Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Pinagkawitan Integrated National High School
Pinagkawitan, Lipa City

A Detailed Lesson Plan

Date:

I. Desired Outcomes:

Content Standard:
The learner demonstrates understanding of how Anglo-American literature and
other text types serve as means of connecting to the world; also, how to use ways
of analyzing one-act play and different forms of verbal for him/her too skillfully
perform in a one-act play.
Performance Standard:
The learner skillfully performs in one-act play through utilizing effective verbal
and non-verbal strategies and ICT resources based on the following criteria: Focus,
Voice, Delivery, and Dramatic Conventions.
Learning Competencies:
EN9LT-IIIa-16: Analyze literature as a means of connecting to the world.
EN9LC-IIIi-8.2: Judge the relevance and worth of information/ideas.
Lesson objective:
At the end of the lesson, the students can:
1. Analyze the meaning and message of the poem.
2. Identifies information from the informative video clip.
3.Relate poem content to particular social issues, concerns, or dispositions in
real life regarding the use of telephone and other technologies.

II. Subject Matter:

A. Topic: The Telephone by Edward Field
B. References: A Journey through Anglo-American Literature Learner`s
Material, p.237
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-theme-meaning-
poem-telephone-by-edward-field-544412
C. Materials: Visual Aids, Audio-Video presentation.
Lesson Proper:
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
A. Daily Routine
1. Greeting
Good morning, class
Good morning, Ma’am!
2. Prayer
Everybody stands and let us pray.
(The students pray.)
3. Classroom Management
Before taking your seat, kindly arrange
your chairs and pick up the pieces of
(The students align their chairs and pick up the piece
trash near you.
of papers under it.)

4. Checking of Attendance
(The class secretary gives the list of absentees to the
Is there any absentee for today?
teacher)

Priming Motivation
Today, you will watch the music video
entitled “Are you lost in the world like
me?” The students watch the music video.

What is the video all about? The music video is about the addiction of the
people in using cellphone.

Very good!
It is about the use of technologies
special cellphone.
Do you considered yourselves addicted in Yes, I am addicted in using cellphone because my
using cell phone? Why? why not?
life always depends in using my cellphone.
No, I am not because I can live without the use of
cellphone.

Very good!

Activity

“Clash of Clan”
We will play a game called “Clash of
Clan”.
It is team boys vs. team girls.
 What your going to do is to write on the
board as many as you can the positive
and negative effect of using cellphone
in 2 minutes. In order to determine who
will write the positive and negative is
the winner of “jack en poy” Yes, Ma’am!
Are you read?
Start.

Both teams write their answer on the

board.
Okay, very good! The winner will have
a plus points on the quiz.

Analysis
So, class before we discuss our topic
for today. Let’s first unlock some
unfamiliar words present from the
poem so that you will understand
clearly what the poem is all about.

UNLOCKING OF DIFFICULTIES
Direction: Arranged the jumbled
letters to get the correct answer.

1. To become twisted together into a jumbled

mass or make something become twisted into
a jumbled.
EGLANT Tangle
2. Conversation about the personal details of
other people's lives, whether rumor or fact,
especially when malicious
SSIPOG
Gossip
3. To die by being underwater too long and
unable to breath.
DORNWIGN
4. Full of shades and shadows, not clearly seen
or understood. Drowning
DSHAWOY
5. To walk slowly in a free and relaxed way. Shadowy
AMLBE
Amble
Very good!
Let us all read the poem “The
Telephone by Edward Field”
But before that let us first know the
author of the poem
 Edward Field
He won awards on the following:
 Academy Award for writing
narration for the documentary film
To Be Alive (1965).
 Lamont Award from the Academy
of American Poets,
 Shelley Memorial Award from the
Poetry Society of America,
 Prix de Rome from the American
Academy of Arts & Letters,
 Lambda Literary Award.
 Edward Field’s poem “The
Telephone” is included in his book
Counting Myself Lucky: Selected
Poems, 1963-1992.

Let’s us now read the poem.

Everybody read the poem.

