lesson plan in english

Detailed Lesson Plan for Fourth Year Students

I.            Objectives

At the end of 1 hour class discussion the students will be able to:

A.   Analyze the poem,

B.    Appreciate the main essence of the poem,

C.   Write an essay about memorable dream.

II.         Subject Matter

Topic: Poem entitled “A Dream within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe

Reference: English Expressway Fourth Year pp. 42

Materials: hand-outs, Manila paper, pentel pen, cartolina

Value Focus: Cooperation

III.       Procedure

A.   Prayer

B.   Checking of Attendance

C.   Motivation

T: What have we discussed yesterday?

S:  We discussed yesterday about the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

T: Very good. In that case, what is the style of Poe in Writing?

S: Poe's work has been rated both brilliant and awful, but the stylistic attributes of his writing deserve to be regarded with nothing but respect sir.

T: Very good. Now I will ask you about your very memorable dream that you encounter. Is it ok

S: ok sir.

T: ok who can share his/her very memorable dream?

S: I sir. It is about my life that I have my wife and four children living happily and bountifully.

T: Wow! Let us give your classmate a round of applause. Who else?

S: It is about my boyfriend who has a third party sir. I hope that those are not true.

T: What a bad dream. We hope so. We dream bad and good. Sometimes it is true but most of the time false.

T: Ok class. Today we will discuss the finest work of Edgar Allan Poe entitled “A Dream within a Dream”, so sit back and listen carefully for I will read it first to you and you will follow afterwards.

(Teacher read the Poem)

                   A Dream within a Dream

                   By Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!          
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

(Now, the students read the poem)

A.   Enriching Vocabulary

Directions:

          Match column A with column B

     A                                                                 B

1.    Brow                                         a. afflict with great bodily or mental suffering  

2.    Avow                                        b. to form or have an opinion

3.    Deem                                        c.  feeling or showing no pity

4.    Amid                                         d.  declare frankly or openly

5.    Tormented                                 e.  the hair growing on that ridge; eyebrow

6.    Pitiless                                                f.  in the middle of

(Student exchange their paper as teacher will paste the correct answer on the board and students will check the paper of their classmates)

1.    Brow- the hair growing on that ridge; eyebrow

2.    Avow- declare frankly or openly

3.    Deem- to form or have an opinion

4.    Amid- in the middle of

5.    Tormented- afflict with great bodily or mental suffering

6.    Pitiless- feeling or showing no pity

IV.        Discussion

Think	Pair	Share
What do you want to know on the poem?	Try to answer the question of your pair.	Share your ideas with others. Also, share it to the class.

V.           Evaluation

T: For 20 minutes, class make a 10 sentences one paragraph essay about your memorable dream and how it can affect you as a person. Write it in 1 whole pad paper.

VI.        Assignment:

T: Make a collage about the theme of the poem to be passed tomorrow and advance study on the next poem entitled “Annabel Lee” on page 45.

S: Ok sir

T: Any question?

S: No sir.

T: Class dismiss.

                                                     Prepared by:

                                                              Ernie A. Esclavilla

                                                                    BSED III-A