Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION VIII-EASTERN VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BILIRAN

English 9
Quarter 2-Week 5

Competency

Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging

values in the volatile world. EN9LT-IVa-17:

Initial Task

Directions: What values do the following phrases in column A refer to? Look
for the answers in column B. Write only the letter.

A B.

1. Steady, earnest and A. Justice

energetic effort B. Helpfulness

2. Adherence to the facts C. Diligence

3. Careful management of D. Honesty

material resources especially money E. Frugality

4. The administration of law F. Perseverance
5. Continued efforts to do or achieve
something despite the difficulties

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 Presentation

Do you have dreams? What are they? Each one of us has his/her own
dream that may always reminds us to keep on going despite the life’s
challenges and obstacles.

In today’s topic, we will read an excerpt from a play that will tell us
the dream of each of the family members.

A Raisin in the Sun

Loraine Hansberry

Characters:
Ruth Younger Lena Younger (Mama)

Travis Younger Beneatha (Sister)

Walter Lee Younger (Brother)

The action of the play is set in Chicago Southside, sometime between

World War II and the present.
Act I
Scene One: Friday Morning
Scene two: The following morning

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(Ruth comes in forlorn and pulls off her coat with dejection. Mama and
Beneatha both turn to look at her.)
Ruth: (dispiritedly): Well, I guess from all the happy faces – everybody
knows.
Beneatha: You pregnant?
Mama: Lord have mercy, I sure hope it’s a little old girl. Travis ought to have
a sister.
(Beneatha and Ruth give her a hopeless look for this grandmotherly
enthusiasm).
Beneatha: How far along are you?
Ruth: Two months
Beneatha: did you mean to? I mean did you plan it or was it an accident?
Mama: What do you know about planning?
Beneatha: Oh, Mama.
Ruth (wearily): She’s twenty years old, Lena.
Beneatha: Did you plan it Ruth?
Ruth: Mind your own business.
Beneatha: It is my business- where is he going to live, on the roof? (There is
silence following the remark as the three women react to the sense of it.)
Gee-I didn’t mean that, Ruth, honest. Gee, I don’t feel like that at all. I- I
think it is wonderful.
Ruth (dully): Wonderful.
Beneatha: Yes-really.
Mama (looking at Ruth), worried): Doctor says everything is going to be all
right?
Ruth (faraway): Yes- she says everything is going to be fine….
Mama (immediately suspicious): “She” ---What doctor you went to?
(Ruth folds over, near hysteria)
Mama (worriedly hovering over Ruth): Ruth Honey---- what’s the matter with
you----sick?
(Ruth has her fist clenched on her thighs and is fighting hard to suppress a
scream that seems to be rising in her)

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Beneatha: What’s the matter with her, Mama?
Mama (working her fingers in Ruth’s shoulders to relax her): She be allright.
Women gets right depressed sometimes when they get her way. (Speaking
softly, expertly rapidly). Now you just relax. That’s right…. Just lean back,
don’t think ‘bout nothing at all---
Ruth: I’m all right…
(The glassy-eyed look melts and then she collapses into a fit of heavy
sobbing. The bell rings)
(The front door opens slowly, interrupting him, and Travis peeks his head
in, less than hopefully)
Travis: (to his mother): Mama, I---
Ruth: Mama I” nothing! You’re going to get it, boy! Get on in that bedroom,
and get yourself ready!
Travis: But I----
Mama: Why don’t you all never let the child explain himself?
Ruth: Keep out of it now, Lena.
(Mama clamps her lips together, and Ruth advances toward her son
menacingly.)
Ruth: A thousand times I have told you not to go off like that---
Mama: (holding out her arms to her grandson): Well—at least let me tell him
something. I want him to be the first one to hear… Come here, Travis.
(The boy obeys, gladly.) Travis--- (She takes him by her shoulder and looks
into his face)—you know that money we got in the mail this morning?
Travis: Yes ‘m---
Mama: Well--- What you think your grandma gone done with that money?
Travis: I don’t know, Grandma.
Mama: (putting her fingers on his emphasis): She went out and bought you
a house! (The explosion comes from Walter at the end of the revelation and
he jumps up and turns away from all of them in a furry. Mama continues to
Travis) You glad about the house? It’s going to be yours when you get to be a
man.
Travis: Yeah--- I always wanted to live in a house.
Mama (She looks an envelope out of her handbag and puts it in front of him
and he watches her without speaking or moving.) I paid the man thirty-five
hundred dollars down on the house. That leaves sixty-five hundred dollars.

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Monday morning I want you to take this money and three thousand dollars
and put it in a savings account for Beneatha’s medical schooling. The rest
you put in a checking account—with your name on it. And from now on, any
penny that come out of it or that go in, it is for you to look after. For you to
decide. (She drops her hand a little helplessly.) It ain’t much, but it’s all I got
in the world and I’m putting it in your hands. I’m telling you to be the head
of this family from now on like you supposed to be.

