English 9 lesson 1 for quarter 2 PART 1

2. Literature is a reflection of realities. It shows
different issues or problems of the world.
These bring humans to unique experiences
which may cause pain or joy and give life-
lessons. Their situations can destroy or can
develop them. Some events cannot be
controlled or solved, but others can be
overcome. People can grow through sacrifice,
patience, open mindedness, and faith.

3. Desiderata, a didactic poem, provides
ways on how to deal with various
happenings. It teaches people virtues they
need in facing realities whether they are
pleasant or not. It can be a guide at
looking and at evaluating life.

4. Analyzing Desiderata, readers make
connections between its ideas to particular
social issues, concerns, or dispositions in real
life. They will speak of their opinions about
the poem or will realize a need of change in
their attitudes and behaviors. As a result,
they will have a clearer picture of themselves
and of the world, so they will grow and will
help make the world a nicer place.

6. Make Connections Between
Texts to Particular Social Issues,
Concerns, or Dispositions in Real
Life

7. Objectives:
• Identify social issues, concerns, or
dispositions found in a text;
• Write essays of the social issue, concern, or
disposition taken from the meaning of some
lines of a poem and how one may deal with
it; and
• Appreciate lesson/s taken from some lines
in a poem by analyzing an illustration.

9. Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann

10. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

11. If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons
than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however
humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of
time.

12. Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue
there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign
affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and
disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

13. Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in
sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark
imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

14. Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it
should.

15. Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and
aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
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16. With all its sham, drudgery, and
broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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17. Ponder…
HAVING READ THE POEM, WHICH SOCIAL
ISSUES MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE
“NUMBERS OF WORLD ISSUES” WILL
LIKELY BE ADDRESSED IN THE POEM?
WHICH PARTICULAR LINES ARE THESE
WHICH SPEAK STRONGLY ABOUT THEM?
YOU MAY CHOOSE ONLY ONE SOCIAL
ISSUE. DO THIS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.

18. Desiderata teaches people principles on
how to live their lives. Facing different
social issues such as politics, pollution,
climate change, and poverty, people can
deal with them with the wisdom of the
poem. These are its lessons with brief
explanations:

19. 1. Silence
2. Kindness
3. Truth
4. Listening
5. Humility
6. caution
7. contentment
8. pride
9. work
10. wisdom
11. Heroism
12. love
13. optimism
14. faith
15. peace
16. Happiness

20. Do the following:
1. Cut a picture (from a magazine or newspaper), or print, or
draw a picture which shows a person who lived by the lines:
“Many persons strive for high ideals, And life is full of
heroism.”
2. Paste or draw it in a bond paper (A4)
3. Identify what social issue, concern, or disposition the
person may be addressing in the picture. (The issue may not
be directly shown in the picture but may PERTAIN TO or
ADDRESS a particular issue.)
4. Write a short descriptive paragraph about the picture.

21. Directions. On a short bond paper, write a 4 to 5-paragraph
essay about these lines of the poem, Desiderata:
“Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world
is full of trickery.”
Please make sure to include the following details:
• What social issue, concern or disposition is addressed by
and can you relate in real life the lines above? • How may
one deal with it? • Don’t forget to have an introduction and
a conclusion.