Lesson Plan for English Grade 9

I Objectives
At the end of 45 minutes session the students must be able to:
1. Know the synonym.
2. Apply synonym as a word choice to create poetry.
II Instructional Material
Visual Aids
Whiteboard Marker
Tape
III Lesson Proper
Teachers Activity
Good Morning, Grade 9 students
Monette, can you lead the prayer

Students Activity
Good Morning, Sir Laurence
(Students will all stand and pray)
Angel of God, my guardian dear,
To whom His love commits me here
Ever this day be at my side
To light and guide, to rule and guard
Amen.

Before you take your sits, please pick the

pieces of trash around you

(Students will pick the pieces of trash

around them and they take their seat)

Okay class, what is our past lesson?

(Aya raised her hand)

Yes, Aya

Antonyms, Sir.

Very Good Aya, You may now take your sit

And what is Antonym?
(Princess Ellaine raised her hand)
Yes, Princess Ellaine .
Antonyms are words that opposite in

Nice, you may take your sit

meaning

Give me some example of Antonym.

(Students raised their hand)
Yes, Mariegold
Very good, Monette other example
Correct, Arlene another example
Good, Diane other example
Correct, Darwin
Very Good, last one example

Fat and Thin

Beautiful and Ugly
Big and Small
Happy and sad
Boy and Girl
Huge and Little

Now, Let us have a game. I need two

groups with three members
Any volunteer?
(Students raised their hand)
April, Aya, Monette, Jessa, Arlene and
Nicole.
I have two pictures here cut into pieces
then you must need to fix the puzzle then
tell what it is.

Are you ready?

Those who will finish fist will get 5 points to
your quiz later.
I will give 2 minutes to solve it.
Ready, Go!
I think we have a winner the group 2.
And what is the formed picture, class?
And in the other one?
What can you say about the pictures here
on board? First, the ice?

(Group 1 and Group 2 will listen to their

teacher)

Yes, Sir.

Its ice.
Its fire.
(Students will answer)
Cold, Hard, Transparent etc.

And the fire?

(Students raised their hand)
Hot and Harmful
Okay, you may take your sits.
Today we will study about Synonyms.
Anyone of you has an idea what is
Synonym?
Okay Jessa, youre pretty today.
Very Good!

Can you give some example of

Synonyms?

Bravo, Class!
Okay, Lets read a poem entitled Fire and
Ice by Robert Frost.

Okay can somebody tell me what the

author tell us. Any guess?

(Students will raise their hand)

Thank you Sir.

Sir, Synonyms are words with same
meaning.
(Students raised their hand)
Benefit, profit
Cunning, keen
Loyal, faithful
Intelligent, clever
Risky, dangerous

(Students will read the poem in chorus)

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what Ive tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
(Students raised their hand)

Yes, Monette.
The author wants us to know what the
earth can be ended fire neither ice.
Excellent Class. After reading the poem let

us have a mini debate!

What is your opinion about the Earths
end, will end up in ice or fire?

(Students raised their hand)

Yes, Ariane.

Sir, I think the earth will with end up both

because of the climate change.

(other students will give their opinion)

Excellent! Class remind ourselves that we
never know when the earth end up, it
depends on our Almighty God.
Evaluation
Fill-up the missing words in the poem
entitled fire and ice by Robert Frost.
Answer it by filling the synonyms of the
last words in every line.
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in ______,
Some say in ______.
From what Ive tasted of ______
I hold with those who favor ________.
But if it had to perish ______,
I think I know enough of ______
To say that for destruction _______
Is also great
And would _______.

(The students will answer the activity

sheet)

(Students will raised their hand)

These are words with the same meaning.

Okay, times up class. Please pass the

paper clockwise.
Generalization
Goodbye and Thank You, Sir.
Again class, what are synonyms?

Very good! Other?

Very Good!
Assignment
Look for any poem created by William
Shakespeare and change the last word in
every line using the synonym of it.

Okay, Goodbye class.

Synonym is a word that has the same

meaning in the same language.
We can consider synonyms as excellent
word choice in poetry.