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LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH 10

I. OBJECTIVES

The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literature and other

A. Content Standards text types serve as instruments to resolve social conflicts, also how to use
the language research, campaigns and advocates.

B. Performance The Learner competently presents a research report on a relevent socio-

Standards cultural issue.
C. Learning
Expand ideas using principles of cohesion and coherence.
Competencies

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

D. Learning Objectives
1. Decode images and descriptions poets created.
2. Appreciate and convey message of a poem.
3. Participate actively and enthusiastically in class dicussion.

II. CONTENT A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (Poem)

Topic by Craig Raine
Skills: Reading and Language

III.LEARNING
RESOURCES Celebrating Diversity through World Literature p. 427-428
Reference/s Laptop, projector, LM
Materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCpr028l0k
https://www.google.com/search?q=marvin+the+martian&prmd=isvn&sourc
e=lnms&tbm
https://www.google.com/search?q=earth&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjlz4S2zf
bgAhWHwbwKHR
https://www.google.com/search?q=craig+raine&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwik
z8r6zfbgAhXJxbwKHQyaDkMQ2
IV. PROCEDURES

A. Pre Reading
1. Daily Routine a. Classroom Management
b. Prayer/ Greetings
c. Checking of Attendance
d. Checking of Assignment

Direction: Identify what figure of speech is expressed in the following

statements.
2. Review
1. It is raining so hard; I hope it doesn’t rain for 40 days and 40 nights.”
2. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
3. Samantha saw seven silly soldiers selling strawberries Saturday.
4. Our quiz is a piece of cake!
5. How pretty you are! That your mom locked you up in your room.
6. To be or not to be, || that is the question (William Shakespeare,
“Hamlet”)
7. The Hunger Games: This trilogy of Young Adult books (and now
blockbuster movies) is for our obsession with reality television and
how it numbs us to reality.
8. The queen is awfully pretty in person!
9. The investigation was directly ordered by Malacañang.
10. A hero is caught in a trap, but suddenly an enemy bomb explodes
and frees the hero without injuring him.

3. Motivation Part I
 Look at the image of earth
from space.
 What is your opinion
about UFOs and aliens?
Do you think they exist?
Have aliens actually
landed on Earth?
 If aliens came to Earth,
they would extremely have advanced technology. What things on
Earth do you think would they find particularly strange or old-
fashioned?
 I will show you variety of household objects (e.g. corkscrew, egg-
beater/ whisk, flasligt, dustpan and a broom)
 Pick up any object and mime using the object in any way apart from
its intended function.

Sample Answer:
A dustpan as selfie stick or as umbrella
 Part II
Do know who’s in the picture?
Marvin the Martian is one of the main antagonists of the Looney
Tunes franchise, along with Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd created,
much like Sam, out of the need to make a challenging foe for the
ever-tricky rabbit known as Bugs Bunny.
Marvin is depicted as a strange humanoid dressed in a vaguely
Roman-style suit with a pair of oversized sneakers, this designed
was chosen due to Mars being the name of the Roman god of war
and has served him well as it makes him stand out from the crowd
as a distinctive villain. Chuck Jones, who directed most of his shorts,
stated that he based Marvin's blank black face on black ants, which
he found scary.

Craig Raine is a British poet, born in 1944, who is known as an exponent of

“Martian poetry”, by which is meant the expression of familiar concepts in
unfamiliar ways. The term derived from his poem “A Martian Sends a
Postcard Home”, which was first published in the “New Statesman” in
1977.

One does not need to believe in Martians to enjoy this poem, only in the
concept of being able to perceive human behaviour and institutions with
complete detachment, as though one had never come across them before.
Or rather, as Craig Raine does, to express one’s impressions of humanity
in terms that seem strange and puzzling at first and need a little working
out before one realizes what it is to which the poet is referring. It is in
working out the puzzles that the reader derives a lot of fun from this poem.

B. Reading
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
By: Craig Raine

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings

and some are treasured for their markings –

they cause the eyes to melt

or the body to shriek without pain.

I have never seen one fly, but

sometimes they perch on the hand.

Mist is when the sky is tired of flight

and rests its soft machine on ground:

then the world is dim and bookish

like engravings under tissue paper.
 Rain is when the earth is television.
It has the property of making colours darker.

Model T is a room with the lock inside –

a key is turned to free the world

for movement, so quick there is a film

to watch for anything missed.

But time is tied to the wrist

or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,

that snores when you pick it up.

If the ghost cries, they carry it

to their lips and soothe it to sleep

with sounds. And yet, they wake it up

deliberately, by tickling with a finger.

Only the young are allowed to suffer

openly. Adults go to a punishment room
with water but nothing to eat.

They lock the door and suffer the noises

alone. No one is exempt
and everyone’s pain has a different smell.

At night, when all the colours die,

they hide in pairs

and read about themselves –

in colour, with their eyelids shut.

Reading comprehension:
C. Post Reading
1. What is the object that the Martian first describe?
1. Discussion 2. What two forms of weather are mentioned in the poem?
3. What other objects are described by the Martian?
4. Did you easily get what the Martian was describing in the poem? How?
5. How different does the Martian see the objects? Cite some lines to prove
your answer.
6. What figurative language is used in the poem?
2. Activity What Am I?!

a. Students hold a short stick that bleeds black food onto white leaves.
What is this a description of?
 PEN

b. Humans force feed the square creature with dirty food. He sloshes it
around his mouth and spits it out an hour later. What is this a
description of?
 WASHING MACHINE

c. I rotate but I’m not the earth, as it orbits around the sun. Instead, Im
used to heat up food and I beep when I’m done.What am I?
 MICROWAVE

d. It has a lot of shelves but not a library. It has a door but not a house,
it lit when it’s opened. Tons of food but not a grocery store. It’s cold
inside but not an igloo. What is it?
 REFRIGERATOR

e. You should use me everyday, those who neglect me will end up

having more money to pay.
What am I?
 TOOTHBRUSH

Group Activities: The class shall be divided into 5. Each group shall be
assigned a task listed below.

ALIEN ATTACKS!!!

Present the following tasks:

Group 1 – Draw the planet where Martian came from.

2 – Illustrate how Martian reached our planet Earth.
3 – Write a postcard on how Martian sees and enjoys his stay
on Earth.
3. Group Dynamic 4 – Inscribe how humans accept Martian.
5 – Dedicate a song to Martian and sing it to the class.

Group Presentation Rubric:

 CONTENT - 5
- Did the presentation have a valuable material?

 COLLABORATION – 5
- Did everyone contribute to the presentation?
- Did everyone seem well versed in the material?
  ORGANIZATION – 5
- Did the presenters speak clearly?
- Did they engage the audience?

Watch the 1982 American Science fiction film “ E.T.” directed by Steven
Spielberg and, in your groups, do and present the following tasks.

V. ASSIGNMENT Group 1 – Make an outline for a film review of E.T. Write it on

manila paper and present it in class.
2 – Draw a piece of artwork that highlights the theme of E.T.
Use manila paper.
3 – Choose a music that best communicates the theme of
E.T.
4 – Write a short letter from Elliot to E.T. and vice-versa.
5 – Role play the first encounter of E.T. and Elliot.

REFLECTION

Prepared:

MARIA LYN J. SITCHON

English Teacher, Grade 10

Noted:

EDNA M. JOYA
Department Coordinator

Evaluated:

CLARISSA P. TIBAR
ABIS LR Coordinator

Approved:

HENRY A. SABIDONG
Principal III