The Telephone
by Edward Field
My happiness depends on an electric
appliance
And I do not mind giving it so much credit
With life in this city being what it is
By a tangle of subways and buses
Yes, my telephone is my joy
It tells me that I am in the world and
wanted
It rings and I am alerted to love or
gossip
I go comb my hair which begins to
sparkle
Without it I was like a bear in a cave
Drowsing through a shadowy winter
It rings and spring has come
I stretch and amble out into the
sunshine
Hungry again as I pick up the receiver
 For the human voice and the good
news of friends

What do you think is the poem all about?

The poem is a commentary on the invention of the
telephone and how it connected people who were
isolated by their city living conditions.

What do you think is the theme the poem?

The theme of the poem is self-identity and
happiness through an object in one’s life.
What is the feeling that the telephone gives to
narrator or author?
The narrator explains how the telephone made him
feel connected to others, how it gave him pleasure
to share gossip, and to stay connected.

As he says, “Without it I was like a bear in a cave.”

It seems the telephone gave him so much pleasure
that he goes from feeling like a solitary bear
hibernating to a person enjoying the spring sunshine
when it rings.

The promise of sharing with other human beings

through his inanimate object, this glorious invention
allows him to hear “the human voice and the good
news of friends.”
Abstraction

What is the title of our poem today? Who is the

author?
The Telephone by Edward Field.

What is the theme of the poem?

It is about self-identity and happiness through an
object in one’s life.
How important in your daily activities or
school activities the use of cellphones or
technologies?
It makes our life easier. We can easily gather
information using technology.
(Answer may vary)

If you were to choose a machine that you want

to compare yourself, what would that be?
Why? A cellphone because like cellphone I am useful, and
I can also help people to lessen their work.
(answer may vary)
Application

Let’s have a grouping. Inside the

envelop is the task that you needed to
do.

Remember that you will be grade

accordingly.

Go to your respected group silently and

cooperate.

GROUP 1

GRATITUDE
My happiness depends on an electric
The speaker is happy because he had those
appliance
And I do not mind giving it so much credit machines that can satisfy his needs in life
1. What is the predominant feeling of the
speaker in these lines?
2. Why does he feel that way?

GROUP 2
OBSTACLE
Friends are being disconnected because they are
With life in this city being what it is
Each person separated from friends very busy in all their activities living in the city.
1. Why are friends disconnected?

GROUP 3
PLEASURE
Yes, my telephone is my joy
It tells me that I am in the world and wanted
With the use of telephones, the speaker is alerted
It rings and I am alerted to love or gossip
I go comb my hair which begins to sparkle and connected to his friends.
1. How does the speaker justify his joy of
having a telephone?

GROUP 4
SPRING
Without it I was like a bear in a cave
Drowsing through a shadowy winter
It rings and spring has come
 1. To what does the speaker compare man ‘s He compared man’s situation to a bear in a cave.
situation before the advent of the telephone?
2. What value do people give to the People value telephones as their device in linking
telephone when he has the access to it? to the world

GROUP 5
CONNNECTION
I stretch and amble out into the sunshine He is hunger for the human voice and the good
Hungry again as I pick up the receiver
news of friends.
For the human voice and the good news of
friends Yes, he was able to connect to the world with the
1. What does the speaker hunger for? Is he use of his phone
capable of connecting to the world? Explain.

Evaluation
Although telephone proves to have a lot of
benefits, there are still drawbacks in its use.
Use the diagram to list the advantages and
Disadvantages Advantages
disadvantages of using a phone.
Advantages Disadvantage 1. Interruptions 1. Connect to the world
1 1 2. Distraction 2. Entertainment
2 2 3. Isolation 3. Safety
3 3
4. Health problems 4. Alarm & reminder
5. Loss of money 5. Data transfer
6. Various utilities

Assignment
In a one (1) whole sheet of paper. List five
(5) advantages and five (5) disadvantages of
the following communication technology.
1. Computer/Laptop
2. E-mails
3. Voice mail

Prepared by: Checked by:

Jonalyn A. Hidal
Pre-Service Teacher Venus Virrey
Cooperating Teacher