LESSON PLAN FOR GRADE 9

Lesson 2 Day 2

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
1. share thoughts, feelings, and intentions in the material viewed;
2. analyze how literature helps in discovering oneself; and
3. cite lines from the poem that support allusions.

II. Subject Matter
A. Topics
- The Battle with Grendel from Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel

B. Reference
- Almonte, L. et al. A journey through Anglo American Literature Grade 9. Pasig
City: Department of Education, 2014

C. Materials
1. Learners material
2. CD recording of listening inputs
3. Laptop
4. Speakers
5. Worksheets
6. Powerpoint presentation
7. LCD projector

D. Value Focus
1. Cooperation
2. Literary Appreciation

III. Strategies

Teachers Activities Students Activities

A. Drill

Good morning class!

Can everyone kindly get their spelling
booklet? We will have a ten-item spelling
drill.

B. Lesson

Did you remember the tasks we did
yesterday?

Great! Everything that we did yesterday is
related to the topic we will be discussing
todayan excerpt from the poem,
Beowulf. Okay. Just a little trivia, Beowulf
is the first important work of literature in
English, even though it was written in Old
English, an ancient form of the language
that slowly evolved into the English now
spoken. The author of the poem is



Good morning Sir!

Students get their spelling booklets and does
the spelling drill.




Yes, sir.











unknown.

Okay. So, Beowulf is written in the Old
English language. Who knows what Old
English is?

No one? Okay. I have three sentences here.
Who says Old English is letter A? Letter B?
Letter C?






Old English would be the sentence in letter
B. Yes, Old English is so old only very few,
mostly scholars, could understand,
nowadays. Letter A would be the Modern
English were using today and Letter C is
the Early Modern English language used by
Shakespeare and the people during his
time. Moving on, Beowulf is an epic poetry.
What is an epic poetry? Everyone please
read again.

Yes. Beowulf is, indeed, a story of a fictional
hero from Denmark. And it is one of the
most celebrated epics of the English nation.
Now, I will be playing an audio-visual
recording of the excerpt, The Battle with
Grendel taken from the poem. Listen
carefully because youll be working on
different activities later. Okay?

1. Preliminary task

COMPARE and CONTRAST

Did you understand the story?

Its a good one, isnt it? Now, all I want you
to do is to get your books and answer Task
6 on page 40. You can work with your
seatmate as long as each of you has written
answers on your books. Am I clear?

Okay. Ill give you ten minutes to do that.

2. Middle Task

Say YES or NO, INTO THE HERO

Time is up. Now, our next activity would be
done in groups. Lets divide the class into
four groups.



No one raises their hands.



Students guess.
a. Grendel came, hoping to kill anyone
he could trap on this trip to high
Herot.
b. Da com
c. Grendel cameth, hoping he killeth
anyone he couldst trapeth on this
trip to high hrot.

An epic is a lengthy narrative poem,
ordinarily concerning a serious subject
containing details of heroic deeds and
events significant to a culture or nation.







Student watches the video clip of the excerpt.












Yes, Sir.

Yes, Sir.











The class is divided into five groups.



Heres what we will do. All the groups will
be answering Task 4 on page 39. Every
member in the group should write their
answers on the space provided. Your
answer should be something like, for
example, on the first item, your answer
would be, Yes. Lines 410-415. Is it clear?

That is Activity A. Activity B is inside these
envelopes. There are three questions inside
each envelope for each group to answer.
Write your answers on the cartolina I
provided for you. After that, your answers
will be presented to the class. Any
questions?

Fantastic! Ill give you fifteen minutes to
answer. Time starts now.

Okay. Time is up. Can everybody please
post their cartolinas on the board? Lets
start with group 1.

Wonderful! I am very satisfied with your
answers. It seems that you understood well
the story of Beowulf.

3. Culminating Task

Now, before we end todays lesson, may I
request everyone to get a one-fourth sheet
of pad paper and write the following:
3 Characters From Beowulf
2 Reasons Why I Like/Dont Like the Poem
1 Lesson I Can Get From The Poem
This will serve as your passport for todays
meeting.

Is everyone through? If there are no more
questions, then we shall see each other
again tomorrow. Goodbye class!



Yes, sir.







None, sir.










Reporters from each group share their
answers.

















Goodbye Sir!

Prepared by: Jessiete A. Amerila BSEd 4-A