Daily Lesson Log

(Pursuant to DepEd Order No. 42 s. 2016)

SCHOOL NAME CALOOCAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADE 9

TEACHER LEARNING AREA ENGLISH
TEACHING DATES AND TIME 1-WEEK LESSON QUARTER 2ND

I. LEARNING COMPETENCIES/ OBJECTIVES

Make connections between texts to particular social issues, concerns or dispositions in real life.

EN9LT-IIb-15 Analyze literature as means of valuing people and their various circumstance in life.

II. CONTENT / TOPIC

READING TEXT: The Man with a Hoe by Edwin Markham

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

VOCABULARY LIST: bowed, burden, grieves, rapture, despair, stolid, portent, seraphim

“The Man with a Hoe” reading text hand out

Worksheets
Short video clip

IV. PROCEDURES
A. Motivation The teacher will play a video clip about forced labor

B. Presentation of Lesson Preliminary Activity:

TASK 1 THOUGHT BUBBLE

Below is one of the most quotable quotes from Edwin Markham, the
author of the poem you are about to read. React to his idea by writing
on the thought bubble

The message of the author in the quote is

Task 2 RIGHT FROM THE CONTEXT

 C. Discussion

The Man with the Hoe

By Edwin Markham

God made man in His own image,

in the image of God made He him. —
Genesis.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans

Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, This is the image of L’Homme a la houe by Jean Francois Millet- the
The emptiness of ages in his face, painting which inspired Edwin Markham in writing the poem The Man
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
with the Hoe. Examine the picture then complete the graphic organizer
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, below.
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Words that I can The images that remind Question in my mind…
Whose was the hand that slanted back this connect… me of…
brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this
brain?
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for
power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the Task 3: READING CORNER
suns Read the Man with a Hoe then accomplish the comprehension check
And marked their ways upon the ancient questions.
deep?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf
1. Describe the physical characteristics of the man
There is no shape more terrible than this—
More tongued with censure of the world’s 2. Describe his life situation.
blind greed— 3. Explain the meaning of the following expressions:
More filled with signs and portents for the
“A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.”
soul— “a brother to the ox”
More fraught with danger to the universe. 4. Examine the first four questions. To whom are these questions
addressed?
What gulfs between him and the seraphim! 5. Who is being addressed by the poet in "The Man with the Hoe"?
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
6. What is the meaning of the phrase "monstrous thing distorted and
What the long reaches of the peaks of song, soul-quenched" from "The Man with the Hoe"?
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose? 7. According to the speaker in "The Man With the Hoe," what is God's
Through this dread shape the suffering ages plan for man?
look; 8. What does the bent body of the man with the hoe signify?
Time’s tragedy is in that aching stoop;
9. Who is responsible for the condition or state of the man with the hoe?
Through this dread shape humanity
betrayed, 10. Who is the modern man in "The Man with the Hoe"?
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
A protest that is also prophecy.

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,

is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-
quenched ?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,

How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the
world?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings
—
With those who shaped him to the thing he is
—
When this dumb Terror shall reply to God
After the silence of the centuries?

D. Application TASK 4: THROUGH YOUR REFLECTION

Write a reflection:
“If I found myself in the same situation as the man with a hoe, how would I
react and what would I do to improve my situation?”

E. Summary Students will realize that The man with the hoe is a social protest type
of poem, the persona implies that god is being unfair in creating he
created powerful and powerless, the role of those powerful (leaders) is
being responsible about those peasants and give back the light that the
light they give up (the power of thinking) if this will continue there will be
a rebellion.

F. Enrichment/ Assignment

TASK 5: SOCIAL ISSUES HODGEPODGE

The above image is an infographic on social issues in our country.

Create your own infographic on social issues that is relatable to you as
a teenager or as a student.

V. ASSESSMENT(worksheet/ interactive)
 Caloocan High School
English Department

Name: _________________________ Date: __________________

Grade 9 Section: _________________ Teacher: ____________________

TASK WORKSHEET
“The Man with a Hoe”

Preliminary Activity:
TASK 1 THOUGHT BUBBLE
Below is one of the most quotable quotes from
Edwin Markham, the author of the poem you are
about to read. React to his idea by writing on the
thought bubble
The message of the author in the quote is
Task 3: READING CORNER
Read the Man with a Hoe then accomplish the
comprehension check questions.
1. Describe the physical characteristics of the
man
2. Describe his life situation.
3. Explain the meaning of the following
expressions:
“A thing that grieves not and that never
hopes.”
“a brother to the ox”
4. Examine the first four questions. To whom are
these questions addressed?
5. Who is being addressed by the poet in "The
Man with the Hoe"?
6. What is the meaning of the phrase "monstrous
thing distorted and soul-quenched" from "The
Man with the Hoe"?
7. According to the speaker in "The Man With the
Hoe," what is God's plan for man?
8. What does the bent body of the man with the
hoe signify?
9. Who is responsible for the condition or state of
the man with the hoe?
10 Who is the modern man in "The Man with the
Hoe"?

Task 2 RIGHT FROM THE CONTEXT TASK 4: THROUGH YOUR REFLECTION

Write a reflection:
Words that I can The images that Question in my
connect… remind me of… mind… “If I found myself in the same situation as the man with a
hoe, how would I react and what would I do to improve
my situation?”

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