DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH GRADE 9

I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the 1-hour discussion, the students should be able to:
 analyze the poem “The Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham;
 share thoughts, feelings and intentions in the material viewed; and
 speak out the importance of justice among workers

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

Topic: “The Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham
References: A journey through Anglo-American Literature, pages 135-136
Materials: Pictures, PowerPoint Presentation and Video Clips
Value Infused: Fairness & Justice

III. PROCEDURE:

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Classroom Management

Good morning, class! Good morning, Ma’am!

Kindly pick-up the pieces of paper under your chairs.

Let’s start our class with a prayer.

(Prays…)

B. Motivation
The teacher will play a video clip about forced labor.

What is the video clip you’ve watched all about?

What happened to the man?

What is forced labor?

He is forced to work, Ma’am.

Forced labor is any work or service which people are

forced to do against their will, under threat of
Okay, very well said. punishment, Ma’am. (Answers may vary)

Our lesson for today is connected to the video you’ve

watched. It is a poem “The Man with the Hoe.” By
Edwin Markham.

The lesson objectives will be shown to the students.

C. Lesson Proper

Edwin Markham got inspired with the painting of

Jean-François Millet’, which is a man holding a hoe.
Both painting and poem have similar themes.

Now, let us have an activity

Do you want an activity?

Directions: The teacher will divide the class into five

(5) groups. Each group will be given a photo and a
stanza that has the same message. The task of the Yes, Ma’am!
students is to find and write down the meaning of the
stanza by comparing to the given photo.

The students must have 2-3 representatives to

present their work.

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,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? The first stanza is about burden, Ma’am (Answers
may vary)
How do you think the speaker of the poem feels
about the man with a hoe?

What do you think the speaker means when he

describes the man as showing "the emptiness of ages
in his face"?

Why do you think the speaker of the poem refers to The poet describes the man with the hoe as a pitiful
the man as "a brother to the ox"? figure.

To sum it up, in the first stanza, the poem describes This could mean that the unfairness of the laborer
the burden and miserable condition of the laborer has been going on for a long time
because of the cruelty of his master.
He is described as 'Stolid and stunned, a brother to
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave the ox'. His labors have been appropriated to sustain
To have dominion over sea and land; the world's blind greed.' He related the man to
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; something nonhuman, an animal.
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns
And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this—
More tongued with censure of the world’s blind
greed—
More filled with signs and portents for the soul—
More fraught with danger to the universe.
What gulfs between him and the seraphim!

In the poem, what does God intend him to be?

The second stanza is about the purpose of God,

Ma’am (Answers may vary)

In the second stanza, it illustrated the contradiction

of situations where the laborer should live freely and
pursue his dream but in fact, lives with terrible fear.

Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him

Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time’s tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
A protest that is also prophecy.
From the poem is trying to tell us that God originally
intented the laborer to be a powerful human being
one with supremacy and control over the sea and
land.
This laborer was meant to live fully and to search out
the mysteries of the stars and the universe.

The man with the hoe is a "Slave of wheel of labor

symbolize?"

What is meant by the line "What to him are Plato and The third stanza is about slaves and their sufferings,
the swing of Pleiades?" Ma’am (Answers may vary)
His betrayed by faceless 'masters, lords and rulers in The wheel here symbolizes never-ending servitude.
all lands' who have "plundered, profaned and
disinherited" from his true heritage.

In the third stanza, the poem conveys that there js a

big difference between the laborer who suffered and
the ruler who lived in happiness and wealth.
Plato is a classical Greek philosopher and
mathematician. He represents education, knowledge.
And Pleiades is a group of stars named for the
daughter of Atlas in Greek Mythology, it represents
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, our astronomy. In conclusion, the laborer does not
is this the handiwork you give to God, have a chance to learn any knowledge neither
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched ? philosophy nor astronomy.
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?

Who is being called on in the fourth stanza?

In the fourth stanza, the speaker satirizes the masters

to fix their mistakes and stop their cruelty because
God created humans not to act against their will.

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,

How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour The fourth stanza the rulers and their power, Ma’am
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world? (Answers may vary)
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?

What does the word 'Future' with a capital letter

symbolize? The speaker asks question to someone who calls
master, which addressed to the ruler who has
What is the message of the stanza? unlimited power.

In the fifth stanza, the speaker conveys anger tone to

the master. He believes that there will be a
judgement day in the future and when that time
comes, the cruel masters have to be responsible for
what they did to the laborers. (Lower class people)

Good job to everyone! Overall, the main theme of the

poem is about the social issue in labor. It is a striking The fifth stanza is asking for solution or help, Ma’am
poem of protest against exploited labor. (Answers may vary)

D. Generalization:

It symbolizes hereafter. Life after death

What did we learn today?

In this stanza, it clearly conveys the anger tone of the

Again, who wrote The man with the hoe? speaker to the masters who treated farmer
inhumanely. The speaker here also hopes the laborer
to rise up and revolt after being silent for centuries.
What is it all about? (Answers may vary)

Who are the modern “man with the hoe”

How does the society treat them?

What does the bend body of the man signify?

Do you think justice is important?

Do you understand the poem

We learned about the poem “Man with the Hoe”,

Ma’am

Ma’am, it is written by Edwin Markham

It is about the sufferings of the exploited workers

Forced laborers or Exploited laborers.

The society treat them unfairly, Ma’am.

Burden of the work

Yes, Ma’am.

Yes, Ma’am.

IV. EVALUATION

The teacher will play a video presentation about forced labor.

Directions: Directions: In ¼ sheet of paper, in 4-5 sentences explain the importance of

justice among workers.
Start your answer with “I believe…”

V. ASSIGNMENT
Be a poet. On your notebook, make your own 2-stanza free verse poem regarding to what we
have discussed. Be creative!

Criteria for scoring:

Creativity- 30%
Appropriateness- 30%
Cleanliness- 20%
Overall Appearance- 20%
100%