DASMARIÑAS INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOL

A Detailed Lesson Plan in English 10

I. Learning Competencies
Describe ideas and objects using simile and metaphor
Create a free poem using simile and metaphor

II. Learning Content

Literature: A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craige Raine
Values Integration:

III. Learning Materials

Reference: Celebrating Diversity through World Literature pp.
Materials: PowerPoint presentation for motivation and presentation of the lesson

IV. Learning Procedures

A. Daily Routine
B. Lesson Proper
Approach: Collaborative
Strategy: Jigsaw Method
Activity: TDAR (Think-Discuss-Act-Reflect)

C. Lesson Proper
Background of the author
Craig Raine was born on December 3, 1944
Education – Oxford University

1. Motivation
iDescribe
Directions: The class will be divided into 2 groups. Each group will have a representative
that will describe the word that they pick without saying the word itself. The group
members need to guess what the word is. The group who got the highest score will be the
winner.

WORDS:
Laptop Dasmariñas Integrated High School
Mountains Ma’am Porto
River Television
Ocean Philippines
Notebook Duterte
Pen Marawi City
Snow Watch
Internet Flower

Presentation of the Lesson

Think
The teacher will ask the students a question.
“How can you describe the beauty of the world to a blind person?”
The teacher will relate the question to the topic.

Discuss
The teacher will associate the lines of the poem to pictures that it describe.
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.

Activity
The class will be divided into 3 groups. Create a poem that describes the beauty of the
following:

Group 1 Luzon
Group 2 Visayas
Group 3 Mindanao

Rubrics:
Content 50%
Creativity 30%
Presentation 20%

Reflection
The teacher will relate the moral lesson of the poem to the students.

D. Evaluation
DIRECTIONS: Write the correct word that is being described in the statement.
1. Humans force feed the square creature with dirty food. He sloshes it round his mouth and spits it
out an hour later.

A. Television
B. Cabinet
C. Washing Machine

2. Pupils hold a short stick that bleeds black blood onto white leaves.
A. Ink
B. Pen
C. Syringe
3. I am a kind of candy. I am very common around the world. I can come in milk, dark or
white, or I can even have different fillings! What am I?
A. Chocolate
B. Skittles
C. Cookie

4. ‘It’s a small object of metal that, when turned, can contain things or free them’
A. Keychain
B. Key
C Knife

5. My body has a dozen heads or more,

My tails don’t wag when you walk in the door.
Count the ways you can hold me tight,
Or use me for a special night!
A. Closet
B. Refrigerator
C. Piggybank

E. Assignment
Have an advance reading about the excerpt of the story Les Miserables in your book.