Walter (stares at the money): You trust me like that, Mama?

Mama (She goes out, and Walter sits looking at the money on the table.
Finally, in a decisive gesture, he gets up, and in mingled joy and
desperation, picks up the money.)

Summary:
The rising action of the play reveals the pregnancy of Ruth. Mam
(Lena) has paid the initial amount for a house in Clybourne Park. Then, she
hands the remaining money to Walter to put it in a savings account for
Beneatha’s medical schooling. The rest of the money shall be put in a
checking account in Walter’s name. However, Walter intends to invest the
money in a liquor business which Mama does not approve of.

The story above shows how a family dreams for a better living - a
dream that most people want to attain. The story focuses on how the head of
the Black American family divides the amount of money in order to fulfill the
dream of each of the family members.

Grasp it!

1. What is Mama’s greatest dream for her family? Illustrate it in

the box. State her reasons behind it.

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 Mama’s Greatest Reasons
Dream

2. How does the dream of every member of the family differ? Fill
in your answers on this bubble map telling about each family
member’s dream.

Mama

Walter Dreams Beneatha

Share it. (5 points each)

1. Does anyone of the characters in the play remind you of
someone? Tell about it.
2. Would you have dreamt of the same thing to your family? Why?
3. Do you think Mama’s plan is better than Walter’s plan? Explain
your answer.

Activities

Activity 1. Predict a Dream

Directions: From the story, Mama dreams of moving into a house with lawn-
where Travis could play- the part of her great “American Dream” which she

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nurtures with her husband. Walter dreams of putting up a business and
Beneatha dreams of finishing a medical course.
In reality, most people likewise hold on to a dream. Take a good
look at the illustrations. In the given predicament, can you tell what they
dream about? Write your answers in the space provided for.

1. ________________________ 2. ____________________________
________________________ ____________________________

3. __________________________________ 4. ____________________________
__________________________________ ____________________________

Activity 2. Character Traits

Direction: Fill in the grid below of the information found in the text.
Characters Traits Evidence from the Story
Mama
Walter
Ruth
Beneatha
Travis

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Activity 3. Let’s Reflect!
Direction: Write a short reflection about the story focusing on the dream of
each of the family members.
My Reflection
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Evaluation

Directions: Read the excerpts from the speech of Martin Luther King Jr., “I
have a Dream” delivered in Washington D.C. during the Long March on
August 28, 1963.

I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the

difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply
rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character. I have a dream …. I have a dream that one day in Alabama,
with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the
words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little
black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Answer the following questions.

1. What are Martin Luther King Jr.’s dreams?
2. What does the second paragraph tell about?
3. As a whole, what is Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream for his countrymen?
(2points)
4. What values are emphasized by Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech?

End of English 9 LAS Week 5, Quarter 2

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 Guide Answers

Initial Task

1. C 2. D 3. E 4. A 5. F

Grasp It!

1. What is Mama’s greatest dream for her family? Illustrate it in the

box. State her reasons behind it.
MamasBeneatha
Dream Walter
Reasons
They need enough space to live.
To become a doctor Dreams
To buy a house Liquor Business
The house is intended for Travis
when he becomes a full-grown
Mama
man
Another member of the family
would be added because Ruth is
House
pregnant

2.

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Share it.
Answers may vary

Activity 1. Predict a Dream

1. To have a bigger house 2. To build a house

3. To own a house 4. To have a permanent job

Activity 2. Character Traits

Characters Traits Evidence from the story
Mama Practical She divides the money for the benefit of the family
Walter responsible He plans for financial success of the family.

Ruth Sorrowful She’s sad knowing that she is pregnant.

Beneatha outspoken She says about the disadvantage of Ruth’s

condition being pregnant.
Travis cheerful He was happy about the idea of buying a house
where he could have enough space to play.

Activity 3. Let’s Reflect.

Reflections may vary.

Evaluation

1. A. The nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed.

B. His four little children will one day live a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

C. In Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands
with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

2. It tells about how people be judged regardless of the color.

3. Martin Luther’s dream is to attain justice and equality among men

regardless of race.

4. Justice and equality

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References

Almonte, et al. (2014). A Journey through Anglo-American

Literature, p.431-434

Almonte, et al. (2014). A Journey through Anglo-American

Literature, 186-190

Writer: Catherine B. Rosquites

Position: Secondary School Teacher III
School: Almeria National High School

Mapper: Sarah M. Cabuquin

Position: Secondary School Teacher I
School: Tabunan National High School

Presenter: Dwight Kirby D. Docallos

Position: Secondary School Teacher I
School: Western Biliran High School of Arts and Culture

JESUS I. MANGCO
District English Coordinator

AIDA C. CABRERA
PSDS-Almeria District

DIVISION EVALUATORS

GIRLIE C. BILBAD
T-2 Naval School of Fisheries

TITA D. GOBI
MT-2 Kawayan National High School

DELIA S. QUIJANO
EDS- English

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