.
civil status?
The speaker in the poem is a
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Looking back at the one speaking in the poem, since woman.
she is talking to the addressee, what is her relation to
the one addressed?
The one addressed in the poem is a
Let us take a glimpse at the first line: man.

If ever two were one, then surely we.

He is a married man.
What idea this line express?

She is the wife of the man she is

What word or phrase proves this idea? speaking about.

Let’s go to the second line:

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

What idea do you think is much emphasized in this

line? It expresses an idea of being united
with each other.
Here’s the third and fourth line:
One / If ever two were one
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

What does the woman want to express about the love

she has for the man she really adores?
It strongly suggests an idea of being
Here’s the fifth and sixth line: loved.

I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East doth hold.

She stated that his love for her is more precious than
She expresses a happy, loud and
what?
proud statement of being a woman
so dearly loved.
Since she said that the love of her husband is so
incomparable to the riches of this world, what does
this mean?

We have the seventh and eighth line:

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

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Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.

What do you think is expressed in this line? How

does her love for her husband described?
Let’s go with the ninth line:
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
Whole mines of gold or even the
riches the East of the world do hold.
The love of her husband is priceless.

This statement projects one thing – which is that the

woman cannot repay what her husband had done for
their love. It may also mean one idea in the part of the
man, particularly on his love. What may it mean?

We have the last three lines:

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.

Then while we live, in love let's so persever These lines state that her love for her
That when we live no more, we may live ever. husband is so immeasurable.

If we will use what we had learned in the vocabulary

exercise earlier, the words

thee – you
manifold – numerous
This line may imply that the man’s
love is much greater than the
woman’s love.
We may actually translate it as

The heavens reward you numerously, I pray.

Now what does she expect from her husband?

Looking clearly at the last two lines, what do they

want to do about their love?

Let us now look at the figures of speech used in the

poem. Let us see the lines five and six once more.
Observe that it compares two things. What are these
things?

Are these things alike in each other?

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Since they are unlike to each other and yet they are
compared, what figure of speech was used?

Let’s have line seven this time. There is another

comparison happened between two things there. What
are these? She expects that her husband will be
rewarded numerously by the
Are these things alike to each other? Why is it so? heavens.

So what figure of speech was used in this line?
Look at the entire poem. What do you think is the
figure of speech used in this entire text?
Why is it an apostrophe?
They want to make sure that their
love will be in such perseverance;
that it will continue steadfastly and
even overcome all temptations, that
even to their death, they are willing
to do everything for it.

love, mines of gold / riches

And also, an apostrophe may also address the one

who is dead or is not living. They are not alike to each other.

Knowing already the entire poem, what do you think It was metaphor.
is the theme of the poem?

love, rivers
Do you think that this kind of love still exist even up
to this day?

D)Output These things are alike to each other

At this moment, we will see if you had learned so with the observance of the use of the
much at the poem. We will see that though a word ‘such’.
technique called ORAL INTERPRETATION.
It was simile.
Oral Interpretation is a literary skill that centers on
the recital of the poem – either by reading or
memorizing – with the inclination of a personal and It was apostrophe.
artistic interpretation as the person recites it.

This is what you will do for today – and this will be

done in groups. I will divide the class into three It is an apostrophe for it addresses to
groups and what every group will do is to present an someone who is not present.
oral, artistic interpretation of the poem. You will
perform this task based on the following criteria:
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  Proper Voice Command
 Creativity / Artistry
 Thematic Interpretation
 Over-All Impact
The theme of the poem centers on
(The teacher begins the activity.) the expression of a deep, passionate
and submissive love of a woman
towards her man.

(The students provide personal

answers to the question.)

EVALUATION
Let us see if you had learned so much from the
discussion we had. Please get a one half crosswise
paper.

(The teacher performs the evaluation part.)

(The students perform the activity.)

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 (The students take part in the
evaluation activity and afterwards
exchange papers with their seatmate
as the teacher dictates the correct
answers.)

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 APPENDIX A

To My Dear And Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet
(c.1612-1672)

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let's so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

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 APPENDIX B

Rubrics for the Oral Interpretation Activity

CRITERIA 5 4 3 2 1
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactor Needs
y Improvement
PROPER VOICE
COMMAND
 Phrasing
 Blending
 Intonation
 Stress
CREATIVITY &
ARTISTRY
 Use of props
 Stage presence
 Unique
presentation
THEMATIC
INTERPRETATION
 Inclination to
the theme of
the poem

Powerful
interpretation
OVER-ALL
IMPACT
 Audience
appeal

APPENDIX C
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 Evaluation
Quiz on To My Dear and Loving Husband

I) MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write the letter of the correct answer.

_____ 1. In what year was Anne Bradstreet born?

a. 1612
b. 1614
c. 1616
d. 1618

_____ 2. To whom was she married?

a. Thomas Jefferson
b. Simon Bradstreet
c. Edward Bradstreet
d. Fredric Jefferson

_____ 3. It is an extremist kind of belief where Anne Bradstreet belongs.

a. Puritanism
b. Existentialism
c. Realism
d. Idealism

_____ 4. “Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.” Recompense means
a. retaliate
b. reprimand
c. request
d. reward

_____ 5. “My love is such that rivers cannot quench” Quench means
a. excruciate
b. quest
c. extinguish
d. question

_____ 6. Line 2 in the poem expresses

a. an idea of being one
b. an idea of being loved
c. an idea of being proud
d. an idea of being married

_____ 7. Lines 5 and 6 in the poem has the figure of speech which is
a. simile

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 b. exaggeration
c. metaphor
d. apostrophe

_____ 8. The entire poem exhibits the figure of speech which is

a. metaphor
b. apostrophe
c. exaggeration
d. irony

_____ 9. The theme of the poem centers on

a. the desire of being wed
b. the joy of being married
c. compassion for the one who is not present
d. expression of a deep, passionate and submissive love

_____ 10. Another work written by Anne Bradstreet is

a. Riverrun
b. The Color Purple
c. Tess of The D’urvervilles
d. Upon The Burning of Our House

ANSWER KEY:
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. D
10. D

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