Lesson Plan for Beowulf

LESSON PLAN FOR GRADE 9 Lesson 2 – Day 1 I.

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: 1. share thoughts, feelings, and intentions in the material viewed; 2. restate the ideas conveyed by the text listened to; 3. give meaning to kennings using picture and context clues;

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Subject Matter A. Topics - The Battle with Grendel  from  from Beowulf  translated  translated by Burton Raffel B. Reference - Almonte, L. et al. A al. A journey through through Anglo American Anglo American Literature Literature – Grade 9. 9. Pasig City: Department of Education, 2014 C. Materials 1. Learner’s 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

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Strategies Teacher’s Activities

Students’ Activities

 A. Drill Good morning class!

Good morning Sir!

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

Students get their spelling booklets and does the spelling drill.

B. New Lesson Today we will start a new lesson. But before that, can anybody give me the name of their favorite hero or superhero?

Batman, Superman, Flash, Thor

Great! You see, class, our lesson for this week will revolve on a certain fictional hero from the past. Are you ready to meet him?

Yes, Sir.

1. Preliminary task Hit the Hints Wonderful! Now, I’ll give you worksheets for today’s activities. Please focus on Worksheet A. I’ll show three groups of images of characters from certain stories. Write all the strengths or powers you know they possess in their respective columns on Worksheet A. Understood?

Yes, Sir.

Teacher flashes pictures of characters from Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Okay, now, I want everyone to put on the fourth column all traits, strengths, or powers that is common to all characters in all three groups. Then, answer the three guide questions below. I’ll give you five minutes. Time is up. Let’s see what you’ve got. _________, can you share to class the name of your favorite character? And why?

Prof. Albus Dumbledore because he is wise and intelligent and he helped Harry to become a skilled wizard.

Wonderful! And just a follow-up question. Do you have what it takes to be like him? And why do you say so?

Of course. If I study harder than I am studying right now, I know that I will be learning a lot of things. Thus, making me smarter and wiser.

Excellent! And how about you, ________? Who among the characters do you like most?

Katniss Everdeen. Because she is a strongwilled girl who stands up to what she believes in life.

And do you have what it takes to be just like her?

Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, I consider myself to be her—strong-willed and a girl with strong principles.

Very well said! I believe so, too. Now, Based on their characteristics and intentions, what name could be associated with them?

Hero.

2. Middle Task Say That Again Very good! All of them can be called heroes because of their strengths and traits. And speaking of a hero, our next activity would revolve on the song, “Hero” by Mariah Carey. Is everyone familiar with the song?

Yes/No.

Okay. This is what we’ll do. We’ll listen to the song twice. By that time, you should get two to four lines from the song and write it on the column provided on page 31. And write in your own words the meaning of those lines for you? Understood?

Yes, Sir.

Very good. Okay, let us begin. Teacher plays the audio-recording.

Students listen to the audio-recording twice.

I’ll give you three minutes to finish your work. Time’s up. _________, can you read the lines you got from the song?

Here’s a hero if you look inside your heart. You don’t have to be afraid of what you are.

Nice lyric selection. And what does that mean to you?

It means that if we look closely on ourselves, we will realize that there is really nothing to be afraid of and we should even be proud of ourselves.

Excellent interpretation! How about you, __________? Can you share to us the lines you chose?

It’s a long road if you face the world alone. No one reaches out a hand for you to hold.

Great. And those lines, for you, would mean that?

Life would be very hard for you if you live by yourself. One should try to be more open for people to reach out to him.

Nice choice of words. Now, what we just did is called paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is the expressing of the same message with different words. Or, can everyone read the paragraph on paraphrasing on page 31?

Rewriting lines from songs, poems, stories, and other articles is one way of paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is often defined as putting into your own words texts that are originally from the author. It will make us own our ideas as inspired by other people’s work and will keep us from plagiarizing others’ works.

Yes. It is important to paraphrase for us to avoid plagiarizing other people’s work. That is why, when we do our assignments and we search in the internet, we should not do the copy-paste method because that is against the law. What, instead, should we do?

We paraphrase.

 Attach Those Words Great. I trust you’ll do that next time you research for something, okay? Now, I will share something new to all of you. Can everybody please read the following sentences?

My father, the captain of the ship, crosses the swan road  every time they went to America. Its benches rattled, fell to the floor, goldcovered boards grating as Grendel and Beowulf battled across them.

Class, the underlined words in the sentences are what we call as kennings. Now, who can read the definition of a kenning?

A kenning is a conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry.

Very good. You see, a kenning is a metaphorical term. It is a type of figure of speech. And you don’t give meaning to them literally but figuratively. In this case, the swan road here, could refer to?

The sea.

Very good! And this gold-shining board could mean?

Floorboards.

Yes, Sir.

3. Culminating Task Fantastic! Now, please focus on your Worksheet B. Match the kennings in Column A to their appropriate sentences in Column B by getting clues from the pictures attached to it and from the context of the sentences. Write your answer on the space before each number. Is it clear?

Students work on the worksheet.

I’ll give you ten minutes to work on that. Time starts now. Time’s up. Please pass all the worksheets forward. Are there any questions?

None, sir.

Fantastic. Then, I’ll see you tomorrow. Goodbye, class!

Goodbye, Sir.

Prepared by:

Jessiete A. Amerila

BSEd 4-A