A guide on how your students will be able to understand and appreciate their poems. :)

1. Lesson Plan for Grade 9
August 24 & 26, September 1 & 3, 2015
I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students must have:
a. Deciphered the difference of narrative,
descriptive, lyric and dramatic poems;
b. Known the forms of the poem – verses and stanzas;
c. Known the rhyme pattern;
d. Understood the literal and symbolic meaning of the
poem; and
e. Related the poem to real-life situation.
II. SUBJECT MATTER
TOPIC
Literature:”A Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham
Language: Understand and Appreciating Poems
REFERENCE
A Journey through Anglo-American Literature, pp.135-
136
English towards Effective Communication, pp.17-31
MATERIALS
cartolina, sentence strips, textbook, whiteboard and
marker, handouts
III. LEARNING PROCEDURE
Teacher’s Dialogue (Day 1) Students’ Dialogue
A. Learning Activity
Good morning Grade 9.
Facilitators, kindly lead our
initial activity for today.
Thank you and please take your
seats now.
B. Motivation
Poems are introduced to us
since we’re in our elementary,
right?
Before we start our lesson for
today, let’s have an activity
first called KNOW MY LINE,
KNOW MY TITLE, KNOW ME.
So from the title itself, you
are going to identify the
poet’s name and title of
selected lines presented here.
Through this, we will be
Good morning Ma’am Jovs.
Yes, ma’am.

2. reminded of the different
poems we have in literature.
So who wants to answer number
one, number two… so on.
(This activity is for 10
minutes only.)
C. Introduction
Thank you class for your
participation.
So this activity is very
related to our lesson for
today about understanding and
appreciating poems.
(name of student), how can you
understand and appreciate
poems that you read?
Thank you.
So remember that in understand
and appreciating our poems, we
must know what it means, what
does it imply and how will it
affect our daily living.
D. Lesson Proper
There are three important
things we need to remember to
fully understand and
appreciate our poems:
1. Explore the literal
meaning of the poem;
2. Explore the symbolic
meaning of the poem; and
3. Integrate the poem to
real-life situation.
Let’s focus first on how to
explore for the literal
meaning of the poem.
This will talk about the
Formalist Perspective in
criticizing literature.
However, in your case we will
only be discussing the kind,
the form and the pattern of
the poem.
Let’s talk about the KINDS of
the POEM.
Written in your handouts are
the excerpts or sample poems
by the different poets.
Last Night in London Airport
Learners’ responses may vary.

3. Last night in London Airport
I saw a wooden bin
Labeled UNWANTED
LITERATURE
IS TO BE PLACED HEREIN
So I wrote a poem
And popped it in.
- Christopher Logue
So what have you noticed in
this poem?
Okay, very good.
Does the poem tell a story?
If that is the case, then we
call it a NARRATIVE POEM.
Remember the greatest rule, it
must tell a story.
A Madrigal
Youthis full of pleasance,
Ageis full of care;
Youthlikesummer morn
Agelikewinter weather.
- William Shakespeare
Now, let’s unto this poem.
What do you think this poem
suggest?
Okay, thank you.
This poem show an image, isn’t
it? What are the images
presented?
Okay, very good.
We have learned that our
images/imageries must appeal
to our senses, right?
This kind of poem is called
the DESCRIPTIVE POEM. It is
because images are created in
the poem and appeals to our
senses.
Do not be confused with the
two kinds of poem. Narrative
poem merely tells a story and
Descriptive poem depicts a
person, animal or inanimate
It tells about what happened
to the speaker when he was in
London Airport.
Learners’ responses may vary
Yes, ma’am.
Learners’ responses may vary.
Yes, it describes the youth
and age of a man.
Yes, ma’am.

4. objects deeply.
Ode to Aphrodite
Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers
DaughterofZeus,O terrible enchantress
Withthe sorrow,withthis anguish, breakmy
spirit
What have you noticed in this
poem?
Basically, it is the poet who
expresses his feelings and
thoughts and directly tells it
to the receiver.
So if the poet directly
addresses his/her own
feelings, state of mind and
perception, it is called a
LYRIC POEM. It is a kind of
poem which expresses personal
and emotional feelings,
thoughts and observations.
Clown Song from ACT V Scene I:
Twelfth Night
- William Shakespeare
This kind of poem is actually
called a DRAMATIC POEM. This
poem speaks through
characters. This poem is
written though it’s a
dialogue. It is told through
one or more characters voice,
perspective and language.
So after we have identified
the KINDS of the POEM, let us
now identify the FORMS of the
poem.
I shall haunt you, O my lost one,as the
twilight
Haunts a reed- entangledtrail.
- To A Lost One (Angela
Mananlang Gloria)
How many verses are there in
this poem?
Verse is a single line of the
poem. It is the basic unit of
a stanza.
So what do we call a poem
consist of two verses?
Learners’ responses may vary.
Two lines.
It is called a couplet.

5. Who’er she be,
That not impossible she
That shall command my heart and me
- Wishes for the
(Supposed)Mistress(Richard
Crashaw)
How many lines are there in
this poem?
So when a poem is composed of
three lines, it is called…
A poem consists of four verses
is called a quatrain.
A five-verse poem is called a
cinquain.
Our sonnets and haikus are
exception to the rules. A
solid stanza or in several
stanzas of fourteen verses is
called a sonnet. And if the
poem consists of three verses
of 17 syllables with a 5-7-5
division, it’s called a haiku.
After we have discussed the
verse and stanza, we will now
talk about the rhyme.
We have learned the difference
of internal and end-rhymes
right? Again, what is the
difference of the two?
Okay, very good.
But END RHYMES has two
components. The single or
masculine end-rhyme and double
or feminine end-rhyme.
She holds no joys beyond the
day’s tomorrow,
She finds no worlds beyond his
arms embrace,
She looks upon the Form behind
the furrow
Who is her mind, her Motion,
Time and Space.
- The Spouse (Luis G. Dato)
Let’s find the pair of words
which is an example of an end-
rhyme.
It has three lines.
It is called a tercet.
If the rhyme is within the
verse, it is called an
internal rhyme. However, if
the rhyme is found at the end
of different verses, it is
called an end-rhyme.

6. tomorrow-furrow
embrace-space
In the first pair of words,
how many pronounced
syllables have the same
sound?
So when there is two
pronounced syllable of
one line and last two
syllable of another line
are the same, it is
called a double or
feminine end-rhyme.
If we have the last pronounced
syllable in one line and
last pronounced syllable
in another line, it is
called a single or
masculine end-rhyme.
Okay, these are the following
included to explore for
the literal meaning of
the poem.
After we have tried to explore
for the literal meaning,
let us now go and explore
for the symbolic meaning
of poems.
This symbolic meaning is the
meaning drawn from the
words or expressions not
used literally rather
they suggest a different
meaning.
1. Get the literal meaning.
2. Look for words or
expressions which
actually have
connotations.
3. Try to think of how the
writer used the symbols
in his poem.
4. Try to associate this to
some possible situations.
These are the things you must
remember in order to get the
symbolic meaning of the poem.
Lastly, let’s integrate the
poem’s importance to life.
In this part where we will be
able to arrive with the theme
and see our full way to
understand the poem.
Two.