2. RepublicofthePhilippines
DepartmentofEducation
CARAGA REGION
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF AGUSAN DEL SUR
English – Grade 10
Learner’s Activity Sheets Quarter 4 - Week 1
First Edition, 2020
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3. LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET in ENGLISH-9
QUARTER 4: WEEK 1
Name: ________________________________________Gradeand Section: ____________
School: _______________________________________Date: __________________________
Teacher: ______________________________________ Score:_________________________
I. Title: LEARNING FROM OTHERS
II. Learning Competency: Judge the relevance and worth of an idea, soundness of
author’s reasoning, andthe effectiveness of the presentation. (EN9RC-IVa-2.18)
III. Instructions: In this module, series of activities will be given to you to enrich
your knowledge or skill of the lesson learnedandhow can you transfer your new
knowledge or skill into real-life situations or concerns.
IV. Activities
Lesson Guide/Concepts
The Basic Elements of Theatre
Script/Text, Scenario, Plan: This is the starting point of the theatrical performance
and the element most often considered as the domain of the playwright in theatre.
The playwright’s script is the text by which theatre is created. It can be simplistic, as
in the 16th century, with the scenarios used by the acting troupes of the Commedia
dell’arte, or itcan be elaborate, such as the works of WilliamShakespeare. The script,
scenario, or plan is what the director uses as a blue print to build a production from.
The Process: This is the coordination of the creative efforts usually headed up in
theatre by the director. It is the pure process by which the playwright’s work is
brought to realization by the director, actors, designers, technicians, dancers,
musicians,andanyother collaborators thatcome together on the script, scenario, or
plan. This is the work in progress stage.
The Product: This is the end resultof the process of work involved. The final product
that results from all of the labors coming together to complete the finishedwork of
script, scenario, and plan, in union with all of the collaborators in the process to
create the final product. This is what the audience will witness as they sit in the
theatre and view the work.
4. The Audience: Theatre requires an audience. For all of the arts public is essential.
The physical presence of an audience can change a performance, inspire actors,and
create expectations. Theatre is a living breathing art form. The presence of live
actors on the stage in frontof live audiences sets it apartfrom modern day films and
television.
Elements of Drama
Most successful playwrights follow the theories of playwritingand drama that were
established over two thousand years ago by a man named Aristotle. In his works
the Poetics Aristotle outlinedthe six elements of drama in his critical analysis of the
classical Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written by the Greek playwright, Sophocles, in
the fifth centuryB.C. The six elements as they are outlinedinvolve: Thought, Theme,
Ideas; Action or Plot; Characters; Language; Music; and Spectacle.
1. Thought/Theme/Ideas: What the play means as opposed to what happens (the
plot). Sometimes the theme is clearlystated in the title. It may be stated through
dialogue by a character actingas the playwright’s voice. Or it may be the theme is
less obvious and emerges only after some study or thought. The abstractissues
and feelings that grow out of the dramatic action.
2. Action/Plot: The events of a play; the story as opposed to the theme; what
happens rather than what it means. The plot must have some sort of unity and
clarityby setting up a pattern by which each action initiatingthe next rather than
standing alone without connection to what came before it or what follows. In the
plot of a play, characters areinvolvedin conflictthat has a pattern of movement.
The action and movement in the play begins from the initial entanglement,
through risingaction, climax, and fallingaction to resolution.
3. Characters:
These are the people presented in the play that are involved in the perusing plot.
Each character should have their own distinct personality, age, appearance, beliefs,
socio economic background, and language.
4. Language:
The word choices made by the playwright and the enunciation of the actors of the
language. Language and dialog delivered by the characters moves the plot and
5. action along, provides exposition, defines the distinct characters. Each playwright
can create their own specific style in relationship to language choices they use in
establishing character and dialogue.
5. Spectacle:
The spectacle in the theatre can involve all of the aspects of scenery, costumes, and
special effects in a production. The visual elements of the play createdfor theatrical
event. The qualities determined by the playwright that create the world and
atmosphere of the play for the audience’s eye.
6. Music:
Music can encompass the rhythmof dialogue andspeeches in a playor can alsomean the
aspects of the melody and music compositions as with musical theatre. Each theatrical
presentation delivers music, rhythmandmelody in its own distinctive manner. Music is not
a part of every play. But, music can be included to mean all sounds in a production. Music
can expand to all sound effects, the actor’s voices, songs, and instrumental music played
as underscore in a play. Music creates patterns and establishes tempo in theatre. In the
aspects of the musical the songs are used to push the plot forward and move the story to
a higher level of intensity. Composers and lyricist work together with playwrights to
strengthen the themes and ideas of the play. Character’s wants and desires can be
strengthened for the audience through lyrics and music.
Further Considerations of the Playwright
Above and beyond the elements outlined above the playwright has other major
considerations to take into account when writing. The Genre and Form of the play is an
important aspect. Some playwrights are pure in the choice of genre for a play. They write
strictly tragedy or comedy. Other playwrights tend to mix genre, combiningboth comedy
and tragedy in one piece of dramatic work.
Genre/Form
Drama is divided into the categories of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, and tragicomedy.
Each of these genre/forms can be further subdivide by style and content.
ACTIVITY 1 - PREDICTION BOX
Directions: Here are captured images from three video clips. Can you predict what
each video is all about? Write your answer on the prediction box
opposite of the picture.
I think this picture is about
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Because________________
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I think this picture is about
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Because________________
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I think this picture is
about
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Because________________
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ACTIVITY 2 - VENN DIAGRAM
Direction: Based on your readings, what do you think are the similarities and
Grease. Which would you watch? Here are the playbills and the synopsis of these well-
known musicals to help you decide. Write your reasons on the space
the differences between short stories and play? Fill in the space providedfor your
answers.
