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I. Objectives
At the end of the period, the students will be able to:
1. Define unfamiliar words in the poem by arranging jumbled letters;
2. Compare and contrast the writer’s point of view in life and arithmetic;
3. Give the relevance of what they have learned in school to their development
as individuals.
III. Materials
Textbook
Chalkboard
Chalk
Cartolina where the vocabularies are written
Speaker
Television
Laptop
IV. Procedure
A. Daily Routine Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Checking of the cleanliness and orderliness of the classroom
B. Activity (Priming)
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
The Game
Each round of the game proceeds as
follows:
A player from Team A draws a
phrase slip from Team B. After
giving him a short time to review
the slip, I will tell the player to
start. Team A then has two
minutes to guess the phrase. If
they figure it out, I will record
how long it took. If they do not
figure it out in two minutes, I will
announce that the time is up and
Team B takes their turn.
Normally the game continues
until every player has had a
chance to "act out" a phrase.
The team who gets two points
wins the game.
No phrase should be longer than
seven words.
Clues:
Number of words in the title:
Hold up the number of fingers.
Number of syllables in the word:
Lay the number of fingers on
your arm.
Pull on your ear to indicate that
the word being guessed sounds
like another word.
Given phrases/quotations:
“One in a million”
“All for one, one for all”
“Snow white and the seven dwarfs”
“Life begins at forty”
"Be fruitful and multiply" (GENESIS
1:28)
“Nothing happens unless first we
dream.” – Carl Sandburg - The given quotations have numbers
on the sentence.
(After that the teacher will announce
the winning group and give them prize.)
You’re right.
Class, do you know that one of the
quotations I have given was written by
a famous poet named Carl Sandburg.
-Carl Sandburg likes simple poems. His
C. Presentation parents came from Sweden. They chose
United States of America as their home.
1. Author’s Biography
Class, is there anyone here who knows - He grew up in Illinois. By the age of
Carl Sandburg? eighteen, he left home. He travelled across
Yes, __________? the country, and he often caught rides on
trains.
At the age of twenty, Sandburg joined the
Good! Any other answer? army. He served briefly in Puerto Rico.
Yes, __________? Then he returned home and attended
Lombard College.
Very good!
In addition to that, Sandburg won the
Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1951. He did
not just write poems. He collected and
sung American folk songs as well.
3. Unlocking of Difficulties
Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters
in Column A to form the words being
defined in Column B.
A B
1. YLPITLUM -to increase in
number
2. UQEEEZS -to press forcibly
3. ODUBLE -to have twice as
much
4. QTUI -to stop or
discontinue - Multiply
5. SKAERTS -a band of color - Squeeze
- Double
4. Second Reading of the poem by - Quit
the Students - Streaks
Now, Let’s go ahead and read the
poem for the second time around. Who
would like to read? Any volunteer?
Yes, __________?
D. Analysis
Guide Questions:
1. What is Carl Sandburg’s attitude
toward arithmetic, as indicated in his
poem?
E. Abstraction
Values Integration
Okay, class I have another video
presentation that somehow related to
the lesson. I want you enjoy watching
the video and tell me your reaction
after watching it.
F. Evaluation
“Arithmetic is English”
In your one half crosswise, write down
the letter of the word arithmetic. Then,
give a description for each based on
how you view arithmetic now after
reading the poem. Be ready to explain
your work in the class after 5 minutes.
V. Assignment
1. Make a survey in your nearby
section about the importance of
Math and English in their everyday
lives.
2. Divide your one whole sheet of
pad paper into two vertical columns
stating the importance of Math in
the first column and English on the
second column.
Arithmetic
by Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win if you know how many you had before
you lost or won.
Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven—or five six bundle of sticks.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your
paper till you get the answer.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of
the window and see the blue sky— or the answer is wrong and you have to start all over
and try again and see how it comes out this time.
If you take a number and double it and double it again and then double it a few more
times, the number gets bigger and bigger and goes higher and higher and only
arithmetic can tell you what the number is when you decide to quit doubling.
Arithmetic is where you have to multiply— and you carry the multiplication table in your
head and hope you won't lose it.
If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you eat one and a striped
zebra with streaks all over him eats the other, how many animal crackers will you have
if somebody offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say
Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix?
If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she gives you two fried eggs
and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic, you or your mother?