A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in English

Intended for Grade 10 A & B

February 6, 2019 1:00-3:00 pm

I. A. Learning Competency

EN10V-IIId-13.9
 Give expanded definitions of words.

B. Objectives:

 Interpret the meaning of the poem.

 Answer the questions correctly asked during the discussion.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Song of Autumn translated by William Aggeler

Materials: Manila paper, chalk, strips of cartolina
Reference: Celebrating Diversity through Learner’s Literature
World Literature Manual

III. Procedures

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Routine Activities

 Greetings
 Checking of attendance
 Reminders

B. Motivation

Questions:
1. Among the four seasons, which do
you like most?
2. Do you like autumn?
Students will choose from the
hearts with two different colors.
Read if they like autumn and no if
they do not.

3. Has anyone of you experienced

the season of autumn? I have here
two boxes and in any piece of
paper, write phrases or a sentence
what you don’t like about autumn
and what you like about autumn.

C. Presentation

What we have done earlier is an

introduction to our new topic. A poem
written by Charles Baudelaire entitled
“Song of Autumn.” So let us take a look if
your belief about autumn will not be
changed after we discuss the poem.
 D. Discussion

Unlocking of Difficulties

Title of Activity: Matching Type!

Given the sentences using the words

below, students will match the words to its
correct definition.

1. Plunge – to fall or jump suddenly

from a high place.
2. Dismal- showing or causing
unhappiness or sad feelings
3. Clatter- to make a quick series of
short loud sounds
4. Atremble- trembling
5. Battering- to beat with successive
blows
6. Lulled- to cause someone to fall
asleep
7. Haste- with quickness or
eagerness
8. Boudoir- a woman’s bedroom, a
private room for dressing or resting
9. Vivid- very clear, bright, detailed
10. Hearth- the floor in front or inside a
fireplace

Reading Proper

Names of students will be picked

randomly and read a stanza one after the
other.

Meaning of the poem

Stanza I : coming of winter

The persona talks of the sadness that

comes and prevails as autumn arrives.
In this stanza, he already starts to cite
examples of what events or happenings
will take place.

What are the happenings that the

persona mentioned?

Stanza II: what the season of autumn

will do to him

In his lines, we can see how full the

persona is with negativities.
What are the words that he used?
The persona finds autumn a doomed
period. Imagine wrath, hate, horror,
shivering, hard and forced labour will
possess his being. It shows the poet’s
verdict of strong dislike to the season
autumn.

He already started using figures of

speech like simile and metaphor. In lines
7 and 8, his heart is compared to what?

Stanza III: poet’ s experience

He continues to paint pictures in our

mind of what is to take place. He is
affected by the season.

To what did the persona resembles

his spirit?

He made another comparison by

comparing his spirit to a tower which was
being destroyed by a battering ram.

Stanza IV: coffin

In this stanza, we can see the

persona’s fear of the coming autumn. It’s
not actually the season that he feared but
death.

What does he mean in this lines,

“They’re nailing a coffin in great haste?”

Stanza V: summer

The poet is describing what it felts

when it was summer comparing to winter.

What are the descriptions he used

to describe summer?
Stanza VI: love of a mother

The persona reiterated the role of a

mother to her son. To love tenderly and
be a mother at all times.

Stanza VII: death

In his lines, he has drawn the picture

in the reader’s mind that autumn is
completely saddening, deadly and
mournful.

Autumn then is the symbolism of

death. All throughout the poem,
negativities is looming but if we extract it
in a positive way, it could be one of the
reasons to gain nature’s enjoyment.
IV. Assessment
In a ½ sheet crosswise, answer the question.
1. After our discussion of the poem, how would you relate the meaning of the poem
to what is happening to the Earth nowadays.

Prepared by:’

IVY C. REMINDO
Mentee

Checked by:

JAYCEL GUILLOD
Mentor