ACTIVITY
3
- CINEMA TIME!
Direction: You’re given a free ticket to view either Phantom of the Opera or
Short Story Play
Similarities
7. provided.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Based on the novel Le Fantome de
L’Opera by
Gaston Leroux, Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s musical depicts a
disfigured musical genius who
haunts the catacombs beneath the
Paris Opera and exerts strange
control over a lovely young
soprano.
GREASE
Grease is a 1971 musical by
Jim Jacobs and Warren
Casey. The musical is
named for the 1950’s US
workingclass youths
subculture known as
greasers. The musical set in
1959 at fictional Rydell High
School, follows ten working
class teenagers as they
navigate the complexities
of love. The score attempts to
recreate the sounds of early
rock and roll.
ACTIVITY 4 - THE DEATH OF WHOM?
Direction: Read the synopsis of “The Death of a Salesman” Action 1 by Arthur Miller and
explain the major elements of a play. Fill in the graphic organizer provided.
The play begins on a Monday eveningat the Loman family home in Brooklyn.
After some light changes on stage and ambient flute music (the first instance of a
motif connected to WillyLoman’s faint memory of his father, who was once a flute-
maker and salesman), Willy, a sixty-three-yearold traveling salesman, returns home
earlyfrom a trip, apparentlyexhausted. His wife, Linda, gets out of bed to greet him.
She asks if he had an automobile accident, since he once drove off a bridge into a
river. Irritated, he replies that nothing happened. Willy explains that he kept falling
into a trance while driving—he reveals later thathe almost hit a boy. Linda urges him
to ask his employer, HowardWagner, for a non-travelingjobin New YorkCity. Willy’s
two adult sons, Biff and Happy, are visiting. Before he left that morning, Willy
criticized Biff for working at manual labor on farms and horse ranches in the West.
The argument that ensued was left unresolved. Willy says that his thirty-four-year-
Well, I will
choose…
REASON/S:_____________________________________________________
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8. old son is a lazy bum. Shortly thereafter, he declares that Biff is anything but lazy.
Willy’s habit of contradicting himself becomes quickly apparent in his conversation
with Linda.
Willy’s loud rambling wakes his sons. They speculate that he had another
accident. Linda returns to bed while Willy goes to the kitchen to get something to
eat. Happy and Biff reminisce about the good old days when they were young.
Although Happy, thirty-two, is younger than Biff, he is more confident and more
successful. Biff seems worn, apprehensive, and confused. Happy is worried about
Willy’s habit of talking to himself. Most of the time, Happy observes, Willy talks to
the absentBiff about his disappointmentin Biff’s unsteadiness. Biff hopped from job
to job after high school and is concerned that he has “waste[d] his life.” He is
disappointedin himself andin the disparitybetween his life and the notions of value
and success with which Willy indoctrinated him as a boy. Happy has a steady job in
New York, but the rat race does not satisfy him. He and Biff fantasize briefly about
going out west together. However, Happy still longs to become an important
executive. He sleeps with the girlfriends andfiancées of his superiors andoften takes
bribes in an attempt to climb the corporate ladder from his position as an assistant
to the assistant buyer in a department store.
Biff plans to ask Bill Oliver, an old employer, for a loan to buy a ranch. He
remembers that Oliver thought highly of him and offered to help him anytime. He
wonders if Oliver still thinks thathe stole a carton of basketballs while he was working
at his store. Happy encourages his brother, commenting that Biff is “well liked”—a
sure predictor of success in the Loman household. The boys are disgusted to hear
Willy talking to himself downstairs. They try to go to sleep.
the setting, characterization andthe plot of the “Death of the Salesman”. Be
ready to explain your answer. Then identify the elements of the play reflected
in each statement.
Statements Agree Disagree Explanation Element
ACTIVITY 5 - DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE?
Direction Put (/) whether you agree or
: disagree with the statements about
TITLE OF THE PLAY
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CHARACTERS POINT OF VIEW
THEME
Falling Action
Rising Action
Situation
Problem
9. 1. The playevolved in part
through the mind and
memory of Willy Loman?
2. The play is made to
show the happiness and
hopes of the past andhow
these aspects of the past
contribute to the
problems of the present.
3. The protagonist of the
play are Biff Loman and
Linda Loman.
4. The belief that havinga
pleasant personality will
make someone successful
is one of the themes of
the play.
5. All throughoutthe play,
we could feel a sense of
happiness among the
members of the family.
V. CLOSURE
Direction: Write down the insights you have gained. Include the lesson and the
topic which you want to continue learning, and the persons whom you think can
help you learn them.
• Summing up what I learned in my journey through this lesson,
it enables me to ______________________________________________
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• I will continue learning about __________________________________
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• To learn this, I will continue to seek help from
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10. REFERENCES:
A Journeythrough Anglo-American Literature-English 9 LM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tsVim_dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDmNc8j9gA
WEEK 1
ACTIVITY 1: Prediction ACTIVITY 2: Venn Diagram
Box 2. -Short Stories - there is
ACTIVITY 3:
• Drought and a description of the Cinema Time
Famine scenes Students’
• Fullness of Life: 3. -there is internal answer may
Sometimes we musings of the vary.
• are loved and character’s reaction.
we are not 4. -Play - these are
meant to be performed
• Personal and on stage
Career Growth 5. - it consists of one or
Answer
Key
11. more scenes.
ACTIVITY 5:
Do you agree or
disagree?
ACTIVITY 4: The Death of Whom? Title: The
Death of a Salesman
Character/s:
WillyLoman
Linda Loman Biff
Loman Happy
Howard Wagner Theme:
Small argumantleft unresolvedcan lead to
destruction
Point of View: Third Person POV
ACTIVITY 6: Closure
2.Students’ answer
may vary
1.Students’ answer
may vary
